Italy is one of the first European countries to build trade relations with China. The ancient Silk Road connected the two great civilizations. And some envoys of friendship such as Marco Polo, Matteo Ricci and Giuseppe Castiglione built a bridge of goodwill between the two peoples.
Tragedy is a representation of action or inaction that is worthy of serious attention. That it took nearly 17 hours to put out the fire caused by an explosion at a chemical park in Xiangshui county in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, speaks volumes of the magnitude of the tragedy that claimed 47 lives, and left 90 people seriously injured and at least 500 hospitalized.
After a two-day meeting that concluded on Tuesday, the World Health Organization's expert committee reached a consensus that no one should use germline genome editing that culminates in human pregnancy. The committee, which also included a Chinese representative, agreed to work to build a strong global governance framework for human gene editing, deemed both risky and promising.
Italy has been working with China to promote free trade and economic globalization, even under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, albeit unofficially. Italy joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a founding member in April 2015, and has been helping in sectors such as port construction and third-party market development.
Plagiarism became a buzzword in China this year after Zhai Tianlin, a popular young actor, was found to have copied other people's work when obtaining his PhD.
The Ministry of Education has again urged universities to strengthen their management of dissertations and intensify investigation and punishment of academic misconduct, according to a notice posted on its website last month.
At most animal hospitals, owners make phone calls to check on the condition of sick pets left overnight. However, in one hospital in Nanjing, capital of eastern China's Jiangsu province, cots and sofas are available for owners who want to stay by their pet's side till morning.
"I kept telling myself to sleep, but it didn't work, my eyes stayed open until 5 am," said Perinur Ewel, a second-year postgraduate student at China Agricultural University in Beijing.
People with sleep problems usually think they can adjust by themselves at first and then resort to medication when they fail, according to Guo Xiheng, director of the sleep and respiratory center at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University.
Photographer Zhan Rencai is preparing to take his 5-year-old daughter to visit the She ethnic group in the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in April.
Stinky tofu, a strong-smelling form of fermented bean curd, might be one of the most divisive Chinese foods.
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