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Hi everyone, I'm Dr. Elhanan Gazit. Welcome to my Gamefulness x AI = Growth podcast. My newish 'One Study' Corner Purim Holiday Special has many avatars and two studies, not one!   With my AI co-hosts, Marshal and Daphne (Thanks to Google's NotebookLM), I uncovered how identity games in online multiplayer role-playing games in China and The Sims 2 reveal deep layers about our identity and how they relate to Agency and Being (Augmented Identity).   This Special episode is for anyone interested in business growth, Personal resilience, and wellness in uncertain and disruptive times.   ⭐ Enjoyed this episode? Follow, rate five stars, and share it with someone who'd benefit! *DM if you have questions about my upcoming book: 'Gamefulness x GenAI = Growth" The Secrets of Business Growth and Personal Happiness in the Gen AI Era' (working title).   I'd love to hear your thoughts.  Let's connect: LinkedIn Facebook Instagram   Want to learn more about The Gamefulness x AI for Biz and Personal Growth? Talk to me, or book a consulting session today! >>> Juloot.com Subscribe to MetaYeda Newsletter to learn more >> MetaYeda.com   References: Wu ,W., Fore ,S., Wang, X & ,.Ying Ho, P. (2007). Beyond Virtual Carnival and Masquerade In-Game Marriage on the Chinese Internet, Games and Culture- journal of interactive media, Vol. 2 (1), 59-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412006296248 [Retrieved: 3/14/2025]   Griebel ,T. (2006). Self-Portrayal in a Simulated Life: Projecting Personality  and Values in The Sims 2 ,Games Studies ,vol 6, 1.  http://gamestudies.org/0601/articles/griebel [Retrieved: 3/14/2025]   Try NotebookLM powered by Google: https://notebooklm.google/

We touch on Trump's inauguration, Elon's “Roman salute,” and Biden pardoning everyone named Biden, before diving into the clown car demolition derby that was the fake TikTok ban that led Americans to flee to the glorious land of the free: the Chinese Internet. Join us.Support the show

这是行星酒馆的番外更新，和OutChina电台主播Ashley一期快速聊了一下巴黎奥运开幕——聊的不是开幕本身，而是简中舆论场里再熟悉不过的、针对性小众的破防、惊诧与反感。 在这样的气氛下，我俩一拍即合：与其和人争辩、教育他人，倒不如撸起袖子紧急搭建一个彩虹同温层。我俩分享了不同光谱的视角下，我们该如何面对这种偶尔入侵的无知与恶意？如何组织和梳理自己的情绪？怎么去创建联结而不是增添撕裂？ 正如上文所言，这是一个同温层间的即兴对谈，情绪多有激动凌乱之处 —— 求真不求稳。如有冒犯，请一笑置之。 This is an emergency crossover podcast between Planet Speakeasy and OutChina. In this episode, two hosts exchanged a much-needed therapy session after observing Chinese Internet's massive homophobic backlash against some very BASIC queer imagery at the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony. It's an hour of free-flowing thoughts, rants, and rambling. If you are triggered by the opening ceremony, you'll probably not gonna like this discussion either. Oh well :) 关于行星酒馆 ｜在Instagram上关注我们，获取更多节目资讯与视频片段：https://instagram.com/planet.speakeasy ｜与主播、嘉宾分享感兴趣的话题与感想，可ins私信或电邮 planet.speakeasy@gmail.com | 海外用户可在Patreon支持行星酒馆：https://www.patreon.com/planetspeakeasy 关于OutChina OutChina 电台是一档关于中国酷儿在全球流动性生活方式的播客节目。 Support OutChina @桔子酱Ashley https://www.chinalgbt.org/

  Risky Business in Rising China w/ Mark Atkeson AZ TRT S05 EP06 (221) 2-11-2024  What We Learned This Week Mark worked in many industries in China - Aircrafts, EV Cars, Mobile Phones, Internet Co. & Aircraft Parts Mark first worked in Japan w/ Sony, China must be careful, not to repeat Japan‘s Lost Decade of 1990s China has a lots of investment in EV Car & Solar Market US v China Rivalry is not dying down, two most important Tech countries, who must learn to co-exist   Guest: Mark Atkeson   Mark Atkeson is an international business leader, investor, entrepreneur, and author. A foremost expert on doing business in China, Mark managed, partnered in or provided services to Chinese-based companies for more than three decades in industries ranging from machine tools to aircraft engines, automotive manufacturing, mobile technology, startup venture investing, and aviation asset trading. Most recently, Mark wrote and released Risky Business in Rising China: Deals, Ordeals and Lessons Learned as an American Entrepreneur in a Surging Superpower Grappling with Growing Pains, chronicling his real-life experiences managing joint ventures and startup companies in China.          Now living in California, Mark continues participating in the Chinese economy as founder and managing partner of China Aviation Partners LLC, which provides software services, market research and other consulting for China-related businesses. Mark is a graduate of Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration.   For more than 30 years, American entrepreneur Mark Atkeson found himself in the trenches of the Chinese economy managing joint ventures and startup companies.   His new memoir, RISKY BUSINESS IN RISING CHINA: Deals, Ordeals and Lessons Learned as an American Entrepreneur in a Surging Superpower Grappling with Growing Pains, chronicles Atkeson's real-life experiences as the world's most populous nation transformed itself into a global economic and military superpower.   Over his three-decade career, Atkeson worked across a variety of industries ranging from aircraft maintenance to electric-vehicle production, mobile internet to venture capital. In addition to Atkeson's behind-the-scenes business dealings with entrepreneurs and government officials, the book offers an unprecedented glimpse into Chinese society, its economy and its governance into the near and distant future.   RISKY BUSINESS IN RISING CHINA has received high praise from readers.   Here's what people are saying:   “Atkeson is a talented storyteller whose diverse and adventurous China business career winds along the path of China's progress and setbacks.” – James McGregor, American author, journalist and businessman, and three-decade resident of China   “Mark Atkeson's China business memoir recounts his peripatetic career from the early days of the Open Door Policy to the Modern China of 2023 in an honest, humorous and detailed way. This book will be valuable for anyone seeking to understand the often messy ‘inside story' of China's rise in the late 20th Century, and the role that foreign managers and investors played in the process.” – David G. Brooks, former chairman, Coca-Cola Greater China and Korea   “If you want to understand today's China, and the forces changing it, you need to read Atkeson's book.” – John Clasen, former director of China business development, Magellan Aviation Group       Notes:   Seg 1   Marc worked in China from the late 1980s to just after 2010. He saw the country go through their reform phase, and then capitalist rise. For nearly 20 years the political ideology took a backseat to market forces. An astounding 800 million people came out of poverty.   Mark worked with lots of companies in his career, dealing in venture capital, mobile phones, Internet, companies, EV cars, machines, and aircraft.   China is the 2nd most advanced nation in the world in technology, behind the US. Chinese Internet company TikTok is just one example of the Chinese advancement in AI and tech.   Products that people use on an average day usually have some connection to China, like manufacturing. Giant US corporations like Walmart, Amazon and Apple are all very dependent on China. China is the 2nd largest economy in the world.   The modernization of China was like a tidal wave from the 1970s to the early 2000s a 30+ year run. It seems though that in 2023 we've seen the crust of the wave with China slowing down. GDP in China is no longer 10% a year but more like 2 to 5%. Both property and consumer sales are down.   China has a middle class of 400 million people and most of their net worth is in their real estate. Real estate has been down in China the last few years, so millions of people have taken a hit.   Mark worked in Japan for Sony Corp. from 1988 to 1989. Japan in the 1980s was the rising superpower to challenge the US. It was number 1 in growth. Then in 1990, the dual economic bubble burst (stock mkt & real estate) in Japan and they entered their lost decade.   It took 30 years for the real estate in stock market to get back to the 1989 levels. China may be facing some of the similar problems of Japan, dealing with too much growth, leverage, debt, and possibly demographics. China will need decades to de-leverage from their current debt situation.       Seg 2   Mark's grandfather was stationed in China in the late 1930s. This was during the start of the conflict with Japan and pre-World War II. Mark‘s father worked in Far East banking circa 1970s – 19080s.   Mark actually took Chinese in college. In 1982 he took his first trip to China. He remembers the country being poor with small buildings and very few cars. During the 1980s foreign businesses were investing more in China.   In the early 1990s, Mark got his first job in China working the aircraft industry. They were maintaining airplanes for a Chinese airline. Regulations were lax and implementation was lacking. He ran a factory in China in the Szechuan province.   They installed the Toyota production system, for more efficiency, collaboration, built and grew the factory. Factory dealt with diesel and fuel.   Unfortunately, corruption and theft mafia style was very common. Example of the corruption was the sales force would take bribes. This was a state owned auto group and corruption. Scams were not uncommon in the business world in communist type countries.     Seg 3   In 2001, Mark got involved in a venture capital company. He was being replaced by the local population and younger managers to run the factories he had built up. He decided it was time to transition to a new industry.   Him and some partners created an investment fund. They were investing in products in mobile tech and the Internet. He could see the upcoming Internet business on phones which were very popular in China.   Consumer products like payments, info services and entertainment. The idea was to build an incubator - set up to invest in Chinese entrepreneurs. Then raise Series A funding and strategic buyers over the long term for an exit.   They were paying 8 Chinese engineers for 12 months in an angel investing deal for just $100,000. It was a Portfolio of 10 businesses, involved in things like gaming and payments.   Result: 8 out of 10 of the businesses return 0%, 1 did OK, and 1 was a home run. The home run company made a deal with China mobile for an exit and sale to a NASDAQ listed company in 2007.   After that he represented US companies that acquired Chinese Internet businesses and Mark was a liaison to the US company in China.   Mark actually worked in Internet entertainment. They put on a singing contest which acquired 800 million votes from audiences with cell phone text voting. At the time, this was a major example of democracy - voting through Phone. This was regulated out of existence.       Seg 4   BYD EV car company was a mobile phone company and supplied to Apple. China makes good low-cost cars and has a lot of electric vehicle development. In 2008 Tesla was building electric vehicles, when oil was priced at $140 a barrel.   Circle back to US with US engineers going to China to build the EV cars. Design was localized in China. EV cars has 3 challenges – tech, then US safety requirements, then fit & finish of the car. Produce cars in China and then sell in California.   2012 was the end of the road for Mark working in China. He was working in Hong Kong with an AR financing leasing and appraisals type airline business. They would buy an old A23 or A3 aircraft, disassemble and sell the parts.   It was like a high-end junkyard business. These were Chinese aircraft models. Mark connected with a company in Florida, who had a business partner in Air China. They moved on to buy 747 and disassemble them in the Chinese Beijing airport. Now Mark' career came full circle in Aircrafts, with salvaging aircraft 20 years later.   What is the future of China? US v China rivalry not dying down. They are the two most important tech innovators on AI batteries and solar and must figure out how to coexist. Tesla makes more cars in China versus the US. They have a big factory in Shanghai. Apple outsources to China in their supply chain.   Chinese economy has slowed from 10% growth per year to 3%. China may not be 10 feet anymore but it's still 6 foot four.   The Chinese private economy and services could ultimately come to the US. BYD EV car company as an example, that could become the face of a Chinese company in the US.   BYD US - https://www.byd.com/us     Business Topic: HERE   Investing Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/investing More - BRT Best of: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+Of   Thanks for Listening. 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Navigating Challenges in China's Digital Landscape: Brand LocalizationJoin Jimmy Robinson, CEO of Ping Pong Digital, as he navigates China's unique digital landscape shaped by the Great Firewall. We explore the evolution of the Chinese Internet, emphasizing its mobile-centric growth, prominently characterized by app-based infrastructure. Jimmy takes us through the challenges faced by Western brands, emphasizing the need for authentic localization and the imperative to resonate with the local audience. He emphasizes the importance of understanding cultural nuances, embracing local platforms, and the art of crafting authentic narratives tailored to Chinese consumers. The Fashion Digital Marketing Tech StackWe focus on the 'Tech Stack' that fashion brands should use when developing a story for the Chinese market.  Shedding light on the country's experimentation with metaverse technologies, VR fashion shows, and its pioneering role in adopting innovations, Jimmy predicts a forthcoming demand for authenticity and moral stances, particularly from the emerging Gen Z and Alpha consumer base.  Listen to PingPong Digital's podcast, 'Insight China' here.Connect with Jimmy on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jrr87Support the Show.--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a venture studio building & investing in fashion tech startups with ambitious founders. We'd love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you'd like to hear a certain topic. Email us at hello@beyondform.io. If you're an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

