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This is Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.
China is striving to become an innovation powerhouse by 2020.
A national program for science and technology was recently adopted as part of the Five-Year Plan for national socioeconomic development.
Premier Li Keqiang said the plan fully demonstrates that the country has given top priority to innovation. He added that the plan is a fresh impetus to the national movement of supporting and encouraging innovation launched in 2013.
With science and technology parks and entrepreneur roadshows, Chinese cities are fiercely competing to win reputations for accommodating business startups and mass innovation.
So far, more than 200 maker-space projects, 1,600 business incubators, and more than 100 high-tech zones and science and technology parks have been created nationwide. They help concentrate resources for innovation and nurturing start-ups launched by business executives, scientific researchers and even college students.
According to data released by the local government in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, the total number of newly registered enterprises jumped 34 percent in the city last year, compared with the previous year. The number of invention patent applications was up by more than 35 percent in the same period.
This is Special English.
The latest anti-terrorism regulation in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will help to prevent terrorists from using religion to attract people into terrorist activities.
The new regulation took effect earlier this month. Under the regulation, people who expand the concept of halal to include other areas of life will face detention and fines. The concept in Islam means adherence to dietary laws.
In recent years, the region has seen many cases of terrorists and extremists making people believe that bank notes, ID cards and marriage certificates are not halal, so people become isolated from modern society and are easily radicalized.
The new regulation is a legal interpretation of China's Anti-Terrorism Law. It also punishes those who use the preaching of religious teachings to promote terrorism or extremism.
An anti-terrorism expert says the detailed regulation has been drafted to deal with the anti-terrorism situations that are unique in Xinjiang. The area faces a greater terrorist threat than any other place in China.
Xinjiang has always been China's front line against terrorism. The penetration of religious extremism has led to an increasing number of terrorist attacks in recent years.
You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
When China introduced the one-child family planning policy more than 35 years ago, elderly people, who traditionally relied on their children for care, were told to look to the State to provide support.
The policy was intended to reduce family sizes and people's reliance on their children, so there would no longer be any point in having a large family, especially many sons. The story didn't unfold as expected though, especially for the large number of disabled elderly people and their struggling families.
Du Ping, a resident of the Jianye district of Nanjing, the capital of East China's Jiangsu province, has become increasingly frustrated after many failed attempts to hire a long-term qualified care worker for his 73-year-old father.
The elderly man was diagnosed with dementia in 2014 and is also paralyzed and incontinent, so he is dependent on other people.
Du resumed his search two weeks ago, when the most-recent caregiver quit, even though her monthly salary was 5,000 yuan, roughly 750 U.S. dollars. That's almost twice the average salary of 3,000 yuan per month for a caregiver in the city.
Du said the salary is a considerable sum of money, almost half of the couple's combined monthly income. It will cost even more if they place his father in a nursing home.
This is Special English.
Chinese scientists are scheduled to perform the world's first genetic editing trial on humans this month in an attempt to find a cure for lung cancer.
A group of oncologist from Sichuan University will inject patients with cells that have been modified using a new gene-editing technique.
The technique, CRISPR, was named "2015 Breakthrough of the Year" by US journal Science. It allows scientists to selectively edit genome parts and replace them with new DNA stretches.
The leader of the trial, Lu You, said his team was formed at the end of last year and the trial received ethical approval last month.
Lu and his team plan to select ten volunteers, all advanced lung cancer patients who have undergone chemotherapy, radiation therapy and other types of treatment. He has received a lot of applications and is now busy screening and drawing up the final list.
The treatments will lasts between eight weeks and three months and the trial project will last at least 12 months.
Doctors will extract T cells, a type of immune cell, from a patient's blood and then knock out the gene that encodes the PD-1 protein, which normally limits the cell's capacity to launch an immune response.
The edited cells will be multiplied in the lab before being reintroduced to the patients. This process will hopefully kick start the T cells to launch an attack on the tumor cells.
This is Special English.
Chinese geneticist Han Chunyu defended the authenticity of his gene-editing technique after the head of a genetics lab in Australia said the lab was unable to replicate it.
