National six emission standards China VI vehicle emission standards

　　Sales and registrations of new vehicles in regions including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Hebei province and Guangdong province now have to comply with the "China VI" vehicle emission standards, which is believed to be one of the world’s strictest rules on automobile pollutants.

　　New cars sold and registered in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Hebei, Guangdong and other regions must meet the national six emission standards, which is considered to be one of the most stringent emission standards for motor vehicles in the world.

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　　China VI Vehicle Emission Standards is called "China’s Stage 6 Vehicle Emission Standards", which is divided into two categories: light vehicles and heavy diesel vehicles. The full names are "stage 6 limits and measurement methods for emissions from light-duty vehicles", And the pollutant emission limits and measurement methods for heavy-duty diesel vehicles (stage 6 limits and measurement methods for emissions from heavy-duty vehicles). Issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine on December 23, 2016 and June 22, 2018 respectively. Among them, light-duty vehicles include light-duty gasoline vehicles and light-duty natural gas vehicles., light-duty diesel vehicles and light-duty dual-fuel vehicles. National Standard VI for light vehicles is implemented step by step, and two emission limit schemes, National Standard VI A and National Standard VI B, are set, which will be implemented in 2020 and 2023 respectively.

　　Since July 1, 2019, Beijing heavy-duty natural gas vehicles and Heavy-Duty Diesel Buses and Cleaning Vehicles have implemented the National Six B emission standards; Since January 1, 2020, light-duty gasoline vehicles and heavy-duty diesel vehicles have implemented the national emission standard of six B.

　　According to official data, emissions from some 6.21 million vehicles were responsible for 45 percent of Beijing’s concentration of small, breathable particles known as PM2.5, a key indicator of air pollution.

　　According to official data, there are nearly 6.21 million motor vehicles in Beijing at present. From a new round of source analysis of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Beijing, mobile source pollution accounts for the largest proportion of local emissions, reaching 45%.

　　Compared with the national five standards, the limit of the national six B standard for light vehicles is tightened by 40% to 50%; Real-world driving emission requirements are added; The evaporative emission control requirements are stricter, and the emission limit is reduced by 65%. It is necessary to install an on-board refueling oil and gas recovery system (OR VR) to control the oil and gas emission during refueling. At the same time, the requirement of emission warranty period has been increased, the low-temperature testing requirements and emission limits for CO and thc have been tightened by 1/3, and strict on-board diagnostics control requirements have been introduced.

　　Compared with the national five standards, the national six-b standard for heavy-duty vehicles has greatly tightened the pollutant emission limits, with nitrogen oxides (NOx) being tightened by 77%, Particle Matter being tightened by 67%, and the limit values of particulate number and ammonia being added. In addition, stricter automatic monitoring requirements and joint control requirements of emission fuel consumption are put forward.

　　On June 27th, 2018, the State Council officially issued the "Three-year Action Plan to Win the Blue Sky Defence War", which made requirements for actively adjusting transportation systems and developing an advance green transportation system. Among them, it is proposed: "From July 1, 2019, key regions, the Pearl River Delta region and Chengdu-Chongqing region will implement the national six emission standards ahead of schedule. Promote the use of gas vehicles that meet the national six emission standards. "

　　According to statistics, up to now, 15 provinces and municipalities directly under the central government have issued documents on the early implementation of the national six emission standards.

　　Data security check data security checks

　　The four-stage campaign aims to finish data security checks on all telecom companies, 50 major internet companies and 200 popular applications by the end of October, according to an action plan released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

　　The action plan issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is divided into four stages. By the end of October this year, all basic telecommunications companies, 50 key Internet companies and 200 mainstream App data security checks will be completed.

　　[Word explanation: the difference between security and safety]

　　Security emphasizes protecting from "intentional or malicious" harm from external or internal sources, taking necessary measures to prevent such harm and ensuring the normal operation of the country, organization or individual, such as: national security, public security and data security mentioned here.

　　Safety emphasizes the "steady state" in which a system, organization or individual operates normally according to its own mechanism. The "production safety" of the unit is work safety, and the "safety first" written on the banner often hung in the factory is safety first. Because all the safeguard measures of safety production are to make the production of the factory run normally and avoid the accident of workers’ injury.

