If you make multiple trips to China every year, a 10-year visa can be a convenient option to consider. Let's take a closer look at what it is and how you can apply for one.
What Is a 10-Year Visa?
A 10-year visa doesn't permit you to stay in China for an entire decade; instead, it means that your visa remains valid for ten years. This type of visa allows short stays for tourists or business visits. The duration of each trip varies from 30 – 120 days based on your nationality and the purpose of your visit.
Reasons to Get a 10-Year Visa for China
⒈ Convenience: If you frequently travel to China for work or family purposes, having a 10-year travel visa can save you time and trouble by avoiding the need for a visa application process for each trip.
⒉ Cost-effective: For US citizens, the cost of a 10-year visa is the same as that of other short-term visas. Paying the $140+ fee just once will cover your visa expenses for the next ten years.
How to Apply for a 10-Year Visa?
⒈Download the visa application form and fill it out.
Note: when filling out the application form, please select the "10-Year Visa" option.
⒉Submit your documents.
⒊Pay the visa application fee and collect your visa.
What Documents Do You Need to Apply for a 10-Year Visa?
- An original passport valid for six months with blank side-by-side visa pages.
- A completed visa application form.
- A recent passport photograph.
- Proof of a round-trip flight ticket booking record and hotel reservation.
I was very thrilled to go to camp the year I turned 11 — the first time I would venture so far from home. Leading up to the date, I convinced my mother I was ready to go for two whole weeks.
Finally, the day came. We reached the camp after a six-hour drive. After registering and meeting my counselor, I waved my mom away with confidence, eager to take the swim test and start having fun. Camp was more than I had imagined: crafts and games; singing and swimming; making bracelets(手镯) for new friends; listening to our counselor read to us before falling asleep to the sound of rain on a metal roof.
When the weekend arrived, there was a luncheon (午宴) for visiting parents and families. I met some of my camp mates' relatives, then suck away with a sandwich. I went down to the dock to watch the water bugs skate across the surface of the lake. My counselor came and companionably beside me. She quietly asked me if I was okay. I told her it was too far for my family to visit.
I remember not looking at her or saying anything for what seemed like a long time. It felt like talking might change the magic of the place. But I also wanted her to know me just a little better, so I told her that my dad had died only a few weeks before whispering "cancer", just like I had heard the adults say it.
She put her arm around my shoulder, and we sat for a while longer. It felt like she understood.
Summer camp gave me the opportunity to be an ordinary kid for a brief time that year — just a girl learning, laughing and having fun like everyone else.
Forests are feeling the heat. In places like the American West, rising temperatures and drought mean less water for trees. Now, scientists have found that thinning early in forest growth creates tougher trees that can endure climate change. What's more, these thinned forests can suck carbon out of the air just as fast as thick forests.
"When it comes to carbon storage and climate change adaptation, we can have our cake and eat it too," says Andrew Larson, forest ecologist and author of the new study. " It's a win-win."
As trees grow, they convert carbon dioxide to food and store it in their leaves, trunks, and roots. But if trees get too crowded, they compete for light and water. Removing some trees can ease the competition, letting the remaining trees grow big and healthy. But scientists worry that removing trees can reduce forest carbon storage.
To see whether the climate trade-off truly exists, scientists tapped into a long-term experiment in northwestern Montana. In 1961, U.S. Forest Service officials started the experiment in a young forest of western larch. The forest was broken up into plots. In some plots, the 8-year-old trees were thinned from tens of thousands per hectare down to 494 per hectare. These trees grew thick trunks and broad tree shades. Other plots were left alone, and the trees there grew tall and skinny as they competed for sunlight. The original study was rooted in an interest in growing timber rapidly. But the scientists at the University of Montana sprouted a new question: How did tree density (密度) influence carbon storage?
To find out, they measured tree height, diameter, and width of branches to estimate the amount of carbon stored. They also calculated the carbon contained in other plants, dead wood, and forest floor debris. The research showed total carbon was nearly the same in both forests. The un-thinned forest had more trees, but the thinned forest compensated with bigger trees.
A group of small children sits cross-legged with their teacher, Steve, on a round carpet. He's a pre-K teacher at Lee Montessori Public Charter School's campus, and although I'm here to meet him, I almost don't spot him because he's at eye level with his students.
Mr. Steve is talking students through a geometry lesson when another student approaches to ask an unrelated question. This kind of distraction happens all the time in classrooms around the United States. Mr. Steve doesn't lose focus. He uses American Sign Language(ASL) to say "wait" — palms facing up, fingers wiggling — and the child waits quietly. When the lesson arrives at a natural stopping point, the student is invited to ask his question, and Mr. Steve silently responds by nodding his head along with his fist, which is sign language for "yes".
