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2019-02-14 The Wandering Earth BEIJING - China was a latecomer to space exploration, and in the movies, it has been a latecomer to science fiction, too. That is about to change. The country`s first blockbuster set in space, [The Wandering Earth," opens Tuesday amid grandiose expectations that it will represent the dawning of a new era in Chinese filmmaking. It is one in a series of ambitious, big-budget films tackling a genre that, until now, has been beyond the reach of most filmmakers here - technically and financially. Those movies include [Shanghai Fortress," about an alien attack on Earth, and [Pathfinder," about a spaceship that crashes on a desert planet. [Filmmakers in China see science fiction as a holy grail," said Raymond Zhou, an independent critic, who noted that Hollywood had set the technological standards, and thus audience expectations, very high. [The Wandering Earth," shown in 3-D, takes place in a distant future in which the sun is about to expand into a red giant and devour the Earth.

2019-02-13 What does"number" mean to Chinese? Talking about the number in China, it`s part of our life. No matter where you go or what you do, you can find the best way by number, Turns out the reason was likely the same as the one behind every one of my life choices: it involved the least effort. [Not everyone in China has perfect grasp of pinyin. If websites have pinyin names, it might actually be difficult for some people to figure out which letters to write," she said. A string of numbers is easier to commit to memory than words in a foreign language. Unlike the QQ IDs, the digits in a website name usually aren`t random. For instance, 163.com is the website address of Chinese internet company NetEase. It`s a throwback to the days of dial-up, when customers had to enter 163 to go online. The phone companies China Mobile and China Unicom simply re-appropriated their well-known customer service numbers as domain names, 10086.cn and 10010.cn, respectively.

2019-02-12 Pop songs have become angrier and sadder Pop songs have become angrier and sadder over the past 60 years, experts say. Researchers analyzed lyrics in best-selling songs from the 1950s to 2016 to find expressions of anger and sadness had increased, while words about joy had dropped. The US study team looked at lyrics of more than 6,000 songs from Billboard Hot 100 in each year. These are the most popular songs in the US each year as chosen by music fans. In the past songs were ranked mainly by record sales, radio and jukebox plays, but more recently it is based on other popularity indicators such as streaming and social media to reflect changes i

2019-02-11 'The Wandering Earth' gains 1.4 billion yuan of box office in first five days Chinese sci-fi blockbuster "The Wandering Earth" raked in about 1.4 billion yuan (about 208.7 million U.S. dollars) in box office sales over its first five days on the big screen as of 2:00 p.m. Saturday, according to Maoyan, a professional box office tracker. The film, one of the biggest winners in the Spring Festival film market, also received favorable reviews from audience and critics. In the film, mankind is threatened by a dying and swelling sun, and giant thrusters were built to propel the planet out of the solar system on a 2,500-year journey in search of a new sun. It focuses on a Chinese astronaut and his emotionally estranged son as they join a global mission to prevent Earth from crashing into Jupiter. Considered a milestone in the development of Chinese sci-fi film, "The Wandering Earth," adapted from the work of Hugo Award Winner Liu Cixin, earned the heart of many science fiction fans like Zhou Yingsen from southern China's Guangdong Province. "The film owes its success to an outstanding plot and professional production process," said Zhou, who is confident about the future of Chinese sci-fi films after viewing the movie. The success of "The Wandering Earth" indicates that China's sci-fi is to evolve from solely literature to complex creative forms including film production, said Wu Yan, a professor with the Southern University of Science and Technolog

2019-01-28 Learn 1,000 words in a new language urges campaign Everyone in the UK should learn at least 1,000 words of another language, urges a new campaign.The 1,000 Words Campaign stems from concerns that the country is losing out on international trade and jobs because of poor language skills. It aims to confront the view that only the brightest can learn a language. "For too long people from the UK have suffered from a reputation that we are lazy linguists" said supporter Vicky Gough of the British Council. "Speaking another language is crucial to understanding another culture", said Ms Gough. "So let's overturn our poor record in language learning and show that we are ready to engage with a multilingual world," she urged. The group say a vocabulary of 1,000 words would allow a speaker to hold a simple conver

2019-01-25 Scottish hotel owners told to learn Mandarin and provide pot noodles for Chinese tourists Scottish hotel owners told to learn Mandarin and provide pot The Spring Festival holiday has become a new fashion for the New Year, and it has become a "sweet" for the tourism industry in all countries. In order to attract more Chinese tourists, Scotland urges hotel staff to learn Mandarin and provide hot water; Italian taxis open Alipay to pay; Thailand Airport has a special channel for Chinese tourists... The world welcomes the "Year of China". Hoteliers in the Scottish Highlands are being urged to learn Mandarin and provide chopsticks to capitalize on growing numbers of Chinese tourists. The Highlands are becoming increasingly fashionable among China`s burgeoning middle classes and super-rich and the Highland and Islands Enterprise development agency is organizing China Ready workshops to help restaurateurs and businesses to cater for them.