　　"food safety" has two corresponding expressions in English, namely, food security and food safety. Food security emphasizes ensuring that people can get the food they need to maintain a healthy life, which is mainly related to the supply of food and the channels for people to obtain it; Food safety emphasizes ensuring that the food people eat in their mouths meets the health standards in production, storage and sales.

　　The plan clarifies the goal of this special action, that is, by focusing on data security and compliance assessment, targeted management and inspection, urging basic telecommunications enterprises and key Internet enterprises to strengthen the whole process management of network data security. Timely rectification to eliminate major data leakage, abuse and other security risks (elite security risks including data leakage and data abuse).

　　At the same time, basically establish an industry network data security protection mechanism.

　　The standard system of network data security system has been further improved, forming industry network data protection catalogs, formulating more than 15 industry network data security standards in more than 15 industries, and at least 20 pilot enterprises have passed the standards;

　　The industry network data security management and technical support platform has been basically completed, and no less than 30 demonstration projects of network data security technology capability innovation have been selected (Select no less than 30 innovation demonstration projects in data security protection);

　　Effectively build a security management system in telecom companies and Internet firms.

　　Garbage sorting

　　The Beijing urban management commission said on Wednesday that Beijing will follow Shanghai’s suit on mandatory household garbage sorting, though in different garbage classification standards.

　　Beijing Urban Management Committee said on the 3rd that Beijing will implement compulsory garbage classification like Shanghai, but the garbage classification standards are different from Shanghai.

　　[Vocabulary explanation]

　　Follow suit is a fixed collocation phrase, which means "do it;" Follow the trend ",this phrase comes from the poker game. suit refers to any of the four suits of playing cards. When playing cards, if a person plays cards with the person in front, he will follow suit. This is called follow suit, and later it is extended to" follow suit ".

　　At present, the garbage classification method adopted in Beijing is "quartering method", which divides garbage into harmful waste, recyclables, kitchen waste and other garbage.

　　● Recyclable (blue bucket): recyclable, newspapers, mirrors, beverage bottles, cans, old clothes, electronic waste, etc., which are recycled by renewable resource enterprises, commonly known as "garbage collection".

　　● kitchen waste (green bucket): generated in the kitchen, such as Nahana gang, leftovers, plants, etc.

　　● other waste (gray bucket): including plastic wrap, plastic bags, paper towels, big bones, corn kernels, etc.

　　Harmful waste (red barrel): those harmful to health and environment, such as waste lamp tubes, mercury thermometers, expired drugs, paints, cosmetics, etc., need to be handled safely by special methods.

　　It should be noted that the dry batteries No.1, No.5 and No.7 produced now are low-mercury or mercury-free batteries, so they do not belong to harmful waste and should be put into "other garbage". However, button cell, lithium battery for electronic products, electric-vehicle battery and other lead batteries and nickel-cadmium rechargeable batteries still need to be recycled as "harmful waste".

　　Beauty filters with AliPay’s face-scanning solutions of Alipay.

　　A poll ran by news portal Sina Technology showed that more than 60% of respondents think they look uglier through the next-gen payments method than on a regular camera.

　　According to a survey conducted by Sina Technology, more than 60% of users said that they felt ugly when they paid by brushing their faces, and they didn’t look as good as taking photos at ordinary times.

　　In response, Alipay responded that the face brushing system already has a beauty function.

　　On Tuesday, Alipay announced on social media platform Weibo that it has added beauty filters to its face-scanning system inside the app. Within a week, the feature will roll out across retail stores equipped with Alipay’s face-scanning solutions.

　　On July 2nd, Alipay responded in Weibo that the face brushing system of Alipay has added the beauty function, and within a week, the face brushing system of stores across the country will also be launched with the beauty function.

　　[Explanation of words]

　　The word Filter can be used as a verb or noun, and the basic meaning is "filter; Filter ",in the field of smart phones and social media, means a" filter "that can add various effects and beautification functions to photos, such as cat filter and color correction filter. Keywords filter is commonly used in search engines.

　　Alipay also explained that, in fact, the machine recognizes the appearance without beauty, and beauty is just the beauty filters are for the screen display only, so it has no influence on the accuracy and security of recognition (accuracy and security of the recognition process won’t be compromised).

　　Nowadays, the application of face brushing function is becoming more and more common. In addition to paying for face brushing, you can brush your face and enter the station by taking the high-speed train.