Han's paper describing his research findings on a new gene-editing technology called NgAgo was published online in early May by Nature Biotechnology, a monthly scientific journal of Nature Publishing Group. It drew instant international attention.
Three months later, a group of peer scientists began to question the research's viability, largely because they have not been able to replicate the results so far.
Forty-two-year-old Han is an associate professor at Hebei University of Science and Technology. He has vowed to repeat the experimental results.
The new technology had been touted as being better than the current mainstream gene-editing technique CRISPR in precision, efficiency and flexibility.
According to a regional news portal in China, it's about more than just the science. It comes with a potentially huge business impact, especially for companies already heavily invested in the CRISPR technology.
The portal said NgAgo is a possible replacement for CRISPR once it is widely confirmed; and it will inevitably undermine colossal business interests and investments based on CRISPR.
You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That's mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues.
A huge deposit of potassium, which China desperately needs for agriculture, has been discovered in the northwestern province of Qinghai.
The Ministry of Land and Resources announced that almost 160 million tonnes of potassium chloride was found during a preliminary exploration in the western part of the Qaidam Basin.
The ministry expected more deposits to be discovered.
The Ministry has called the discovery a "milestone", as China currently imports 70 percent of its potassium.
Around 30 million hectares of farmland in China uses potassium; and 6 million tonnes of potassium fertilizer is imported every year.
Canada, Russia and Belarus own 60 percent of the world's potassium fertilizer resources and production.
This is Special English.
Chinese colleges have signed strategic agreements with their counterparts in Southeast Asian countries to train skilled railway transportation talent for ASEAN member countries.
The agreements involve a number of Chinese universities including the Beijing Jiaotong University and Guiyang Vocational and Technical College. The Chinese universities will enroll international students for two-year training programs and four-year bachelor's degree programs.
As China has inked an increasing number of contracts with ASEAN countries to build new railways, the need for technicians capable of railway construction, operations and maintenance is growing.
Under the agreements, faculty members and students from the two sides will conduct more visits to each other's countries for academic and cultural exchanges.
You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
Former Olympic hurdles champion Liu Xiang has filed a lawsuit against online ride-hailing service provider Didi for using his image without authorization in online ads.
In the indictment, Liu says the company released news of his retirement and six images of him through its official microblog account in 2015.
Liu said the company violated his rights of publicity for commercial use and misled the public to believe Liu had been hired as the company's brand spokesman or had cooperated with the company.
Liu requested the company to apologize, delete the web links and photos, as well as pay compensation of more than 1.2 million yuan, roughly 190,000 U.S. dollars.
It is not known when the hearing is scheduled.
This is Special English.
More than 40 percent of employees in Taiwan have plans to leave the island to broaden their vision and seek better opportunities.
According to an online survey released by a business services company based in Taiwan, around 10 percent of respondents said they were considering setting up businesses outside Taiwan. They cited reasons which included the highly competitive market and unfavorable environment for new businesses on the island. Catering services and public relations firms were among the most desired businesses.
According to the survey, the Chinese mainland was the first choice of destination, followed by Japan and the United States.
Daniel Lee, who carried out the survey, said the Chinese mainland was the top choice because good business relationships are already well-established, in addition to the benefits of Chinese language and culture.
More than 21 percent of respondents said they already had working experience outside the island.
The survey was conducted last month and it involved the interviewing of more than 500 office workers in Taiwan.
You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
Pengzhou city in southwest China is known as a home of longevity, with 50 centenarians among its population of 780,000. The seniors share some common traits for living longer, which include being optimistic and eating simple food.
Pengzhou is located 36 kilometers northwest of Sichuan Province's capital Chengdu. It has a warm weather, with abundant rainfall as well as a beautiful natural environment. Most of the long-living seniors live in the rural areas and spent the whole life in farm work.
Most of the seniors eat coarse grains and vegetables, and avoid overeating.
However, unlike most seniors in the area, 103-year-old Lin Yongqing's favorite foods are eggs and meat. Lin eats six meals a day, and his wife, who is in her 90s, is always around to cook.
Lin was an accountant in a bank and a bank cashier when he was younger. In his late years, he became keen on counting bank notes as a hobby and sometimes can do it all day long. Lin also smokes cigarettes.
This is Special English.
