News Roundup
Fever of Antarctica Tourism
Antarctica received 8,273 Chinese travelers from 2017 to 2018, accounting for 16 percent of the total number of visitors, which is second to the United States, the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators reported.
The number is nearly 3,000 more than that of the 2016-17 Antarctica tourism season. Ctrip, a Shanghai-based online travel agency, also noted that the number of Chinese visitors going to Antarctica would probably rise to more than 10,000 during the 2018-19 season. In addition,Chinese travelers have spent an average of 23 days on their Antarctica tours and the costs ranged from 50,000 yuan($7,363) to 110,000 yuan ($16,200) in 2018. The number of Chinese travelers to Antarctica has increased 100 times since 2008 and it is expected that the demand will continue to grow in the years ahead.
CHINA-AFRICA Trade Expo
China will hold the first China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province from June 18 to 20. The fair, with an estimated display space of 50,000 square meters, will showcase economic and trade opportunities in China and Africa.
笔者认为，在大数据背景下，随着信息共享和二次使用的需求不断增加，“隐私”的界限越来越模糊，“隐私自我管理”被打破了，大量私人信息被秘密收集和使用必然会给信息“所有人”带来损害。比如，企业可能根据大量的数据集分析，对个人的收入、偏好、种族、性别等做出判断并据此提供差别价格或采取不同的服务标准，却不易被察觉。因而，“隐私”价值观绝不能丢弃，法律和社会规则应决定收集、使用信息的范围和限度，譬如界分必要性使用和非必要性使用。
The expo, launched under the framework of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation,will establish a new mechanism for economic and trade cooperation between China and African countries, said Li Chenggang, Assistant Minister of Commerce of China.
Hunan's trade volume with African countries totaled $2.8 billion in 2018, surging over 50 percent for the fourth year in a row, said He Baoxiang,Vice Governor of Hunan. The expo will be held in the central Chinese province once every two years.
KENYA Boosting Water Coverage
Kenya plans to set aside $491 million in the 2019-20 fiscal year to boost water coverage,a senior government official said.
Simon Chelugui, Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, said that currently 60 percent of the population has access to clean water, but government hopes to increase the figure to 80 percent by the end of 2020.
针对此次自动监控系统改造，除了要保证自动监控系统的稳定性和可靠性，对功能需求有所扩展，更要充分考虑操作者的使用习惯和接受程度，建立以人为中心的设计理念，在系统中更多地注入良好的用户体验元素。需要在系统框架设计上，结合功能需求，合理划分功能模块，简化交互流程，优化界面设计，从设计之初就体现出用户体验的要求，在易用性和操作层面上给用户带来良好的用户体验感受。
Chelugui said that Kenya has approached World Bank as well as bilateral donors to bridge the funding gap in the country's water sector.
The government official noted that most of those without access to clean water are in the rural areas.
EGYPT 2019 African Cup of Nations
The Confederation of African Football announced on January 8 that Egypt will host the 2019 African Cup of Nations for the fifth time in history.
The 2019 African Cup of Nations was initially scheduled to be hosted by Cameroon. However, Cameroon was stripped of hosting the tournament for seriously delaying preparations. Egypt hosted four African Cup of Nations tournaments in 1959,1974, 1986 and 2006, and it has won the title seven times.
CHINA Tax Deductions
The air quality in 338 Chinese cities improved in 2018, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on January 7.
According to the ministry,the recruits will be trained on how to identify the sick and conduct home visits and community outreach services, such as carrying out routine immunizations,HIV counselling and testing among others.
Mandarin will be taught as a foreign language alongside French, Arabic and German. Jwan said that children in lower primary schools will be taught vernacular languages, adding that Mandarin will be introduced as part of the Competency-Based Curriculum that is being rolled out this year.
China started implementing a new standard for individual income tax from October 2018. The threshold for personal income tax exemption was raised from 3,500 yuan($522) to 5,000 yuan ($746)per month or 60,000 yuan($8,955) per year.
The expenditure range is so wide that most of taxpayers are eligible for one or several tax deductions, experts said.
Wang Yi State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of China
Peace serves as the prerequisite and guarantee for the development of the African continent. China will continue to play a unique and constructive role in safeguarding peace and promoting security in Africa.
