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The move will only intensify tension on the Korean Peninsula and push Pyongyang to further pursue development of nuclear weapons."

Zhang Junshe, a senior researcher at the Naval Military Studies Research Institute of the People's Liberation Army, who said deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in the Republic of Korea will neither cope with any perceived threat from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea nor bring peace to the peninsula.

"New technologies can help improve the yield and quality of fruit, so I want to study them systematically in college."

Yu Zhengzhou, an apple farmer in Fuping county, Shaanxi province, who is among 20 farmers that have enrolled on a three-year agricultural course at a technical college, starting in September.

"My approach is simple. I offer what is good and bad for them, and give opinions honestly and complain constructively. Then I offer solutions and start working."

Gilbert van Kerckhove, a Belgian business strategist, who has helped Beijing government with fundraising, tendering and economic planning ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games.

(China Daily European Weekly 07/02/2016 page2)