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Users are harassing Black creators with profile pictures of white police officers.Click here to read the article by Viola Zhou.Narrated by Sarah Kutulakos.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It is reported that the revenue of ByteDance will exceed 80 billion dollars in 2022, an increase of more than 30% over 2021. This means that the revenue of ByteDance, which has only developed for 10 years, is almost the same as that of Tencent, the Chinese Internet giant. This situation has surprised many people.Join other motivated learners on your Chinese learning journey with maayot. Receive a daily Chinese reading in Mandarin Chinese in your inbox. Full text in Chinese, daily quiz to test your understanding, one-click dictionary, new words, etc.Got a question or comment? Reach out to us at contact[at]maayot.com

As much as we appreciate what the Internet has offered us, the dark side of technology has also always been there. In particular, we want to touch upon cyberbullying and a recent case in China (01:05). / As an employee, should I bother to stand in the boss' shoes (26:18)? / Chongqing gives free HPV shots to fight against cervical cancer (43:07). On the show: Fei Fei, Ningjing & Li Yi

Advanced AI is currently pretty much a duopoly between the USA and China. The US is the clear leader, thanks largely to its tech giants – Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple. China also has a fistful of tech giants – Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are the ones usually listed, but the Chinese government has also taken a strong interest in AI since Deep Mind's Alpha Go system beat the world's best Go player in 2016.People in the West don't know enough about China's current and future role in AI. Some think its companies just copy their Western counterparts, while others think it is an implacable and increasingly dangerous enemy, run by a dictator who cares nothing for his people. Both those views are wrong.One person who has been trying to provide a more accurate picture of China and AI in recent years is Jeff Ding, the author of the influential newsletter ChinAI.Jeff grew up in Iowa City and is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. He earned a PhD at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and wrote his thesis on how past technological revolutions influenced the rise and fall of great powers, with implications for U.S.-China competition. After gaining his doctorate he worked at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute and Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.Selected follow-up reading:https://jeffreyjding.github.io/https://chinai.substack.com/https://www.tortoisemedia.com/intelligence/global-ai/Topics in this conversation include:*) The Thucydides Trap: Is conflict inevitable as a rising geopolitical power approaches parity with an established power?*) Different ways of trying to assess how China's AI industry compares with that of the U.S.*) Measuring innovations in creating AI is different from measuring adoption of AI solutions across multiple industries*) Comparisons of papers submitted to AI conferences such as NeurIPS, citations, patents granted, and the number of data scientists*) The biggest misconceptions westerners have about China and AI*) A way in which Europe could still be an important player alongside the duopoly*) Attitudes in China toward data privacy and facial recognition*) Government focus on AI can be counterproductive*) Varieties of government industrial policy: the merits of encouraging decentralised innovation*) The Titanic and the origin of Silicon Valley*) Mariana Mazzucato's question: "Who created the iPhone?"*) Learning from the failure of Japan's 5th Generation Computers initiative*) The evolution of China's Social Credit systems*) Research by Shazeda Ahmed and Jeremy Daum*) Factors encouraging and discouraging the "splinternet" separation of US and Chinese tech ecosystems*) Connections that typically happen outside of the public eye*) Financial interdependencies*) Changing Chinese government attitudes toward Chinese Internet giants*) A broader tension faced by the Chinese government*) Future scenarios: potential good and bad developments*) Transnational projects to prevent accidents or unauthorised use of powerful AI systemsMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

Mouth replacement?Barbecue?6?What do these phrases mean?In this episode, Karen and 柏威 'debunked' top 2022 Chinese internet buzzwords. You can ACCESS the【study material+transcript】at

The death on Wednesday of China's former leader Jiang Zemin has prompted an outpouring of nostalgia on the internet, with many tributes from young Chinese focusing on the contrast between Jiang's governing style and flamboyant personality and those of his successors.Click here to read the article by Zhao Yuanyuan.Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Chinese tech firms hunt for opportunities abroad, airlines plan more international flights amid eased Covid rules, and Hong Kong steps up efforts to restore its global status Are you a big fan of our shows? Then please give our podcast account, China Business Insider, a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to podcasts

In this Alabama Unfiltered/1819 News: The Podcast Mashup, Bryan, Amie Beth, and Allison sit down with Gregg Phillips to hear about the big event True The Vote put on near Phoenix recently, called 'THE PIT" and why the information revealed in that event matters to Alabamians. The information goes way beyond the scope of 2000 Mules and is very alarming. They also discuss how Gregg was falsely accused of stealing the Chinese internet, as if that is even possible, as well as how Bryan and Gregg might have common ancestors from Plymouth Plantation. Be sure to subscribe to Alabama Unfiltered on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