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Chinese rural residents to be lifted out of poverty in 2019
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Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng said the recruitment drive follows the approval of the Community Health Extension Workers Policy by Cabinet. Aceng said the recruitment aims at intensifying efforts on prevention of communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases.
二是市场进入规则不对等。如前文所述，养殖者进入加工环节的渠道基本堵塞，因此，在与乳企的谈判中，养殖者的外部选择权很少，基本上处于“要么接受、要么退出”状态。反观乳企进入养殖领域则受到鼓励，政府一再强调乳企应当建设自有奶源。由于政府的倾斜政策，中国一度掀起乳企自建牧场的热潮。虽然如前文所述，超大型牧场还未形成有竞争力的盈利模式，但在既成事实的前提下，乳企用自建牧场奶源替代其他牧场奶源是不二选择。
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K MANaYAn darin in Schools
K enya plans to introduce Mandarin to its primary school curriculum in 2020, a government offi-cial said on January 7.
Julius Jwan, CEO of Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, said that the design, scope and sequence of the Mandarin syllabus have already been completed. “Beginning in 2020, we will commence teaching Mandarin as a foreign language from grade four for pupils who wish to learn the Asian language,” Jwan said.
These expenditures cover six areas: children's education, continuing education,health treatment for serious diseases, housing loan interests, rent and elderly care. The new temporary measures came into effect along with the amended personal individual income tax law on January 1.
“The place of China in the world economy has also grown to be so strong that Kenya stands to benefit if its citizens can understand Mandarin,”Jwan said.
Media Watch
Shanghai Seeks Dominance in Internet Headquarters
Oriental Outlook
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“通过巡护软件记录江豚活动情况，发现、报告非法捕捞等事件。”周家喜说，他每天和协助巡护员们逐着风浪完成历时2个半小时、往返近25公里的巡护，宣教和劝阻破坏自然资源和环境的行为，并协助渔政开展执法行动。
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Shanghai might have missed out on the opportunities brought by China's Internet industry boom in the past decade, but that is set to change.
Online e-commerce platform Pinduoduo and mobile content aggregator Qutoutiao,both headquartered in Shanghai, went public on the New York Stock Exchange in July and September 2018 respectively.
例如，在《燕子》一课教学中，小学语文教师首先可以引导学生进行文章阅读，在此基础上进行文章结构的分析，鼓励学生自主将文章中生动的词句以及成语等勾画出来，并鼓励学生根据所阅读的内容展开仿写，描写其他的小动物，如小老虎、小狗以及企鹅等，整个仿写练习中，可以加深学生对语文知识的理解，同时还能够引导学生掌握更多的写作技巧，因此通过阅读篇章引导学生展开仿写与续写对于提升小学生的写作能力具有重要意义。
New Internet companies have emerged in Shanghai during the past years. On the List of Top 100 Chinese Internet Companies in 2018 published by the Internet Society of China and the Information Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 21 are from Shanghai, including streaming site Bilibili.
China influencers
China Newsweek
December 24
Eighteen people were recognized for their role to China's development by China Newsweek at an event held in Beijing on December 15,2018. The annual In fl uencing China Figures award was first launched in 2009 to honor individuals and organizations that have made major contributions to China's social progress.
The awardees come from a wide spectrum of fields. Zhu Min, former Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, was honored as scholar of the year.Shan Jixiang, Curator of the Palace Museum, was the cultural figure of the year.Wang Yifang, Director of the Institute of High Energy Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was named the scienti fi c figure of the year.
UGANDA Community Healthcare
Ministry of Health of Uganda said it is going to recruit over 15,000 people who will be trained as community health workers in villages across the east African country.
