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China's Ministry of Commerce and other relevant authorities held talks with Walmart Inc on Tuesday to discuss the US retailer's recent request for price reductions from Chinese suppliers.中国商务部及其他相关部门于周二与沃尔玛公司举行了会谈，讨论这家美国零售商最近要求中国供应商降价的事宜。Walmart has recently asked some Chinese suppliers for price cuts of up to 10 percent per round of additional tariffs the US government imposes on Chinese goods. In response to this move, the Beijing-based China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textiles said in a statement that it will take proactive measures to safeguard the interests of its member companies.沃尔玛最近要求一些中国供应商，针对美国政府每一轮对中国商品加征的关税，将价格下调高达 10%。针对这一举措，位于北京的中国纺织品进出口商会在一份声明中表示，它将采取积极措施来维护其会员企业的利益。She Xiaoli, a professor of international trade law at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, said Walmart's request for price reductions from Chinese suppliers may violate commercial contracts, potentially disrupting the normal market transaction order. This could pose a risk of supply chain disruption, harming both Chinese and US businesses as well as US consumers, said shee.中国政法大学国际贸易法教授史晓丽表示，沃尔玛要求中国供应商降价的行为可能违反商业合同，有可能扰乱正常的市场交易秩序。史晓丽称，这可能会带来供应链中断的风险，损害中美两国企业以及美国消费者的利益。tariff [ˈtærɪf] n. 关税chamber of commerce [ˈtʃeɪmbə(r) ɒv ˈkɒmɜːs] 商会safeguard [ˈseɪfɡɑːd] v. 保护；维护；n. 保障措施disruption [dɪsˈrʌpʃn] n. 扰乱；中断

Upholding the spirit of reform and deepening the Communist Party of China's self-reform are keys to the Party's leading all walks of life in advancing Chinese modernization and achieving national rejuvenation in the new era, experts said.They emphasized that while facing difficulties and challenges on the path to modernization and rejuvenation, it is even more crucial for the Party to firmly uphold the spirit of reform and continuously intensify self-reform, as the Party's self-improvement is a political guarantee for social development.They made the comments after the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection concluded its fourth plenary session in Beijing last week.Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered an important speech at the session, stressing the significance of rigorous Party governance with the spirit of reform and reiterating that the battle against corruption is an unceasing endeavor.Xi, who is also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, noted that it is imperative to make greater progress in governing the Party to ensure that the Party will continue to be the strong leadership core in building socialism with Chinese characteristics and to guarantee the steady advancement of Chinese modernization on the new journey in the new era.Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Xi has highlighted on multiple occasions the implementation and improvement of rigorous governance of the Party, and unprecedented anti-corruption efforts have been made across the country.In January 2023, when the 20th CCDI, the country's top anti-corruption watchdog, opened its second plenary session, Xi stressed the need for ceaseless efforts to promote full and rigorous Party self-governance.In October last year, when conducting an inspection tour in Anhui province, Xi emphasized the need to uphold Party leadership, clarifying that it is necessary to consistently strengthen Party building.According to the latest data released by the CCDI, a total of 73 officials at minister level or above were placed under disciplinary and supervisory investigation last year, with cases also filed against 104,000 current or former village committee heads or at the grassroots level. A year ago, at the third plenary session of the 20th CCDI, Xi pointed out that leading the great social revolution is the fundamental purpose of advancing the Party's self-reform, which he said should be promoted so that its governance will better serve its main tasks.Zhuang Deshui, deputy head of Peking University's Research Center of Public Policy, said, "The current task of the Party is to advance Chinese modernization and national rejuvenation, which is also our country's ongoing social revolution."Whether the task can be accomplished and whether the social revolution can succeed depend on the Party," Zhuang said. "Specifically, it's up to the Party to arrange the work of various industries, gather the force of all sectors and solve problems in different fields on the way to modernization."Therefore, the Party must optimize its own governance through self-reform, with sustained efforts to eradicate the soil for corruption. Only in this way can the Party be the 'backbone' of the people in the social revolution."Zhuang praised the spirit of reform that was highlighted by Xi last week, saying that it is consistent with the self-reform that Xi has repeatedly emphasized in recent years.In Zhuang's view, the spirit of self-reform will be more conducive to the Party solving difficulties and challenges at home and abroad in the new era."The more difficulties the country encounters, the more it must unswervingly exercise full and rigorous Party governance, because the Party's self-improvement is a political guarantee for the realization of social revolution," Zhuang added.Yang Weidong, a law professor at China University of Political Science and Law, said that the spirit of reform will be more helpful to the self-improvement of the Party and thus enable it to lead the people in overcoming difficulties in various areas.More rigorous governanceThe two experts also noted that the increasingly rigorous governance of the Party has played a bigger role in ensuring that Party members and officials do not dare to, are unable to, and have no desire to indulge in corruption."For example, the disciplinary supervision of Party members and officials was previously limited to their working hours, but now it has been extended to include outside working hours and their families," Zhuang said.A documentary recently aired in China showed that Tang Yijun, former governor of Liaoning province and minister of justice, used companies controlled by his wife, Xuan Minjie, as a cover-up for his corrupt activities to present them as market operations.Based on clues and thanks to big data, the investigators uncovered shadow companies, suspected proxies and bribe givers linked to Xuan, who had extensive experience in finance and economics and ventured into business in 2005, after holding a senior position at a State-owned enterprise.In October, the Supreme People's Procuratorate approved the arrest of Tang on suspicion of accepting bribes. He was expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office earlier.Zhuang said that such extensive investigation is necessary to regulate the behavior of Party members, noting that the Party's self-governance has also been improved by disciplinary education, amendments to the disciplines and campaigns against misconduct closely related to people's well-being.According to data released by the CCDI, 768,000 cases of misconduct and corruption that directly affected people's daily lives, including school meals and medical insurance, have been handled since 2022, with 628,000 individuals disciplined."All the efforts mean that the standards or requirements for Party members and officials have been increased, and are higher and more rigorous," Zhuang said.Yang, the law professor, said that self-improvement as well as self-reform will make the CPC more confident and capable in solving problems on the journey of Chinese modernization and in promoting the people's sense of fulfillment, happiness and security in the new era.reiteratev.反复地说；重申conduciveadj.有利的，有益的

Mount Everest, standing 8.85 kilometers above sea level, is Earth's tallest mountain.珠穆朗玛峰海拔8.85公里，是地球上最高的山峰。And Mount Everest is still growing.珠穆朗玛峰仍在增长。Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing on an upward movement that began at their birth around 50 million years ago. The mountains are a product of a collision between Eurasia and the Indian subcontinent.珠穆朗玛峰和喜马拉雅山的其他山峰自大约 5000 万年前诞生以来，一直在继续向上运动。 这些山脉是欧亚大陆和印度次大陆碰撞的产物。But Everest is growing more than expected. And, scientists now think they know the reason why.但珠穆朗玛峰的增长速度超出了预期。 而且，科学家们现在认为他们知道其中的原因。Everest's growth has to do with the major joining, or merger, of two nearby river systems. The Kosi river joined with the Arun river around 89,000 years ago, the researchers estimated.珠穆朗玛峰的增长与附近两个河流系统的主要连接或合并有关。 研究人员估计，科西河在大约 89,000 年前与阿伦河汇合。This change in the area's river system has led to Everest gaining around 15-50 meters in height.该地区河流系统的变化导致珠穆朗玛峰高度增加了约 15-50 米。That suggests an upward movement rate of about 0.2-0.5 millimeters per year.这表明每年向上移动的速度约为 0.2-0.5 毫米。The geological process at work, researchers said, is called isostatic rebound.研究人员表示，起作用的地质过程称为等静压回弹。Isostatic rebound involves the rise of land masses on Earth's crust when the weight of the surface declines. The crust, Earth's outermost part, floats atop hot, semi-liquid rock.等静压回弹涉及当地表重量下降时地壳上陆地质量的上升。 地壳是地球的最外层部分，漂浮在炽热的半液态岩石之上。In this case, the joining of the rivers resulted in increased erosion which carried off large amounts of rock and soil. This reduced the weight of the area near Everest.在这种情况下，河流的交汇导致侵蚀加剧，带走了大量的岩石和土壤。 这减轻了珠穆朗玛峰附近地区的重量。"Isostatic rebound can be likened to a floating object adjusting its position when weight is removed," said Jin-Gen Dai of China University of Geosciences in Beijing.北京中国地质大学的戴金根表示：“等静压回弹可以比喻为当重量被移除时漂浮物体调整其位置。”Dai is one of the leaders of the study published recently in Nature Geoscience.戴是最近发表在《自然地球科学》上的这项研究的领导者之一。"When a heavy load, such as ice or eroded rock, is removed from the Earth's crust, the land beneath slowly rises in response, much like a boat rising in water when cargo is unloaded," Dai added.戴补充说：“当冰或被侵蚀的岩石等重物从地壳上移走时，下面的土地会相应地缓慢上升，就像卸载货物时船在水中上升一样。”The researchers, who used numerical models to study the development of the river system, estimated that isostatic rebound accounts for about 10 percent of Everest's yearly upward movement, or uplift rate.研究人员使用数值模型研究河流系统的发展，估计珠穆朗玛峰每年向上移动或抬升率的 10% 左右是由均衡回弹造成的。This geological process is seen in other places around the world.这种地质过程在世界其他地方也有发生。

Join us for "Leadership Insights: A Peek into the Minds of Steve Maestas, Maria Guy, and Byron Samuels - Panel 1," where we dive deep into the philosophies and strategies of three extraordinary leaders. those who lead with vision, passion, and purpose. Steve Maestas - Active in our community Steve is the past Chair of Albuquerque Community Foundation, past Chair of Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance (formerly Albuquerque Economic Development) and past Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He founded, grew, and exited Maestas & Ward Commercial Real Estate and currently serves as the CEO of Maestas Development Group. He and his team have developed more than 60 commercial projects in New Mexico & Texas with a value in excess of $750 Million.  He is married to his beautiful wife Debbie and has a 10-year-old daughter, Addison.   Maria Guy - Senior Partner at GiANT Worldwide Maria is a Senior Partner with GiANT Worldwide, dedicated to equipping individuals and organizations with exceptional leadership skills. She has a passion to serve the construction industry by helping build leaders worth following and teaching leaders how to multiply their skills, knowledge, and expertise. She spent twenty years in construction, including as an executive. Originally from El Paso, TX, Maria has called New Mexico home for the better part of her life. She is married to her college sweetheart and they have two adult children. Maria's legacy in construction is marked by service, leadership, and pioneering the way for women in construction. Byron Samuels **Current Positions:** - Mountain Division Director, USAYO - New Mexico State Ambassador, Fellowship of Christian Athletes - Chaplain, International Fellowship of Chaplains - Board Member, Across Nations Ministries - Co-Host “Huddle-Up with Coach Samuels” on Across Nations Radio KHAC **Family:** Byron Samuels lives with his wife, Beverlyn, and their children, Eryn and Evan Samuels. **Coaching Highlights:** - 30 years of coaching leadership, player development, and team building. - Recognized for developing student-athletes, academic leadership, and mentoring. - Experienced basketball camp clinician and motivational speaker. **Coaching Experience:** - Florida A&M University - Hillsborough Community College - Radford University - Hampton University - National Basketball Association (NBA-China) / Shanghai, China - Adidas Nations Basketball Camp Director / Beijing, China - University of Georgia - University of South Florida - University of Tennessee - Washington State University - UNC-Wilmington **Playing Career:** - **UNC-Asheville** - Team MVP - Athlete of the Year **Service and Leadership:** - Founder, “THINK” A.H.E.A.D. USA, a 501(c)(3) education and mentoring program - Special Olympics Volunteer and Coach, Tallahassee, FL - Organizer, Drug-Free Pep Rally, Wilmington, NC Parks and Recreation - Volunteer, Make A Difference Foundation, Newport News, VA - Speaker and Breakout Leader, Huddle Touch, Tampa, FL - Habitat for Humanity Volunteer, Radford, VA, and Tampa, FL - Group Leader, Kids Across America, Golden, MO Contact Information: - Cell:813-215-8110 - Email: bsamuels@fca.org or coachbyronsamuels@gmail.com Thank you Chavez-Grieves consulting engineers, inc. LifeQuestUSA.org ClaySchroff.com

It's time to find the way back home. A group of German museums are trying to unravel where their Chinese collections originated, as many may have been looted from China's Imperial Palace over a century ago. Will it pave the way for the repatriation of thousands of looted objects? What obstacles must be overcome before we can see the stolen treasures permanently back on their home soil? Host Tu Yun joins Dr. Huo Zhengxin, a Professor of Law at China University of Political Science and Law, David Moser, an Associate Professor at Beijing Capital Normal University, and Mike Bastin, a China observer and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton for a close look at the issue on this episode of Chat Lounge.