In this Alabama Unfiltered/1819 News: The Podcast Mashup, Bryan, Amie Beth, and Allison sit down with Gregg Phillips to hear about the big event True The Vote put on near Phoenix recently, called 'THE PIT" and why the information revealed in that event matters to Alabamians. The information goes way beyond the scope of 2000 Mules and is very alarming. They also discuss how Gregg was falsely accused of stealing the Chinese internet, as if that is even possible, as well as how Bryan and Gregg might have common ancestors from Plymouth Plantation. Be sure to subscribe to Alabama Unfiltered on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

In this Alabama Unfiltered/1819 News: The Podcast Mashup, Bryan, Amie Beth, and Allison sit down with Gregg Phillips to hear about the big event True The Vote put on near Phoenix recently, called 'THE PIT" and why the information revealed in that event matters to Alabamians. The information goes way beyond the scope of 2000 Mules and is very alarming. They also discuss how Gregg was falsely accused of stealing the Chinese internet, as if that is even possible, as well as how Bryan and Gregg might have common ancestors from Plymouth Plantation. Be sure to subscribe to 1819 News The Podcast on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

In this Alabama Unfiltered/1819 News: The Podcast Mashup, Bryan, Amie Beth, and Allison sit down with Gregg Phillips to hear about the big event True The Vote put on near Phoenix recently, called 'THE PIT" and why the information revealed in that event matters to Alabamians. The information goes way beyond the scope of 2000 Mules and is very alarming. They also discuss how Gregg was falsely accused of stealing the Chinese internet, as if that is even possible, as well as how Bryan and Gregg might have common ancestors from Plymouth Plantation. Be sure to subscribe to 1819 News The Podcast on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

In this Alabama Unfiltered/1819 News: The Podcast Mashup, Bryan, Amie Beth, and Allison sit down with Gregg Phillips to hear about the big event True The Vote put on near Phoenix recently, called 'THE PIT" and why the information revealed in that event matters to Alabamians. The information goes way beyond the scope of 2000 Mules and is very alarming. They also discuss how Gregg was falsely accused of stealing the Chinese internet, as if that is even possible, as well as how Bryan and Gregg might have common ancestors from Plymouth Plantation. Be sure to subscribe to Alabama Unfiltered on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

今夜你会不会来？ Jīnyè nǐ huì bù huì lái? is a song by Cantonese singer Leon Lai (黎明 Límíng), and Chinese Internet censors blocked it!So the question is 'why?'It's because US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was "rumored" to be planning a visit to Taiwan during her Asia tour, but it wasn't on any "official" public itinerary.For the sake of preserving Face, any 讽刺 fèngcì utterances HAD TO BE prevented by Chinese authorities. 讽刺 fèngcì means to mock with sarcasm, so any such expressions MUST be stifled before they are allowed to influence public perceptions.Then Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan, met with Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen, made some joint support statements, and left the island.#nancypelosi #uschina #uschinarelations #taiwan #chinabusiness #guanxi #xijinping #leonlai黎明https://www.genejhsu.com/Join our discussions -- Discover better ways to communicate with your Chinese partners with EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT CHINA and get THE CHINESE HONEYMOON PERIOD as a gift, instantly.Learn what everyone is saying about EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT CHINA

The largest data breach in history just occurred in China. According to Reuters the "Databases contain information on one billion Chinese national residents and several billion case records, including: name, address, birthplace, national ID number, mobile number, all crime/case details.”Apparently, the hacker “China Dan” is willing to sell the database for the relatively low sum of $200,000. At that price, many people and numerous governments could very soon own information on nearly every person in China.State censorship is working overtime to remove all mentions of the hack from the Chinese Internet, and the government is warning people and business to pay more attention to security. Is this hack legitimate? What happens next? What will China do? There's lots to discuss on this week's episode of The Decentralists!

Welcome to Croptastic the InnerPlant Podcast where your host Shely Aronov explores the global future of agriculture and food. David Wallerstein, Chief eXploration Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of Chinese Internet titan Tencent joins the show this episode to talk about the need for big solutions to the planet's biggest problems. His water-focused documentary, “Day Zero” is available on Amazon Prime.

China's social credit system is notorious. This Black Mirror-esque network supposedly gives citizens a score, based on an opaque algorithm that feeds on data from each person's digital and physical lives. With one billion Chinese accessing the Internet and the growing prevalence of facial recognition, it means that their every move can be monitored – from whether they cross the road dangerously, to whether they play too many video games and buy too much junk food. Those with low scores have lower socio-economic status, and may not be able to board planes and trains, or send their children to school. It's all part of a Chinese Communist Party directive to further control and mould its citizens. Except it's not. Speak to any Chinese person and you'll quickly realise that their lives are not dictated by some score, with their every move monitored and live-feeding to some kind of governmental evaluation of their social worth. In fact, the western narrative of the social credit system has deviated so far from the situation on the ground that Chinese Internet users went viral mocking western reporting on Weibo: '-278 points: Immediate execution'. Telling Cindy Yu this story on this episode of Chinese Whispers is Vincent Brussee, a researcher at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (Merics), who has recently released a detailed paper looking at what the social credit system really entails on the ground (Merics was part of the group of European organisations and individuals sanctioned by Beijing last year). The reality of social credit is unfortunately much less exciting and sexy than you might fear. For one, the technology simply isn't there.  ' When the social credit system was envisioned, or when it was designed in the early 2000s, government files in China were still held in dusty drawers… In 2019 when I worked in China I still had to use a fax machine. That was the first time in my life that I ever saw a fax machine', Vincent says. The system is not linked with someone's digital data, but fundamentally only their interactions with the government (for example, permits and licences). Data that e-commerce and social media companies collect on their users, which must be extensive, are not connected with the government's own data (probably because of the CCP's growing suspicion of Chinese tech firms). But more fundamentally, the social credit system is not just one system. 'It's more of an umbrella term', Jeremy Daum says. He is the senior research fellow at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, who also runs the blog China Law Translate (which does what it says on the tin). Jeremy has spent years myth-busting the social credit system. He says that for some institutions, social credit is a financial record ('credit' as in 'credit card'); for others, it is a way of black-marking unscrupulous companies that in the past fell short of, say, food safety standards (a particularly sensitive topic in China, given the milk powder scandal). In fact, social credit often functionally works as a way of determining how trustworthy a company is, like a government-run Yelp or Trustpilot system (the Merics report found that most targets of are companies rather than individuals). So how did reporters get the social credit story so wrong? In reality, though the social credit system itself is fairly boring, the way this narrative exploded and took hold is a cautionary tale for the West in our understanding of China. 'The western coverage of social credit has hardly been coverage of social credit at all. It is coverage of us, seen through a mirror of China', says Jeremy, arguing that it tapped into our deep fear of unbridled technology and surveillance. On the episode Cindy also speaks to Louise Matsakis, a freelance journalist covering tech and China, who was one of the first to point out the disparity in the social credit narrative and the reality on the ground. Together, they unpack what lessons there are for studying, understanding and reporting on China from this whole saga.  For further reading, here are the sources we mention in the episode: - The Chinese Whispers episode with Jeremy Daum on the fightback against facial recognition:  https://www.spectator.co.uk/po... - The Merics report:  https://merics.org/en/report/c... - China Law Translate's Social Credit section:  https://www.chinalawtranslate.... - Louise Matsakis in WIRED, ' How the West Got China's Social Credit System Wrong':  https://www.wired.com/story/ch...