This isn't a school for students with hearing disabilities, but Mr. Steve uses ASL as part of a broader approach to minimize noise in the classroom. And it's noticeably quiet.
"Silence is kind of a peak achievement in a child's ability to control themselves," Steve says. " We create the conditions for children to concentrate."
Unlike this classroom, the city outside is full of noise. And studies show that too much noise, particularly loud noise, can hurt a child's cognitive development , especially for language-based skills such as reading. That's because noise distracts developing brains and makes it more difficult for children to concentrate. But when their environment is quiet enough for them to pay attention to sounds that are important or particularly interesting to them, it is a powerful teaching tool.
"Young children's brains are longing for sound-to-meaning connections, so it's very important that the sounds around them be nourishing and meaningful," says Nina Kraus, a neurobiologist at Northwestern University. She believes turning down the noise in our lives starts with embracing — even enjoying — silence.
How to show up for teens when big emotions arise
Being a teenager is hard. Every day holds the possibility of emotional highs and lows, and parents don't always know how to be supportive. Lisa Damour , a clinical psychologist, says instead of jumping into problem-solving mode, parents can learn to ride the wave of emotional management with their teens. :
●When a teen is experiencing low self-esteem, Damour says comfort doesn't work nearly as well as we would like. . Try saying, "You know that's not true, but it must feel awful to feel that way."
●Talking about emotions is good, but there can be a tipping point (引爆点) when talking too much about feelings. In this case, Damour suggests comforting and then shifting a teen who's overprocessing their emotions into a healthy distraction. .
●For the teen who doesn't talk about their feelings, . Listening to music, playing sports and making art are healthy ways for teens to work through emotions that don't involve having a discussion.
●. But Damour notes that when a teen's feelings are out of control and they're using destructive behaviors to cope, it's time to step in and give more support or seek professional help.
A. Worse still, it brings more conflicts
B. Here are some of Damour's takeaways
C. Avoiding contact with them is a possible option
D. Instead, Damour suggests empathizing how the teen feels
E. Suggest doing an activity they enjoy and revisit the issue the next day
F. Damour reminds parents of healthy non-verbal ways to process emotions
G. Your teens deserve encouraging when their emotions are handled in a healthy way
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while ploughing in field, he heard a cry for 1 coming from a nearby bog (沼泽). He 2 his tools and ran to the bog. There, with his waist 3 in mud, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to 4 himself. Farmer Fleming saved the boy from what could have been a 5 and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage 6 to the Scotsman's poor surroundings. A(n) 7 dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the 8 of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. "I want to 9 you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
" No, I can't accept the 10 for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the 11 . At that moment, the farmer's own 12 came there.
" Is that your son?" the nobleman 13 .
"Yes!" the farmer replied 14 .
" I'll make you a 15 . Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the boy is anything like his father, he'll no doubt 16 to be a man we both will be proud of." And that the nobleman did.
Farmer Fleming's son attended the 17 schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become 18 throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming , the 19 of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was 20 with pneumonia(肺炎).What saved his life this time? Penicillin!
Zhang Ying, head of WeChat Pay, introduced that WeChat Pay is beginning to attempt the launch of "WeChat Palm(手掌) Payment", during the 2023 Open Class PRO (host) by WeChat last night.
According to the (introduce), in the future, users can bind (绑定) their membership cards, transportation cards, etc. to their palms (achieve) "one palm to rule them all". They can consume, pass through and verify their identity without carrying a phone, is extremely convenient.
Now this feature (attract) businesses to jointly develop the technology continuously. Although the official arrange time has not been announced, given WeChat's speed, it is highly likely we will be able to use palm payment this year. According to previous tests, users only need to register palm information on palm-scanning devices and link it to their (privacy) WeChat account. They can complete payments directly by (scan) their palms when consuming offline, solving the embarrassing situation of difficult-to-use face-scanning offline.
Moreover, in terms of principle, palm pattern recognition should be (easy) than facial recognition, and degree of individual difference is relatively large, making it more secure.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Now million of people are suffering hunger while tons of food are being wasted. So it is a honor for me to speak here with the theme of "Say no to food waste".
Food waste has huge impacts. Not only does it waste energy, but also it contribute to global warming once throw out into the landfills. Thankfully, our efforts have made to deal with the issue. We can help prevent food waste by adopting to food conservation strategies daily. When cooking at home we should careful plan meals and not cook more than which is needed. We should order only according to their needs and take the leftovers home before eating outside. It's high time that we took action!
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：传统美德traditional virtues