The recent arrest of three boys who allegedly killed a middle school student has once again turned public attention on juvenile delinquents, sparking debates and discussions on the plight of left-behind children.近日，三名涉嫌杀害中学生的男孩被捕，再次引发了公众对青少年犯罪的关注，引发了关于留守儿童困境的争论和讨论。The victim, surnamed Wang, was a seventh-grade student in Feixiang district of Handan, Hebei province. He was killed on March 10, and all suspects were taken into custody the next day, according to an official statement released on Sunday night by the district's joint working group.根据该地区联合工作组3月18日晚间发布的官方声明，王姓受害人是河北省邯郸市肥乡区七年级学生。于3月10日被杀，所有嫌疑人均于案发第二天被拘留。Local authorities are making all-out efforts to comfort the bereaved family and handle the aftermath of the killing, and work regarding all aspects is proceeding in an orderly manner, the statement said. It added that judicial departments will punish the perpetrators of the crime in accordance with the law, and urged residents not to believe or spread rumors, in order to avoid causing further harm to the involved families and to protect the privacy of the victim.声明称，当地正在全力安抚遇难者家属和做好善后工作，各方面工作正在有序推进。司法部门将依法惩处肇事者，并呼吁广大居民不信谣、不传谣，以免给涉案家庭造成进一步伤害，并保护受害人的隐私。Details of why and how the killing happened were not disclosed in the statement. It also doesn't mention the exact age of the boys involved, or say whether the suspects in custody include any adults.声明中没有透露杀戮发生的原因和方式的细节。它还没有提及涉案男孩的确切年龄，也没有说明被拘留的嫌疑人是否包括成年人。According to some Chinese media reports, the victim, age 13, studied in a local middle school and went missing on March 10. His body was found the next day, buried in a vegetable greenhouse in the district's Zhangzhuang village, about 100 meters from the house of one of the three suspects.据一些中国媒体报道，年仅13岁的受害人在当地一所中学读书，3月10日失踪。案发第二天，尸体被发现埋在肥乡县张庄村的一个蔬菜大棚里，事发地距离嫌疑人之一的房子约100米。It is alleged that the accused, who went to the same school and are all under the age of 14, bullied the victim for a long time. Media reports said they are children of migrant workers.据称，嫌疑人和受害人属同一所学校的学生，年龄都在14岁以下，长期欺凌受害人。媒体报道称，他们是农民工的子女。The story of "a student being killed by his three classmates" went viral on Chinese social media platforms, triggering public concern about juvenile victims as well as offenders.“一名学生被三名同学杀害”的故事在中国社交媒体平台上疯传，引发了公众对青少年受害者和犯罪者的关注。Xu Hao, a lawyer at Beijing Jingsh Law Firm, said the suspects might not be exempted from criminal punishment in the case, even if they are minors. He cited the amended Criminal Law to explain that the age of criminal liability in China has been lowered to 12, in order to prevent children from committing serious offenses.北京京师律师事务所律师徐浩表示，本案犯罪嫌疑人即使是未成年人，也可能不能免除刑事处罚。他援引修改后的《刑法》解释，我国刑事责任年龄已降至12岁，以防止儿童实施严重犯罪。Before the Criminal Law was amended, the age of criminal liability was higher, with offenders ages 14 to 16 held criminally responsible if they committed serious and violent crimes, including intentional homicide, intentional injury, robbery or rape.刑法修改前，刑事责任年龄略高，已满十四周岁不满十六周岁的人，犯故意杀人、故意伤害、抢劫、强奸等严重暴力犯罪的，要负刑事责任。The amended law states that offenders ages 12 to 14 will face criminal punishment for intentional homicide, or intentional injury that leads to death or severely disables others, but it clarifies that the decision to prosecute must be approved by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.修改后的法律规定，12周岁以上14周岁以下的犯罪分子犯故意杀人罪、故意伤害致人死亡或者严重致残的，将受到刑事处罚，但明确了提起公诉的决定必须经最高人民检察院批准。Luo Xiang, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law, posted a comment on the case on his personal social media account on Saturday, saying that necessary punishment should be given to minors who commit violent crimes, because a "transformative effect could only be achieved through punishment".3月17日，中国政法大学教授罗翔在其个人社交媒体账户上对此案发表评论称，对实施暴力犯罪的未成年人应给予必要的惩罚，因为“只有惩罚才能带来改造的效果”。Zhao Li, another lawyer from Beijing Jingsh Law Firm, said that China decided to lower the age of criminal liability to 12 under special circumstances as it witnessed a number of serious and violent crimes committed by children in recent years.北京京师律师事务所律师赵力表示，由于近年来发生了多起儿童严重暴力犯罪案件，中国有条件地将刑事责任年龄起点降低到十二周岁。However, he emphasized that whether the suspects in the Handan case can be held criminally liable still depends on an approval from the procuratorate, as required by law. In other words, Chinese judicial authorities are prudent when handling juvenile crimes, he said.但他强调，邯郸案犯罪嫌疑人能否追究刑事责任，仍需根据法律规定，经检察院批准。由此可见，中国司法当局在处理青少年犯罪时是谨慎的。Highlighting the principle of "education first, punishment second" when handling juvenile offenses, Chinese prosecutors in 2023 approved the arrest of 27,000 juvenile suspects and decided not to arrest 38,000 others. They prosecuted 39,000 minor suspects and decided not to prosecute 40,000 others, according to data from the procuratorate.坚持教育第一、惩罚第二的原则办理未成年人犯罪，2023年，中国检察机关批准逮捕未成年犯罪嫌疑人2.7万人，决定不逮捕3.8万人。根据检察院的数据，他们起诉了3.9万名未成年犯罪嫌疑人，决定不起诉其他4万名犯罪嫌疑人。While calling for prudence in the fight against juvenile crime, the lawyers also suggested including government agencies, schools, social organizations and volunteers in the management and education of left-behind children.律师们在呼吁谨慎打击青少年犯罪的同时，也建议将政府机构、学校、社会组织、志愿者等纳入留守儿童的管理和教育中。According to a report issued by the National Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF in May 2023, China had 66.93 million left-behind children by 2020, with 41.77 million living in rural areas.根据国家统计局和联合国儿童基金会2023年5月发布的报告，到2020年，中国有6693万留守儿童，其中4177万生活在农村地区。Zhao said these children of migrant workers need more care, attention and aid while growing up, and the law, or punishment, is just one of the many ways to help them tackle their issues, but not the only way. "It is more important to optimize our social services and policies to provide a better environment for children, especially the left-behind ones, to grow up, while focusing on extreme cases," he added.赵力表示，这些农民工子女在成长过程中需要更多的关爱、关注和帮助，法律或惩罚只是帮助他们解决问题的众多方法之一，但不是唯一的方法。更重要的是要优化社会服务和政策，为儿童特别是留守儿童提供更好的成长环境，重点关注并避免极端情况发生。the minors未成年人UNICEF abbr.The United Nations Children's Fund联合国儿童基金会

For Chinese athlete Wu Yanni, the opening ceremony of the Chengdu FISU World University Games on Friday will be an occasion to remember forever.The 100-meter hurdles runner, who turns 26 on Friday, will participate in a parade at the ceremony, which will be attended by President Xi Jinping, and the thought of his presence on her birthday is "more than thrilling" to her.Xi's attendance at the opening ceremony of the international multisport event for university athletes is yet another gesture of his support and care for the nation's young people, especially students, said Wu, a postgraduate student at Beijing Sport University.The president has held frequent exchanges with university students over the years, expressing his earnest expectations for them and offering them encouragement to achieve their goals.Writing letters is one of Xi's preferred ways of communicating with people from all walks of life, including university students. In May, he replied to a letter from students at China Agricultural University in Beijing, lauding their endeavors on the front line of agricultural production and encouraging them to combine their academic learning with rural practice.The students who wrote to Xi are part of the Science and Technology Backyard program at the university. Under the program, students conduct research in experimental fields and use the acquired knowledge to help the local farmers solve various agricultural problems.The students said Xi's reply firmed up their resolve to serve the nation's agricultural and rural development.She Zonggang, a postgraduate student at the university, said that Xi has shown students the way to conduct intensive research both in laboratories and on farmland to explore pathways for innovation and rural development.Augustine Talababi Phiri, a student from Malawi at the agricultural university, said the fact that President Xi took the time to personally respond to a letter from students showcases the importance China places on young people and their involvement in national development.He Baiyan, a 25-year-old graduate from China University of Petroleum-Beijing in Karamay, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, said that Xi's reply to their letter in 2020 was the "most valuable and surprising graduation gift" for them.In his reply letter, Xi expressed his support for the 118 students from the university, including He, after learning that they were taking grassroots jobs in Xinjiang and promoting the development of China's westernmost region."I was thrilled and in disbelief after receiving the letter. In retrospect, I feel that the president placed high expectations on us and we should honor our commitments in our work posts," said He, who now works for an oil production company in Xinjiang.Xi has also prioritized higher-education institutions in his fact-finding trips over the past decade, having conducted over 20 tours to universities since he was elected general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in 2012."Every time I walk into a university campus and spend time with students, I always strongly feel the vigor of young people," Xi said.Li Runfeng, a graduate from Tsinghua University in Beijing, was among the students who spoke with Xi during his inspection tour to the university in April 2021.Li recalled that Xi smiled at her when she shared her thoughts with him. The president's high expectations for the students were reflected in his expressions and words, she said.Inspired by Xi, she has decided to become a university volunteer to teach in the Nanjian Yi autonomous county in Yunnan province, one of the least developed areas in China. "It will be an opportunity to teach and learn, and use a period of less than one year to do something worth remembering for a lifetime," she said.Filip Filipovic, a 25-year-old Serbian student who is pursuing postgraduate studies in international politics at Fudan University in Shanghai, said the Chinese president's emphasis on youth development is evident from his actions."President Xi has conducted fact-finding trips to colleges, hosting seminars with young people, maintaining correspondence with them and putting forward his earnest expectations of them," Filipovic said.The Serbian student, who has lived in China for 18 years, said he has high expectations of athletes from his home country at the Chengdu games. The event will be a key platform for young people to know each other and learn from each other, he said."Like President Xi said, the world is a global village and human beings are a community with a shared future. The responsibility of building this shared future rests on the shoulders of young people," he added.Youth英/juːθ/ 美/juːθ/n.（总称）青年人Expectation英/ˌekspekˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ 美/ˌekspekˈteɪʃn/n.期望，指望

