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Here is the news. Beijing has launched its first logistics 6 delivery route via unmanned aerial vehicles in the Bada Ling section of the Great Wall, which enables tourists to receive summer relief items and emergency supplies within minutes.
The South Ninth Watchtower, on the extended line of the Bardai Ling Great Wall, serves as the delivery point for the new route, the area which opened to the public at the end of last year.
mainly hosts activities, including hiking, adventure crossings, great wall studies, and travel photography.
The lack of commercial facilities at the area makes it difficult for visitors to replenish supplies, such as drinking water.
To address the issue, the bar -dyling Great Wall Scenic Area partnered with a delivery platform to launch the drone delivery service.
Once at the delivery spot, tourists can scan a QR code with their mobile phones to place orders on a food delivery platform and the supplies will be delivered by drones within five minutes.
A single trip to the spot usually takes 50 minutes on foot.
On the return trip, the drone will transport waste back, reducing the labour costs for the maintenance staff.
In recent years, Beijing has been continuously expanding new scenarios for the application of the low altitude economy.
In addition to the drone delivery service, tourists can also take a trial class in pilot training or enjoy the majestic view of the Great Wall aboard a helicopter or a fixed -wing aircraft.
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Chinese employers are in a tight race and offering fat salaries as they scramble for talent with artificial intelligence knowledge or learning background, hoping to gain the advantage for future business expansion.
The recruitment portal, Lie -Pin, recently released a report, showing that the number of job openings and job seekers surged in the sector of AI -generated content in the first quarter of the year, with the related job openings soaring 320 % year -on -year, during the quarter, and the number of job seekers rising over 940 percent, with the hiring race heating up.
The recruiting salary offered by employers also shot upward.
Lye Pin said in the report that the average annual salary for AI -generated content jobs was about 400 ,000 yuan, with most of the jobs offering above 500 ,000 yuan per year, which is more than 70 ,000 US dollars.
Larger cities and those with Internet titans offer most AI -related job opportunities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hangzhou, where big tech companies such as Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance are based, ByteDance, for example, launched a recruitment campaign in late May to attract graduates with doctoral degrees.
The campaign, named Top Seed, is aimed at graduates with PhDs who are interested in machine learning, AI, large language models, as well as audio and video generation.
In a reflection of the tight global race to attract AI talent, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in April on the social platform X, that his company was increasing salaries and compensation for staff members on Tesla's AI engineering team.
Pang Shi, Director of the Department of Employment and Entrepreneurship at the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, noted that the increasing AI -related job openings are a result of technology advances and industrial development.
Pang added that the market demand for AI talent will keep growing in the next few years, allowing for companies' continuous investment and the government's support policies in the sector.
Yang Yuay Jia, president of Jiaopin, another recruitment portal, said that around 2020, the need for AI talent began to emerge, and the need surged after Chat GPT, a chat bomb, and virtual assistant, developed by OpenAI, hit the market in 2022.
Global consultancy McKinsey and company projected last year that China's need for AI -related workers, would grow by 2030 from 1 million to 6 million.
However, local and overseas universities, as well as existing top -tier talent, could only provide one -third of the necessary talent, leaving a shortage of about four million.
As Zhang noted, a worker or job seeker is required not only to have broader knowledge and a good understanding of the AI industry, and innovation for commercial transition, but also strong abilities in team working, coordinating, and problem solving, and advanced ideas of AI's influence on ethics, laws, and social development to ensure that the technology is used legally and responsibly.
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Video footage of a first -year student to be using the admission letter to cut a watermelon has astonished many netizens and aroused their curiosity, as it looks just like a typical admission letter.
The secret lies in its material.
This year the Beijing University of Chemical technology used a new type of carbon fiber composite material to make its admission letters.
Dubbed Black Gold, Carbon fiber features lightweight, high specific strength, high stiffness and resistance to high temperatures and erosion.
These exceptional properties make it widely used for major national projects, including carrier rockets, large aircraft, and large vessels.
This material was independently developed by the Advanced Composite Materials Research Center under the College of Materials Science and Engineering.
When viewed from different angles in the sunlight, the 0 .2 mm thick admission letters can change colour.
According to Yang Xiaoping, a professor at the College of Materials Science and Engineering at the university.
The carbon fibre -made admission letter marks the transformation of China's home -grown carbon fibre composite material from high -end industrial use to daily application.
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A novel fungi picking tour has been drawing visitors to southwest China's Yunnan Province, offering new opportunities for summer tourism.
This summer many visitors made a special journey to Yunnan to partake in the tours as the province's abundant rainfall and moderate temperatures usher in a prime season for wild fungi each summer.
known as China's kingdom of plants, Yunnan boasts unparalleled biodiversity, due to its unique natural conditions.
It is home to approximately 900 varieties of edible wild mushrooms, representing over 90 % of the country's total.
These fungi are cherished seasonal delicacies for the locals across Yunnan.
Since last year, Yunnan's wild mushrooms have gone viral on social media, both in China and internationally.
Enthusiastic foodies and netizens endearingly refer to them as magic mushrooms, recognizing their exquisite taste but also cautioning that improper cooking can lead to food poisoning.
The mushroom -themed tours are usually led by an organizer and a seasoned local to ensure an enjoyable and safe experience.