　　Some railway stations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, Taiyuan, Wuhan, Nanchang, Xi ‘an and Changsha have adopted "face-scanning check-in". The automatic fare-collection gate of these stations is equipped with a camera. When the passenger approaches the machine, it will capture the facial information of the passenger and compare it with the photos in the ID card chip. The ticket information conforms to the ID card information, and the face and ID photo pass the comparison, and the gate will automatically release. Usually it takes 3 to 6 seconds to pass successfully, which liberates manpower and facilitates passengers. Face recognition technology is adopted in the "face brushing" pit stop, which is a biological recognition technology for identity recognition based on facial features.

　　Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu Ancient City Site

　　The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee inscribed China’s Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City on the World Heritage List as a cultural site on Saturday, bringing the total number of World Heritage Sites in China to 55, the highest in the world.

　　On July 6th, UNESCO World Heritage Committee listed "Liangzhu Ancient City Site", a nominated project of China World Cultural Heritage, in the World Heritage List. So far, the total number of world heritage sites in China has reached 55, ranking first in the world.

　　[Explanation of words]

　　The original meaning of the word Inscribe is "carving, engraving", and the engraved words will generally remain for a long time, so the word also has the meaning of "writing, recording", that is, to write, engage, or print as a lastingrecord or to enter on a list. In addition to the above-mentioned inscribed something on something (as …), there are also inscribe something with …, for example: they inscribed the monument with the soldiers’ names. (They carved the names of the soldiers on the monument. )

　　Official website, UNESCO, introduced the site of Liangzhu ancient city like this:

　　Located in the Yangtze River Basin on the south-eastern coast of the country, the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu (about 3300-2300 BCE) reveal an early regional state with a unified belief system based on rice cultivation in Late Neolithic China. The property is composed of four areas – the Area of Yaoshan Site, the Area of High-dam at the Mouth of the Valley, the Area of Low-dam on the Plain and the Area of City Site. These ruins are an outstanding example of early urban civilization expressed in earthen mon uments, urban planning, a water conservation system and a social hierarchy expressed in differentiated burials in cemeteries within the property.

　　The site of Liangzhu Ancient City (about 3300-2300 BC) located in the Yangtze River Delta on the southeast coast of China shows people an early regional country with unified beliefs supported by rice farming in the late Neolithic period. The site consists of four parts: Yaoshan site area, Gukou high dam area, plain low dam area and city site area. Through large-scale earth buildings, urban planning, water conservancy system and social hierarchy embodied in different forms of tombs, these sites have become outstanding examples of early urban civilization.

　　The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) pointed out:

　　It is considered to be a supreme achievement of prehistoric rice-cultivating civilization of China and East Asia over 5,000 years ago and an outstanding example of early urban civilization.

　　This site is regarded as an outstanding achievement of prehistoric rice civilization in China and East Asia more than 5,000 years ago and an outstanding example of early urban civilization.

　　Liangzhu site with Liangzhu ancient city as the core is the center of Liangzhu civilization, with rich types of remains and complete site pattern, which reveals the basic characteristics of the origin of Chinese civilized countries and provides the most complete and important archaeological material evidence for the history of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years.

　　Colin Renfrew, a famous British archaeologist, visited the site of Liangzhu ancient city in 2013 and 2017, and was deeply impressed by the 5,000-year-old jade articles and large-scale water conservancy projects excavated there. He said:

　　The importance of findings from the Neolithic Age in China has been greatly underestimated. Cong and bi unearthed from the Liangzhu historical site rep resent a unity of values in the region. The complexity of society in Liangzhu was on par with that of a country. This is the origin of Chinese civilization.

　　The importance of Neolithic archaeological discoveries in China has been seriously underestimated. The cong and bi unearthed in Liangzhu site represent the unified value system in this area. The social complexity of Liangzhu is equivalent to a country. This is the origin of Chinese civilization.

　　Viewed from a global perspective, Liangzhu has brought the origin of the state and society in China to a level equal to that of civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and India.

　　Globally, Liangzhu made the origin of China country and society reach the same level as Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Indian civilizations.

　　The historical site at the Liangzhu dam might be the earliest one in the world.

　　Liangzhu dam site may be the earliest in the world.