Highlighting the increasingly prominent role of cybersecurity and informatization work in the new era, President Xi Jinping has stressed the need to coordinate development and security, with solid efforts to advance high-quality growth in this regard.Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a recent instruction on the work of cybersecurity and informatization. The instruction was conveyed at a national meeting on cybersecurity and informatization that was held on Friday and Saturday in Beijing.Xi emphasized the importance of strengthening the country's capability to ensure the cybersecurity and promote building a community with a shared future in cyberspace.He also stressed adherence to several principles, including the Party exercising leadership over cyberspace affairs, developing of cyberspace affairs for the people, and taking a path of internet governance with Chinese characteristics.Calling for vigorous efforts to advance the high-quality development of cybersecurity and informatization, Xi said that new achievements should also be made in boosting China's strength in cyberspace, thus making new contributions to building a modern socialist country in all respects and advancing national rejuvenation on all fronts.The country's system and capacity for cybersecurity have constantly been improving, and its efforts to boost self-reliance and strength in science and technology have also been accelerated, while law-based governance of cyberspace has been intensified, Xi said.Wang Sixin, deputy head of Communication University of China's Institute for a Community with Shared Future, said, "The new requirements raised by Xi in this regard are essential and urgent."Summing up the work experience and clarifying current problems are crucial to future development in this field, as well as to benefiting the people and promoting the high-quality growth of our country."With the Party's leadership, China has seen many achievements in cyberspace governance since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012. Its technological research, such as that on supercomputers and quantum communication, has been at the global forefront, while its artificial intelligence has been widely applied in many areas.Xi recalled the significant progress achieved in cybersecurity and informatization since the 18th CPC National Congress, noting that China has put in place a system for integrated cyberspace management, with the Party's leadership in such work having been strengthened across the board.As internet technologies, including 5G, big data, cloud computing and blockchain, have rapidly grown, the nation's legal toolkit on cybersecurity and informatization has become more complete through the formulation of a series of laws, such as the Cybersecurity Law, Data Security Law and Personal Information Protection Law.To offer a safer online environment for people, the Cyberspace Administration of China has also issued guidelines and taken measures to prevent online misconduct, such as cyberbullying and rumors, in order to guarantee the healthy development of the internet.All the moves have helped advance cybersecurity and informatization work, Wang said, adding that those measures contributed to enriching the country's theoretical building of cyberspace and improving the capacity of its cyberspace governance.Just like boosting the nation's self-reliance in science and technology, the theoretical construction in the field is vital to enhancing China's international voice, he said.Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center at China University of Political Science and Law, said that holding such a meeting to give new instructions on cybersecurity and informatization, following the 20th CPC National Congress in October, was inevitable and filled with profound meaning."When we're benefiting from the internet and solving problems on data, cybersecurity and informatization through laws, we must also acknowledge that we're still facing some challenges brought by emerging technologies," he said."We need to draw on some good practices from past work, as well as conduct new research to find solutions that can both develop the new technologies and meet the challenges."Expressing excitement about the acceleration of law-based governance in cyberspace in recent years, Zhu suggested that legislators and internet regulators continue upholding the principle of coordinating development and security in following lawmaking."The driving force of high-quality development is scientific and technological innovation, so in the coming period of time, the main task of formulating our policies and laws is to seek a balance between security and development," he said, adding that this is also a must to cope with the international situation.As development is a key to solving problems caused by technologies, a number of newly released regulations and laws have clarified that the country encourages technological research, requiring internet platforms to fight online misconduct through technical means.Since the beginning of this year, China has seen internet technologies prosper and also has accelerated steps in cyberspace governance.As ChatGPT takes the tech world by storm and triggers a new wave of artificial intelligence, a host of Chinese tech giants have begun rolling out ChatGPT-style products. Among them, Alibaba has invited enterprise users to test a self-developed large model called Tongyi Qianwen, and Baidu has unveiled its large language model and Chinese-language ChatGPT alternative, Ernie Bot, which could be implemented in a variety of functions including searches, autonomous driving and smart devices.To promote the healthy development of the technology, interim measures for managing generative AI services were jointly disclosed by seven authorities last week. The measures encourage the innovative development of generative AI and supervision of AI using methods compatible with innovation and development.Earlier, the country's top judicial authorities and top internet regulator also solicited public opinion on combating cyberbullying, in order to purify the online environment and protect people's legitimate rights in cyberspace.Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Security Group, said he was encouraged by Xi's instruction and felt more responsibility as head of a digital security enterprise."In the era of digital civilization, measures for guaranteeing traditional security are no longer able to meet new challenges, which requires us to strengthen scientific and technological creativity, so as to build a strong digital security barrier for the healthy growth of the digital economy," he said.As an enterprise that has been fighting on the front line of cyberattacks for years, 360 would like to continue being the guardian of national security, and also to be a builder of digital China, helping companies, governments and cities to address security weaknesses and become smarter, Zhou said.Reporter: Cao YinCui Jia contributed to this story.

Some times we see a problem and then just go about fixing it! In this episode, we were joined by Jin Chen a successful entrepreneur and business owner. From business consulting, e-commerce, travel, winter clothing, real estate, and the Planeket she has stayed very busy pushing a path forward in life! Not everyone is looking to be a part of so many businesses but she manages to successfully take part in many things in life. We focus on two main businesses at this time: BrillCon and Planeket. Born and raised in China, Jin moved to Alaska after her sophomore year at China University of Petroleum.  After receiving her bachelor's degree in accounting and her MBA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Jin pursued a public accounting career for three years before forming Alaska Skylar Travel in the spring of 2015 to develop the largest Chinese-focused tour operation in Alaska.  Since she joined the company, Alaska Skylar Travel revenue has grown more than tenfold, and its staff has expanded from 10 to 50 employees.      Since her first start-up at 17 years old, Jin's passion has been helping new businesses take off and optimizing existing businesses. She took that passion and melded it with her love of her home country. She has helped many business owners and travelers enjoy what both countries have to offer! She is a bridge between two countries that many times are at odds with each other. She is a much-needed resource for both countries' business owners! Get Connected https://planeket.com/ Our Supporters A Big Thank You to the folks at First Rate Financial “Alaska's Mortgage Group” for allowing us to use their studio and equipment! These people are high caliber, they do what they say, and they are heavily invested in Alaska! Whether you need a mortgage quote or simply have questions, they're here to help you. You'll never use another lender again! First Rate Financial: ⁠https://www.firstrateak.com/⁠ Get Plugged In Be sure to get plugged into our online community to Collaborate, Ask Questions, Offer Advice/Help, Conversate, Network and share & receive Referrals. FB Group: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/tldrpodcast⁠ Cruising by Vendredi https://soundcloud.com/vendrediduo Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_cruising Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/TWeRJdrpxEU --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tldr/message

The official flame for the 31st Summer World University Games was flown from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, to Beijing on Thursday for the torch relay due to start at the weekend.6月8日，第31届夏季世界大学生运动会官方火炬从成都启航前往北京，本周末，火炬传递活动将开始。Under escort, the flame, carried in sealed pots, was taken aboard a plane specially named Universiadeat Chengdu Tianfu International Airport.在护送下，火种被装在密封的罐子里，运上了一架专门命名为“成都天府国际机场大运会”的飞机。As the official partner of the University Games, Chengdu-headquartered Sichuan Airlines selected eight crew members to transport the flame, said Wang Ke, general manager of the airline's cabin service department.作为大学生运动会的官方合作伙伴，四川航空选派了八名乘务人员来运送火炬，川航客舱服务部分部总经理、资深乘务长王珂说。The crew, with Wang serving as chief steward, included four pilots led by Liu Chuanjian.王珂担任此次乘组的乘务长，乘组包括刘传健等四名飞行员。Liu was awarded the title of "hero captain of China's civil aviation" by the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the Sichuan provincial government last year.去年，刘传健被中国民用航空总局和四川省政府授予“中国民航英雄机长”称号。On May 14, 2018, he safely landed an Airbus plane with 128 people on board after a cockpit window broke at 9,800 meters and his co-pilot was sucked halfway out of the aircraft.2018年5月14日，在9800米高空驾驶舱窗户破裂，副驾驶被吸出飞机后，刘传健安全降落了一架载有128人的空客飞机。The torch relay of the University Games will be launched in Beijing on Saturday. The relay involves five cities: Beijing; Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province; Shenzhen, Guangdong province; Chongqing; and Yibin, Sichuan.大运会火炬传递将于6月10日在北京启动。火炬传递涉及五个城市：北京哈尔滨、深圳、重庆和宜宾。The torch will then return to Chengdu and ignite the main cauldron tower of the games on July 28.随后火炬将返回成都，于7月28日点燃大运会的主火炬塔。In January 2022, the torch for the Chengdu games was collected in Turin, Italy. On Feb 25 that year, a welcoming ceremony for the torch of the 31st Summer World University Games was held at Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu. The museum is located in the Jinsha Ruins, one of Sichuan's most important archaeological sites.2022年1月，成都大运会火炬在意大利都灵完成采集。2月25日，第31届世界大学生夏季运动会火种交接欢迎仪式在成都金沙遗址博物馆举行。成都金沙遗址博物馆位于四川最重要的考古遗址之一金沙遗址。The games will be held from July 28 to Aug 8 after being deferred twice due to COVID-19. Chengdu is the third Chinese mainland city to host the biennial Summer University Games, following Beijing in 2001 and Shenzhen in 2011.因新冠疫情，成都大运会被迫两次延期，将于7月28日至8月8日举行。成都是继2001年北京、2011年深圳之后,中国大陆第三次举办世界大学生夏季运动会的城市。Chengdu has built 13 new venues and renovated 36 existing ones for the games. All the facilities, including the Dong'an Lake Sports Park where the opening ceremony will be held, were put into use by early 2021.成都为举办大运会新建13处场馆，改造现有场馆36处。包括开幕式场地东安湖体育公园为新建场馆在内的所有设施已于2021年初投入使用。Athletes from universities across the globe are expected to compete for 269 gold medals in 18 sports.来自世界各地大学的运动员将在18个项目中角逐269枚金牌。To boost interaction among young athletes from all over the world, cultural events will be staged during the games, including an art exhibition themed on "Chengdu, a city of parks", an intangible cultural heritage exhibition, music, dancing and Sichuan Opera performances. Visits for the athletes to a panda sanctuary and local museums are also planned, the organizers said.为促进来自世界各地的年轻运动员之间的互动，比赛期间将举办文化活动，包括以“公园城市成都”为主题的艺术展、非物质文化遗产展、音乐、舞蹈和川剧表演。组织者称有计划让运动员参观熊猫保护区和当地博物馆。The Chinese delegation is expected to number more than 800 members, including around 500 athletes competing in all 18 sports.中国代表团预计将有800多名成员，其中包括约500名运动员，将参加所有18个项目的比赛。Games英/ɡeɪmz/ 美/ɡeɪmz/n.运动会Torch英/tɔːtʃ/ 美/tɔːrtʃ/n.火把

Critical mineral exploration will play a key role in human development and progress. The April 2023 special section of The Leading Edge focuses on the issue of critical minerals from the perspective of recent progress in mining exploration and anticipated future needs as the global energy economy transitions to higher use of, and reliance on, renewables. In this conversation with host Andrew Geary, Dr. Alan Jones defines critical minerals and how and why each country defines them differently. He explains why the public has a dim view of mining and what we can learn from China's long-term mineral vision. He elaborates on the valuable role of copper in utilizing electric vehicles and why we still don't understand the planet we live on. Alan also makes a case for why we must inspire young minds with the possibilities of critical minerals exploration. Do you want to be part of the future of humanity? This is the question at the center of this can't miss episode. Listen to the full archive at https://seg.org/podcast. RELATED LINKS * Chester J. Weiss and Alan G. Jones, (2023), "Introduction to this special section: Critical minerals exploration," The Leading Edge 42: 236–236. (https://doi.org/10.1190/tle42040236.1) * Alan G. Jones, (2023), "Mining for net zero: The impossible task," The Leading Edge 42: 266–276. (https://doi.org/10.1190/tle42040266.1) * Read the April 2023 special section: Critical minerals exploration. (https://library.seg.org/toc/leedff/42/4) Subscribers can read the full articles at https://library.seg.org/, and abstracts are always free. BIOGRAPHY Alan G. Jones is currently Senior Professor Emeritus at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, a Specially-Appointed Professor at the China University of Geosciences Beijing, and Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University and at the University of Western Australia. In addition, upon his retirement he formed an MT consulting company - Complete MT Solutions Inc. - with former students and a colleague in 2016. Alan was awarded the Tuzo Wilson medal of the Canadian Geophysical Union in 2006, was Appointed an International Member of the Geo-Electromagnetism Committee, Chinese Geophysical Society in 2009, was elected to Academia Europaea also in 2009 and was made a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010. He was a Blaustein Visiting Professor at Stanford University for the Winter Term of 2016, and was appointed a Life Affiliate Member of the Geological Society of South Africa in 2016. In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Alan is the most published (almost 200 papers) and most cited (over 13,500 citations) scientist in his chosen field of magnetotellurics. Together with Alan Chave, he published the most authoritative textbook to date on MT - The Magnetotelluric Method: Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press). He is a qualified Professional Geoscientist accredited by the Professional Geoscientists Ontario (PGO). CREDITS Seismic Soundoff explores the depth and usefulness of geophysics for the scientific community and the public. If you want to be the first to know about the next episode, please follow or subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Two of our favorites are Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you have episode ideas, feedback for the show, or want to sponsor a future episode, find the "Contact Seismic Soundoff" box at https://seg.org/podcast. Zach Bridges created original music for this show. Andrew Geary hosted, edited, and produced this episode at TreasureMint. The SEG podcast team is Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis.

Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism, where we examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform our anger into productive dialogue about building a sustainable future. This week, co-hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson discuss the amazing reviews they've received on the podcast and take the opportunity to thank listeners for participating with us in trying to save our planet. The team also announces an upcoming special project they've been working on and chats about the nomination of Ajay Banga as World Bank President. A frightening new study on the accelerating rates of extinction is also discussed, and there's music from Bailen. Paul starts with highlights from the results of a listener feedback survey. First, a whopping 87% of respondents said they'd taken action on climate change since listening to the podcast, which includes sharing the podcast一a key part of our mission一and for which we're deeply grateful. Plus, only 43% of those listening work in the climate space. That means we're breaking out of the climate bubble and bringing people outside of climate into the conversation. “Astonishing!” declares Christiana. Wait until you hear the rest!  Next, Tom introduces a fresh theme on O+O related to personal projects each of the co-hosts will work on individually and bring to the podcast. Over the next few weeks, Tom will begin the series on different approaches to change一momentum and perfection. He'll explore whether they can work together, and if so, how? Exciting stuff is on the way! In the following segment, our co-hosts weigh in on the World Bank presidential nomination of Ajay Banga, previously President and CEO of MasterCard. They agree he's a hopeful choice for, among many other things, bringing climate issues back to the World Bank, which stands in contrast to the positions held by outgoing president David Malpass, a climate denier.  Finally, the trio discusses the alarming new study by lead author Dr. Yuangeng Huang of the China University of Geosciences on the steady destruction of biodiversity and how it's likely to suddenly tip over into total ecosystem collapse. All agree the study didn't get the coverage it should have, and that it's critical we're focused now on strategies and capital allocations to protect and reverse habitat destruction. Climate won't matter if this doesn't get done. Again, thank you for taking the time to respond so thoughtfully to our listeners' survey and to help us improve the podcast.   And before you leave please don't miss the beautiful three-part family harmonies of Bailen on their moving ballad “Eyelashes.”  Correction: We would like to apologise for the mispronunciation of Dr Yuangeng Huang's name during the episode. NOTES AND RESOURCES    To learn more about our planet's climate emergency and how you can transform outrage into optimistic action subscribe to the podcast here. Find out more about Ajay Banga, the U.S. nomination to lead the World Bank. Here is The Guardian's coverage of Dr. Yuangeng Huang's study on ecosystem collapse.  Here is Dr. Yuangeng Huang's study itself. More on Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History referenced in the episode.   GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE on FRIDAY MARCH 3 - Click here to find a strike near you. #TomorrowIsTooLate   MUSIC   Bailen Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Spotify | TikTok   Click here to Pre-add/Pre-Save ‘Tired Hearts' coming out May 5th! See Bailen on Tour   Check out Clay's Picks this week: ‘Call It Like It Is' ‘Something Tells Me'   -   It's official, we're a TED Audio Collective Podcast - Proof! Check out more podcasts from The TED Audio Collective   Please follow us on social media! Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

Carbonatites are controversial rocks that are associated with a diverse range of commodities, such as niobium, phosphate, copper, and light rare earth elements (LREE). This week we dive into some of the latest thinking about carbonatite genesis and ore forming processes, and consider the challenges involved in characterizing and producing these complex ore bodies.  First off, Emma Humphreys-Williams from the Natural History Museum, UK, explains how, when and where carbonatites form in the context of global tectonics and geodynamics, and questions what the carbonatite record tells us about the evolution of the mantle throughout earth history.  https://alkcarb.myrocks.info/ Next, we talk about ore forming processes in carbonatites with Wei Chen, a professor at China University of Geosciences. She provides a deep dive into the processes that generate LREE deposits on a journey that spans the magmatic and metasomatic regimes.  Finally, Tony Mariano, a long-time exploration geologist shares some real-world perspectives on the complex nature of carbonatite ore deposits, and on some of the challenges involved in converting carbonatite-hosted deposits into producing assets.  Theme music is Confluence by Eastwinds. Eastwindsmusic.com

SpaceX's new satellite constellation project Starshield, designed for military use, has triggered worldwide concerns and controversy. Why has SpaceX waited until now to unveil it? Would it become Russia's military target? What chain reaction may Starshield trigger worldwide? Host Tu Yun is joined by Andy Mok, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, Dr. Lu Chuanying, Secretary-General of the Research Center for the International Governance of Cyberspace, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and Dr. Kong Dejian, Researcher with the Research Institute of Air and Space Law, China University of Political Science and Law to find out the answers.

We begin to talk about the story between MIT's Open Doc Lab and our guests' book Collective Wisdom with Kat's experiences working for the National Film Board of Canada and how this provided a precious chance for her to dig into collective wisdom. William Uricchio brings in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and two major characteristics of its cross-media study: remarkable community and applying humanity to work. Then we talk about the diversity of co-creation, and our guests' definitions of some key terms, including the difference between co-creation and collaboration. Looking at the deep roots of these practices from long before the modern notion of single-authorship, Kat & William's book lifts up alternatives for dealing with today's “wicked problems.” It also dispels the concept of a fixed narrative for an open one, making way for participatory culture. Through examples like MIT Co-Creation Studio's Worlding initiative, AI, and Art/Science experimentation, we talk about decentralized decision-making, the ownership/authorship of co-creation, and re-think existing models of co-creation between arts and science. Finally, our guests are careful not to present co-creation as a panacea, and that accompanying strategies are necessary to make it productive.Katerina Cizek is an Emmy-winning documentary director working across many media platforms: digital media, broadcasting (radio and television), print, and live presentations/installations. Her work has documented the Digital Revolution and has itself become part of the movement. As a filmmaker-in-residence, she has helped redefine the National Film Board of Canada as one of the world's leading digital content hubs for a community-based and globally recognized documentary.William Uricchio revisits the histories of old media when they were new; explores interactive and participatory documentary; writes about the past and future of television; thinks about algorithms and archives; and researches narrative in immersive and interactive settings. He is Professor of Comparative Media Studies, founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, and Principal Investigator of the Co-Creation Studio. He was also Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has held visiting professorships at the Freie Universität Berlin, Stockholm University, the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Lichtenberg-Kolleg), China University of Science and Technology, and in Denmark where he was DREAM professor. He has received Guggenheim, Humboldt, and Fulbright fellowships, the Berlin Prize, and the Mercator Prize. His publications include Reframing Culture; We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identities; Die Anfänge des deutschen Fernsehens; Media Cultures; Many More Lives of the Batman; Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media Within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms, and hundreds of essays and book chapters, including a visual "white paper" on the documentary impulse (momentsofinnovation.mit.edu). He is currently leading a two-year research initiative on augmentation and public spaces with partners in Montreal and Amsterdam.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Collective WisdomNational Film Board of Canada - HighriseGeorge StoneyColin mentioned “Bear 42,” but meant Bear 71 (and apologizes for failing memory). Here's a short article on that film and the newer VR version of the original screen-based film.Henry on Archive of Our OwnJ.R.R. Tolkien on SubcreationWaves of Buffalo and other MIT Co-Creation Studio Worlding projectsISeeChange collective climate change studyStephanie Dinkins, AI artistGina Czarnicki Artwork - HeirloomGoogle Smart City Experiment in TorontoGoncharov: The Fake Martin Scorsese Film the Internet Brought to LifeCheck out our previous episode with Mike MonelloShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, has one goal in mind: building wonders (like the Great Wall of China). His workers can build wonders faster and more cheaply, and he hates leaders that build more wonders than he does. That largely corresponds to how people in the West think of the First Emperor: powerful, responsible for unifying China, despotic–and focused on building great works like the Great Wall and the Terracotta. Civilization VI isn't one of the many works detailed in Anthony Barbieri's most recent book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press: 2022). But it does explore the many ways the life of Qin Shihuang has been represented in books, historical works, mythology, political narratives, movies, tv shows and, yes, video games. We welcome Anthony back to the show to talk about the First Emperor, and how different writers, politicians, and producers portrayed the different aspects of his life. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara. His book Artisans in Early Imperial China won top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and International Convention of Asia Scholars. He is also the author of Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press: 2021), which was also the subject of an Asian Review of Books interview last year. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, has one goal in mind: building wonders (like the Great Wall of China). His workers can build wonders faster and more cheaply, and he hates leaders that build more wonders than he does. That largely corresponds to how people in the West think of the First Emperor: powerful, responsible for unifying China, despotic–and focused on building great works like the Great Wall and the Terracotta. Civilization VI isn't one of the many works detailed in Anthony Barbieri's most recent book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press: 2022). But it does explore the many ways the life of Qin Shihuang has been represented in books, historical works, mythology, political narratives, movies, tv shows and, yes, video games. We welcome Anthony back to the show to talk about the First Emperor, and how different writers, politicians, and producers portrayed the different aspects of his life. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara. His book Artisans in Early Imperial China won top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and International Convention of Asia Scholars. He is also the author of Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press: 2021), which was also the subject of an Asian Review of Books interview last year. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, has one goal in mind: building wonders (like the Great Wall of China). His workers can build wonders faster and more cheaply, and he hates leaders that build more wonders than he does. That largely corresponds to how people in the West think of the First Emperor: powerful, responsible for unifying China, despotic–and focused on building great works like the Great Wall and the Terracotta. Civilization VI isn't one of the many works detailed in Anthony Barbieri's most recent book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press: 2022). But it does explore the many ways the life of Qin Shihuang has been represented in books, historical works, mythology, political narratives, movies, tv shows and, yes, video games. We welcome Anthony back to the show to talk about the First Emperor, and how different writers, politicians, and producers portrayed the different aspects of his life. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara. His book Artisans in Early Imperial China won top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and International Convention of Asia Scholars. He is also the author of Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press: 2021), which was also the subject of an Asian Review of Books interview last year. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, has one goal in mind: building wonders (like the Great Wall of China). His workers can build wonders faster and more cheaply, and he hates leaders that build more wonders than he does. That largely corresponds to how people in the West think of the First Emperor: powerful, responsible for unifying China, despotic–and focused on building great works like the Great Wall and the Terracotta. Civilization VI isn't one of the many works detailed in Anthony Barbieri's most recent book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press: 2022). But it does explore the many ways the life of Qin Shihuang has been represented in books, historical works, mythology, political narratives, movies, tv shows and, yes, video games. We welcome Anthony back to the show to talk about the First Emperor, and how different writers, politicians, and producers portrayed the different aspects of his life. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara. His book Artisans in Early Imperial China won top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and International Convention of Asia Scholars. He is also the author of Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press: 2021), which was also the subject of an Asian Review of Books interview last year. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/archaeology