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This is Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.
China is striving to become an innovation powerhouse by 2020.
A national program for science and technology was recently adopted as part of the Five-Year Plan for national socioeconomic development.
Premier Li Keqiang said the plan fully demonstrates that the country has given top priority to innovation. He added that the plan is a fresh impetus to the national movement of supporting and encouraging innovation launched in 2013.
With science and technology parks and entrepreneur roadshows, Chinese cities are fiercely competing to win reputations for accommodating business startups and mass innovation.
So far, more than 200 maker-space projects, 1,600 business incubators, and more than 100 high-tech zones and science and technology parks have been created nationwide. They help concentrate resources for innovation and nurturing start-ups launched by business executives, scientific researchers and even college students.
According to data released by the local government in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, the total number of newly registered enterprises jumped 34 percent in the city last year, compared with the previous year. The number of invention patent applications was up by more than 35 percent in the same period.
This is Special English.
The latest anti-terrorism regulation in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will help to prevent terrorists from using religion to attract people into terrorist activities.
The new regulation took effect earlier this month. Under the regulation, people who expand the concept of halal to include other areas of life will face detention and fines. The concept in Islam means adherence to dietary laws.
In recent years, the region has seen many cases of terrorists and extremists making people believe that bank notes, ID cards and marriage certificates are not halal, so people become isolated from modern society and are easily radicalized.
The new regulation is a legal interpretation of China's Anti-Terrorism Law. It also punishes those who use the preaching of religious teachings to promote terrorism or extremism.
An anti-terrorism expert says the detailed regulation has been drafted to deal with the anti-terrorism situations that are unique in Xinjiang. The area faces a greater terrorist threat than any other place in China.
Xinjiang has always been China's front line against terrorism. The penetration of religious extremism has led to an increasing number of terrorist attacks in recent years.
You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
When China introduced the one-child family planning policy more than 35 years ago, elderly people, who traditionally relied on their children for care, were told to look to the State to provide support.
The policy was intended to reduce family sizes and people's reliance on their children, so there would no longer be any point in having a large family, especially many sons. The story didn't unfold as expected though, especially for the large number of disabled elderly people and their struggling families.
Du Ping, a resident of the Jianye district of Nanjing, the capital of East China's Jiangsu province, has become increasingly frustrated after many failed attempts to hire a long-term qualified care worker for his 73-year-old father.
The elderly man was diagnosed with dementia in 2014 and is also paralyzed and incontinent, so he is dependent on other people.
Du resumed his search two weeks ago, when the most-recent caregiver quit, even though her monthly salary was 5,000 yuan, roughly 750 U.S. dollars. That's almost twice the average salary of 3,000 yuan per month for a caregiver in the city.
Du said the salary is a considerable sum of money, almost half of the couple's combined monthly income. It will cost even more if they place his father in a nursing home.
This is Special English.
Chinese scientists are scheduled to perform the world's first genetic editing trial on humans this month in an attempt to find a cure for lung cancer.
A group of oncologist from Sichuan University will inject patients with cells that have been modified using a new gene-editing technique.
The technique, CRISPR, was named "2015 Breakthrough of the Year" by US journal Science. It allows scientists to selectively edit genome parts and replace them with new DNA stretches.
The leader of the trial, Lu You, said his team was formed at the end of last year and the trial received ethical approval last month.
Lu and his team plan to select ten volunteers, all advanced lung cancer patients who have undergone chemotherapy, radiation therapy and other types of treatment. He has received a lot of applications and is now busy screening and drawing up the final list.
The treatments will lasts between eight weeks and three months and the trial project will last at least 12 months.
Doctors will extract T cells, a type of immune cell, from a patient's blood and then knock out the gene that encodes the PD-1 protein, which normally limits the cell's capacity to launch an immune response.
The edited cells will be multiplied in the lab before being reintroduced to the patients. This process will hopefully kick start the T cells to launch an attack on the tumor cells.
This is Special English.
Chinese geneticist Han Chunyu defended the authenticity of his gene-editing technique after the head of a genetics lab in Australia said the lab was unable to replicate it.
