文旅Over the last 21 years, South Korean teacher Cho Sung-hye has contributed much to the friendship between the people of her country and China

潮旅(To overblow Chinese ship's entry, Japan's foreign ministry summoned Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua in the tee hours of that day, and lodged a protest遊追國文)Refusing to have a territorial dispute in the East China Sea, Japan is unlikely to talk with China over its settlement, leaving the waters near the islands a minefield

捧中The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Hatakaze quickly followed them into that area文旅In response to the Hatakaze's entry, the Chinese Jiangkai I-class frigate rushed into the waters, according to the Japanese weekly Nikkei Asian Review潮旅Hiding the first part of the episode, the white paper criticized China for its frigate's entry into Japan's "contiguous" zone near the disputed islets in the East China Sea遊追國文On June 8, three Russian naval ships entered the waters close to the Diaoyu Islands捧中The defense legislation eliminates geographic constraints by substituting a situational threshold (situations that "gravely affect the peace and stability of Japan") rather than limiting support to "situations in areas surrounding Japan"

文旅Iowa's ties with China had already shown signs of increasing潮旅Even though Iowa is best known for its agricultural products and services, Reynolds said that advanced manufacturing is "actually the largest sector of our GDP遊追國文[Photo by Pan Zhongming/China Daily]Brazzaville, Congo - The Chinese Council for the Promotion of the South-South Cooperation has launched a new wave to explore the French-speaking western African markets in Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire and Congo (Brazzaville) by leading a 30-odd member delegation of entrepreneurs to visit the countries

捧中Addressing the conference on investment and trade between China and Congo (Brazzaville) on Monday, Annick Patricia Mongo, director general of the Agency for the Promotion of Investment in Congo, said that she hoped Congo could be the country of priority for Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in central Africa文旅"And we will not allow the overseas projects invested in by Chinese investors to cause pollution潮旅"It was true during the first 30 years of China's opening-up while China was attracting foreign investment, pollution was an issue," he said遊追國文First, Congo has set up the Sino-Congolese Bank for Africa (BSCA), a joint venture between the Congolese government and the Agriculture Bank of China; Congo is a portal country to the Western African market, with a deep-water port on the west coast along the Atlantic Ocean; the political situation in Congo is quite stable; the government of Congo approved to promote investment in the country in 2015 and the Agency for the Promotion of Investment in Congo will provide detailed information on investment and opportunities to enter the country

"Besides, the Congolese government can adopt the most strict standards on pollution for the Chinese companies and the Chinese investors will consciously follow the rules and regulations set by the Congolese government, he saidThe Special Economic Zone under construction in Pointe Noire is the flagship project of Chinese-Congolese cooperation, Lyu said

He said the visit was quite fruitful thanks to the enthusiasm for cooperation in the western African countries he has visited"We are glad that the council today meets with the Chinese entrepreneurs to discuss with Congolese counterparts on investment and business partnership," he said, "Congo is the third leg but the most important destination of the visitThe Congress will review the Party's work over the past five years, discuss and set the future direction for the Party and the nation, as well as elect a new central leadershipChina has lifted hundreds of millions of its citizens out of poverty over the past few decades, but doing the same for groups like the Yi poses a different set of challenges

About 775,000 officials have been sent to impoverished areas for poverty relief work, said the reportSimilarly, the annual per capita income in impoverished rural areas has grown to 10To achieve the target, China needs to bring more than 10 million people out of poverty every year, meaning nearly one million people per month or 20 people per minute9 million people out of poverty each year" (Aug 29, 2017)

China has set 2020 as the target year to complete the building of a "moderately prosperous society," which requires the eradication of poverty[Photo/Xinhua]Poverty reliefAn ambitious poverty reduction campaign is seeking to change this, ensuring by 2020 that no one is living in poverty - defined by the government as less than 2,300 yuan ($349) a year

From road building to subsidies, the central government has spent large amounts of money on poverty relief in places like LiangshanThe 19th Communist Party of China National Congress will convene in Beijing on Oct 18

As all eyes are on the upcoming Congress, let's take a look at what international media said about the developments and achievements of ChinaA photo taken on June 14, 2017 shows a poverty alleviation relocation site in Leibo county, Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan province91 million people out of poverty each year from 2012 to 2016, according to a report from the State Council on Tuesday-- Reuters: "China's ethnic Yi struggle against poverty" (Aug 10, 2017)China lifted 13This year's Nobel prizes will be announced starting from October 2, with the ceremony lasting one or two weeks, said the Swedish Academy on its official websiteShe received Bachelor of Science at Stanford University and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Utah, according to faculty information of Pittsburgh University

She has received a number of awards for her work, including the Meyenburg Foundation Award for Cancer Research and the Robert Koch PrizeChang was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States as a young child

com]Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, announced its 2017 Citation Laureates - scientists whose publications have been cited so often by their colleagues that they could be recipients of a Nobel Prize this year or in the futureThe couple was listed for the discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV), also known as human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)

Chinese-American Yuan Chang, 58, joined the list of physiology or medicine laureates, together with her husband Patrick SKaposi's sarcoma (KS) is the most common cancer in HIV-infected untreated individuals

Tsien (1952-2016) got his Clarivate citation prize of chemistry in 2008, before he co-won the Nobel honor in chemistry at the same year, with Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie, for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP)Professor Chang is a Co-Director of the Tumor Virology Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer InstituteIn the last 15 years, 43 Citation Laureates have gone on to receive Nobel honors, so the prize has been seen as an indicator of the Nobel prizes, introduced in memory of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)Each year, analysts at Clarivate Analytics mine millions of citations in the Web of Science, an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service, to identify top-tier researchers in physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and economics

Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus is the infectious cause of this neoplasmHere, we present some of the most striking images around the world this past week

Children cool off themselves at a wading pool in Toronto, Canada, on Sept 24, 2017The vice-premier said China is willing to work with the US to prepare for President Trump's visit to China to ensure it is a great success

Visiting Vice-Premier Liu Yandong, right, speaks with Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, center, and Ivanka Trump, left, daughter of US President Donald Trump also serving as an adviser, in Washington DC, on Sept 27, 2017Liu addressed a reception celebrating the 68th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Chinese embassy on Wednesday

The training course on the Chinese lion dance is part of the 2017 China Africa Cultures in Focus, an activity held by the Bureau for External Cultural Relations of Chinese Ministry of Culture to strengthen the cultural communication between China and African countriesThey kept practicing from morning until night, trying to master the basic skills of lion dance, routines and instrumental music within a short periodThe cultural center of the Jinpu New Area also arranged some courses for them to know about other traditional Chinese culture such as Chinese calligraphy, seal cutting, folk dance, paper-cutting, and potteryThe cultural center of the Jinpu New Area has undertaken the course for three consecutive years since 2015

During the 35-day training course, they learned from Li Mingxu, the fifth generation successor of the Jinzhou Lion Dance, a provincial intangible cultural heritage that has been passed from generation to generation for more than a centuryTen students from Nigeria and Zambia learned how to perform Chinese lion dance at the Jinpu New Area in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province

These changes may look pleasant, but not quite so to Derek Hyra, an associate professor at the American University School of Public Affairs and an expert on neighborhood changeChen Weihua/China DailyHaving lived in Washington DC for almost five years, I have seen the city growing, with new construction and renovation projects happening in many streets and neighborhoods

Hyra described how the "dark ghetto" has been turned into a "gilded ghetto"To Hyra, it has caused not just residential displacement for African Americans but also political and cultural displacement