In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, has one goal in mind: building wonders (like the Great Wall of China). His workers can build wonders faster and more cheaply, and he hates leaders that build more wonders than he does. That largely corresponds to how people in the West think of the First Emperor: powerful, responsible for unifying China, despotic–and focused on building great works like the Great Wall and the Terracotta. Civilization VI isn't one of the many works detailed in Anthony Barbieri's most recent book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press: 2022). But it does explore the many ways the life of Qin Shihuang has been represented in books, historical works, mythology, political narratives, movies, tv shows and, yes, video games. We welcome Anthony back to the show to talk about the First Emperor, and how different writers, politicians, and producers portrayed the different aspects of his life. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara. His book Artisans in Early Imperial China won top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and International Convention of Asia Scholars. He is also the author of Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press: 2021), which was also the subject of an Asian Review of Books interview last year. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, has one goal in mind: building wonders (like the Great Wall of China). His workers can build wonders faster and more cheaply, and he hates leaders that build more wonders than he does. That largely corresponds to how people in the West think of the First Emperor: powerful, responsible for unifying China, despotic–and focused on building great works like the Great Wall and the Terracotta. Civilization VI isn't one of the many works detailed in Anthony Barbieri's most recent book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press: 2022). But it does explore the many ways the life of Qin Shihuang has been represented in books, historical works, mythology, political narratives, movies, tv shows and, yes, video games. We welcome Anthony back to the show to talk about the First Emperor, and how different writers, politicians, and producers portrayed the different aspects of his life. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara. His book Artisans in Early Imperial China won top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and International Convention of Asia Scholars. He is also the author of Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press: 2021), which was also the subject of an Asian Review of Books interview last year. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, has one goal in mind: building wonders (like the Great Wall of China). His workers can build wonders faster and more cheaply, and he hates leaders that build more wonders than he does. That largely corresponds to how people in the West think of the First Emperor: powerful, responsible for unifying China, despotic–and focused on building great works like the Great Wall and the Terracotta. Civilization VI isn't one of the many works detailed in Anthony Barbieri's most recent book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press: 2022). But it does explore the many ways the life of Qin Shihuang has been represented in books, historical works, mythology, political narratives, movies, tv shows and, yes, video games. We welcome Anthony back to the show to talk about the First Emperor, and how different writers, politicians, and producers portrayed the different aspects of his life. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara. His book Artisans in Early Imperial China won top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and International Convention of Asia Scholars. He is also the author of Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press: 2021), which was also the subject of an Asian Review of Books interview last year. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, has one goal in mind: building wonders (like the Great Wall of China). His workers can build wonders faster and more cheaply, and he hates leaders that build more wonders than he does. That largely corresponds to how people in the West think of the First Emperor: powerful, responsible for unifying China, despotic–and focused on building great works like the Great Wall and the Terracotta. Civilization VI isn't one of the many works detailed in Anthony Barbieri's most recent book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press: 2022). But it does explore the many ways the life of Qin Shihuang has been represented in books, historical works, mythology, political narratives, movies, tv shows and, yes, video games. We welcome Anthony back to the show to talk about the First Emperor, and how different writers, politicians, and producers portrayed the different aspects of his life. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara. His book Artisans in Early Imperial China won top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and International Convention of Asia Scholars. He is also the author of Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press: 2021), which was also the subject of an Asian Review of Books interview last year. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-review

Rethinking Evidentiary Rules in an Age of Bench Trials. Henry Wang from Indiana University and the China University of Political Science and Law discusses why the existing rules of evidence are inappropriate for bench trials, and what alternative evidentiary rules for bench trials might look like instead.

卖5斤芹菜被罚6.6万元？国务院督查组：处罚过当Experts have called for standardized law enforcement following news that a small grocery store in Yulin, Shaanxi province, was fined 66,000 yuan ($9,600) by local authorities for selling 2.5 kilograms of substandard celery worth 20 yuan.近日国务院督查组接到群众在“国务院互联网+督查平台”反映，陕西榆林的一家个体户卖了5斤芹菜后，被市场监管部门罚了6.6万元，督查组对此展开调查走访。The case has resulted in a widespread backlash and ridicule on social media. It became one of the trending topics on Sina Weibo on Sunday and has been viewed more than 200 million times, with netizens lamenting that the punishment was too harsh and unreasonable.这起案件在社交媒体上引起轰动。8月28日，该事件成为微博上的热门话题之一，点击量已超过2亿次，网友们纷纷感叹这一处罚过于严厉。According to a report by China Central Television over the weekend, a small grocery store bought 3.5 kg of celery from a wholesale market which it then put on sale. When the market regulator visited the shop, it took 1 kg for inspection.据央视报道，罗某夫妇经营一家蔬菜粮油店，去年十月的一天，他们购进7斤芹菜。当地市场监管部门提取2斤进行抽样检查。A month later, the shop received a report from the regulator saying the celery was not up to standards. During that time, the remaining 2.5 kilograms had been sold to customers for 20 yuan.一个月后，他们接到检验报告，说这批芹菜检验不合格。涉案的7斤芹菜中，除2斤用于抽样检查，剩余的5斤，夫妇俩已经以每斤4元价格售出。According to the Food Safety Law, a producer or seller of food priced at less than 10,000 yuan and that contains harmful materials or additives can be fined between 50,000 and 100,000 yuan.根据《食品安全法》，价格在1万元以下且含有有害物质或添加剂的食品的生产者或销售者将被处以5万元以上10万元以下的罚款。Local authorities decided to fine the shop 66,000 yuan. The shop was unable to provide thereceiptfrom the wholesaler and could not prove where it had bought the celery from.处罚决定书认定，罗某夫妇不能提供供货方许可证明及票据，不能如实说明进货来源，违反了食品安全法相关规定，对其做出6.6万元的处罚。The case is being looked into by an inspection team sent by the State Council, China's Cabinet.It has dispatched 19 inspection teams across the country torectifyproblems in auditing and supervision work related to food and energy security.国务院派出的检查小组对此案进行调查，并向全国派出19个督察组，对食品能源安全的审计监督工作中存在的问题进行调查。Chen Xiao, an inspector on the team, said law enforcement authorities should not only focus on the letter of the law.While ensuring order, market regulation authorities should also create afavorablebusiness environment for market entities and small and micro businesses, he said.国务院第九次大督查第十六督察组成员陈晓表示，执法不能只讲力度，市场监管部门在维护好市场秩序的同时，也要为小微主体的生存创造良好的环境。The inspectors found that 21 of more than 50 cases involving small and micro businesses had resulted in fines of more than 50,000 yuan from the Yulin administration for market regulation last year, yet the cases only involved small amounts of up to several hundred yuan.查阅榆林市市场监管局2021年以来食品类行政处罚台账发现，针对小微市场主体的五十多起处罚中，罚款超过五万元的就有二十一起，而他们的案值只有几十或几百元。Yan Yandong, deputy director of the Yulin administration for market regulation, admitted that the punishments were too harsh and the administration will instead focus on educating andcensuringviolators to ensure theycomply with laws and regulations.榆林市市场监督管理局副局长延艳东表示，此次处罚不当，政府应该把重点放在对违规者批评教育上，确保他们遵守法律法规。Wang Qingbin, a law professor and director of the Food and Drug Law Research Center at the China University of Political Science and Law, said that the current Food Safety Law amendment, which came into effect in 2015, had raised the fines for food safety violations considerably to prevent incidents.中国政法大学食品药品法研究中心主任、法学教授王青斌表示，2015年生效的现行《食品安全法》修正案大大提高了对违反食品安全规定的罚款，以杜绝食品安全问题。In practice, the law has given local authorities too much room to decide the appropriate punishment for individual cases, he said.但在实践中，法律给地方当局处理案件留下太多空间。As a result, in cases that do not cause much harm and involve little money, some local authorities decide to levy no fines, while others impose heavy fines citing the law, he said, adding that they have overlooked the Administration Penalty Law amendment that came into effect last year, which stipulates that first-time offenders with little impact can be exempt from administrative penalty.这导致的结果是，在一些危害较小、涉及金额较少的的案件中，一些地方当局不征收罚款，而另一些地方当局则援引法律处以重罚。王青斌补充说，他们忽视了去年生效的《行政处罚法（修正草案）》，该修正案规定，初次违法且危害后果轻微并及时改正的，可以不予处罚。Wang added that the Food Safety Law requires revision to conform to difficulties in implementation.王青斌补充说，《食品安全法》需要修订以应对实际实施过程中的困难。Liu Junhai, a law professor at Renmin University of China, said the revised Administration Penalty Law underscores the principle of combining penalties with education, and imposing administrative penalties based on facts and the social impact of incidents.中国人民大学法学教授刘俊海表示，修改后的《行政处罚法》强调处罚与教育相结合的原则，并根据事实和社会影响进行行政处罚。Some local authorities have paid too much attention to punishment, while overlooking supervision and persuasion before handing out fines, he said.一些地方政府过于注重处罚，而忽视了罚款前的监督和教育。Impacted by COVID-19, market entities need more support from the government, and handing out fines won't promote stable economic development or employment, Liu said.刘俊海表示，受新冠肺炎疫情影响，市场主体需要政府更多的支持，罚款不利于经济发展和就业。"The purpose of law enforcement and supervision is to promote development and build a stable, fair and transparent business environment," he said. "Authorities should promote the development of the rights of individuals and the competitiveness of enterprises."“执法和监督的目的是促进发展，建立稳定、公平、透明的营商环境。政府部分应该维护个人权利，提升企业竞争力。”receipt英[rɪˈsiːt]美[rɪˈsiːt]n. 收据; 接收; 收入censure 英[ˈsenʃə(r)]美[ˈsenʃər]vt. 指责；批评comply with英[kəmˈplai wið]美[kəmˈplaɪ wɪð]v. 服从，遵从favorable英[ˈfeɪvərəbl]美[ˈfeɪvərəbəl]adj. 赞成的；有利的，优惠的

英语新闻︱新冠肺炎康复者不该遭受就业歧视The Shanghai government has told all local government departments and companies to treat people who have recovered from COVID-19 equally and without discrimination.上海市政府要求各部门、各单位都应一视同仁地对待新冠阳性康复者，不得歧视。"Society should give them more care and love, rather than label them or set barriers in their work and life and make them live in the shadows," city spokeswoman Yin Xin said at a news conference on Monday.在7月11日举行的上海市新冠肺炎疫情防控工作新闻发布会上，市政府新闻发言人尹欣强调：“社会各界应该对新冠阳性康复者给予更多的关心关爱，不能给他们贴标签，不在他们的工作生活中设槛，不能让他们生活在不该有的阴影下。”Peng Pai and his wife couldn't agree more. The couple were diagnosed with COVID-19 and received treatment in a temporary hospital in April. Peng said he felt grateful that his boss and colleagues didn't treat him differently when he returned to work in June.彭湃（音译）夫妇非常认同这一举措。今年4月，彭湃夫妇确诊了新冠，并住进方舱医院接受治疗。彭湃说，6月份重返工作岗位后，老板和同事并没有区别对待自己，因此十分感激。"My boss said he didn't mind that I had been infected, and that we should base our judgment on science rather than fear," Peng said. "We should treat everyone fairly because anyone may face a similar situation one day."“老板并不介意我感染过新冠，他说应该科学看待疫情，而不是恐慌。”彭湃说，“我们应该公平对待他人，因为类似的事情也有可能会发生在我们身上。”Yet not everyone is as lucky. Peng said that when he asked about employment discrimination in a group chat for previous patients, some said they had been given cold shoulders in the job market and some said they were asked not to return to the workplace. Even his wife, for example, who works in the service industry, chose to hide her infection history for fear of discrimination.但并不是每个人都这么幸运。彭湃说，他在群聊中询问过此前确诊的病人有无遇到就业歧视的问题，一些人说他们在求职时屡屡碰壁，另外一些人则遭到了原单位的解雇。彭湃的妻子在服务行业工作，也因为害怕受到歧视，隐瞒了新冠感染史。Wu Fenghu, a lawyer with Beijing Jingshi Law Firm, said discrimination against employees or job hunters who have had COVID-19 was illegal, according to the Law on Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, and the Employment Promotion Law.北京市京师（上海）律师事务所律师吴风虎表示，根据《传染病防治法》和《就业促进法》，歧视患有新冠肺炎的员工或求职者属违法行为。"Employees being fired for COVID-19 can sue the company, asking for compensation and to be rehired," Wu said. "The challenge faced by job seekers is more subtle because it's hard to file such a case for discrimination. It is certain that a stricter and more rigorous supervision system should be built by our country to protect employees' rights in the future."“因新冠肺炎被解雇的员工可以起诉公司，要求公司赔偿并重新聘用。”吴风虎律师提到，“求职者面临着更为微妙的挑战，因为很难以歧视为由对用人单位提起诉讼。我国亟须建立更为严格的监管体系来保障员工的权益。”Some lawyers and scholars suggested stopping such discrimination through the protection of patients' private information.律师和学者则建议通过保护患者的个人信息来停止这种歧视。Lu Ming, an economics professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said in a proposal to the government earlier in July that the health code should stop showing nucleic acid test results older than one month. "It can break the discrimination at the source," Lu said.7月初，上海交通大学安泰经济管理学院特聘教授陆铭建议，健康码应不再显示一个月之前核酸检测的信息。“这可以从源头上掐断歧视。”陆铭教授说。Wang Xianyong, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law, echoed Lu's opinion in an interview with Legal Daily that health history is sensitive personal information that employers have no right to ask job seekers to provide.中国政法大学民商经济法学院教授王显勇在接受《法治日报》采访时表示，医疗健康属于敏感个人信息，用人单位无权要求求职者提供。"Health records are not basic information needed for signing a labor contract, and health information can only be used under strict protection and in cases of specific purpose and necessity," Wang said.王显勇认为：“医疗健康信息不属于与劳动合同直接相关的基本信息。只有在具有特定的目的和充分的必要性，并采取严格保护措施的情形下，个人信息处理者方可处理敏感个人信息。”discrimination英[dɪˌskrɪmɪˈneɪʃn]；美[dɪˌskrɪmɪˈneɪʃn]n. 区别对待;鉴别力;区别cold shoulder英[kəuld ˈʃəuldə]；美[kold ˈʃoldɚ]n. 冷淡，轻视;碰一鼻子灰rigorous英[ˈrɪɡərəs]；美[ˈrɪɡərəs]adj. 严密的;缜密的;严格的;枯燥的