2019-01-24 Chang'e 5 will be launched at the end of 2019 China plans to send its Chang'e 5 probe to the moon around the end of the year and bring lunar samples back to Earth. Wu Yanhua, deputy head of the China National Space Administration, said last Monday afternoon that the Chang'e 5 mission will be the next step in China's lunar exploration and will mark the completion of the program's third phase, whose goal is guiding a probe carrying lunar soil back to Earth. If Chang'e 5 succeeds in its mission, China will become the third nation to retrieve lunar samples, after the US and Russia. What's more, if you have any interested in EVA Boat De

2019-01-23 German train-delay scarf sells for €7,550 on eBay A scarf knitted by a German woman to document her frustrations with frequent train delays has sold for €7,550 on eBay, as the country`s biggest railway company announces plans for a punctuality tsar. The [rail delay scarf" came to prominence when Sara Weber, a journalist, posted a photo of it on Twitter earlier this month. Her mother, a commuter in the Munich area, knitted two lines a day in 2018 to represent how long she was delayed for, she explained. The scarf is color-coded: grey wool meant her delay had been less than five minutes, pink signified delays of between five and 30 minutes, while red meant she was delayed for more than 30 minutes or had been delayed both ways. [In the spring, everything was OK. Lots of grey and pink," Weber wrote. [Then for a while it was all red: rail replacement traffic throughout the summer."

2019-01-22 Nike launches high-tech new shoes Recently Nike has revealed a pair of sneakers with 'power laces' controlled from a phone. The new Nike sneakers are specifically designed for basketball and automatically tighten or loosen with a press of the button either on the shoes themselves or via a smartphone. The range will initially go on sale only in the US for $350 dollars (￡272), on February 17th - although they are expected to sell out instantly. Nike has said that users can programme different settings that dictate on how the laces are tied, such one setting for playing a basketball game and one for just lounging in. The shoes will require charging, and each pair will come with a recharging mat. 'We picked basketball as the first sport for Nike Adapt intentionally because of the demands that athletes put on their shoes,' says Eric Avar, Nike VP Creative Director of Innovation. When a player steps into the Nike Adapt

2019-01-21 [Friends It has been 10 years since "Friends" ended its decade long run dominating Thursday nights on NBC as well as pop culture. Monica, Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Phoebe, and Joey became cultural touchstones for a generation of TV viewers. And let's face it; spending a decade working on the hottest sitcom on the air is a pretty lucrative gig. Over the course of 10 seasons, each Friend earned a whopping $88.4 million in salary. They started out in the first season earning $22,500 per episode. They were the first cast to band together in salary negotiations, demanding that each Friend get the same salary. In season three they earned $75,000, then $85,000, then $100,000, then $125,000 per episode for season six. During seasons seven and eight they each earned $750,000 per episode. In seasons nine and 10 they earned $1 million per episode. That kind of money ensured that none of the Friends would ever really have to work again if they chose. However, as you know, each Friend has gone on to continue working in the film and television industry, some more successfully than others. Let's take a look at what the Friends have been up to for the last 10 years and what they are e

2019-01-18 H&M is now teaming up with Burberry, but not doing clothes. A fashion industry charter for climate action was formally launched at 2018's United Nations climate change conference, COP24, in Katowice, Poland. Support for the new charter has come from high street retailers, luxury fashion houses and other suppliers within the sector. Stella McCartney, Burberry, Adidas and H&M Group are included in the list of 40 signatories. Aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement, the new charter includes 16 principles and targets. The companies involved have committed to reducing their aggregate greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030 and they've agreed to prioritize low-carbon transportation suppliers and favor climate-friendly materials. Stella McCartney, whose eponymous label is already a leading player in sustainable fashion, was one of the founding signatories. She announced her involvement in late November during Voices, a fashion industry conference staged in the English countryside, where she was also honored for her work in the sector. During an in