China's social credit system is notorious. This Black Mirror-esque network supposedly gives citizens a score, based on an opaque algorithm that feeds on data from each person's digital and physical lives. With one billion Chinese accessing the Internet and the growing prevalence of facial recognition, it means that their every move can be monitored – from whether they cross the road dangerously, to whether they play too many video games and buy too much junk food. Those with low scores have lower socio-economic status, and may not be able to board planes and trains, or send their children to school. It's all part of a Chinese Communist Party directive to further control and mould its citizens. Except it's not. Speak to any Chinese person and you'll quickly realise that their lives are not dictated by some score, with their every move monitored and live-feeding to some kind of governmental evaluation of their social worth. In fact, the western narrative of the social credit system has deviated so far from the situation on the ground that Chinese Internet users went viral mocking western reporting on Weibo: '-278 points: Immediate execution'. Telling me this story on this episode of Chinese Whispers is Vincent Brussee, a researcher at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (Merics), who has recently released a detailed paper looking at what the social credit system really entails on the ground (Merics was part of the group of European organisations and individuals sanctioned by Beijing last year). The reality of social credit is unfortunately much less exciting and sexy than you might fear. For one, the technology simply isn't there.  ' When the social credit system was envisioned, or when it was designed in the early 2000s, government files in China were still held in dusty drawers… In 2019 when I worked in China I still had to use a fax machine. That was the first time in my life that I ever saw a fax machine', Vincent tells me. The system is not linked with someone's digital data, but fundamentally only their interactions with the government (for example, permits and licences). Data that e-commerce and social media companies collect on their users, which must be extensive, are not connected with the government's own data (probably because of the CCP's growing suspicion of Chinese tech firms). But more fundamentally, the social credit system is not just one system. 'It's more of an umbrella term', Jeremy Daum tells me on the episode. He is the senior research fellow at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, who also runs the blog China Law Translate (which does what it says on the tin). Jeremy has spent years myth-busting the social credit system. He says that for some institutions, social credit is a financial record ('credit' as in 'credit card'); for others, it is a way of black-marking unscrupulous companies that in the past fell short of, say, food safety standards (a particularly sensitive topic in China, given the milk powder scandal). In fact, social credit often functionally works as a way of determining how trustworthy a company is, like a government-run Yelp or Trustpilot system ( the Merics report found that most targets of are companies rather than individuals). So how did reporters get the social credit story so wrong? In reality, though the social credit system itself is fairly boring, the way this narrative exploded and took hold is a cautionary tale for the West in our understanding of China. 'The western coverage of social credit has hardly been coverage of social credit at all. It is coverage of us, seen through a mirror of China', says Jeremy, arguing that it tapped into our deep fear of unbridled technology and surveillance. On the episode I also speak to Louise Matsakis, a freelance journalist covering tech and China, who was one of the first to point out the disparity in the social credit narrative and the reality on the ground. Together, we unpack what lessons there are for studying, understanding and reporting on China from this whole saga.  For further reading, here are the sources we mention in the episode: - The Chinese Whispers episode with Jeremy Daum on the fightback against facial recognition:  https://www.spectator.co.uk/po... - The Merics report:  https://merics.org/en/report/c... - China Law Translate's Social Credit section:  https://www.chinalawtranslate.... - Louise Matsakis in WIRED, ' How the West Got China's Social Credit System Wrong':  https://www.wired.com/story/ch...

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Listen in podcast appIn this week's episode of Reformed Millennials, Joel and Cam talk Markets, the destruction of the millennial subsidy, lunch inflation, and why Tom Cruise is the greatest actor to ever live.It’s a long-term game. Stay the course.Listen on Apple, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.If you aren’t in the Reformed Millennials Facebook Group join us for daily updates, discussions, and deep dives into the investable trends Millennials should be paying attention to.👉 For specific investment questions or advice contact Joel @ Gold Investment Management.📈📊Market Update💵📉Before stocks can start to go up, they need to stop going down.That's step one.The next step would be a series of higher lows. Mathematically, in order for that to take place, a stock would need to avoid making a new low.When enough stocks stop making new lows, and put in the first higher low, that's when the market at the index level can stop falling.We refer to that as an exhaustion of sellers.Over the past few weeks, with new lows in major indexes across the board, we only saw a fraction of individual stocks making new lows, compared to before.Now we're looking for an expansion of new highs to support the thesis that perhaps we should be spending more time looking for stocks to buy than time looking for stocks to sell.With areas like Small-caps, Chinese Internet, IPO Index and Biotechs putting in higher lows, it's a good time to look even further out on the risk curve.I feel these charts are a good representation of exactly that. The direction of these resolutions will tell us a lot about any risk appetite there is out there for these types of risk assets:From All star charts:💸Reformed Millennials - Post of The WeekTHE CURRENT EARNINGS SEASON IS COMING TO A CONCLUSION. THE LATEST THEMES:The resetting of expectations continues with full force, especially in the tech sector. Companies are either missing estimates, guiding lower, or both. The silver lining is they have managed to lower the market expectations so it’ll be easier to surprise in the future.The impact of Inflation is not distributed evenly as of now. While Walmart and Target said that costs have gone up more than expected and their customers have changed their purchasing habits due to higher inflation, Nordstrom and Williams-Sonoma pointed out that their clients are not having those issues yet. It only makes sense. Higher inflation typically hits first people with less income.The most heavily shorted stocks are missing estimates, gapping lower, and then squeezing higher. We saw that in companies from various sectors – USPS, DKS, BROS, etc.This is a normal part of the market structure. Every share that has ever been sold short will have to be bought back at some point. High short interest can be a source of solid future demand.In the meantime, anything related to energy continues to be among the price leaders. Oil & gas stocks went up about 20% across the board last week as natural gas hit 12-year highs. Lithium stocks have also been on fire as it is needed in the clean-energy space – LTHM, ALB, LAC, SQM.As for other thoughts and charts from people smarter than me: (charts 1 & 2)JC says don’t be short if the S&P is above 4,100 which it closed on Friday.Technical wiz Jon Krinsky pointed out that China's internet may be bottoming: (1)And energy seasonals generally peak around here (my interpretation is trying not to chase energy.🐦 Twitter Thread of The Week 🐦Money rules from Danny.My favorite - Never let money interfere with relationships🎬 Video of The Week🎬From the All-In Summit in Miami - FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver on how gamblers think.🔮Best Links of The Week🔮Financial Times - Allan Lanthier: The small-business tax mess — Ottawa should start over from scratchAll-In Podcast - Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David SacksWait But Why? - The Big and The SmallTech Crunch - Affirm teams up with Stripe as the BNPL wars intensify This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reformedmillennials.com

Do you know your breaking porcelain from your eating human-blood-soaked steam buns? Slow Chinese author Andrew Methven (@AndrewMethven) joins me to talk about some of the newest and most interesting Chinese internet slang from the previous year and their origin stories.We discuss new words and phrases inspired by Haidilao cockroach scams, misbehaving tech companies and 996 culture, as well as:Which slang phrases have been co-opted into party talkLuckin Coffee founder Charles Lu's latest ventureWhether idioms are fortelling the fates of Chinese celebritiesThe best sites Chinese-language sites and accounts for Chinese newsSee Andrew's full list here:https://newsletter.slowchinese.net/p/china-in-2021-in-21-wordsOutro Music: Hip Hop No Party MC (嘻哈沒有派對) HotDog (熱狗) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzfMegHg2tY Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Do you know your breaking porcelain from your eating human-blood-soaked steam buns? Slow Chinese author Andrew Methven (@AndrewMethven) joins me to talk about some of the newest and most interesting Chinese internet slang from the previous year and their origin stories.We discuss new words and phrases inspired by Haidilao cockroach scams, misbehaving tech companies and 996 culture, as well as:Which slang phrases have been co-opted into party talkLuckin Coffee founder Charles Lu's latest ventureWhether idioms are fortelling the fates of Chinese celebritiesThe best sites Chinese-language sites and accounts for Chinese newsSee Andrew's full list here:https://newsletter.slowchinese.net/p/china-in-2021-in-21-wordsOutro Music: Hip Hop No Party MC (嘻哈沒有派對) HotDog (熱狗) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzfMegHg2tY Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Do you know your breaking porcelain from your eating human-blood-soaked steam buns? Slow Chinese author Andrew Methven (@AndrewMethven) joins me to talk about some of the newest and most interesting Chinese internet slang from the previous year and their origin stories.We discuss new words and phrases inspired by Haidilao cockroach scams, misbehaving tech companies and 996 culture, as well as:Which slang phrases have been co-opted into party talkLuckin Coffee founder Charles Lu's latest ventureWhether idioms are fortelling the fates of Chinese celebritiesThe best sites Chinese-language sites and accounts for Chinese newsSee Andrew's full list here:https://newsletter.slowchinese.net/p/china-in-2021-in-21-wordsOutro Music: Hip Hop No Party MC (嘻哈沒有派對) HotDog (熱狗) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzfMegHg2tY Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Do you know your breaking porcelain from your eating human-blood-soaked steam buns? Slow Chinese author Andrew Methven (@AndrewMethven) joins me to talk about some of the newest and most interesting Chinese internet slang from the previous year and their origin stories.We discuss new words and phrases inspired by Haidilao cockroach scams, misbehaving tech companies and 996 culture, as well as:Which slang phrases have been co-opted into party talkLuckin Coffee founder Charles Lu's latest ventureWhether idioms are fortelling the fates of Chinese celebritiesThe best sites Chinese-language sites and accounts for Chinese newsSee Andrew's full list here:https://newsletter.slowchinese.net/p/china-in-2021-in-21-wordsOutro Music: Hip Hop No Party MC (嘻哈沒有派對) HotDog (熱狗) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzfMegHg2tY Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Diagnosia is an immersive, non-linear environmental storytelling piece that takes you inside of a Chinese Internet Addiction Camp. In the early 2000s in China, there

In episode 384, we welcome our guest, Robert Cantwell, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Upholdings and portfolio manager for the Compound Kings ETF. In today's episode, we're talking to the first person to convert a hedge fund into an ETF and invest in a private company through an ETF. Robert shares why he chose to do the conversion and some benefits of the ETF structure, including transparency, taxes and even short lending to generate income. Then we get into his ETF, ticker K-N-G-S. We talk about Robert's philosophy for running a concentrated portfolio of companies that he defines as compounders. We hear his thought process for analyzing a company and he uses Facebook as an example. As we wind down, we touch on the Chinese Internet stocks and how investors should think about geopolitical risk when investing abroad. ----- Follow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- Today's episode is sponsored by The Idea Farm. The Idea Farm gives you access to over $100,000 worth of investing research, the kind usually read by only the world's largest institutions, funds, and money managers. Join today and get access to quarterly CAPE ratios, an excel quant backtester and the entire research library.

