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In the next three years, China plans to build 30 airports and 3, 000 km of railways. Traveling will be more convenient. And more efforts will be made to improve roads in rural areas to make it easier for farm products to reach cities and industrial products to hit rural markets. China is also actively developing high-speed mglev (磁悬浮) trains. Many new technologies 3 will be used in future projects. |
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What's the fun of being an architect (建筑师)? For French architects Lacaton and Vassal, it's about rebuilding! The couple won the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize, which is regar rded as the Nobel Prize for architects. The couple always try to make an old building a more enjoyable place to live or work in. Their work is friendly to both people and the environment. |
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China's "Sky Eye" is open to the wodd since March 3I. It can "see" objects about 13.7 billion light years away. China is giving 10% of its observation(观察) time, around 450 hours a year, to scientists from other countries. |
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Using mobile phones while driving is dangerous. That's why the UK has introduced a new law this year. Now, making calls or sending messages while driving is not allowed. According to the new law, drivers using their phone to take a photo or play a game take the most punishment! |
① China plans to build 30 airports in the next three years.
② The two French architects are creative.
③ Sharing "Sky Eye" shows China's opening to the world.
④ Using mobile phones while driving is punished in the UK now.
Named after the "quest for heavenly truth", Tianwen 1, China's first Mars probe (探测器), has given us impressive pictures of the red planet. The first high-resolution (高分辨率的) pictures of Mars taken by Tianwen 1 were made public by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on March 4.
"These are the first close-up pictures of Mars' surface taken by China, " said Bao Weimin, a scientist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The pictures were taken at different distances from Mars. The two black-and-white pictures were taken by the high-resolution camera on Tianwen 1 when the probe was about 330-350 kilometers above the Martian surface. As for the color picture, it was taken by Tianwen 1's medium-resolution (中分辨率的) camera when the probe was about 5, 000 kilometers above the red planet. It shows Mars' North Pole.
The high-resolution camera can take both color and panchromatic (全色的) pictures. Panchromatic pictures, which are black and white, are the clearest, having the largest amount of data for scientific study, said Liu Tongjie. The medium-resolution camera, can only produce lesser clear pictures. Scientists put the panchromatic and color pictures together to form a clear and beautiful color picture, Liu added.
Tianwen 1, the country's first independent Mars task, was sent up on July 23, kicking off the nation's planetary exploration program. The probe entered its preset orbit above Mars on Feb 24 and is looking for a landing site on the planet's largest plain. The probe is expected to land on the red planet sometime between May and June.
Sitting among the cheering fans of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team in Rio de Janeiro, a Polish fan caught a lot of attention. It is not because he is not Chinese, but because he has followed the team closely from the very beginning
The 60-year-old Jozef fell in love with the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team at the first sight when he watched the girls at the London Olympics on TV in 2012. The Polish man was crazy about the performances of the young team, especially by its core player Hui Ruoqi. Before that Jozef was a loyal fan of his home team﹣ the Polish men's volleyball.
Since then, Jozef has become crazy about the team and has kept track of almost all their international competitions. Back in the 2013 Montreux Volley Masters of Switzerland, the Polishman, for the first time, came to cheer up for the team on site. He also drove all the way from Polandto Italy to lend support for the girls during the 2014 Women's World Volleyball Championship.
The hardcore fan traveled hundreds of miles from Poland to Brazil, and booked tickets for allmatches of the Chinese Women's Volleyball. This time, Jozef was interviewed by TV and has been recognized by not just fans, but millions of Chinese TV audience.
The" Polish grandpa" was a nickname given by Chinese volleyball fans. He has 18,000 followers on Sina Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, where Jozef has been sharing his obsession with Chinese internet users since 2013.
The following news is from China Daily(www.chinadaily.com) which covers differen fields.
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J. K. Rowling Publishes New Story Online The famous English writer J. K. Rowling said on Tuesday, "I'm producing a new story called The Ickabog which will be free to read online. "It's the first children's book by J. K. Rowling, since she finished Harry Potter in 2007. |
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China Sends Beidou Successfully China sent the last satellite of Beidou into space on Tuesday. The satellite is the 59th in the Beidou family. It marks the completion of Beidou, one of the networks around the world, along with the United States GPS, Russia's GLONASS and the European Union's Calileo. |
| Jeff Bezos Is Taking Action The world's richest person Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon.com, announced on Monday that he would put in 10 million dollars to start a great project, which would support scientists, researchers and NGOs to help save the animals in danger and protect the natural world. |
| China and France Holds an Online Concert To deepen the friendship between the people of China and France, artists from both countries stepped onto the same stage and performed online on Monday. The online concert allows people to enjoy both traditional Chinese folk songs and French classics. |
| The Vaccines May Re Ready Many countries are developing the vaccines for COVID-19 (新型冠状病毒肺炎) by different methods. Some are even going through the final step to decide how well the vaccine works and if it's safe. With more than 160 possible vaccines under study, experts hope that vaccine may be ready by the end of 2020. |