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浩亭正从物理连接向数字连接的变革中转变，产品设计理念上就要围绕新的方向，包括模块化、标准化和数字化。对此，浩亭电气与浩亭信息技术软件开发行政总裁乌弗·格拉夫（Uwe Graff）先生解释说，“在模块化方面，Smart Han连接器是浩亭模块化产品的典型代表，可灵活搭配，以响应交通和机械领域的客户需求，可显著缩短基础连接的现场时间；数字化的代表性产品就是MICA，这是一个数字化采集平台，可对状态环境进行现场数据采集，还有RFID产品也是扩展数字连接的产品线之一，关键是要贴近客户实现技术落地。”
步骤4：构造风险决策模型，求解各指标权重。TOPSIS方法通常是通过计算各方案到正、负理想解的距离以及相对贴近度的大小对各个方案进行排序，求出各区域的风险大小的排序，其中权重值为已知。通过TOPSIS的决策原理对权重值进行确定，将各方案与理想点的距离作为目标函数，对权重以实数的形式给出范围，作为决策变量。
CHINA Improved Air Quality
The State Council, China's cabinet, announced special individual income tax deductions, in order to lower the tax burden for those who have certain expenditures.
A total of 338 cities enjoyed good air quality on 79.3 percent of the days last year, up 1.3 percentage points year on year, meeting the air quality target for the year. In the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the share of days with good air quality stood at 50.5 percent,a year-on-year increase of 1.2 percentage points, while the PM2.5 density of the region dropped by 11.8 percent year on year to 60 micrograms per cubic meter. China released a three-year action plan on air pollution control last year,vowing to cut emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide by more than 15 percent by 2020 compared with 2015 levels.
Top Scientist Honored
Radar expert Liu Yongtan has been awarded China's top science award at a ceremony on January 8, along with defense engineer Major General Qian Qihu. Chinese President Xi Jinping presented the award to the two scientists in Beijing for their outstanding contribution. Liu's work has focused on domestic maritime radar technology, helping establish full monitoring of the country's seas. Qian set up the theoretical system for China's modern defense engineering and contributed to creating an underground defense infrastructure. They were each awarded $1.16 million, which was a higher award standard than the past.
UN Human Rights Prize Winner
Tanzanian gender rights activist, Rebeca Gyumi, has been awarded the UN Human Rights Prize. Gyumi is the founder and executive director of the Msichana Initiative, a Tanzanian nongovernmental organization whose aim is to empower girls through education and remove barriers that limit their access to it. Her work was instrumental in the Tanzanian High Court's decision in 2016 to change a law that allowed girls as young as 14 to get married, a law that had stood since 1971. Gyumi had previously won the UNICEF Global Goal Award in 2016, and was named 2016 Woman of the Year by New African magazine.
Delta Toward Integration
South Reviews
January 1
The Yangtze River Delta has been of systemic importance to China as a uni fi ed country since the Sui Dynasty (581-618), when the rulers dug a canal to connect the rich delta and the core areas of governance. The delta today comprises three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, as well as Shanghai Municipality. It accounts for over 40 percent of the national GDP. Its potential,however, remains huge,especially in the promotion of regional integration.Segregated governance by provinces is the wisdom of the agricultural era and does not fi t the needs of an industrialized China. As a test field, the delta moving toward integration will be where the next stage of China's reform and opening up begins.
High-Quality Economic Development
China Economic Weekly
January 15
At present, China's economy has shifted from high-speed growth to high-quality development, and industrial development has shifted to a new stage of building a high-quality manufacturing sector.
从岭迹图中可以看出，当k≥0.02时，岭迹曲线趋于稳定。在R中可以得到自动选择的岭回归参数为0.0237，和我们由岭迹图得出的岭参数一致。同时我们得到岭回归的参数估计值、标准误差、t值和p值如上表所示，由表可知当k值取0.0237时，各自变量的显著性与之前相比得到了明显的提高，但是X2、X6、X8的p值均大于0.05，仍然不显著，其它自变量对因变量的影响的显著性则均达到了99.9%以上。因此在这里选择剔除X2、X6、X8三个变量，重新选择岭参数进行回归分析和参数估计。
At the same time, the world economy is in the face of change. A combination of digital technology, network, intelligence and advanced manufacturing is a major feature of the new technological revolution and new industrial transformation.
Fang Jiangshan, Deputy Editor in Chief of People's Daily,said the manufacturing industry should be the pioneer in the supply-side structural reform, and the key to pursue high-quality development. He said innovation is the driver of industrial transformation and technological upgrading. CA