　　All-round education for quality education

　　"Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Deepening Education and Teaching Reform and Improving the Quality of Compulsory Education in an All-round Way" was recently issued.

　　The guideline aims to develop an education system that will foster citizens with an all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic grounding, in addition to a hard-working spirit, according to the document.

　　The opinions are aimed at developing quality education and cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.

　　Key points include:

　　Adhere to the "five educations" and develop quality education in an all-round way.

　　According to the guideline, compulsory education should emphasize the effectiveness of moral education with efforts on cultivating ideals and faith, core socialist values, China’s fine traditional culture, ecological civilization and mental health.

　　It is necessary to highlight the effectiveness of moral education and vigorously carry out education on ideals and beliefs, socialist core values, Chinese excellent traditional culture, ecological civilization and mental health.

　　The document stressed elevating intellectual grounding level to develop the cognitive ability and stimulate the sense of innovation of the students.

　　Improve the level of intellectual education. Focus on cultivating cognitive ability, promoting the development of thinking and stimulating innovative consciousness.

　　It also called for strengthening physical education, enhancing aesthetic training with more art curriculums and activities, and encouraging students to participate in more physical work to boost their hard-working spirit.

　　Strengthen physical exercise, strengthen aesthetic education, set up courses with artistic characteristics, strengthen labor education, and give full play to the comprehensive educational function of labor.

　　Strengthen the role of classroom main position and effectively improve the quality of classroom teaching

　　Heuristic and interactive methods in teaching are encouraged to inspire students to think and ask questions.

　　Pay attention to heuristic, interactive and inquiry teaching, and guide students to think actively, ask questions actively and explore independently.

　　More information technology should be integrated into school teaching, it said, specifically calling for more free and high-quality educational resources in rural and remote areas.

　　Promote the integrated application of information technology and education and teaching. Provide high-quality learning resources for schools in rural and remote poverty-stricken areas free of charge.

　　According to the standard of "Four Good Teachers", build a team of high-quality professional teachers.

　　The guideline demands "high-quality and professional" teaching personnel, proposing more training to strengthen teachers’ teaching fundamentals and work ethics, as well as improved salaries and benefits.

　　We will build a team of high-quality professional teachers, strengthen the education of teachers’ morality and the training of basic teaching skills, and constantly improve the treatment of teachers.

　　School principals are asked to shoulder more responsibilities and play better roles in improving education quality.

　　The headmaster is the first person responsible for improving the quality of education in the school, and enhancing the headmaster’s ability to implement quality education.

　　Deepen the reform in key areas and create conditions for improving the quality of education.

　　National curriculum schemes issued by the central authority should not be replaced by local and school- based curriculum, said the guideline.

　　It is strictly forbidden to replace national courses with local courses and school-based courses.

　　Exam-free access to nearby primary and secondary schools should cover all school-age children, and schools are encouraged to promote the well-rounded development of students, the guideline said.

　　We will promote the full coverage of compulsory education schools in the nearest school. Establish a scientific evaluation system oriented to the development of quality education.

　　The country will secure the fiscal investment for compulsory education and motivate schools with higher education quality to help ordinary schools to a chieve balanced compulsory education, according to the guideline.

　　Guarantee the financial investment of compulsory education, give play to the exemplary radiation function of high-quality schools, improve the school-running mechanism such as strong schools with weak schools, and promote the growth of new high-quality schools.

　　It also demands strengthened Party leadership over compulsory education reform and more guidance to parents for better family education.

　　Promote the reform of compulsory education and strengthen the leadership of the party; Attach importance to family education.

　　Hotel linen hotel linen

　　Have the hotel sheets and bath towels been washed? Have you implemented "one customer for one exchange"? Recently, the first green washing base in Wuhan was officially put into operation. It is said that this problem can be solved.

　　Dubbed as Wuhan’s first green washing base, all linen handled by the company, including sheets, towels, duvet covers, will be embedded with a thin, high-temperature resistant chip that enables a hotel to monitor its supplies, and allows hotel guests to access information about their laundry via a QR code.

　　The base is known as the first green washing base in Wuhan. The linen such as sheets, towels and quilt covers will be built with a thin and high-temperature resistant chip. The hotel can monitor the linen status through the chip, and guests can obtain the washing information of the linen in the room through a QR code.