2019-01-17 Young people are more likely to accept donation As the New Year comes, many young people are buying gifts, but Geng Yingying is thinking about a serious subject-death. A healthy 21-year-old student at Northwest Normal University in Gansu province, Geng signed documents to donate her body for medical research and education because she wants to leave a legacy to the world after her death. She first learned about body donation through a volunteer activity in 2016. Not long after that, one of her friends died in an accident. "I realized life is vulnerable and I wanted to make it more meaningful," she says. Geng is among a growing number of young Chinese who have registered as voluntary body donors in recent years. The number of registered volunteers for body and organ donations was 2,610 in Gansu by Nov 20, compared with just 80 in 2014, according to the statistics released by the local Red Cross Society. The Beijing arm of the Red Cross reported that, b

2019-01-16 save time or Lazy? Xiao Li, a college student bom after 1995, used to wash her hair every two days. But as the weather has got colder, she has become lazier. She has bought a mist spray, which allows her to wash her hair less often. " I would also like to have a product that could save me the trouble of putting on makeup, "she told Orient Today, a publication affiliated to Henan Television. She is not the only young Chinese who spends money because she`s "lazy". According to a report issued in December by China`s e-commerce platform Taobao on China's"lazy economy", Chinese people spent 16 billion yuan on products and services online in 2018. The post-1995 generation was the"laziest" as its consumption increased by 82 percent, compared with that in 2017. The so-called lazy economy refers to a new type of consumption of products and services which are designed to save time and labor.

2019-01-15 Smart uniforms Several schools in China have introduced uniforms with tracking chips to monitor students' whereabouts and stop them playing truant . The so-called [smart uniforms" record the time and date a student enters the school and a short video parents can see through a mobile app. Eleven schools in Guizhou have introduced the uniforms, developed by local tech firm Guizhou Guanyu Technology. Skiving off classes triggers an alarm to notify both teachers and parents of the student's absence and an automatic voice alarm is activated if a student leaves school without permission. A GPS system also tracks student mov

2019-01-14 Mysterious radio signals from deep space detected Astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada. The precise nature and origin of the blasts of radio waves is unknown. Among the 13 fast radio bursts, known as FRBs, was a very unusual repeating signal, coming from the same source about 1.5 billion light years away. Such an event has only been reported once before, by a different telescope "Knowing that there is another suggests that there could be more out there," said Ingrid Stairs, an astrophysicist from the University of British Columbia (UBC

2019-01-11 No need for a popular meal, it can be healthy After you've been sitting awhile, it feels good to stand. Eventually your body aches to unfurl from the chair: Your muscles announce what they need loud and clear. It works on the flip side, too; when you've been standing for hours, your feet bark for a break. The same kind of internal cues can apply to eating. After weeks of holiday feasting it feels good - a relief, even - to eat lighter and more healthfully again. We've been eating for pure pleasure and may have gone a bit overboard, so our impulse is to counter with a punishing, hyper-strict diet. It's as if after binge-watching Netflix on the sofa all day, instead of getting up and enjoying a nice, juicy stretch or walk outside, we force ourselves to stand indefinitely in a corner facing the wall. That culturally ingrained notion that we need to repent after indulging is one reason the diet industry booms in January. Another reason is the social media amplified rallying cry that going keto or paleo or doing some kind of "cleanse" is THE ANSWER. If you feel untethered eating-wise and uncomfortable in your clothes, and if you've sworn to yourself that you'd start getting healthy in January, you are

2019-01-10 Chang'e-4 spacecraft see the dark side of the Moon Pink Floyd isn't the only one singing about the dark side of the moon now–China is too. The country last night was able to successfully land its Chang'e-4 spacecraft on the part of the moon that Earth. The ship was launched in early December and has been orbiting around the space mass for weeks in preparation for the [dark side" landing. According to the state news source Xinhua, the Chang'e-4 successfully landed on the Von Karman crater. Already, Xinhua has released a picture showing the world what this section of the moon looks like. The image shows a barren, golden surface with a large recess in view.

2019-01-09 You are out of date if you still using cash in China Almost everyone in major mainland Chinese cities is using a smartphone to pay for just about everything. At restaurants, a waiter will ask if you want to use WeChat or Alipay - the two smartphone payment options - before bringing up cash as a third, remote possibility. Just as startling is how quickly the transition has happened. Only three years ago there would be no question at all, because everyone was still using cash. [From a tech standpoint, this is probably one of the single most important innovations that has happened first in China, and at the moment it`s only in China," said Richard Lim, managing director of venture capital firm GSR Ventures. There are certain parts of the Chinese internet that have to be seen to be believed. Coming from outside the country, it`s hard to comprehend that Facebook or Google can be completely

2019-01-08 China likely to experience negative population growth in 2030 China`s population is expected to experience continuous negative growth from 2030 after reaching a peak of 1.44 billion in 2029, said a report published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Thursday. The country`s population is expected to shrink to 1.36 billion in 2050, and 1.25 billion in 2065. The report warned that if the total fertility rate, which means the number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime, remains at 1.6, negative population growth is likely in 2027, with a potential total population of 1.17 billion, which is equivalent to the year 1990. The World Bank estimated that after 1996, China`s fertility rate was lower than 1.6, rising back up to 1.6 in 2013 and 1.62 in 2016. The report noted that if China could maintain this momentum in growth, China`s fertility rate would return to a relatively safe level.

