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Recently, a train with a study room is in the spotlight. It has removed some of the seats and installed desks and chairs next to the Windows, turning it into a "learning carriage" for passengers who need it. 近日，一趟带有自习室的火车受到关注。它拆除了车厢里部分座椅，在紧挨车窗位置安装了课桌椅，变身“学习车厢”，供有需求的旅客使用。 A slow train in Southwest China boasting its own study room has att...

President Xi Jinping called on Wednesday for a political settlement of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, urging relevant countries to stop their attempts to politicize the global economy and make earnest efforts to contribute to a cease-fire and peaceful resolution of the crisis. Xi made the remarks in talks in Beijing with visiting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who started a three-day sta...

Google workers, already rattled by the largest layoff in the search giant's history, now face another indignity  as the company ends some of its leases on unused office space: desk-sharing. 谷歌的员工已经被这家搜索巨头历史上最大规模裁员搞得焦头烂额，现在又面临着另一种屈辱，因为该公司终止了一些闲置办公空间的租约：办公桌共享。 The move affects employees who work for Google Cloud, the Alphabet-o...

Le Le, the giant panda that died early this month at Memphis Zoo, may have succumbed to cardiac disease, according to an autopsy by zoologists from China and the United States. 据中美动物学家的尸检显示，本月初在孟菲斯动物园死亡的大熊猫乐乐可能死于心脏病。 After discovering a cardiac lesion, the experts' preliminary judgment was that this was the cause of the death of the 25-year-old male panda, ac...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is due to start his three-day state visit to China on Tuesday, with expectations high that cooperation between the two countries on post-pandemic economic recovery and the Russia-Ukraine conflict will top the agenda of talks.   白俄罗斯总统亚历山大·卢卡申科将于2月28日开始对中国进行为期三天的国事访问，双方期待疫情后两国经济复苏合作和俄乌冲突将成为...

The spotlight will be on Beijing as the two sessions, China's biggest annual political event and a window to observe the country's development, get underway on Saturday. 作为中国最大的年度政治活动和观察国家发展的窗口---“两会”将于3月4日开幕，届时北京将成为人们关注的焦点。 The two sessions are the meetings of the National People's Congress, the nation's top legislature , and the National Committee o...

英语新闻｜啄木鸟在民宅墙内私藏650斤坚果，没想到…… A pest control company in California accidentally pulled 700 pounds of acorns from the walls of a home during a pest inspection. 近日，美国加州一灭虫公司在一处民宅进行检查时，意外地从房屋墙内挖出约650斤橡子。 Theexterminator later discovered that a pair of woodpeckers have stored acorns  in this house for several years, and now the fruits...

Senior diplomat Wang Yi said on Thursday that China has encouraged and supported all efforts  conducive  to a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis and has actively promoted the de-escalation of the situation, as he wrapped up a weeklong Eurasian tour. 外交部王毅在2月23日在结束了为期一周的欧亚之行之际表示，中国鼓励和支持一切有利于和平解决乌克兰危机的努力，积极推动局势缓和。 The...

An official of Tahe county, Heilongjiang province, drew the attention of Chinese netizens recently when a short video starring her began circulating  the internet. 近日，黑龙江省塔河县一名官员的短视频火爆网络，引起了中国网民的关注。 To promote the tourism industry of her hometown, Du Bo, the 44-year-old director of the culture and tourism bureau, shot videos of herself walking outside in the...

The China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership "never targets any third party" and is not subject to a third party's disturbance  or coercion, senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said when meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. 2月22日，外交部王毅在会见俄罗斯总统普京时表示，中俄新时代全面战略协作伙伴关系从不针对第三方，也不受第三方干扰，更不接受第三方的胁迫。 Wang, dire...

A multi-institutional team of researchers conducted the first study to evaluate how the duration  of nightly sleep early in the semester affects first year college students end-of-semester grade point average (GPA). Using Fitbit sleep trackers, they found that students on average sleep 6.5 hours a night, but negative outcomes accumulate when students received less than six hours of sleep a ni...

