Chinese new year 2020

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Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Science and Technology unveiled the selected top 10 domestic scientific advances of 2020 Saturday. Chinese scientists' remarkable progress in tackling COVID-19, the Chang'e-5 probe's retrieval of lunar samples, and the deep-sea manned submersible Fendouzhe's diving record topped the list. Other advances include research on the transmission of human genetic materials, transparent ferroelectric single crystals with ultrahigh piezoelectricity, quantum interference in chemical reactions, as well as biomarkers and potential intervention targets for organ aging in mammals. Chinese scientists' efforts in measuring the new height of Mount Qomolangma, revealing the evolution and migration history of Chinese populations with ancient DNA, and recreating the history of over 300 million years of biodiversity changes on Earth, are also listed. Enditem ... » Learn More about China unveils top 10 scientific advances of 2020

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese lawmakers held group discussions on Saturday to deliberate the work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature. The work report will be submitted to the annual assembly of the legislature in March for deliberation. Li Zhanshu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, attended the deliberation, which was also attended by members of the NPC Standing Committee and members of NPC special committees. The attendees agreed that since the previous NPC annual session in May 2020, the NPC Standing Committee has aligned its work with the overall work of the Party and the state, scrupulously performed its duty prescribed by the Constitution and laws and made new progress in various aspects of its work. The standing committee promoted the implementation of the Constitution by safeguarding the authority of the Constitution and improving related laws, according to the group ... » Learn More about Chinese lawmakers deliberate NPC Standing Committee work report

Video Player Close Artworks are displayed at an exhibition titled "Mask-Associations" in Istanbul, Turkey on Feb. 25, 2021. The exhibition "Mask-Associations," organized by the Contemporary Istanbul Foundation in cooperation with the Baksi Foundation based in the eastern Black Sea province of Bayburt, is solely devoted to the use of masks in the course of history. It will run until April 21. (Photo by Osman Orsal/Xinhua) by Zeynep Cermen ISTANBUL, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- A black and white picture of the sad face of a child, attached with a "mask" made of all-colored Lego pieces, stunned the audience at an exhibition in Turkey's Istanbul. Simay Bulbul, a contemporary Turkish artist, dedicated this piece to a generation of locked-down children due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Children spend their most precious time in their homes rather than playing in gardens, streets, and schools," Bulbul said. "The focus of their lives is masks but not toys." The artist published the ... » Learn More about Feature: Turkey’s exhibition shows masks as new reality of life amid pandemic

China on Thursday held a high-profile celebration to mark what its President Xi Jinping described as “a complete victory” in eliminating absolute poverty. Mr. Xi said over the past eight years under his term, 98.99 million poor in rural areas had been lifted out of poverty while all the 832 designated “impoverished counties” and 128,000 “impoverished villages” had been removed from the government’s list. He described the lifting of close to 100 million people out of poverty in eight years as “a miracle” that would “go down in history”, offering “a China example” to developing countries, although he said “no other country” could do so “in such as short time”. China’s elimination of absolute poverty is defined according to the government’s poverty line of $2.30 in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) per person a day, which is higher than the international poverty line of $1.90 PPP. According to the World Bank, China has lifted more than 850 million out of poverty since its ... » Learn More about China’s President hails ‘complete victory’ in poverty fight

Video Player Close HANGZHOU, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Wen Shishan, 57, wandered in a bamboo grove, holding a machete in search of ideal materials to make oil-paper umbrellas, an old craft dating back to over a millennium ago. Situated in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Wen's workshop boasts more than 800,000 fans on the popular Chinese short-video platform Douyin. The digital renaissance of the ancient handicraft can be traced in part to Zhang Jianhua, a short video maker born in the 1990s. In 2018, Zhang began to help Wen film the production process of the oil-paper umbrellas, driven by a fierce reluctance to let the fine art vanish into thin air. As Wen and his delicate artifacts flicker across hundreds of millions of smartphone screens, the old master feels increasingly heartened. "For the first time in my over 30 years of making the umbrellas, so many people are taking an interest in the craft. The life of craftsmen like me changed beyond recognition ... » Learn More about Across China: Rapid-fire Douyin videos revive faded craft glory

(Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Jack Dorsey’s Square purchases bitcoins worth $170 million Jack Dorsey's Square on Tuesday announced that it has purchased approximately 3,318 bitcoins at a total purchase price of $170 million. Combined with Square’s previous purchase of $50 million in bitcoin in October 2020, this represents approximately 5% of Square’s total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities as of December 31, 2020, the firm noted in a release. “Aligned with the company’s purpose, Square believes that cryptocurrency is an instrument of economic empowerment, providing a way for individuals to participate in a global monetary system and secure their own financial future,” Square said, and added, “The investment is part of Square’s ongoing commitment to bitcoin.” Earlier in the month, Tesla had said that it has invested around $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and it plans to begin ... » Learn More about Weekly Bytes | Dorsey’s Square buys bitcoins worth $170 million, Zoom’s automatic closed captions, and more

Hong Kong Arts Festival returns to the city with a combination of online, live and recorded productions, including local gems that resonate with the current realities. Rebecca Lo reports. Hosting a cultural festival at a time when much of the world is still grappling with the adversities caused by a pandemic is challenging, to say the least. However, the Hong Kong Arts Festival team are ready to roll out the 49th edition of their annual show and give what it takes to make it a success. The festival, which kicks off tomorrow, has seen a few scheduling changes and cancellations already. The local government relaxed the COVID-19-related restrictions on performance venues only a few days ago, which meant the festival opening concert by Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, planned as a live show and subsequently turned into a free online event, is now back in the theater as a live performance with simultaneous online streaming. Rescheduling, cancellations and having to transfer live shows ... » Learn More about Reflections on strange times

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HK's COVID-battered economy may see light at the end of the tunnel this year, but revised strategies are needed to reboot the local economy for long-term sustainable growth. Oswald Chan reports from Hong Kong. Decimated by the triple whammy of lingering trade frictions between the world's two largest economies, the COVID-19 pandemic and a deglobalization trend, Hong Kong's economy shrank a record 6.1 percent in 2020. Economic experts aren't forecasting a quick turnaround. US-based credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service warned in its sovereign rating report in January that even though Hong Kong's economic situation may turn a corner this year, the level of recovery may not revert to that of 2019 due to sustained pandemic-related constraints. OCBC Wing Hang Bank economist Carie Li Ruofan expects the special administrative region's economy to grow just 3 to 5 percent in 2021, as the positive factors of a resilient financial market, trade activities, and the mass COVID-19 ... » Learn More about Turning a difficult corner in Hong Kong economy