英语新闻|注意！你发的每一个表情符号都有可能成为“呈堂证供”If your business partner sends you an OK emoji when you ask for an opinion about a contract, how would you understand its meaning? Does it signal agreement with the contract, or just that the message was received?如果你在征求商业伙伴对合同的意见时，对方发了一个OK的表情符号，你会如何理解它的含义？它是表示同意合同内容，还是仅仅表示已收到消息？People may have different understandings of the emoji, which is frequently used in online chats, and misinterpretations may result in disputes and have an impact on court rulings.人们对线上聊天中使用的表情符号可能有不同的理解，误解会导致纠纷并影响法院的裁决。Given that emojis may easily cause ambiguity, judicial and internet professionals suggest people use them prudently in online chats, especially when discussing contracts or conducting transactions.鉴于表情符号很容易引起歧义，司法和互联网专业人士建议人们在线上聊天中谨慎使用它们，尤其是在讨论合同或进行交易时。Over the past five years, Chinese courts have handled 158 lawsuits involving online expressions, according to a statement recently posted by Jiangsu Provincial High People's Court on its WeChat account. It said the number of such cases rose from just eight in 2018 to 61 last year.根据江苏高院发文科普表示，2018年以来，全国共有158起以表情符号作为证据的案件，从2018年的8件到2021年61件，增幅明显。Emojis, stickers and memes－collectively known as biaoqingbao in Chinese－have long been a part of the social media lexicon, but interpreting them from a legal perspective is sometimes challenging, said Zhao Zhanling, a legal adviser for the Internet Society of China.中国互联网协会的法律顾问赵占领表示，表情符号、贴纸和表情包长期以来都是社交媒体词汇的一部分，但从法律角度解读它们有时很有挑战性。"The meaning behind some emojis may vary from one user to another, and this confuses judges sometimes," he added.“一些表情符号背后的含义可能因用户而异，这有时会让法官感到困惑，”他补充道。"It may be difficult to identify content, including texts, sounds and online expressions, that cannot be accurately interpreted, as evidence in civil cases."“在民事案件中，可能很难将无法准确解释的内容（包括文本、声音和在线表达）识别为证据。”For example, in a recent case heard by the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong province, judges did not recognize an icon depicting the OK hand gesture in a contract lawsuit as legally binding, regarding it as a visual element to convey litigants' emotions during online chats rather than evidence of them agreeing to the terms, according to the Jiangsu court's statement.例如，在广东省广州市中级人民法院最近审理的一起案件中，据江苏法院的声明称，法官不认为合同诉讼中描绘OK手势的图标具有法律约束力，认为其是在网上聊天时传达当事人情感的视觉元素。But in a loan dispute in Xiamen, Fujian province, judges there recognized a similar emoji as evidence of litigants' agreement to the terms, it added.但声明指出，在福建省厦门市的一起贷款纠纷中，法官认定了一个类似的表情符号作为诉讼当事人同意条款的证据。Zhu Wei, an associate professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, highlighted the importance of context in verifying the meaning of online expressions, but he said that it would still be inappropriate to deem those emojis as key evidence in lawsuits.中国政法大学副教授朱巍强调了上下文语境在验证网络表达含义方面的重要性，但他表示，将这些表情符号视为诉讼中的关键证据仍然不合适。"It's hard to figure out the exact meaning of emojis when someone may only be using them as a symbol of politeness or making a reply without carefully reading the content," he said.他说：“当有人可能只是将表情符号用作礼貌的象征或在没有仔细阅读内容的情况下做出回复时，很难弄清楚表情符号的确切含义。”"For instance, a vendor previously invited me to buy something in a new shop via text messages, and I replied with a smiley face emoji. Several days later, the business owner contacted me again online, asking me why I had not visited the store," he recalled.“比如，之前一位卖家通过发送信息邀请我去他新开的商店买东西，我发了一个笑脸表情作为回复。几天后，店主又在网上联系我，问我为什么没有去那家店”，他回忆说。"The vendor didn't understand my usage of the emoji. He thought it meant I would come to the shop, but actually it was just my way of expressing thanks for his invitation," he said. "So, I don't think it's good to reply with emojis when dealing with contracts or transactions online. The meaning may be more ambiguous."他表示：“卖家不理解我使用的表情符号。他认为这意味着我会来商店，但实际上是我在感谢他的邀请。所以，我觉得在网上处理合同或交易的时候，用表情符号回复不是一个好的选择，其含义可能比较模糊。”In Zhu's view, such online expressions can serve as auxiliary proof to help judges verify facts, as it is not practical to interpret the nuances of emojis in this fast-paced life.在朱巍看来，这样的表情符号可以作为辅助证据，帮助法官核实事实，因为在快节奏的生活中，解读表情符号的细微差别是不切实际的。"Simply put, emojis are difficult to verify as independent or key evidence, though Chinese courts have long recognized chat records in messaging apps and social media posts as digital evidence for civil lawsuits," he added.“简而言之，表情符号很难作为独立或关键性证据进行验证，尽管我国法院长期以来一直将信息应用程序和社交媒体帖子中的聊天记录视为民事诉讼的数字证据，”他补充说。But Zhao and Zhu clarified that emojis should not be used as a cipher in violations or even criminal activities.但赵占领和朱巍都表示，表情符号不应该成为违法行为甚至犯罪活动的密码。The Jiangsu high court also called for netizens to use emojis to express their ideas online in a sensible manner. It said that using someone's portraits, facial expressions or gestures as stickers should not infringe upon their legitimate rights.江苏高院还呼吁网友们理智地使用表情符号在网上表达自己的想法，并且使用某人的肖像、面部表情或手势作为表情符号时，不应侵犯其合法权益。While confirming some people have been found to use emojis to mask illegal activity in online chats, the high court suggested netizens be wary of stickers sent to them from strangers, adding this may be a deceptive act by fraudsters.虽然确实存在一些人使用表情符号来掩盖网络聊天中的非法活动，但高等法院建议网民要警惕陌生人发出的表情符号，因为这可能是骗子的欺诈行为。ambiguity英[ˌæmbɪˈɡjuːəti]；美[ˌæmbɪˈɡjuːəti]n.歧义; 不明确，模棱两可; 暧昧depict英[dɪˈpɪkt]；美[dɪˈpɪkt]v.描绘，描画; 描述ambiguous英[æmˈbɪɡjuəs]；美[æmˈbɪɡjuəs]adj.模棱两可的; 不明确的; 捉摸不定的auxiliary英[ɔːɡˈzɪliəri]；美[ɔːɡˈzɪliəri]adj.辅助的; 备用的n.助动词; 辅助人员; 附属机构legitimate英[lɪˈdʒɪtɪmət]；美[lɪˈdʒɪtɪmət]adj.合法的，合理的; 正规的; 合法婚姻所生的; 真正的，真实的

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Authorities in Tangshan, a city in North China's Hebei province, have pledged to ensure that residents can be free from worry after a video of the beating of women by several men at a barbecue restaurant early Friday went viral online.6月10日河北唐山一家烧烤店中几名男子殴打女性的视频在网上流传，当地警方承诺还公众以信心和安全感。"We will carry out a review to severely crack down on organized crime and evil activities and improve public order, so that victims in the case can be given justice while our citizens can have peace and enjoy social stability," Tian Guoliang, the mayor of Tangshan, said at a news conference over the weekend.唐山市市长田国良主持召开全市疫情防控工作总指挥部会议暨重点工作调度会议时强调：“要从严从快依法严惩，深入开展扫黑除恶‘回头看'专项行动，保持依法严厉打击高压态势，持续深化社会治安综合治理，还伤者公道、还市民安宁、还社会稳定。”The city launched a campaign on Sunday to improve public order. The move will last half a month and will target criminal activities that spur strong emotion from the public and have an adverse influence on society, including intentional injury, extortion, drug abuse and cybercrimes.12日，唐山市从即日起开展为期半个月的夏季社会治安整治“雷霆风暴”专项行动，把打击锋芒对准群众反映强烈、社会影响恶劣的犯罪活动，包括故意伤害、敲诈勒索、吸毒贩毒、网络犯罪等违法犯罪行为。The assault happened in the early hours of Friday at a barbecue restaurant in Lubei district in Tangshan when a male customer, identified by police as Chen Jizhi, harassed a female customer and then brutally attacked her after she resisted. Chen's companions later joined in, beating the woman and her female friends.10日凌晨，唐山市路北区一家烧烤店发生一起多名男子群殴女性事件，警方调查显示，一名为陈继志的男顾客骚扰了一名女顾客，在其反抗后对其暴打，陈继志的同伴们后来也加入殴打这名女子和她的女性朋友。Videos online showed the viciousness of the beating, with the female customer thrown to the ground and then hit and stomped by several men at the same time. The assailants fled after the beating.网上的视频显示了殴打的过程，女顾客被摔倒在地，然后被几名男子同时殴打并踩踏，袭击者在殴打后逃离案发现场。By Saturday afternoon, Chen and his eight alleged accomplices－seven males and two females－were all arrested, including four who had fled to Jiangsu province afterward.截至11日下午，包括陈继志在内的9名犯罪嫌疑人（7名男性和2名女性）全部抓获归案，其中4人外逃到江苏。On Sunday they were arrested by the Guangyang district branch of the city of Langfang's public security bureau, which has been designated to be in charge of the case, with the approval of the procuratorate of Guangyang district.12日，经河北廊坊市广阳区人民检察院批准，陈继志等9名犯罪嫌疑人已由廊坊市公安局广阳分局执行逮捕。The nine are suspected of the crimes of picking quarrels and making trouble, as well as intentional assault, for which punishment varies according to specific circumstances, including the victims' injuries, said Luo Xiang, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law, who commented online about the incident.中国政法大学教授罗翔表示，这9人涉嫌寻衅滋事和故意伤害。根据具体情况，包括受害者的受伤情况，处罚会有所不同。Police in Tangshan said on Saturday that four women were injured, two of whom were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, though the severity of the injuries was not disclosed.11日，唐山警方表示，有4名女性受伤，其中2人正在医院接受治疗，伤情稳定，无生命危险。但没有透露伤势的严重程度。Nationwide, public security authorities in many areas, including the Ningxia Hui autonomous region and Henan province, said they would launch night inspections during the summer to detect potential disputes and risk factors that could threaten public security and social stability.在全国范围内，包括宁夏回族自治区和河南省在内许多地区的公安部门表示，他们将在夏季开展夜巡活动，全面摸排矛盾纠纷苗头和不稳定因素，及时消除治安隐患，确保全区社会治安持续稳定。An official notice issued by the police department of Puyang, Henan province, said night inspections will be conducted at such places as school campuses, night fairs, shopping malls and bars. Quick responses and the dispatching of police officers when situations are reported will also be required.河南省濮阳市公安局发布通知称，将加大学校、夜市、商城、酒吧等人员聚集较多场所巡逻频次和密度，严格落实快速接警、快速派警、快速出警、快速处置。The incident has been a hot topic on social platforms. Some netizens, including residents of Tangshan, posted videos reporting gang activity.在唐山发生的暴力事件一度成为社交平台上的热门话题，包括唐山居民在内的一些网民发布了举报涉黑活动的视频。In one video posted by a cake shop owner in Tangshan's Lubei district, the man claimed he had been extorted since July last year by a gang consisting of former prisoners. "The gang harassed me and provoked trouble at my shop and home about 20 times," he said.唐山市路北区一家蛋糕店老板发布实名举报视频，称其蛋糕店自去年7月起就被一群刑满释放人员敲诈勒索。他说：“他们到我的店里甚至家里骚扰、闹事20多次。”Regarding the cake shop owner's claims and others, the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China Tangshan Committee said verification of the claims was underway.对于蛋糕店老板的言论，唐山市委政法委回应正在核查中。The Tangshan assault has not only spurred reports about local gangs, but also provoked outrage from netizens, including celebrities, most of whom called for justice.唐山烧烤店打人事件不仅引发了有关当地黑恶势力的报道，还引起了包括多位名人在内的网民的愤怒，其中大多数人呼吁伸张正义。Actor and martial artist Jackie Chan said on China's Sina Weibo on Saturday night, "I expect they will be punished severely according to the law."11日晚，知名演员成龙发布微博称：“期待法律的严惩。”extortion英[ɪk'stɔ:ʃn]；美[ɪkˈstɔrʃən]n.敲诈，勒索；被勒索的财务；敲诈者；【法】恐吓取财assault英[əˈsɔːlt]；美[əˈsɔːlt]n.攻击，袭击；侵犯（人身罪）；抨击v.袭击，殴打；使难受adj.军用的viciousness英['vɪʃəsnəs]；美['vɪʃəsnəs]n.恶意，邪恶；歹毒accomplice英[əˈkʌmplɪs]；美[əˈkɑːmplɪs]n.共犯；帮凶inspection英[ɪnˈspekʃn]；美[ɪnˈspekʃn]n. 检查；检验；视察；检阅

