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正YOUNG GRANDMASTER VOWS TO BEAT ALPHAGOKe Jie,the world’s top Go player,believes he is the one to beat artificial intelligence(AI)program AlphaG o,which was developed by Google’s London-based AI subsidiary DeepM ind.The AI program thrashed South Korean master Lee Se Dol in March."I believe I can beat it.Machines can be very strong in many aspects but still have loopholes in certain calculations,"said the 18-year-old,who has     

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<正>WOMEN’S FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR Wang Shuang was named 2021 Chinese Women’s Footballer of the Year during a ceremony in Beijing on March 31.Last year,the Chinese midfielder and forward helped China qualify for the TokyoOlympics in April before leading her team,Wuhan Jiangda,to victory in the ChineseWomen’s Super League championships in November.     

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<正>POLITICIAN AND PEDIATRICIAN DIES AT 88 He Luli, former vice chair of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress(NPC), passed away at the age of 88 on March 19. She was a Chinese politician and pediatrician. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, she studied medicine at Beijing Medical University(now Peking University Health Science Center) from 1952 to 1957.     

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<正>NEW HEAD OF CASS Shi Taifeng is the new president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS).Shi was born in September 1956 in Yushe, Shanxi Province. In 1978, Shi embarked on his studies at the Law School of Peking University and obtained a master’s degree in jurisprudence. In 1985,     

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<正>MATH GENIUS JOINS TSINGHUA Prominent Chinese-American mathematician Yau Shing-Tung has announced his retirement from his position at Harvard University,to teach fulltime at Tsinghua University in Beijing,aiming to help China become a math powerhouse within the coming decade.     

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<正>NEW TIBET REGIONAL CHAIRMAN ELECTED Yan Jinhai, former acting chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government, was appointed the region’s chairman at the Fifth Session of the region’s 11th people’s congress on January 7.     

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正TOP EPIDEMIOLOGIST ON DUTYLi Lanjuan, a famous epidemiologist and member of the expert panel appointed by the Chinese Government, has made great progress in helping prevent and control the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia. Recently, her team succeeded in the treatment of critical patients in Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China.     

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正CHINESE SCHOLAR IN WEF SCIENCE COMMUNITY Meng Ke, a professor of Tsinghua University, has been included in the 2020 Young Scientists community of the World Economic Forum(WEF) in late May for his research on public policy on the aging population and declining fertility. The project started in 2008 to engage rising-star researchers.     

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正JIN LIQUN REELECTED PRESIDENT OF AIIB Jin Liqun has been elected to a second term as president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by the bank’s board of governors during its fi fth annual meeting on July     

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正EX-CHINESE ENVOY'S NEW POST Cheng Yonghua, former Chinese ambassador to Japan, has been appointed executive vice president of the China-Japan Friendship Association, a historic organization established in 1963 at then Premier Zhou Enlai's initiative.     

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正ASTEROID NAMED AFTER CHINESE SCIENTIST An asteroid was named after Wu Rukang, a paleoanthropology scientist, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS).A ceremony was held in Beijing on July 14 at the academy's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology to officially announce the naming of Asteroid Wu Rukang, which was approved by the International Astronomical Union(IAU).     

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正91-YEAR-OLD GRANDMA HELPS POOR STUDENTS Wu Litian, a retired teacher of pingtan, an old art form that combines singing and storytelling, lost her way in a railway station recently. When the police found the91-year-old and took her home, they found the words Giving will reap the greatest harvest pinned on her door and, subsequently, discovered her story.     

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正HONORED DOCTOR BACK ON FRONTLINE Tong Zhaohui, a respiratory specialist with the National Health Commission, said recently that the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic in Hebei Province is still containable.Tong, who was honored last year as a role model in fighting COVID-19, is heading a working group on the frontline of epidemic control in Hebei, which has reported recent cases.     

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正NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR TOUK China's new ambassador to the UK, Zheng Zeguang, delivered his first message to British and Chinese citizens residing in the UK on June 7. Closer exchanges and cooperation between China and the UK will serve the interests of both sides, and contribute to world peace, stability and prosperity, according to Zheng.     

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正CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO U.S. CUI TIANKAI LEAVES POST Cui Tiankai, the longest-serving Chinese ambassador to the United States, will leave his post and return to Beijing soon.Cui worked as an interpreter with the Chinese delegation to the UN at the General Assembly in 1979, when China and the U.S. forged their diplomatic relations.He had been vice minister of foreign affairs and ambassador to Japan before being appointed as China's top envoy to the U.S.     

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正CROWNED SNOOKER PLAYERLiang Wenbo won his first ranking event title and prize money of 70,000 pounds($86,000) after beating former world number one Judd Trump 9-6 in the final of the inaugural English Open in Manchester on October 16.The 29-year-old also became only the second player from the Chinese mainland,after Ding Junhui, to win a world ranking title. The talented left-hander reached the first     

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正BASKETBALL PLAYER EYING THE NBAUp-and-coming basketball star Zhou Qi announced on April 15 that he will take part in the NBA draft in June.If Zhou is picked,he would become the sixth Chinese to ever become an NBA player.The NBA has been without a Chinese player since 2014 when Yi Jianlian returned following a mediocre spell in the league.Zhou,20,is 2.17 meters tall.He took part in the 2014 Asian     

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正FIRST PLA ARMY COMMANDER General Li Zuocheng was appointed commander of the Army of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army(PLA),becoming the first to hold the position since the founding of the PLA in 1927.The General Command of the PLA Army was inaugurated in Beijing on December 31,2015.     

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正OLYMPIANS ENGAGED IN RIO Olympic divers Qin Kai(left)and He Zi not only won medals but also made one of the most important decisions of their lives in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.In front of a cheering crowd on August14,Qin got down on one knee and proposed to He with an engagement ring.He,who had just     

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<正>CHINESE HURDLER RETIRESLiu Xiang,an Olympic 110-meter hurdles gold medalist and former world record holder,announced his retirement through his personal social media account on April 7.According to his coach Sun Haiping,Liu’s Achilles’tendon was injured too badly for him to carry on wearing his track shoes.