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Zhang Bo， a Chinese entrepreneur in the U.S.， completed his second fl ight around the world and landed at a small airport in a southwest suburb of Chicago on June 6 after fl ying for 68 days and making 50 stops.
Zhang kicked off his journey in a DA42 propeller aircraft from the same airport in Chicago on April 2. In 68 days， he flew through 21 countries in three continents and over three oceans， with total mileage reaching 41，000 km.
Zhang made history in 2016 when he made his fi rst fl ight around the world in a propeller-driven aircraft. On August 7， 2016， Zhang took off from Beijing， where he was born， in a TBM700 single-engine turboprop aircraft， fl ew over 23 countries covering a distance of 40，818 km and landed safely in Beijing on September 24， 2016， after 44 stops in 49 days.
Zhang has already started to plan his third around-the-world fl ight.
The Merit of Credit
Beijing Youth Daily June 11
Recently， some retail counters were set up on the streets of several Chinese cities. The public could borrow anything they needed from these counters and return them as they pleased， with retailers standing beside the counters. The result based on a 24-hour experiment showed that more than 95 percent of the borrowed items were returned to the counters， and in Zhengzhou， central China’s Henan Province， and Dongguan， south China’s Guangdong Province， the rate was 100 percent.
Four years ago， Alipay launched a credit test campaign by doing similar experiments in Hangzhou， east China’s Zhejiang Province. Locals were allowed to get what they wanted from unstaffed supermarkets and pay for the goods voluntarily. The credibility rate was 62 percent.
A decade or so ago， experiments on umbrella， vegetable stalls and so on showed very low credit.
The jump from 62 percent to 95 percent within four years is encouraging from every aspect.
In order to solve the problem of credit on Taobao， an e-commerce platform， Alipay was created in 2003. Several years later， Alibaba set up Sesame Credit， which gives credit scores to consumers， who can use the scores to use bicycles and taxis and stay in hotels without paying deposits.
With these developments， from unstaffed supermarkets and retail counters to shared bicycles and other conveniences based on a high credit rating， the public is increasingly feeling the value and progress of personal and social credit in Chinese society.
A Test for Scenic Spots Oriental Outlook June 13
With school’s summer vacation approaching， high admission fees for scenic spots has again become a hot topic. Despite state and local authority’s measures to further lower admission fees， expensive tickets remain a big issue. In some cases， the actual cost of the ticket is higher despite a claimed discount.
High admission fees reflect poor preparation for an upgraded model of scenic spot management in many places.
In the short run， reducing admission fees might strain scenic spots’ finances and even put them into a temporary financial crisis. However， if they stick to high fee charges， ill-effects will be stacked up in the long run， and by then， the whole tourism sector is going to be hard to recover.
In recent years， a growing number of people believe that scenic spot tourism management should be linked to the whole neighborhood encompassing the spot. This will effectively rid scenic spots of their reliance on high admission fees.
This model will plot scenic spots as part of the overall tourism map. So， although a spot is still an attraction， it is closely connected to other adjacent tourism resources. And tickets will no longer be the only source of revenue.Just as in the West Lake in Hangzhou of east China’s Zhejiang Province， the dismantling of the walls surrounding the scenic spot makes every cultural spot a part of the cultural and tourism network. This will add to the glamor of the city， and thus boost the comprehensive development of the area for a long time to come.
Scenic spots throughout the country should find a suitable model for themselves to make their cities as a whole an attraction， abandoning the old way of overdependence on ticket sales.
More Physical Work
Workers’ Daily June 12
According to the latest issue of China Comment， a bi-monthly magazine， the average time spent by primary school students on physical labor is 1.2 hours a day in the United States， 0.7 hour in the Republic of Korea and 12 minutes in China.
Student physical labor in most schools is not playing the role that it is supposed to. There are not enough opportunities for students to really engage in physical work or practice. Schools offer this class just to show that they have fulfi lled the requirement of the country’s educational system.
Social service was originally designed to make up for the shortage of on-campus physical work. However， due to the lack of work sites and resources， the arrangement cannot really help students gain any skills. In the past， every class was responsible for a patch of land on campus， where they regularly pulled weeds and did other work. Nowadays， people are hired to do this work. In some extreme cases， classrooms are cleaned by workers， not by the students who usually take turns every week.
Physical work is an important part of education for adolescents. It’s thus necessary for families， schools and society to join hands to make labor classes really effective， instead of replacing or squeezing out the class.