这期节目我们来聊一聊2021年度汉语十大网络用语——“觉醒年代”、“YYDS”、“双减”、“破防”、“元宇宙”、“绝绝子”、“躺平”、“伤害性不高，侮辱性极强”、“我看不懂，但我大受震撼”、“强国有我”。网络用语虽然是一种语言现象，但它们同时也记录着这一年比较重要的事件或者流行文化。透过这些网络用语大家可以了解到2021年在中国人们都关注了哪些问题。 In this episode, we are going to talk about the Top 10 Chinese internet buzzwords of 2021. Although the internet buzzword is a linguistic phenomenon, it also records the key events and pop culture of the year. These 10 buzzwords can give you an idea of what topics people are concerned about in China in 2021. 这将是我们2021年的最后一期，希望Chinese Explained在过年去的一年里为大家的汉语学习之旅增添了一些不一样的色彩。感谢大家的订阅和建议！我们2022年再见啦，新年快乐！ This will be our last episode in 2021, and I hope Chinese Explained brought different colors to your Chinese learning journey this year. Thanks for your subscriptions and suggestions! See you in 2022, happy New Year! | Page of this episode | Host: Kate | Website: chineseexplained.com | Instagram: @_chinese_explained | Twitter: @Ch_Explained | Background music: 1. Grut by Patrick Patrikios 2. Everglow by Patrick Patrikios 3. A Night Alone by TrackTribe 4. Wishful Thinking by Dan Lebowitz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinese-explained/message

In this week's podcast (Dec 20-26, 2021): Chinese tech giant Baidu doesn't expect to fully launch its XiRang metaverse app any time soon despite the app's initial debut. Also, with so many companies begging off in-person appearances, will CES 2022 eventually become a virtual event? Please note: our podcast listeners can now leave audio messages for us at this link: https://memo.fm/whatsnewonthenet --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whatsnewonthenet/message

Tauriq Keeran, CEO at TymeBank, discusses Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings's investment in the company. Kevin Lings, chief economist at Stanlib Asset Management on the contraction of SA's GDP in the third quarter of 2021. Then in Investment School, Mduduzi Luthuli, co-founder and executive director at Luthuli Capital explains why no financial or investment plan can make you wealthy without mastering your financial behaviour  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

[Episode theme]Who's the real bad art friend? Well, it depends on who you ask. Our hosts each share their own perspectives on the hottest Internet discourse and dive into a myriad of related topics.  [Timecode]2:57 what is the NYT Magazine's “Who is the Bad Art Friend” really about6:30 Diaodiao's perspective: it's about the power dynamics behind an act of kindness11:00 Afra's perspective: the story highlights the gap between the societal impact and the literary nature of a work of fiction; Sonya Larson's “The Kindest” portrays highly imperfect characters' stories. 14:00 Ina's perspective: her bias against Dawn (a white female author) influenced her viewpoint and reading experience, but ultimately agrees donating a kidney is the ultimate act of kindness-18:00 Juan's perspective: this is a story about beating someone when they're already down, stresses Dawn's identity as a yet-to-be-published author and Larson's identity as a writer; Larson's prejudice and othering of Dawn shouldn't be excused by the reason of creating a work of art26:30 Additional context behind live donors for donating organs and how this context changes our thoughts33:30 In the ultra-connected social media environment of today, what privileges are afforded to those who are kind? Is it bad to doubt the motive behind an act of kindness? Perhaps. 35:33 How did this story become a story about “two female authors pitting themselves against each other”？ How are “Cat Fights” and “mean girls” influencing our behavior and becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy? How are female authors repressed in the publishing and writing world? 46:00 POCs being hyper-aware of white feminism and its faults 49:00 The context around American society and politics that the Chinese Internet discourse missed 1:02:00 - An original song! Bonus easter egg!Original song by our editor Joshua Ogden-Davis Well I gave away my kidney but my friends don't even careI said I gave away my WHOLE kidney and my friends don't seem to care an appropriate amountBut I know up in heaven White Jesus is saving me a chairWell I plagiarized a rando but she says she knows meWell I plagiarized this rando and she says she knows meBut she ain't cool enough for the group chat so she ain't get no apology[Hosts]Diaodiao, Ina, Afra, Juan[Audio editor]Joshua Ogden-Davis[Be our sponsor]Please consider supporting us on Patreon (in USD, suitable for listeners who live in the U.S.): https://www.patreon.com/loudmurmurs. Please consider supporting us on Patreon (in RMB)：https://afdian.net/p/e0a54e82ebd111e9bd2d52540025c377【Business collab】Please reach out to us at loudmurmursfm@gmail.com for any business inquiries. 【Listen to LMM】Find Loud Murmurs in the iTunes podcast store, Google Play, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts (e.g. Pocket Casts, Overcast)! Please subscribe, enjoy, and feel free to drop us a note and leave us a review. RSS feed: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/258327.rss Itunes: https://apple.co/2VAVf0Z Google play: goo.gl/KjRYPN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IWNuRB Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/loudmurmurs)

Jack Ma's Alibaba beat the US giant eBay? Alibaba the huge Chinese Internet conglomerate that is really a technology company that serves retail customers and controls 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market. But it wasn't always the case, the story of how it's founder Jack Ma, a teacher founded and beat eBay and Amazon is a truly remarkable lesson for new Entrepreneurs. Jack Ma grew up in humble circumstances in communist China. He famously tells people how he twice failed his university entrance exams and was rejected from every job he applied to after college, including the fast-food chain, KFC. Ma is the quintessential rags-to-riches story Alibaba was founded in 1999 in the garage of Jack Ma, a former English school teacher, management's ambition is to build on its spectacular success in China to become the global leader in e-commerce. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/greatideasgreatlife/message

最近有朋友連繫我，希望我能幫忙推薦中國的翻譯，以及做文字內容相關的人才。他表示，自己負責亞太區的內容，亞洲所有部分的內容都已經搞定了，就只剩中國區的，花了很多時間去處理，但卻怎麼都找不到人。 在我跟他稍微簡介了中國的翻譯生態之後，確實自己也覺得，中國大陸的許多生態真的與各國不同。就單拿找翻譯人才這件事來說，在其他地方，大家可能會從Linkedin、Freelancer網站開始找，但是中國的譯者因為不使用這些網站，所以就算用了這些網站也找不到人。同樣地，就算是在世界各地通用的服務，在中國的使用者偏好也不同，故也就產生了獨特的環境。 Medium link:https://freshjulie.medium.com/ep-獨特-unique-chinese-consumer-4a73c2a73710

The Variable Interest Entity. Sounds like a boring term an accountant or lawyer might use. Well it is an accounting term, but it's anything but boring when you know how its used in the real world. It's the key to how all Chinese internet companies have been structured to go IPO outside of China for the last 20 years. Let's just say it's a bit of a clunky workaround to deal with restrictions on foreign investment in the internet space in China, and despite its clunkiness, it's still going strong today. We'll get into the notorious Alipay – Softbank – Yahoo story and others where the VIE was center stage in that drama. Check it out with our guest Ma Xiaohu, one of the leading early technology lawyers in China who along with a few others had to come up with all these wonderful structures 20 years ago to enable that first batch of Chinese internet IPOs to happen…

In this episode, Charles Chang, PhD and Assistant Professor of Environment and Urban Studies at Duke Kunshan explores the relationship between Chinese Internet users and their government. We discuss how skepticism towards government information compares in China and the U.S., how Chinese Internet users self-censor or use coded language to get around restrictions, and how movements for Internet transparency and privacy are evolving in China today.

The US Presidential Elections are always a spectacle, but this year interest from China was at an all time high. Despite censorship, it has been the most popular topic on the web for weeks, dominating discussion there are much as it does in the US itself.Join us as we discuss the Chinese Internet's reactions and hot takes, from State Media using it for Propaganda, to Chinese Netizen's championing worker rights. 

Many Chinese internet users are reacting to Donald Trump’s positive Covid-19 test result with ridicule and glee.