They often last for half a day or a full day and offer participants a range of activities.
from foraging for fungi, taking photographs, to indulging in a fungi feast.
These exciting and novel tours have become increasingly popular among younger demographics.
Go Shuxi, hailing from north China's Shanxi province, made her second trip to Yunnan this year, specifically for mushroom foraging.
Go described the experience as an adventure into nature, noting that the immersive experience combines hiking with enjoyment.
Su Ming Shuei is a wild mushroom business operator based in Kun Ming.
She developed the fungi picking tour as an addition to her business offerings this year.
Su said that the tour fees often determined by the number of participants and the location in, range from $100 to $300 ,000 per person, which is about $14 ,000 to $42 ,000.
In July alone, she hosted over 800 tourists, generating an income of around $200 ,000.
Sue highlighted safety as top priority.
She would choose several villages where she has been purchasing wild fungi for years to ensure familiarity with the local weather and terrain.
In addition to providing outdoor activity equipment and pre -trip training, she also secures insurance for all participants.
Su would allocate a portion of her income to the local villagers to mitigate any impact on their fungi industry.
In Tu Xiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, one of Yunnan's key wild fungi -producing areas, events, these tours are seen as a golden opportunity.
25 -year -old Wang Kayu recently returned to his hometown after graduation and began posting videos about the cultivation and processing of wild fungi on social media in order to entice more visitors to his hometown.
Wang noted that the mushroom -themed tours not only help in rich local tourism activities but also contribute to the growth of the local hotel and catering industries.
One highlighted that local residents cherish these wild fungi as gifts from nature and reflections of a healthy ecology.
As such, he is also committed to promoting ecological protection for sustainable development alongside his tourists.
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Would you like to join me in a challenge to describe a colour in words instead of getting it visually?
Sounds like a mission impossible!
Well, let's simulate a choice question first.
there is a special colour named Qing in Chinese, and what exactly is this colour like?
A. Blue, B. Green, C.
Black, and D. None of these, and the choice E.
Maybe all of those and more?
Let's get to that one by one.
The first choice, blue.
There is a famous saying in China that literally means the color ching is derived from blue, indigo blue but is bluer than blue.
It's used as a metaphor to say that a student is more excellent than his teacher.
Or a child does better than his parents, so the student or the child in this context is Qing.
So you may know that the colour Qing must be a positive one.
Next up for the choice B, Qing could also mean green?
Do you know what Chinese people say about leaving good fame forever in history?
Han Qing to sweat the colour Qing.
Wait, why to sweat the colour Qing?
It's because bamboo bamboo served as a medium for written documents in ancient China.
The earliest surviving examples of such documents, written in ink -on -string -bound bundles of bamboo strips, date back to the Warring States period, over 2 ,000 years ago.
The technique to prepare bamboo for writing involves heating the bamboo with fire until bamboo oil sweats out.
In this process the bamboo oil looks like human sweat.
After this peel the outside green skin.
Now the bamboo strip is ready for writing.
And that's why hanqing means history book hey knock -knock are you still with me the color Ching could also mean black Ching -suh is not blue silk its black hair and Ching -li is not blue eyes it means someone looks at you directly with their black pupils in the middle meaning they like and respect you.
Now, choice D, none of these.
Qing could also mean a kind of greenish blue, bluish black or blackish green.
There's no end to this.
When can we see this kind of strange colour?
After heavy rain, when the sky is flushed by heavy storms and turns clear with a little bit of light, especially when the sky merges with the water, usually the sea.
The whole picture is painted in Qing.
When Chinese people say Ching Tian, blue sky, it also means fairness and justice.
So, it is feasible to call a presiding judge a Qingtian.
In Taoism, Taoists worship the colour Qing.
They write Qingsù, namely, words on green paper to show their respect to God.
And Qingqun refers to youth.
It is no exaggeration to say that there are more than 50 shades of Ching.
Ching is classy, deluxe and misty.
Maybe one day in the future Pantone will release Ching as the colour of the year.
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To recap, I'm going to read one of the news items again at normal speed.
Please listen carefully.
Beijing has launched its first logistics delivery route via unmanned aerial vehicles in the relief items and emergency supplies within minutes.
The south -ninth watch -tower on the extended line of the battling Great Wall serves as the delivery point for the new route.
The area, which opened to the public at the end of last year, mainly hosts activities including hiking, adventure crossings, Great Wall studies and travel photography.
The lack of commercial facilities at the area makes it difficult called for visitors to replenish supplies such as drinking water.
To address the issue, the Badaling Great Wall Scenic Area partnered with a delivery platform to launch the drone delivery service.
Once at the delivery spot, tourists can scan a QR code with their mobile phones to place orders on a food delivery platform and the supplies will be delivered by drones within five minutes.
A single trip to the spot usually takes 50 minutes on foot.
On the return trip, the drone will transport waste back, reducing the labour costs for the maintenance staff.
In recent years, Beijing has been continuously expanding new scenarios for the application of the low -altitude economy.
In addition to the drone delivery service, tourists can also take a trial class in pilot training or enjoy the majestic view of the Great Wall aboard a helicopter or a fixed -wing aircraft.
That is the end of today's programme.
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