2019-01-07 World`s largest ice and snow festival unveiled in Harbin The world`s largest ice and snow sculpture festival opens in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Jan 5, 2019. Northeast China`s "ice city" Harbin Saturday kicked off its 35th international ice and snow festival with a range of snow sports and fun activities. Organizers said the month-long festival features nearly 100 activities including winter swimming and family ice sculpture competitions, as well as 2019 snowmen erected in an area of 10 hectares on the city`s frozen river. This year`s ice and snow festival is the first since the opening of a new terminal at the Harbin Taiping International Airport in April 2018, which is expected to draw in more tourists during the winter season.

2019-01-07 Amazon announces record sales for holiday season in 2018 U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon on Wednesday announced "a record-breaking holiday season" as tens of millions of people have signed up for its Prime membership either by making paid service or on a trial basis. "Prime membership continued to grow this holiday season ... to benefit from FREE Same-Day, One-Day or Two-Day shipping, in addition to FREE two-hour delivery with Prime Now, and exclusive shopping and entertainment benefits," Amazon said. "In the U.S. alone, more than 1 billion items were shipped for free this holiday with Prime," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer. Amazon said its customers worldwide have shopped at record levels from a wide selection of products across every department, and they purchased millions more Amazon Devices this holiday season than last year, with the best-sellers for this holiday including all-new Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, and Amazon Echo smart speaker. In April this year, Amazon disclosed that its Prime members h

2019-01-03 Hongyacha, The Gospel of Milk Tea Followers Hongyacha, a new type of wild tea plant from the mountains of southern China, contains little or no caffeine, according to a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. [Hongyacha is a wild tea plant only distributed in the narrow mountain area at altitudes of 2,300-3,300 feet (700-1,000 m) of several neighboring villages in the southern region of Fujian Province," said lead author Dr. Liang Chen from China`s Tea Research Institute and colleagues. [Local people believe that drinking this tea can reduce internal heat, cure colds, and heal stomach pains, etc." [However, given its narrow and special distribution, detailed information about hongyacha is lacking." In the new study, Dr. Chen and co-authors characterized the chemical components of hongyacha by using high-performance liquid

2019-01-02 Palace Museum to host Chinese New Year exhibition A special exhibition will be held by China`s Palace Museum to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, Xinhua reports. Starting January 6, 2019, the first of the twelfth lunar month in Chinese calendar, a record-breaking number of around 1,000 antique items will reportedly be displayed at the famed museum. The exhibition will be divided into six areas, fully displaying the customs of the Chinese New Year during the Qing Dynasty, with an open area decorated with historical customs of the dynasty and restored "royal" festival celebration activities. According to Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, the three-month event will provide visitors to the Forbidden City a New Year atmosphere. What's more, if you have any interested in EVA Boat Decking Sheet or EVA SUP Pad & EVA Traction Pad, please feel free to contact us. Melors Team 2019.01.02 E-mail:admin@melorsfoam.com Skype:helen.oscar WhatsApp:+86-13699812532 Tel:+86-752-3553578

2019-01-02 Nearly 40 percent of Chinese college students follow internet celebrities: report Nearly 40 percent of college students in China have followed internet celebrities on social media platforms, according to a blue book review regarding China`s society released by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Dec. 25. Game players and beauty influences are the most favored groups of Chinese college students, the blue book said. 8 percent of the followers check internet celebrity updates daily, 16 percent at least once a week, and 5.5 percent once a month. The report also found that about 10 percent of the students who are in the process of earning vocational education degrees pay attention to internet celebrity posts practically on a daily basis, 3.4 percentage points higher than college students. Statistics showed that 41.7 percent of undergraduates follow game players, and 31.6 percent follow beauty bloggers. In addition, online celebrities in cooking, fashion shows, as well as in outdoor activities as well as the tourism sector are also attractive to college students. They are respectively followed by 25.9, 16.6 and 16.0 percent of the student followers. Sports and technology channels are respectively favored by 19.0 percent and 16.2 percent of male followers, while 38.0, 23.5 and 23.2 percent of the female students follow food, gaming and shopping channels. Watching live