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Love reading yet lost in plenty of literary podcasts out there? Look no further! The weekly program Ink&Quill is the hotchpotch you are looking for. Produced by bibliophiles from CRI English, the podcast connects you with literature, culture and writers in China and around the globe. A fun ride into the literary world, Ink&Quill blends news, book reviews, Q&As, panel discussions and feature stories, giving the listeners insight into writers' visions.

The Chinese internet has grown at a staggering pace -- it now has more users than the combined populations of the US, UK, Russia, Germany, France and Canada. Even with its imperfections, the lives of once-forgotten populations have been irrevocably elevated because of it, says South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu. In a fascinating talk, Liu details how the tech industry in China has developed -- from the innovative, like AI-optimized train travel, to the dystopian, like a social credit rating that both rewards and restricts citizens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pandaily.com是一家向世界科技社区介绍中国创新的英文媒体，而TechBuzz China by Pandaily是其旗下向硅谷介绍中国创新的英文播客。TechBuzz China by Pandaily is a weekly technology podcast that is all about China's innovations. It is co-hosted by Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma, who are both seasoned China watchers with years of experience working in the technology space in China. They share and discuss the most important tech news from China every week with commentaries from investors, industry experts and entrepreneurs.This week on TechBuzz China by Pandaily, our hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma look at the Chinese live streaming industry, the true darling of the Chinese Internet age unbeknownst to the West. They trace back the origins of this industry, whose market cap grew by almost 250 times in half a decade, explaining the psychology of the ordinary Chinese involved, and break down companies such as HUYA, Inke, and M17 who are the forerunners in this arena. How did it all start? Why are people so hooked? What's the business model, and is that sustainable? Find out these answers and more by tuning in to the latest episode of your favorite weekly China tech podcast.As always, you can find these stories and more at pandaily.com. Let us know what you think of the show, and don't forget to follow us on Twitter at @thepandaily and to like our Facebook page!

Local startup Thresher focuses on analyzing large volumes of data, and CEO Becky Fair says the use of AI and machine learning came from the study of Chinese internet censorship.

2017-04-18 Special EnglishThis is Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. Here is the news.China has seen its air quality worsen a little in the first quarter of this year, particularly in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province.The national environmental authority said that in the first three months, 70 percent of days in 340 cities tracked had good air quality. The figure is 1 percent higher than the same period last year. However, the concentration of PM2.5 increased 3 percent year-on-year. PM2.5 refers to the fine particulate matter with a diameter less than 2.5 microns that is hazardous to human health. PM2.5 is one of the six air pollutants that are monitored continuously. While the average air quality has deteriorated slightly nationwide, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region saw a major drop in air quality in the first quarter. PM2.5 concentration soared to 95 micrograms per cubic meter, a 27 percent increase year-on-year. The national air quality standard for PM2.5 is 35 micrograms per cubic meter or less. Six of the top ten most polluted cities were in Hebei Province, where heavy industry is an economic pillar. The provincial capital topped the list in the first quarter. This is Special English.Beijing residents could be rewarded with up to 500,000 yuan, roughly 72,000 US dollars, if they can provide useful information on spies or related activities.A government policy took effect recently. Under the policy, informants are eligible to be offered rewards ranging from 10,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan, depending on how useful the information is.Informants can pass information to authorities by calling a hotline, sending letters or visiting the bureau. Informants' privacy and information about spy-related messages will not be disclosed. Information providers can ask authorities for protection if they or their family are in danger due to the act of informing. The policy stipulates that informants will face punishments if they deliberately slander others or invent and spread false information. Beijing's Public Security Bureau says China saw rapid increases in international exchanges, as well as the number of people entering or exiting the country.Overseas espionage agencies and other hostile forces have also intensified their disruptive activities in China, including political infiltration and the stealing of intelligence. The bureau says Some Chinese individuals have also betrayed the nation to benefit their private interests.You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. China has announced it had completed controlled tests on its first hot-water drill, which is capable of drilling through 1,500 meters of ice and will be used for Antarctic research. This is the fourth test on the drill, which was conducted in Northeast China. The drill used pressurized hot water to melt and bore into the ice. The assessment panel said it is capable of drilling 1,500 meters into the ice shelf in Antarctica.The review panel said the drill will be invaluable to China's Antarctic scientific exploration.The panel agreed to further testing and said the equipment should be used during China's upcoming 34th Antarctic expedition in November. Once it passes the Antarctic test, China will be the third country in the world to have mastered hot water drilling deeper than 1,000 meters, following the United States and Australia. The drilling helps with the detection of ice shelves which are floating ice platforms between glaciers and the ocean surface. The freeze-thaw underneath ice shelves has an important effect on the continental ice sheets, and water masses and ocean currents. This is Special English.Strong downstream demand led to increasing sales of excavators in China last month.Data with China Construction Machinery Association showed that sales of excavators in March rose more than 55 percent year on year as the Chinese economy gained momentum. Analysts said April is expected to follow the same pattern.For the January to March period, sales almost doubled from a year earlier.Economists say excavator machinery is a barometer of new infrastructure, and its strong growth indicates that the economy could expand steadily in the first half of this year.Adding to a slew of upbeat data on the economy, surveys on the country's manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors showed the economy had staged a strong start.China's manufacturing sector in March stayed above the boom-bust mark for the eighth month in a row, and the non-manufacturing sector continued to expand, nearing a three-year record high.You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. A fund for assisting the medical treatment of patients with rare diseases has been initiated in Shanghai.The fund has starting money of 3 million yuan, roughly 440,000 U.S. dollars. It was jointly raised by rare disease prevention and treatment institutions in Shanghai and drug firms.The chairman of the Shanghai Rare Disease Prevention and Treatment Fund said the funding would encourage more effective prevention and medical treatment of rare diseases.He said the fund would help pool more financial support and company donations for rare disease patients.Globally, there are some 6,000 to 7,000 recognized rare diseases. Only a few of them have established medical treatment.Around 60 percent of rare disease patients are children, with 30 percent living less than five years.There has been no epidemiological survey of rare disease patients made in China.Early diagnosis and treatment can effectively check on the progress of rare diseases and even cure them.It could take years for doctors to diagnose a rare disease, while patients miss the best time for treatment and suffer from inflicted problems leading to mental difficulties, heart problems and atrophied muscles. You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to crienglish.com. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. Now the news continues.Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has unveiled the 20 winners of the 7th edition of the company's Digital Talents program, offering French students two weeks of technological immersion in China.For the first time, 20 students have been selected to travel to Huawei's base in Shenzhen in July.Organizers say that this year, the candidates proposed their original and innovative solutions to social challenges in relation with digital transformation.Projects involved sectors including the environment, education, employment, health and energy resources.Huawei says it runs the program "to identify the digital talents of tomorrow".Chaired by the former housing minister of France, the jury included a think tank founder, Huawei communications director, newspaper editor-in-chief, the director of a science institute, and the general director of Paris' economic development agency. Members of the jury met on April 4 in Paris to choose the best 20 projects.The 20 selected projects deal with a range of issues, including connected glasses, recycling cigarette butts, cyber attacks, video games, and providing help for refugees. This is Special English.The School of Global Governance has been opened at Beijing Foreign Studies University, aiming to train more multilingual professionals with global vision and cross-cultural communication proficiency.The school aims to cultivate talents who are proficient in international rules and at least two working languages of the United Nations.It will carry out research on international organizations and provide intellectual support for China's participation in international affairs.The school is the first of its kind in China. It offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs. It grew out of an education reform pilot program launched in 2010. Some former graduates have been employed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Pan American Health Organization, and United Nations Office at Geneva.You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. In addition to 600 million yuan, roughly 87 million U.S. dollars, in box office sales in China so far, the Hollywood blockbuster "Beauty and the Beast" has given rise to countless hot-selling products.Beast-themed puppets and tea cups often sell out at Shanghai Disneyland, and the 30-plus types of dessert based on the movie have become top choices for movie fans at Shanghai Disneyland Hotel.Tina Dai, a merchandise team member at Shanghai Disney Resort, said the resort is planning to restock the ceramic teacups, based on one of the characters in the movie, which sell for 85 yuan each.Dai said the popularity of movie-based products shows consumers' keen interest in Disney characters and movie stories.While China is shifting its growth engine from the industrial to the service sector, U.S. companies are exploring new growth points.Statistics show China-U.S. service trade exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars last year.Global coffee chain Starbucks is among the beneficiaries of the huge Chinese market.The corporation's fiscal report showed comparable store sales increased 6 percent in China, 3 percentage points higher than global growth. Net quarterly revenues for the China/Asia Pacific segment grew 18 percent year on year to 770 million U.S. dollars.The robust sales growth is partly due to cooperation between Starbucks and Chinese Internet giant Tencent, which has offered mobile payment services for Chinese customers since December.The two companies have also rolled out a digital gift-giving service on WeChat, allowing WeChat users to send and receive Starbucks digital gifts and then cash them in at offline outlets.Starbucks is the first retail brand to use the digital gift-sharing service, supported by the social network's 850 million monthly active users.This is Special English.China has launched a universal network covering the data of elder care facilities across the country.The Civil Affairs Ministry said information recorded about these institutions in the network will include internal management, service quality, security management and staff profiles. The ministry said it has started a training program on how to use the new network. The first set of information will be entered by May 10. China's aging society is a major social issue. There are currently more than 220 million people over 60 years of age in the country, or 16 percent of the total population, and the numbers are growing. Authorities have said they will streamline the approval process for elder care institutions to address challenges brought by the aging population. This is the end of this edition of Special English. To freshen up your memory, I'm going to read one of the news items again at normal speed. Please listen carefully.This is the end of today's program. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing, and I hope you can join us every day, to learn English and learn about the world.