International Law Matters. The host for this show is Chang Wang. The guest is Alexander H.E. Morawa. Alexander H. E. Morawa combines international and transnational legal scholarship and practice in a career that spans multiple continents. A dual citizen of the U.S.A. and Austria, he holds a faculty appointment at American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, and has recently taught at Mackenzie Presbyterian University School of Law, São Paulo, Brazil and China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing, China. His work in practice includes the representation of petitioners in various international courts and tribunals established by the United Nations and Council of Europe; he does not practice law in any US federal or state jurisdiction. In this episode of "A Nation of Immigrants," Prof. Dr. Morawa shares his life story, immigration adventure, and his reflection on international law. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6m0sDYgbpbsi65EHVp8ynG8 Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and see our Think Tech Advisories at https://thinktechadvisories.blogspot.com.

Yunyue Elita Li discusses her upcoming South & East Asia Honorary Lecture, "Listening to Singapore: Harvesting urban noise for space, water, and hazard mitigation." Today, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas with a projected growth of over two-thirds in 2050. The city-state of Singapore faces the challenges of supporting a sustainable urban system with a growing population in a limited land, sea, and air space. The only direction to develop is toward the subsurface. In this conversation with host Andrew Geary, Elita shares how she designed novel signal processing techniques that turn urban hum into rich information about the urban system, both above and below the surface. She also highlights newly-developed fiber sensing technology using existing dark fiber infrastructure that has the potential to enable a million-sensor system underneath each major city around the globe. Elita also outlines what public officials, citizens, and engineers should understand about geophysics to support sustainable practices and growth in urban environments. This episode is full of communication tips and scientific insights to improve life in our cities. RELATED LINKS * Register for Elita's course for free (20 April 2022) (https://www.knowledgette.com/p/listening-to-singapore-harvesting-urban-noise-for-space-water-and-hazard-mitigation) * Learn about the Sustainability Geophysics Project (http://sgpnus.org/) * Watch Elita's tutorials on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-95XLac_hQmvR5yMDJO6A) or Bilibili (https://space.bilibili.com/590514476) * Discover SEG on Demand (https://seg.org/Education/SEG-on-Demand) * Listen to the full archive of the SEG podcast (https://seg.org/podcast) BIOGRAPHY Dr. Yunyue Elita Li recently joined the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science at Purdue University as a Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers Associate Professor in Data Science in August 2021. Before that, she worked in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore as an assistant professor in 2016. Elita did her postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding a joint position in the Earth Resources Laboratory and the Department of Mathematics. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in geophysics from Stanford University in 2014 and 2010, respectively. She obtained her B.S. degree in Information and Computational Science from China University of Petroleum, Beijing in 2008. Elita's research group works on geophysical applications in urban environments for smart cities and sustainable developments. By integrating geophysical inversion techniques, ambient noise data analysis, and distributed sensor networks, her group focuses its research efforts on the development of non-invasive, high-resolution, and real-time systems to solve pressing challenges in space, water, security, and sustainability. Elita was the recipient of the J. Clarence Karcher Award from SEG in 2018 and was nominated as the SEG South & East Asia Honorary Lecturer for 2022. CREDITS SEG produces Seismic Soundoff to benefit its members, the scientific community, and inform the public on the value of geophysics. To show your support for the show, please leave a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It takes less than five seconds to leave a 5-star rating and is the number one action you can take to show your appreciation for this free resource. You can follow the podcast to hear the latest episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Original music created by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary at 51 features, LLC. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis.

In this podcast we discuss collaboration between UK universities and Chinese institutions in research and education, Chinese students studying in UK, funding, joint calls and avoiding “double jeopardy”, as well as concerns about collaborating with China and safeguards in place.

Actuary and researcher Gail Tverberg discusses our energy problems and how we have an ever-growing population coupled with resources which are more and more difficult to extract. She believes "limits to growth" is a better way of looking at this problem as opposed to EROI. At some point the system binds up and that's what we're running into right now. The corona shut downs may have been an excuse to shut things down due to the collapsing economy and energy situation. Such a decline in a historical cycle brings revolution, disease, and famine. She worries about semiconductors and the world economy breaking into different pieces. Pax Americana can't last forever and several countries are now getting together to take care of themselves. She has a hard time finding electricity sustainable, let alone cryptocurrencies. She doesn't think far-flung wars are sustainable. Things are good as they're going to be. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble Geopolitics & Empire · Gail Tverberg: Energy Limits Could Be Pushing Us Toward End Times #280 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Website Our Finite World https://ourfiniteworld.com Twitter https://twitter.com/gailtheactuary About Gail Tverberg The author of Our Finite World is Gail Tverberg. She is a researcher focused on figuring out how energy limits and the economy are really interconnected, and what this means for our future. Her background is as a casualty actuary, working in insurance forecasting. Gail first became aware of oil shortages, and the impact they could have on insurance companies, back in the 1973 – 1974 period, when oil limits were first a problem. In 2005, she began reading books on the subject, including Jeremy Leggett's The Empty Tank. Gail did further research about the situation, and wrote her first article about the potential impact on the property-casualty insurance industry in early 2006. In March 2007, Gail decided to research the issue of limits of a finite world on a full-time basis, leaving her career in insurance consulting. She began OurFiniteWorld.com in 2007, but temporarily changed her writing base to TheOilDrum.com between mid-2007 and 2010, where she was a writer and editor. Since late 2010, her blog posts have been published on OurFiniteWorld.com. These posts are widely republished under Gail's Creative Commons license; many posts are translated into other languages and republished. Besides blog posts, Gail is the author of a number of academic papers. The most widely cited is, “Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis.” Another academic paper of interest is, “An Oil Production Forecast for China Considering Economic Limits,” published in 2016. Section 2 of this paper discusses the possibility that the limit on oil extraction may be a financial limit: prices cannot rise high enough. A longer list of academic papers and papers for insurance audiences is given on the sidebar. Gail also speaks to many groups regarding her views on energy limits and the economy. She has spoken in many countries around the world, including Italy, Spain, China, and India. She has spoken to academic groups, actuarial groups, “Peak Oil” groups, and more general groups, such as religious groups and graduate students. In early 2015, she taught a course at China University of Petroleum in Beijing on...

The Earth is a dynamic system. The cold rigid surface (or crust) on which we live is broken into many rigid plates that all move relative to one another in a process known as plate tectonics. At the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Professor Timothy Kusky is studying the evolution of tectonic plates through Earth history. Along with his colleagues, he has found that a devastating 2020 earthquake in the Aegean Sea resulted from a process known as slab rollback. This process may also have been responsible for the eruption of Santorini 3,650 years ago, which altered global climate, devastated the eastern Mediterranean, and wiped out the Minoan civilisation. Read the original paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86063-y Read more in Research Outreach : https://researchoutreach.org/articles/african-tectonic-retreat-seismically-shakes-greece-turkey/

Andrew KIPNIS, interviewed by Jun ZHANG and Gonçalo SANTOS on October 28, 2021ABOUT THIS PODCASTThis podcast discusses urbanization in China through the lens of changing funerary practices. It examines how spatial reorganization during Chinese urbanization problematized death, and how newly emerged forms of familial organization, stranger sociality, and economic restructuring were reflected in changing funerary rituals and the rise of the funerary industry. It also discusses some of the unique features of Chinese patterns of governing death and how existing frameworks of governance influence and are influenced by everyday practices of urban memorialization. Finally, it considers moral debates on the commercialization of death and the place of secularization and ghost stories in contemporary urban China.FEATURED AUTHORAndrew B. Kipnis is a professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His latest book is The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (2021, available for free here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520381971/the-funeral-of-mr-wang). He is also the author of From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat (University of California Press 2016), Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics and Schooling in China (University of Chicago Press 2011), China and Post Socialist Anthropology (Eastbridge 2008), and Producing Guanxi (Duke University Press 1997). From 2006-2015 he was co-editor of The China Journal and he is currently co-editor of Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory.AUTHOR'S WEBSITEhttps://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/memberprofile/andrew-kipnis/

The depiction of the philosopher compiling documents and recording laws is based on a misunderstanding, says legal professor Wang Chang Read the article by Wang Chang: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-10-02/weekend-long-read-what-a-minnesota-mural-of-confucius-tells-us-about-misinterpretation-101777253.html Narrated by Sylvia Franke Wang Chang is an associate professor at the College of Comparative Law, China University of Political Science and Law; and an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota in the U.S.

