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<正>SEXOLOGIST’S AUDACIOUS ADMISSION Li yinhe,a leading Chinese sexologist and sociologist,revealed her partner of 17 years is a female-to-male transsexual in her blog on December 18,2014,refuting tabloid newspapers that have said Li’s long-term cohabitant     

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正NEWLY APPOINTED SOE SUPERVISORXiao Yaqing was appointed head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council(SASAC)on February 1.Before the appointment,he worked as deputy secretary general of the State Council.     

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正AWARD WINNING SCIENTISTChen Hualan,Director of China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory and a researcher at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,was crowned winner of the 2016 L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Award in Paris on March 24,along with four other scientists.Each awardee received a prize of 100,000 euros($113,000).     

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正XINJIANG DOCTOR AWARDED WHO PRIZEPalize Mehmett,who has focused on basic public health initiatives in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,was granted the United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize on May 27by the World Health Organization.She received$20,000 as recognition for her work.     

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正SPACE SCIENTIST RECOGNIZED BY NATUREWu Ji,Director of China’s National Space Science Center in Beijing,has been selected as one of the 10 Science Stars of China featured in Nature magazine’s online edition published on June 20.The 10 scientists have made significant impacts in fields ranging from neuroscience and neutrinos to space science and structural biology.     

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正HEROIC AIRCRAFT CARRIER PILOTThe death of Zhang Chao,a lieutenant commander and aircraft carrier pilot candidate from the People’s Liberation Army(PLA)Navy,was publicly announced just ahead of the 89th anniversary of the founding of the PLA on August 1.Zhang belonged to China’s first carrier-borne aircraft unit,which was established in May     

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正CIC CHIEF JOINS THE RANKS OF THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE Ding Xuedong,Chairman and CEO of the China Investment Corp.(CIC),has made Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s most influential people in 2016,occupying 41st place.He stood at 45th place on the same ranking in 2015.     

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<正>CHINA'S PHONE KING The U.S.-based Time magazine published a lengthy piece on Lei Jun,founder of one of China's largest technology companies Xiaomi Inc.,in late March,crowning him"China's Phone King."Lei was born in 1969 in Xiantao,central China's Hubei Province.He went to Wuhan University and graduated in 1991 with a degree in computer science.Lei then worked with Chinese software firm Kingsoft as an engineer,eventually rising to become the company's president in 1998.In 2000,Lei founded Joyo.com,an online bookstore,and sold it to     

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<正>FUGITIVE RETURNING HOMEHuang Yurong,64,former Party chief of the Henan Provincial Highway Administration and suspected of accepting bribes,surrendered herself to the police and returned to China voluntarily on December 5.She also promised to cooperate with judicial authorities.Law enforcement officials from China and the United States have collaborated on the     

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正NEW DIRECTOR FOR MACAO LIAISON OFFICE Fu Ziying was appointed director of the liaison offi ce of the Central People’s Government in Macao Special Administrative Region on December 28, 2018.The offi ce is responsible for promoting exchanges and cooperation between Macao and the Chinese mainland.Fu had a long career in the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, which in 2003 became the Ministry of Commerce. He became assistant minister of commerce in 2003 and vice minister of commerce in 2008. In 2011, he was appointed vice     

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<正>ENVOY AWARDED FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE EFFORTS Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change, received the Nobel Sustainability Trust (NST) Foundation’s Sustainability Award on February 21 in Stockholm, Sweden, for his outstanding contribution to global sustainable development. Born in Tianjin in 1949, Xie began working in the field of environmental protection in the 1980s. He was appointed head of the then State Environmental Protection Administration in 1998. He resigned after a che...     

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<正>NEW FOREIGN MINISTER Qin Gang has been appointed foreign minister. The appointment was made by the 13th National People’s Congress(NPC) Standing Committee on December 30, 2022 when he was serving as Chinese ambassador to the U.S.Born in Tianjin in March 1966, Qin began his career in the Beijing Service Bureau for Diplomatic Missions, working there from 1988 to 1992. Later, he worked in what is now the Department of European     

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<正>TOP 10 CHINESE ATHLETES OF 2022Zhang Weili,a mixed martial artist,was selected as one of the top 10 Chinese athletes for 2022 by Xinhua News Agency,the country’s national news agency.Zhang,China’s first-ever Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) world champion,reclaimed her UFC strawweight crown at the age of 32 in November last year,defeating two-time title holder Carla Esparza from the U.S.     

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<正>CHINESE REFEREES TO OFFICIATE AT QATAR WORLD CUP Chinese referee Ma Ning and two assistant referees,Cao Yi and Shi Xiang,have been recoently appointed for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.Born in 1979 in Fuxin,Liaoning Province,Ma graduated with a master’s degree in football from Beijing Sports University.Since 2009,he has become a referee for major events such as the Chinese Football Association Super League and AFC Asian Cup.     

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<正>WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM WINS ASIAN CUP Shui Qingxia, head coach of the Chinese women’s soccer team, led the team to beat the Republic of Korea(ROK) 3:2 from two goals down in the final of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup in Navi Mumbai, India, on February 6, landing its record-extending ninth title since the last championship in 2006.     

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正A NEW LEADER FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCEWang Hongyang became the new president of the China Women's Association for Science and Technology during its meeting on December 21,2019.Wang,a medical scientist and expert on cancer molecular biology,was born in Weihai of Shandong Province,east China,in 1952.She graduated from the Medicine Department of the Second Military Medical University of the People's Liberation Army(PLA),which is today's PLA Naval Medical University,and went to Ulm University of Germany in 1989 to obtain her doctoral degree.Since returning to China in 1997 after nine years of study and work abroad,     

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正CHINA SKY EYE ENGINEER The world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope was put into operation on January 11, after a three-year trial.The chief engineer of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST),Jiang Peng, a doctorate from the Institute of Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences,joined the FAST team in 2009.     

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<正>OUTGOING WHO HEAD Margaret Chan will end her term as director general of the World Health Organization(WHO)on June 30.She will be succeeded by Tedros Adhanom,former Health Minister and Foreign Minister of Ethiopia,who was elected as the new WHO head on May 23.During Chan’s tenure,WHO has made remarkable progress in prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis,malaria and various tropical diseases.The organization has also helped curb the spread of the Ebola virus in West     

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<正>CHINESE DIAMOND LEAGUE CHAMPIONAthlete Gong Lijiao won the Women’s Shot Put with a throw of 19.6 meters at the 2017 IAAF Diamond League Final in Zurich,Switzerland,on August 25.The 28-year-old continued to perform outstandingly well in contending for the Diamond Trophy in Zurich,after she won the first individual gold medal at the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federation(IAAF)London World Championships on August 10.Prior     

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<正>DEFENSE SPOKESPERSON RESIGNS Yang Yujun,47,a spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense of China,recently resigned from both his post and military service,a move which came as a surprise to many.In the last seven years,the former military spokesperson often drew media attention at regular press briefi ngs by answering questions on diffi cult and complex topics.