2017-02-06 Special EnglishThis is Special English. I&`&m Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.Beijing is planning to equip schools with air filtration devices as the city chokes on heavy smog. Beijing&`&s education authority has said that air purifiers will be installed in pilot primary and secondary schools and nurseries to protect students and small children from polluted air. The program is to be subsidized by the municipal government. According to a local newspaper, some schools in the city have installed air filtration systems using donations from businesses. A staff member in a school equipped with an air purifier system told the Beijing News that the concentration of PM2.5 had been reduced remarkably in the school after the system was set up. Beijing has suffered heavy air pollution since winter began. To avoid polluted air, outdoor activities have been suspended in schools, nurseries and extra-curricular education institutions. The municipal government said children&`&s health is a priority concern of education authorities. It urged schools to raise the students&`& awareness of self-protection to prepare for days with heavy pollution.This is Special English.Chinese scientists are drawing a 1:2.5 million scale map of the Moon&`&s geology.Scientists of China&`&s lunar exploration program said five universities and research institutes from across China have set standards for digital mapping. They have begun drawing the map of the Moon&`&s geological structure.A sketch version of the map measures around 4 by 2 meters. It will be finished by 2018, and will be released by 2020.The map will provide information on the structure and rock types of the Moon and will reflect the timeline of the Moon&`&s evolution.Scientists say the map will clearly show the size and appearance of the Moon and the craters on it.Creating the map depends on data and images sent from circumlunar satellites from China and other countries. The scientists say that a lunar map is very different from that of the Earth, where scientists can go to the spot in person to learn the details.Through the satellites, the scientists have obtained overall images of the Moon, which contribute to the precision of the lunar maps. You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Mark Griffiths in Beijing.A total of one million registered domain names with Chinese characters are in use. The information was released by the China Internet Network Information Center.The center said that at present, Chinese-character domain names can be used in mainstream browsers, search engines and input methods. This means that, for example, by inputting a Chinese-character domain name in a browser, users are able to reach a corresponding website, like with any regular English domain name.Since domain names were created in the 1980s, they had long been formed with characters in the Roman alphabet.The information center has called on Chinese Internet companies, including email service providers, to further promote the use of Chinese-character domain names. This is Special English.Shanghai Disney Resort is planning to expand its talent pool by partnering with local educational institutions. Shanghai Disney is Walt Disney Company&`&s latest theme park.Walt Disney says it will sign agreements this year with 10 universities, colleges and vocational schools to launch its "Talent Class" for professional training. Philippe Gas, general manager of Shanghai Disney Resort, says the move is part of the Disney Company&`&s goal of finally having at least 98 percent of its staff members being from the local area.Gas says interaction with visitors is an essential part of the resort, and it relies on the company&`&s 10,000 staff members to achieve visitor satisfaction. The training will be provided jointly by the company and the schools. Internship opportunities are also up for grabs. Under the training, students will take on different roles including animation designers, makeup artists, accountants and mechanical technicians. Outstanding participants can apply to intern at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida in the United States, training alongside their American counterparts. The first several schools to ink the deal include the Shanghai Polytechnic University and the Tourism College of Zhejiang.Shanghai Disney will employ 2,000 people in full-time and part-time jobs this year, with the vacancies tailored to disabled people in China. You are listening to Special English. I&`&m Mark Griffiths in Beijing.Toxic pollutants in the Arctic pose great health threats to polar bears, leading to brain damage in the animal.Italian scientists analyzed the effects of persistent organic pollutants, or POPs, on species in the Arctic, and found that polar bears are exposed to greater health risks than seals. Polar bear cubs are at the highest risk.POPs are widely used around the world in industrial production as they have been since World War II. They are toxic chemicals that have a negative impact on human health, animals and the environment. The toxins can be transported by wind and water, accumulate in the environment and pass between different species through the food chain.In 1996, researchers in Norway observed two cases of "intersex" in polar bears. The bears were normal males by their looks but neither of them showed signs of having a Y chromosome which could determine that they were male.Scientists believe that the number of such "intersex" polar bears may have risen as a result of hormonal disruptions caused by pollutants. This is Special English.Australia experienced its fourth-hottest year on record last year despite also having above average rainfall.Australia&`&s Annual Climate Statement showed that the national mean temperature was 0.8 degrees Celsius above average, resulting in the nation&`&s fourth-warmest year on record.2016 was one of the most eventful years in terms of weather in Australia.Bushfires earlier in the year came about after a prolonged hot spell, while the end of the El Nino weather event later last year brought flooding rains for some states.Despite being one of the warmest years in Australia&`&s history, annual rainfall last year was 17 percent above average.Widespread, drought-breaking rains led to flooding in many states. Even northern Australia saw widespread rainfall, during what is usually the dry season, and in green regions that had been in drought for several years.The World Meteorological Organization has announced that 2016 would likely be the warmest year on record for global mean temperatures.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Mark Griffiths in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That&`&s mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues.U.S. scientists have discovered that microscopic structures within a brain region change from childhood into adulthood over a timescale that mirrors improvements in people&`&s ability to recognize faces.The study has overturned a central thought in neuroscience. People used to believe that as humans are born with brains riddled with excess neural connections, the amount of brain tissue goes in one direction throughout their lives, from too much to just enough.By looking at the brains of children, the team examined a region of the brain that distinguishes faces from other objects. It&`&s only in the last 10 years that psychologists started looking at children&`&s brains. The study shows that children are not miniature adults, and that there is still a lot of very basic knowledge to be learned about the developing brain in that age range.The study found that there are actual changes to brain tissues and the process takes place for the whole lifetime.The study is the first to use quantitative MRI to directly assess changes in brain regions.This is Special English.Plans are being made to turn China&`&s most complete 2,000-year-old cemetery into a national park.The tomb of the "Marquis of Haihun" near Nanchang, the capital of east China&`&s Jiangxi Province, is one of the few imperial tombs that have not been looted.The remains of the marquis were found in a coffin in an interior chamber and hoisted out in January, last year, for lab research. More than 10,000 artifacts have so far been unearthed.Local authorities said the design of the national park by the China Architecture Design Group has been completed.The site, which covers over 20 square kilometers, will preserve the tomb in its original form by the side of Poyang Lake, China&`&s largest freshwater lake.The construction, landscaping and preservation are expected to cost 1.2 billion yuan, roughly 170 million U.S. dollars. A tourist center in the park is set to open in 2019.The marquis, Liu He, was grandson of Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty, whose reign began one of the most prosperous periods in China&`&s history.The excavation of the tomb began in 2011. It has been recognized as a model archeological research and relic protection project. Preservation was carried out alongside the archeological excavation and an application for it to be inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list is in the pipeline.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Mark Griffiths in Beijing.The Belgian Cancer Foundation has presented a campaign to encourage Belgians not to drink alcohol during the month of February this year. A total of 82 percent of Belgians consume alcohol, and as much as 51 percent consume more than 11 glasses per week.According to the foundation&`&s website, the "Mineral Tour" campaign has been organized for the first time this year and it aims to raise awareness. Candidates register to participate on Mineral Tour campaign website where they can find health information, testimonies, and advice on participating. So far, public figures and celebrities including renowned tennis players, federal ministers, actors and actresses have confirmed their participation. The campaign will also include charitable motifs including donation of money to the Cancer Foundation for research.This is Special English.Britain&`&s interior department says more than 200 people died in the past year after taking psychoactive drugs known as "legal highs".The Home Office said that almost 500 people have been arrested by law enforcers since a landmark psychoactive substances law came into force six months ago which made so-called designer drugs illegal.New powers were introduced under the new law to tackle what officials described as the menace of so-called legal highs.Home Office figures showed that new psychoactive substances were involved in 204 deaths in Britain in the last year, an increase of 25 percent compared to the previous 12 months.The government minister for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Countering Extremism Sarah Newton said that new psychoactive substances are banned because they are not safe, and can devastate lives and are not tolerated in the country.Police forces have stopped 330 shops across Britain from selling the substances since the new law came into force.Police Commander Simon Bray, from the National Police Chief&`&s Council, said the Psychoactive Substances Act has fundamentally changed the way police tackle the supply and distribution of dangerous drugs.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Mark Griffiths in Beijing.American students have a math problem. The latest global snapshot of student performance shows declining math scores in the United States and stagnant performance in science and reading.Education Secretary John B. King Jr. said the U.S. is losing ground, a troubling prospect when, in today&`&s knowledge-based economy, the best jobs can go anywhere in the world. (全文见周六微信。)