　　[Explanation of words]

　　Hotel linen is a general term for bed sheets, duvet covers, towels and other items in hotels. Here are a few expressions about "quilt" in English: quilt, comforter and duvet. Quilt refers to a thin quilt with quilting (the traditional style is that at least one side of it is a pattern made up of many pieces of cloth), which is thinner than comforter/duvet. Comforter/Duvet Insert is the quilt core that people in China are most familiar with (the inner layer can be cotton, polyester fiber, down, etc.), while Comfort refers to the thick quilt in the Bedding Sets, and the surface has been printed, so it is used directly, and there is no need to cover the quilt cover. Usually, if you want to wash it, you should wash the whole quilt together. Duvet Insert & Duvet Cover should be a combination that friends are most familiar with. The words duvet, duvet insert, comforter are often interchangeable and all mean "quilt core", but duvet insert and duvet insert generally refer to pure white quilt core and are usually used together with duvet cover (quilt cover) of corresponding size.

　　The relevant person in charge of the Environmental Protection Department of Wuhan Development and Reform Commission said that the new green washing equipment only needs 7 liters of water to wash one kilogram of linen, and one employee can wash 1.6 tons of linen in 8 hours. The base is also equipped with wastewater treatment equipment to minimize wastewater pollution.

　　The water used for cleaning will be tap water that has been purified, which is said to make the washed materials softer and more skin-friendly.

　　The water used for washing is also soft water after secondary purification of tap water. It is said that linen washed with soft water will be softer and skin-friendly.

　　Fact orphan de facto orphan

　　Jointly issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Supreme People’s Court and 10 other departments, the guideline defined children with both parents serving prison terms, undergoing compulsory drug rehabilitation or restriction of personal freedom as de facto orphans. This puts them in the same category as children who have sick, disabled parents or parents who have been declared missing. If one of a child’s parents is under the aforementioned conditions and the other parent is dead or missing, the child can also be identified as a de facto orphan.

　　The opinions jointly issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Supreme People’s Law and 10 other departments define the children who are actually left unattended (that is, the so-called "factual orphans") as: children whose parents are both severely disabled, seriously ill, in prison, in compulsory isolation and detoxification, who have been subjected to other measures restricting personal freedom, and who have lost contact; Or a child whose parents are dead or missing, and whose other parent is seriously disabled, seriously ill, serving a sentence in custody, being forced to be isolated for drug rehabilitation, being subjected to other measures restricting personal freedom, or losing contact.

　　[Explanation of words]

　　Serve prison terms means "serving a sentence". The basic meaning of the word serve is "serving", and by extension, it means "serving, serving, entertaining". For example, a strong man often says in American dramas: I served in Afghanistan. Or, serve the interests of all the people. In tennis and badminton, serve means "serve", which can be used as a verb or noun, such as: Whose turn is it to serve? Whose turn is it to serve? Federer’s serve is unbeatable. Federer’s serve is unbeatable. )

　　This is the first time that China has issued special opinions on strengthening the protection of "factual orphans". The Opinions focus on solving outstanding problems in four aspects.

　　One is to strengthen the basic living allowances. It is clear that the basic living allowance will be paid to children who are actually left unattended.

　　The second is to strengthen medical relief programs. Medical assistance shall be provided in accordance with the provisions for eligible children who are left unattended.

　　The third is to improve the assistance for schooling. Children who are actually left unattended are included in the scope of education funding according to orphans, and enjoy corresponding policy treatment, giving priority to the national funding policy system and the education assistance system.

　　The fourth is to urge the implementation of the responsibility of children’s guardians. It is required to crack down on all kinds of illegal and criminal acts that infringe on children’s rights and interests, such as intentional or malicious failure to perform guardianship duties.

　　The document also warned of punishments if parents with childrearing capacity pretend they don’t have the capability with the aim of defrauding governm ent welfare for their children. The guideline said law enforcement officers can revoke guardianship of parents defrauding child welfare, and civil affairs authorities can charge those parents child-rearing fees.

　　The "Opinions" propose that parents and other guardians who cheat the guarantee funds, materials or services by means of false reporting, concealment or forgery should be punished, and law enforcement departments should revoke the guardianship qualification of guardians according to law. It is clear that the civil affairs department can claim alimony according to law for parents who have the ability to fulfill their alimony obligations and refuse to raise them.