Mondon Desire is a poet, actor He started writing poetry in 2013 and began recording in 2019. He is currently in his final year studying Mechanical Engineering at China University of Petroleum

In the 57th episode of Battle Rhythm, Stef and Steve talk about #Elxn44 with a recap on former General endorsements and the lack of foreign policy along with #AUKUS defence pact. Today's feature interview guest is with Executive Director of Project Ploughshares, Cesar Jaramillo [25:40]. This week's RnR segment [50:20], where we will provide some levity in these trying times with entertainment reviews and suggestions; Steve's RnR picks for the week are: Brooklyn 99 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2467372/ The Hardest Place by Wesley Morgan, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/ Guest Biography: Cesar Jaramillo's work has focused on such program areas as nuclear disarmament, outer space security and conventional weapons control. As an international civil society representative, Cesar has addressed, among others, the UN General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), the UN Conference on Disarmament, the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), as well as states parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). He has also given guest lectures and presentations at academic institutions such as the National Law University in New Delhi, the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, and the University of Toronto. An occasional columnist on matters of disarmament and international security, Cesar graduated from the University of Waterloo with an MA in global governance and has bachelor's degrees in honours political science and in journalism. Prior to joining Project Ploughshares, Cesar held a fellowship at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

Interview with Matan Vilnai, Former General in the IDF; On the Entebbe rescue, he was the Commander of the Paratroopers Brigade and led the first force that  landed at  the Entebbe airport and the second in command of the entire operation. General Vilnai also served as a member of the Labor Party, as Minister of Science, Culture and sports, Deputy Defense Minister and Minister of Defense of the Home Front. Currently, he has become the president of the first China University in Israel for Business and Economics. Most people can't remember what they did last week, let alone 45 years ago. It was July 4, 1976, while most Americans were celebrating Independence Day with fireworks and BBQ's, the IDF was returning from Entebbe Airport with 102 rescued hostages. For a brief review; On June 27, Palestinian terrorists hijacked a plane that had left Israel, bound for Paris, with a stopover in Athens where the hijackers boarded. After refueling in Libya, the plane flew to Uganda in Africa. Soon after landing in Uganda, the hijackers released the non-Israeli passengers, but held the Israeli's for the ransom to release 53 Arab terrorists being held in Israel and European prisons. While Israel was considering its options, the terrorists extended their deadline to July 4. This extra time allowed for the IDF to devise a rescue operation titled, Operation Thunderbolt, later renamed Operation Yonathan, after its leader Yoni Netanyahu. The miracles included that the release of the non-Israeli hostages which allowed the Mossad to interview them to get a precise detail of the hostage takers and airport. The fact that an Israeli architect still had the Entebbe airport blueprints gave the IDF much needed information. That the IDF had to fly 8000 miles in specialized Hercules planes, one of which was 40,000 pounds overweight and almost couldn't take off due to extreme dry weather. These were just some of the miracles. Today's guest is former IDF General, Matan Vilnai,  was one of the heroes who led the IDF to Uganda to tell us about his role in the rescue and what it was like to participate in the greatest hostage rescue in history.

Interview with Matan Vilnai, Former General in the IDF; On the Entebbe rescue, he was the Commander of the Paratroopers Brigade and led the first force that  landed at  the Entebbe airport and the second in command of the entire operation. General Vilnai also served as a member of the Labor Party, as Minister of Science, Culture and sports, Deputy Defense Minister and Minister of Defense of the Home Front. Currently, he has become the president of the first China University in Israel for Business and Economics. Most people can't remember what they did last week, let alone 45 years ago. It was July 4, 1976, while most Americans were celebrating Independence Day with fireworks and BBQ's, the IDF was returning from Entebbe Airport with 102 rescued hostages. For a brief review; On June 27, Palestinian terrorists hijacked a plane that had left Israel, bound for Paris, with a stopover in Athens where the hijackers boarded. After refueling in Libya, the plane flew to Uganda in Africa. Soon after landing in Uganda, the hijackers released the non-Israeli passengers, but held the Israeli's for the ransom to release 53 Arab terrorists being held in Israel and European prisons. While Israel was considering its options, the terrorists extended their deadline to July 4. This extra time allowed for the IDF to devise a rescue operation titled, Operation Thunderbolt, later renamed Operation Yonathan, after its leader Yoni Netanyahu. The miracles included that the release of the non-Israeli hostages which allowed the Mossad to interview them to get a precise detail of the hostage takers and airport. The fact that an Israeli architect still had the Entebbe airport blueprints gave the IDF much needed information. That the IDF had to fly 8000 miles in specialized Hercules planes, one of which was 40,000 pounds overweight and almost couldn't take off due to extreme dry weather. These were just some of the miracles. Today's guest is former IDF General, Matan Vilnai,  was one of the heroes who led the IDF to Uganda to tell us about his role in the rescue and what it was like to participate in the greatest hostage rescue in history.

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Sigrid Schmalzer‘s new book is an excellent and important contribution to both science studies and the history of China. Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (University of Chicago Press, 2016) reframes how we understand the relationships between science and politics in history by looking closely at the... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

完整文稿看周日微信第三条，你懂得This is NEWS Plus Special English. I&`&m Liu Yan in Beijing. Here is the news.China&`&s vocational education system is now the largest in the world, with almost 30 million students. That&`&s according to a report presented to the top legislature, the National People&`&s Congress, by Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.While acknowledging some achievements, the report pointed out many problems the system faces, including poor public recognition and fluctuating funding.The report is a result of the NPC Standing Committee&`&s first survey of the vocational education. It highlights the poor public perception of vocational education as one of the principal impediments to its development.It is a widely accepted practice that universities cream off the best students, and after the big players have satisfied their hunger for new admissions, vocational colleges pick up the scraps.When it comes to finding a job, vocational graduates are often excluded from applying for top vacancies. While more than 90 percent of them will secure jobs, salaries for most are far from decent. Promotion prospects are no less grim.The report suggested honoring skilled technical workers and stated that technicians&`& salaries should be increased. It also proposed new regulations to ensure fairness for vocational students in the job market.This is NEWS Plus Special English.China has become a world leader in high-speed railway technology with its development of a cutting-edge permanent magnet synchronous traction system. The system will take bullet trains to an ultrafast 500 kilometers per hour.The advanced 690-kilowatt traction system was developed by CRRC Corporation, China&`&s train-making giant, at its Zhuzhou Institute in central China&`&s Hunan province. The new product will soon enter mass production.The institute says that now China has its own permanent magnet synchronous traction system with full intellectual property rights, marking a new chapter in the country&`&s high-speed railways. Only a handful of countries are capable of manufacturing the sophisticated apparatus, including Germany and Japan.Experts say the adoption of the technology will reshape the high-speed railway industry because traction equipment is the most important part of a bullet train.Currently, most high-speed trains in service in the world are propelled by a traction system first developed in the 1970s.This is NEWS Plus Special English.The number of complaints for harmful content online has reached 1 million for the first time in May, and sexually oriented information was the No 1 offender.China&`&s cyberspace watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration, received 1.7 million complaints from the public that month, and has since taken steps to deal with it. According to the administration, 830,000 complaints were related to sexual offences, accounting for almost 60 percent of all complaints. That was followed by political and fraudulent complaints. In May and June, the administration conducted a campaign to fight online obscenity and clean up the Internet for web users, especially the young people, the most active group by far.Hong Daode, a law professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, welcomed the move and suggested the public security departments should monitor the online promotion of prostitution.The administration has opened accounts on WeChat, the most popular instant messaging tool in China, and on micro-blogging platforms, in order to make it easy for the public to report improper content on the Internet.You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I&`&m Liu Yan in Beijing.The Great Wall is under assault from both man and nature, and preservation is proving to be no easy task.Part of the wall running through the wilderness of Funing County in Hebei Province has gone to rack and ruin, with many sections crumbling and leaving large gaping holes.According to China&`&s official Xinhua News Agency, this is not an uncommon scene. Exposure to the elements has left many parts of the structure too fragile to even withstand bad weather. In 2013, several towers in Funing collapsed during a torrential downpour. A 36-meter section in Hebei Province was destroyed by a storm in 2012.Overgrown vegetation is accelerating the decay process, and big trees are taken root in between the bricks.It is not just natural forces, but tourism and other human activities that are contributing to the Wall&`&s demise.In Lulong County, many of the local homes are built with thick grey bricks, exactly like the ones used for the Great Wall. Some of the bricks are carved with ancient Chinese characters and drawings. They are often sold on the black market for around 40 yuan each, roughly 6.4 U. S. dollars.This is NEWS Plus Special English.The Palace Museum in Beijing may have wider jurisdiction over its surrounding areas in the future, that&`&s according to a draft blueprint released recently.The 100-hectare museum, also known as the Forbidden City, was China&`&s royal palace from 1420 to 1911. It was listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 1987.However, its auxiliary buildings, adjacent waters and green spaces are administered by many other institutions, making it difficult to coordinate protection efforts.The blueprint was drafted by an architect with the China Architecture Design and Research Group. It is the first long-term protection blueprint overseeing the museum&`&s work in multiple fields.The draft is waiting for approval by the State Council, China&`&s Cabinet. If passed, it will take effect before the end of this year.The Palace Museum is the world&`&s biggest museum housed in a former royal palace. Fifteen million people visit the museum every year on average, topping all the big museums in the world. The Palace Museum introduced a policy in June to cap the daily visitor number at 80,000.This is NEWS Plus Specialr

Michael Nylan and Griet Vankeerberghen have produced a landmark volume. Chang'an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China (University of Washington Press, 2015) collects 19 essays (plus an Introduction and an Afterword) devoted to exploring the built environment and archaeology of Han Chang'an, sociopolitical transformations in the late Western Han,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China (University of Hawai'i Press, 2015), Stuart Young examines Chinese hagiographic representations of three Indian Buddhist patriarchs–Asvaghosa (Maming), Nagarjuna (Longshu), and Aryadeva (Sheng tipo)–from the early fifth to late tenth centuries, and explores the role that these representations played in the development of Chinese Buddhism's self-awareness of its own position within Buddhist history and its growing confidence that Buddhism could flourish in China despite the distance between the middle kingdom and the land of the Buddha. On the one hand, this project traces these three legendary figures as they are portrayed first as exemplars of how to revive the Dharma in a world without a Buddha, then as representatives of a lineage stretching back to Shakyamuni, and finally as scholar types who transmitted the Dharma to China via their exegetical and doctrinal works. More broadly, however, Young uses this transformation as an index of changing views of medieval China's relationship to Shakyamuni's India, and of Chinese Buddhists' confidence in their own ability to realize the Buddhist soteriological path and firmly establish the Indian tradition on Chinese soil. One theme running throughout the book is the way in which these three patriarchs bridged the Sino-Indian divide.This was particularly important for those Chinese Buddhists who were unsettled by the geographical and historical distance that separated them from the India of Shakyamuni's times. The Chinese found Asvaghosa, Nagarjuna, and Aryadeva particularly attractive because while their Indian origins lent them authority, they were, like the Chinese who peered down the well of history at them, living in a time without a Buddha and thus faced a dilemma not so dissimilar from the predicament in which medieval Chinese found themselves. Unlike the arhats, who experienced Shakyamuni's ministry first-hand, and unlike the celestial bodhisattvas, who were not bound by history, these three Indian patriarchs occupied a temporal position between Shakyamuni's India and medieval China. In addition, as Young shows, the Chinese attributed qualities to and highlighted aspects of these Indian patriarchs that were in accord with the values of Chinese literati, Buddhist and otherwise. In so doing, the Chinese rendered the Indian patriarchs familiar and made them into models that Chinese literati could realistically and willingly emulate.This point is related to another theme linking the chapters together: the Chinese Buddhist appropriation of Indian Buddhist and Chinese religious elements so as to claim them as their own. Young notes, however, that even as the patriarchs developed into models to be emulated, they were also transformed into objects of veneration. Besides being scholarly-types who sat around writing doctrinal treatises, Nagarjuna came to be associated with Pure Land thought and practice (and even had his own pure land, according to some,) and was worshipped for his apotropaic powers and ability to provide this-worldly benefits, while Asvaghosa became a silkworm deity and served as the protagonist in myths that provided a Buddhist justification for the killing of silkworms, to give but a few examples. And in a final chapter, Young shows how Buddhists co-opted Chinese conceptions of sanctity and sainthood so as to show that these qualities that were in reality of Chinese provenance were in fact Indian and Buddhist through-and-though. Readers will thus learn not only the details of Asvaghosa, Nagarjuna, and Aryadeva's Chinese careers over a five-and-a-half-century period, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China  (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010) is a study of domestically produced, portable decorative arts in early modern China. Decorative objects connect us, visually and physically, to the world around us. In many ways they think with us, and an experience of pleasure... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices