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Here's the news. China's lifelong education platform has recorded 6 .8 million registered users from 200 countries and regions since its establishment in May 2022.
According to the Ministry of Education, the platform has logged 60 million visits with accumulated 1 .1 million hours of online learning.
The platform pools over one million sets of resources.
In this regard, the Seniors University of China has opened 55 ,000 grassroots learning centers since it was established in March last year, serving approximately 22 million seniors.
It has also built a national public services platform aimed at elderly education, offering 436 ,000 online curricula to over 2 .3 million users.
The Ministry said that in the future, the lifelong education platform will promote AI -enabled lifelong learning, as well as other initiatives serving the development of rural areas, women, and other groups.
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A Chinese research team has developed a new type of smart fiber that can emit light and generate electricity without being plugged in.
The fiber integrates functions including wireless energy collection, information perception and transmission, and can be made into textiles that can realize human -computer interaction functions such as luminous display and touch control without chips and batteries.
The study Ultimately, published in the journal Science is expected to change the way people interact with the environment, and between people, and is of great significance for the application of smart textiles.
Smart wearable devices have become part of daily life and play an important role in health monitoring, telemedicine, human -computer interaction, and other fields.
Compared with traditional rigid semi -conductor components or flexible thin film devices, electronic textiles made of smart fibers are more breathable and softer.
However, the current development of smart fibers uses complex multimodule integration, which increases the volume, weight and rigidity of textiles.
A research team from the College of Materials Science and Engineering at Donghua University accidentally discovered that fibers emitted light in a radio field during an experiment.
Based on the findings, the team developed a new type of smart fiber that uses electromagnetic energy as a wireless driving force.
Yang Weifeng, a member of the research team, noted this type of fiber features cost -effective raw materials and mature processing technology.
it can realize fabric display, wireless instruction transmission, and other functions without using chips and batteries.
Ho Chung -Yi, a researcher at Donghua University, said that clothes made of new fibers can be interactive and luminous and can also remotely control electronic products wirelessly by generating unique signals for different postures of users.
The energy from space more effectively to develop more functions, including display deformation and computing.
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The Shanghai Communications Administration has announced a move to step up research and development of some key technologies such as 5G Advanced and 6G in order to promote the deep integration of the information and communication industry with the industrial economy.
Meanwhile, the administration has released a document including 12 action plans focusing on expanding the application scenarios of 5G and 6G testing in various fields.
By the end of last year, Shanghai set up a total of 92 ,000 5G base stations and 423 ,000 server racks for data centers in use.
A number of demonstration applications have been incubated in many fields such as industrial internet, autonomous driving and smart medical care.
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Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has announced plans to build more than two thousand supercharging stations with some four thousand superchargers for new energy vehicles.
by the end of next year.
According to a document released by the municipal government, by 2025, the newly -built public fast -charging stations in the major urban areas of Chongqing should all be equipped equipped with supercharging capacity, and the existing charging stations will also be gradually transformed into supercharging ones.
By that time, the city is also expected to have 170 supercharging stations for new energy vehicles in its expressway service areas.
China's new energy vehicle ownership level has continued to climb in recent years, with the number of the new energy vehicle in use rising to 20 .4 million by the end of last year.
According to China's National Energy Administration, amidst the growing use of electric cars, China continues to improve and expand the country's network of charging facilities, reaching almost 8 .6 million by the end of last year, logging an increase of 65 % year -on -year.
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Jijiang Province, a manufacturing and trade hub in east China, has launched a new cargo air service linking its capital city Hangzhou with Miami of the United States.
According to the Zhejiang Provincial Airport Group, at the beginning of this month a freighter operated by Atlas Air, loaded with 104 tons of cross -border e -commerce goods that include clothing, and shoes, left Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport for Miami.
It is the fourth all -cargo air route to and from the United States, opened by the Hangzhou Airport after New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
The airport group said that the new route is expected to build an air bridge for business exchanges between the two cities.
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10. The organizers said that the games will be held from October 7 to the 13 at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center, which features a retractable roof center court and and is able to accommodate more than 13 ,000 spectators.
As the capital city of central China's Hubei Province and the home for China's two -time Grand Slam champion Li Na.
Wuhan has witnessed the popularity of tennis grow exponentially in the past two decades.
Steve Simon, chairman and CEO of the Women's Tennis Association said that the Wuhan Open had crowned many iconic champions since the inaugural event was held in 2014, including Venus Williams, Petra Kvitova, and reigning champion, Arena Sablenka.
Simon added that they are now excited to write another chapter of the tournament's history in 2024.
There are four levels of tournaments, three on the WTA Tour, plus the Grand Slams.
The WTA Tour includes 250, 500, and 1 ,000 level events.
The categories denoting the number of ranking points awarded to the champion.
Grand Slams award 2 ,000 points to the winner.
Here listening to Special English Based on skeleton remains and burial objects, Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed the face of a low -ranking official who lived 2 ,000 years ago in the Qin dynasty.
The official is believed to have diligently recorded documents on over 1100 bamboo slips that formed one of China's earliest encyclopedias.
The official aged forty -five to fifty upon his death was the owner of the bamboo slips with over forty thousand characters preserved in his tomb.
The documents log the legal and administrative system, medical manuals, and a rich chronicle of some major events at that time.
The ancient official now has his face reconstructed following the 3D scanning of his skull.
The public is expected to see the restored official and learn about the living conditions of his time later this year at the Hubei Provincial Museum.
The bone remains and bamboo slips were all first unearthed in 1975 at a tomb site in Shuihoodi of Yunmeng County in central China's Hubei Province.
Researchers from the Hubei Provincial Museum, the Provincial Cultural Relics, and Archaeology Institute teamed up with Jilin University to carry out the facial restoration work in 2019.
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The Ching Hai Xi Zang Plateau Germplasm Resources Bank in northwest China's Qinghai province has passed its acceptance review.
The Germplasm Resources Bank led by the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences provides platforms for sample management, omics sequencing, as well well as data analysis and information sharing.
The project has built automatic ultra -low temperature storage for living plant and animal storage, medicinal material components and compounds and micro -organism storage.
It has preserved more than 50 ,000 germ plasm resources, effectively improving the preservation capacity of biological germ plasm resources on the Qinghai Xizang Plateau.
Yang Qi 'an, deputy head of the institute, said that since its inception, the bank had completed reference genome analysis of 19 representative species in the San Jiangyuan area, including snow leopards and brown bears, analyzing the evolutionary history and population dynamics of five animal groups, including snow leopards, and built a plateau animal genome database.
Yang added that the bank contains more than 10 terabytes of animal genome data and will promote the development, protection, and application of plateau wildlife resources.
The San -Jiang -Yuan area holds the origins of three mighty rivers, the Yangtze, Yellow, and Lanzhang.
It is one of the regions in the world with the most concentrated biodiversity at high altitude and it is also an important ecological security barrier and biodiversity treasure house on the Qinghai Shi Zang Plateau.
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The Wuhan Open, one of the 10 Women's Tennis Association 1000 tournaments worldwide, is set to return for the first time since 2019.
The organizers said that the games will be held from October 7th to the 13th at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center which features a retractable Roof Centre court, and is able to accommodate more than 13 ,000 spectators.
As the capital city of central China's Hubei province and the home of China's two -time Grand Slam Champion Li Na, Wuhan has witnessed the popularity of tennis grow exponentially in the past two decades.
Steve Simon, chairman and CEO of the Women's Tennis Association, said that the Wuhan Open had crowned many iconic champions since the inaugural event was held in 2014 including Venus Williams, Petra Kvitova and reigning champion Arina Savalenka.
Simon added that they are now excited to write another chapter of the tournament's history in There are four levels of tournaments, three on the WTA Tour plus the Grand Slams.
The WTA Tour includes 250, 500 and 1 ,000 level events.
The category is denoting the number of rankings points awarded to the champion.
Grand Slams award 2 ,000 points to the winner.
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