Han's paper describing his research findings on a new gene-editing technology called NgAgo was published online in early May by Nature Biotechnology, a monthly scientific journal of Nature Publishing Group. It drew instant international attention.
Three months later, a group of peer scientists began to question the research's viability, largely because they have not been able to replicate the results so far.
Forty-two-year-old Han is an associate professor at Hebei University of Science and Technology. He has vowed to repeat the experimental results.
The new technology had been touted as being better than the current mainstream gene-editing technique CRISPR in precision, efficiency and flexibility.
According to a regional news portal in China, it's about more than just the science. It comes with a potentially huge business impact, especially for companies already heavily invested in the CRISPR technology.
The portal said NgAgo is a possible replacement for CRISPR once it is widely confirmed; and it will inevitably undermine colossal business interests and investments based on CRISPR.
You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That's mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues.
A huge deposit of potassium, which China desperately needs for agriculture, has been discovered in the northwestern province of Qinghai.
The Ministry of Land and Resources announced that almost 160 million tonnes of potassium chloride was found during a preliminary exploration in the western part of the Qaidam Basin.
The ministry expected more deposits to be discovered.
The Ministry has called the discovery a "milestone", as China currently imports 70 percent of its potassium.
Around 30 million hectares of farmland in China uses potassium; and 6 million tonnes of potassium fertilizer is imported every year.
Canada, Russia and Belarus own 60 percent of the world's potassium fertilizer resources and production.
This is Special English.
Chinese colleges have signed strategic agreements with their counterparts in Southeast Asian countries to train skilled railway transportation talent for ASEAN member countries.
The agreements involve a number of Chinese universities including the Beijing Jiaotong University and Guiyang Vocational and Technical College. The Chinese universities will enroll international students for two-year training programs and four-year bachelor's degree programs.
As China has inked an increasing number of contracts with ASEAN countries to build new railways, the need for technicians capable of railway construction, operations and maintenance is growing.
Under the agreements, faculty members and students from the two sides will conduct more visits to each other's countries for academic and cultural exchanges.
You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
Former Olympic hurdles champion Liu Xiang has filed a lawsuit against online ride-hailing service provider Didi for using his image without authorization in online ads.
In the indictment, Liu says the company released news of his retirement and six images of him through its official microblog account in 2015.
Liu said the company violated his rights of publicity for commercial use and misled the public to believe Liu had been hired as the company's brand spokesman or had cooperated with the company.
Liu requested the company to apologize, delete the web links and photos, as well as pay compensation of more than 1.2 million yuan, roughly 190,000 U.S. dollars.
It is not known when the hearing is scheduled.
This is Special English.
More than 40 percent of employees in Taiwan have plans to leave the island to broaden their vision and seek better opportunities.
According to an online survey released by a business services company based in Taiwan, around 10 percent of respondents said they were considering setting up businesses outside Taiwan. They cited reasons which included the highly competitive market and unfavorable environment for new businesses on the island. Catering services and public relations firms were among the most desired businesses.
According to the survey, the Chinese mainland was the first choice of destination, followed by Japan and the United States.
Daniel Lee, who carried out the survey, said the Chinese mainland was the top choice because good business relationships are already well-established, in addition to the benefits of Chinese language and culture.
More than 21 percent of respondents said they already had working experience outside the island.
The survey was conducted last month and it involved the interviewing of more than 500 office workers in Taiwan.
You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
Pengzhou city in southwest China is known as a home of longevity, with 50 centenarians among its population of 780,000. The seniors share some common traits for living longer, which include being optimistic and eating simple food.
Pengzhou is located 36 kilometers northwest of Sichuan Province's capital Chengdu. It has a warm weather, with abundant rainfall as well as a beautiful natural environment. Most of the long-living seniors live in the rural areas and spent the whole life in farm work.
Most of the seniors eat coarse grains and vegetables, and avoid overeating.
However, unlike most seniors in the area, 103-year-old Lin Yongqing's favorite foods are eggs and meat. Lin eats six meals a day, and his wife, who is in her 90s, is always around to cook.
Lin was an accountant in a bank and a bank cashier when he was younger. In his late years, he became keen on counting bank notes as a hobby and sometimes can do it all day long. Lin also smokes cigarettes.
This is Special English.
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