2017-02-07 Special EnglishThis is Special English. I&`&m Ryan Price in Beijing. Here is the news.The health authority in Beijing is studying the long-term impact of smog on people&`&s health, including the widespread concern that smog could be a cause of lung cancer.The Beijing News reports that the Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning in Beijing has begun to study the issue.The report said that current studies have confirmed that inhaling smog may lead to some acute diseases in people&`&s respiratory system. Long-term exposure to pollutants could cause chronic inflammation, hypo immunity and allergies. But the exact relationship of smog and lung cancer is not clear at the moment.The commission said it will take a decade or longer to collect data before the researchers can make clear the relationship between smog and people having a certain kind of disease.Based on previous studies on smog, the commission and the Beijing Center for Diseases Control and Prevention have issued a list of protective measures against smog. The measures urge people to stay indoors and wear masks outdoors on smoggy days.Smog has been a frequent issue in many Chinese cities in recent years.This is Special English.China has issued a plan on medical reform targets of the next five years.The plan covers diagnosis and treatment systems, hospital administration, medical security, medical supplies and regulatory system of the sector.A multi-tiered diagnosis and treatment system matching China&`&s conditions should be in place by 2020. The system aims to encourage patients to go to community clinics for initial diagnosis and treatment, instead of directly going to specialized hospitals.The plan also stressed a "streamlined and orderly" medical supply system.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Ryan Price in Beijing. China&`&s central authority has issued a guideline on mobile Internet service management, calling for more efforts to develop the sector in a healthy manner.The guideline calls for increasing the use of mobile Internet service in sectors including transport, tourism, education and medical service, to better serve the public.It says mobile Internet service could play a big role in poverty relief, as it provides an efficient means to connect these regions with the outside world.The guideline also urges cultivating an orderly environment for the development of mobile Internet service.China will resolutely crack down on criminal activities including instigating overthrowing state power and inciting religious extremism through mobile Internet services. Promoting ethnic separatist ideology and instigating violence and terror will also be targeted.In addition, more efforts will be made to punish those involved in defamation, telecom fraud, infringement and illegal sale of others&`& personal information.It urges preventing and eliminating risks caused by the development of mobile Internet service to ensure security of network data, technology and apps.The guideline also called for more efforts to be made on strengthening intellectual property protection and boosting international exchange and cooperation in the sector.This is Special English.China has established cooperation ties in science and technology with 158 countries and regions in the world.According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, a total of 111 intergovernmental agreements on science and technology cooperation had been signed, and China had taken part in more than 200 intergovernmental organizations devoted to boosting such cooperation.A stable intergovernmental cooperation mechanism, which covers major countries, regions and international organizations, has taken shape, contributing to the improvement of the nation&`&s capability in science and technology.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Ryan Price in Beijing. Land-space Technology Corporation, a private aerospace company based in Beijing, said it has secured a contract with Gomspace, a Danish company, to launch a series of satellites.The company says this is the first time for a private Chinese company to provide satellite launching services to the international market.According to the contract, Land-space will use its rocket to put Gomspace&`&s satellites into orbit next year.Land-space said his company could not have won recognition from the overseas client without decades of efforts by Chinese workers in the aerospace industry, which has been developing for 60 years.The total value of the global aerospace market could hit 485 billion U.S. dollars by 2020, with the market value in China alone reaching 800 billion yuan, roughly 116 billion U.S. dollars, during the 2016-2020 period.A scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said the aerospace industry matters not only for space exploration, but also for economic and social development; and the civil aerospace industry has great potential and will grow very quickly.This is Special English.Chinese scientists say they have built a facility that can generate the world&`&s brightest extreme ultraviolet free electron laser.The facility in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China, can generate 140 trillion photons per laser pulse in one picosecond.The Dalian Coherent Light Source facility was jointly built by scientists from Dalian and Shanghai, with a total investment of 140 million yuan, roughly 20 million U.S. dollars.The scientists say the flashes of light will illuminate new aspects of the microscopic world. The light sources are especially useful for sensitive detection of atoms, molecules and clusters.Brightness and pulse duration of the light source are key to such detection. The brighter the light source, the more clearly people can see the small number of atoms or molecules.The scientists say that since many physical, chemical and biological reactions happen on a time scale with a picosecond, people need high-speed "flashlights" to capture these moments to study the process.The technology will play a unique and important role in exploring the unknown material world and promoting technological progress.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Ryan Price in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That&`&s mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues.Renowned linguist Zhou Youguang has been remembered by Chinese Internet users since he passed away recently at age 111. Zhou is known for creating the pinyin, a system of Latin letters for reading standard Chinese. In 1955, Zhou was an economics professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. He was asked by the central government to join a national committee to develop an accessible alphabetic writing system.It took him and his colleagues three years to work out the system, which was adopted in 1958. Since then, the pinyin system has been used to greatly increase literacy levels across the country. It has also made it easier for foreigners to learn Chinese.Pinyin has also facilitated the use of Chinese characters on computer keyboards and cellphones. When users entered pinyin with a keyboard, they are given choices of relevant Chinese characters.This is Special English.Traveling abroad is becoming more and more popular among the Chinese people, who are also found to have spent more on travel then just shopping. Meanwhile, female tourists outnumbered male.According to one of the leading travel websites in China, bookings increased 34 percent last year compared to the previous year.Chinese tourists are traveling greater distances. The top 10 choices last year included Switzerland, the United States, Germany and Australia. For 2015, the top tourist destinations are Phuket in Thailand, Cheju in South Korea, Bali in Indonesia, and Hawaii in the United States.Last year, 62 percent of overseas travels were made by females, and the number of children doubled.The website says the number of tourists from China&`&s first-tier cities including Beijing and Shanghai are growing at a steady pace, while those from second and third-tier cities are booming.As more tourist destinations had become visa-free for China as of last year, the country has again ranked first-overall globally, in terms of the number of people traveling abroad, and for tourism spending.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Ryan Price in Beijing. A new gibbon species has been discovered in southwest China&`&s Yunnan Province.The new species is characterized by white eyebrows and is found mainly only in Yunnan Province.Their beards are completely black or brown instead of white as seen in other gibbon species. Chinese scientists began their research on the newly found gibbons in 2007, and a joint study by scientists from five other countries confirmed the discovery of the new species.The gibbons inhabit at altitudes of 500 to 2,000 meters. Their total number is no more than 200.Scientists suggest the new species should be categorized as endangered and need special conservation efforts.Gibbons and siamangs are small apes inhabiting southern, eastern and southeastern Asia. The new species increases the number of recognized living species of the animals to 20.This is Special English.China has 50,000 medical and health institutions that offer Traditional Chinese Medicine therapies.The State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine revealed that 40 percent of the population have access to Traditional Chinese Medicine at a local level.The administration said that in the first nine months of last year, the average fee for traditional Chinese medicine and the per capita in-patient cost at public traditional medicine hospitals were 11 percent and 24 percent lower than treatments offered by western medicine public hospitals.China&`&s top legislature last month adopted a law on Chinese medicine, with stricter control on the source of the medicine and qualification of doctors.This is Special English.Hong Kong actor and singer Andy Lau has been injured while filming a commercial in Thailand. Lau was riding a horse during the shoot, and fell off the horse when the animal lost control of itself. The horse stepped on Lau&`&s back, causing spinal fractures.The shoot was halted, and Lau was transported to a local hospital for treatment. He was then sent home on a medical plane to Hong Kong for further treatment.Lau&`&s public relations spokesperson said they will update everyone with any new developments on the matter.Lau was working at a scene in Khao Lak, a city three hours from the capital city of Bangkok. According to sources, there were several horses on set that day. The 56-year-old actor has enjoyed tremendous stardom in the Chinese speaking world since the 1990s. He has been hailed as one of the "Four Kings" of showbiz in Hong Kong. Lau has been working tirelessly in multiple genres, including acting and singing.This is the end of this edition of Special English. To freshen up your memory, I&`&m going to read one of the news items again at normal speed. Please listen carefully.This is the end of today&`&s program. I&`&m Ryan Price in Beijing, and I hope you can join us every day, to learn English and learn about the world.

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