The second plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee will be held in Beijing from Sunday to Tuesday, according to a decision made on Tuesday at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting, which discussed a work report of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Com...

Billionaire Elon Musk has found Twitter's "new CEO" and said that he is "so much better than that other guy". Musk introduced his pet dog Floki to the world. 亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克找到了推特的 “新首席执行官（CEO）” ，并表示他“比那个人强太多了”。他向世界介绍了他的宠物狗Floki。 The photo shared by Musk shows his Shiba Inu dog seated on the CEO's chair. The pet dog is seen wearing a Twitter-br...

US President Joe Biden made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Monday to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart , Volodymyr Zelensky, a striking gesture of solidarity  coming days away from the one-year anniversary of the conflict with Russia. 2月20日，美国总统拜登未经宣布访问基辅，与乌克兰总统沃洛基米尔·泽连斯基会面，这一声援姿态引人注目，因为几天后就是乌克兰与俄罗斯冲突一周年。 Speaking alongside...

China has secured a major, decisive victory in fighting COVID-19, creating a miracle in the history of human civilization of a country with a vast population successfully prevailing over a pandemic, according to a key meeting of the Communist Party of China on Thursday. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political...

The unofficial nature of the latest meeting between Chinese and United States senior diplomats points to the serious damage that Washington has brought to its ties with Beijing and the dire need to repair the great shortage of mutual trust, observers said. 观察人士说，中美高级外交官最近一次会晤的非正式性质表明，华盛顿对中美关系造成了严重损害，迫切需要修复严重缺乏互信的问题。 They made the observat...

Giant female panda, Xiang Xiang, currently at the Ueno Zoo in Japan, will return to China on February 21, according to Japan's Kyodo News Agency. 日本东京上野动物园的雌性大熊猫香香要回家了，归期定在了2月21日。 Visits only be allowed through a pre-selected lottery . Up to 2,600 visitors will be able to see the 5-year-old each day until Feb 19, according to Kyodo News. 自2023年1月21日起，参观香香采...

Many men and women across China are marrying later in life, prompting provincial governments to adopt measures to reverse the trend, according to data released by civil affairs departments on Monday. 2月13日，据民政部门发布的数据显示，中国各地结婚年龄推迟，省政府积极采取措施扭转这一趋势。 In Jiangsu, a province with a population of over 85 million, a total of 412,286 couples were married in 2022,...

China will launch two crews to work on its Tiangong space station this year, according to the China Manned Space Agency. 据中国载人航天局表示，两组航天员将于2023年前往天宫空间站. The agency published schedules for the Shenzhou XVI and XVII mission crews on Wednesday, saying that the Shenzhou XVI team will leave for the Tiangong station in May while their counterparts in the Shenzhou XVII mission w...

英语新闻丨重庆今年将为18万名初二女生免费接种HPV疫苗 Chongqing will offer free vaccinations against human papillomavirus to 180,000 female second-year junior high school students this year, as more Chinese cities join efforts to combat cervical  cancer. 中国城市逐步加入了防治宫颈癌的行列，重庆今年将为18万名初二女生免费接种人乳头瘤病毒疫苗。 China has backed the global strategy of accelerating...

The central authorities on Monday unveiled the closely watched "No 1 central document" for this year, which pledged to advance the national strategy of rural vitalization and accelerate modernization in rural regions, according to Xinhua News Agency. As the first policy statement released each year by the central authorities, the document — issued by the Communist Party of China Central Committee...

The chatbot ChatGPT, developed by American company OpenAI, has taken the world by storm in the past few months. This new research, however, has not been welcomed in education as expected. Faced with the threat of ChatGPT, the education community in many countries began to take measures. 美国OpenAI公司研发的聊天机器人ChatGPT，在过去的几个月席卷全球。然而，这项新研究并没有在教育领域受到预想中的欢迎...

 China said on Monday that high-altitude balloons from the United States had flown over its airspace more than 10 times since the beginning of last year without permission from Chinese authorities. 2月13日，中国当局表示，去年以来，美方高空气球10余次非法飞越中国领空。 "It is not an uncommon thing for US balloons to illegally enter other countries' airspace," Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wen...