ty of 10 years in 上海千花网品茶微信prison for each charge. He was initially accused of violating the US Espionage Act.
Pacts mulled in president’s visit to Central Asia
Trip will includ上海千花网女神会所e bilateral talks with leaders of nations at regional organization’s meeting
China will sign an array of cooperation agreements with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan during President Xi Jinping’s state visits to the
two Central Asian countries to further strengthen their ties, a senior diplomat said on Monday.
As an important outcome of Xi’s visits, Beijing will also sign a joint statement with each country on furthering their com
prehensive strategic partnerships, Vice-Foreign Minister Zhang Hanhui said at a news briefing.
Xi will also attend the 19th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz
capital, during his stay from Wednesday to Friday, as well as the fifth summit of the Conference on Interaction and
Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe during his visit from Friday to Sunday.
Development of huge shale oil field goes full steam
This year, PetroChina’s Xinjiang Oilfield Company has been fully develop
ing the Jimsar shale oil field, which boasts 1 billion tons of shale oil reserves, Xinhua reported.
The company has mobilized 36 drilling rigs, started drilling on 47 wells and completed eight wells till now. The daily drille
d footage surpassed 2,000 meters and the total drilled footage reached 160,000 meters.
PetroChina has ramped up exploration efforts on Bohai Bay Basin, Songliao Basin, Ordo
s Basin and Junggar Basin in recent years and shale oil was listed as one of the four exploration goals. Dagang Oilfi
eld, Xinjiang Oilfield, Tuha Oilfield and Changqing Oilfield have been set as important demonstration zones.
Xinjiang Oilfield Company said it planned to mobilize 45 drilling rigs this year to finish drilling nearly 100 wells.
The operation of the infant ward was suspended, and the
e hospital was ordered to solve management problems rela
ting to the case, check on the condition of the surviving babies and console the parents.
A deputy director of the health bureau of the Shunde district of F
oshan, Guangdong, was also fired, and others deemed responsible were punished.
No new case has been reported in the hospitals that have treated the affected babies.
The provincial health commission has ordered all t
he medical institutions in the province to check their infection-control procedures.
The viral strain that affected the infants was identified by the commission as Echo 11. It is an intestinal virus to which child
ren, especially infants, are susceptible. It is closely related to a respiratory infection.
No quick fix for decades-old Israeli-Palestinian enmity
Concern over the recent escalation of tensions between Palestinians and Israelis have been temporarily relieved after Palestin
ian leaders in Gaza agreed a cease-fire with Israel early on Monday. Right now, nothing is more important than u
pholding the cease-fire as the atmosphere between the two rivals has not been so combustible since 2014.
Since Friday, militant groups in Gaza have fired more than 600 rockets a
nd other projectiles at southern Israeli cities and villages, killing four Israeli civilians, wit
h Israel retaliating with air and artillery strikes, killing 27 people, including 14 civilians, in Gaza.
The latest border clashes, the most deadly since 2014, have occurred against the backdrop of the changing Middle East po
licy of the United States, which has seen the US drop any pretense of impartiality and make clear its support of Israel.
In 2018, Huawei spent $15.3 billion on technology R&D
ranking in fourth place following Samsung, Google’s parent Alphabet and Amazon. Data als
o showed the company took 14 percent of its annual sales on research last year, the second-highest after Alphabet.
Huawei’s R&D spending totaled 480 billion yuan ($71.3 billion) over the past 10 years, ac
cording to its annual report. Besides, the tech behemoth achieved 721.2 billion yuan in global sales in 2018, a 19.5
percent increase year-on-year, and net profit reached 59.3 billion yuan, up 25.1 percent compared with a year earlier.
Smartphone sales from the company gained 348.9 billion yuan las
t year, a 45.1 percent rise year-on-year accounting for 48.4 percent of total revenue.
As of April 15, Huawei has secured 40 commercial contracts for 5G equipment and shi
pped over 70,000 5G base stations, the company announced at its annual Global Analyst Summit.
Chris Rowley, a visiting professor from Oxford Unive
rsity’s Kellogg College in England, called opening to more foreign investment a very important development.
“Of course this will expose both inward investors and indigenous organiza
tions to some stark differences in management and doing business between them, which in tu
rn requires more globally effective leaders who are less ethnocentric and more culturally aware,” he said.
Sikhumbuzo Zondi, a research assistant at the Institute for Global
Dialogue associated with the University of South Africa, said another important aspect of Xi’s
opening address was the desire to invest more resources in scientific innovation and technology.
The aim is to develop technologies and business models that will foster new growth an
d development. To do this, China is committed to spearheading the Belt and Road Science, Technology and In
novation Cooperation Action Plan to advance information and communications technology infras
tructure development with the aim of improving internet connectivity and security, Zondi said.
While this takes place, I would like to pay tribute to the
officers involved this morning who responded swiftly to this incident and put thems
elves in harm’s way, as they do every day, to keep the people of London safe,” Walker said.
The police said the incident was not related with terrorism.
According to media Sky News, police opened fire on a vehicle outside the Ukrainian emb
assy after the driver deliberately rammed into the official car of the country’s ambassador to Britain.
“The ambassador, Natalia Galibarenko, was not at the embassy at the time and no other staff were injured,” said the report of Sky News.
The 16th Chinese Bridge, an annual Chinese proficiency contest for school kids, college
students and adult learners of Chinese, was held at the University of Latvia Friday and Saturday.
This year’s competition, themed One World, One Family, gathered 64 contestants
in total in Latvia, including 14 in the adult group, 24 in the high school group and 24 in the primary school group.
The contestants were required to demonstrate their Chinese language skills by introducing themselves and m
aking speeches on various topics in Chinese, participate in a quiz on Chinese culture and perform in a talent show.
Each division, namely college students, high school students and
primary school students, has three groups of senior, intermediate and junior.
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, which leads the
country in very-long-baseline interferometry, the technique the telescope array used for
the black hole image, took the lead in organizing and coordinating Chinese researchers particip
ation in the EHT observations and studies, Shen said. That allowed Shanghai to b
e one of the six cities worldwide involved in the simultaneous news conferences on Wednesday.
No Chinese telescope－including the Five-hundred-meter Ape
rture Spherical Telescope, the world’s largest filled-apertur
e radio telescope, in Guizhou province－was involved in the EHT observations.
Yuan Yefei, a professor in the University of Science and Technology of Chi
na’s astronomy department, also an EHT team member, said the Guizhou telesco
pe did not take part mainly because its wavelength band was not what EHT needed for this observation.
So far, distinct fossils from the Cambrian explosion with o
outlines of soft tissue have been found at the Burgess Shale in Canada, as well as some by the Chengjiang River in Yunnan province. The