FUGITIVE RETURNS TO CHINA
Xiao Jianming， former chairman of Yunnan Tin Group in southwest China’s Yunnan Province， has returned to China and turned himself in nearly seven years after fl eeing overseas， China’s top anti-graft authority announced on May 30.
Xiao， who was also a deputy director of the finance and economics committee of the provincial people’s congress， is suspected of taking bribes， according to a statement by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China and the National Supervisory Commission.
Xiao fl ed overseas in December 2012 and was listed on the Interpol Red Notice in February 2015 after the Yunnan Provincial People’s Procuratorate issued an arrest warrant in August 2014.
Xiao， born in Yunnan in November 1947， is the 58th of China’s top 100 fugitives listed on the Interpol Red Notice who have returned to China， following the return of another fugitive Mo Peifen earlier this week.
The statement said Xiao’s return showed China’s resolve to hunt down corrupt fugitives， urging all other fugitives to surrender as soon as possible for leniency.
“Talk with each other， not at each other. Be rational in your approach and make use of tried-and-true mechanisms we’ve had in the past for dialogue at various levels. In the end， we need to find a solution that’s right for both people in both countries.”
Roberta Lipson， Director of the U.S.-China Business Council， during an exclusive video interview in Beijing on June 10
“The quality of Russia-China investment， trade and economic cooperation will be significantly improved in the next decade， while new forms of cooperation will emerge in such areas as technology， investment， goods and services.”
Sergei Luzyanin， Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences， in an interview with Xinhua News Agency about Russia-China cooperation on June 10
“As AI is increasingly seen as a significant source of productivity and opportunities， the discomfort or even pessimism regarding the technology cannot be neglected.”
Chen Xiaoping， Director of the Robotics Lab at the University of Science and Technology of China， who was appointed on June 12 to set up the Professional Committee for AI Ethics under the Chinese Association for Artifi cial Intelligence to draw up AI ethics guidelines
“In response to the pressure and challenges， it is necessary to deepen supply-side structural reform in the financial sector， so as to provide a more favorable business environment for foreign trade enterprises.”
Zhang Jianping， Director of the Research Center for Regional Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce （MOFCOM）， commenting on a MOFCOM report on China’s foreign trade on June 12
Zhang kicked off his journey in a DA42 propeller aircraft from the same airport in Chicago on April 2. In 68 days， he flew through 21 countries in three continents and over three oceans， with total mileage reaching 41，000 km.
Zhang made history in 2016 when he made his fi rst fl ight around the world in a propeller-driven aircraft. On August 7， 2016， Zhang took off from Beijing， where he was born， in a TBM700 single-engine turboprop aircraft， fl ew over 23 countries covering a distance of 40，818 km and landed safely in Beijing on September 24， 2016， after 44 stops in 49 days.
Zhang has already started to plan his third around-the-world fl ight.
The Merit of Credit
Beijing Youth Daily June 11
Recently， some retail counters were set up on the streets of several Chinese cities. The public could borrow anything they needed from these counters and return them as they pleased， with retailers standing beside the counters. The result based on a 24-hour experiment showed that more than 95 percent of the borrowed items were returned to the counters， and in Zhengzhou， central China’s Henan Province， and Dongguan， south China’s Guangdong Province， the rate was 100 percent.
Four years ago， Alipay launched a credit test campaign by doing similar experiments in Hangzhou， east China’s Zhejiang Province. Locals were allowed to get what they wanted from unstaffed supermarkets and pay for the goods voluntarily. The credibility rate was 62 percent.
A decade or so ago， experiments on umbrella， vegetable stalls and so on showed very low credit.
The jump from 62 percent to 95 percent within four years is encouraging from every aspect.
In order to solve the problem of credit on Taobao， an e-commerce platform， Alipay was created in 2003. Several years later， Alibaba set up Sesame Credit， which gives credit scores to consumers， who can use the scores to use bicycles and taxis and stay in hotels without paying deposits.
With these developments， from unstaffed supermarkets and retail counters to shared bicycles and other conveniences based on a high credit rating， the public is increasingly feeling the value and progress of personal and social credit in Chinese society.
A Test for Scenic Spots Oriental Outlook June 13
With school’s summer vacation approaching， high admission fees for scenic spots has again become a hot topic. Despite state and local authority’s measures to further lower admission fees， expensive tickets remain a big issue. In some cases， the actual cost of the ticket is higher despite a claimed discount.
High admission fees reflect poor preparation for an upgraded model of scenic spot management in many places.
In the short run， reducing admission fees might strain scenic spots’ finances and even put them into a temporary financial crisis. However， if they stick to high fee charges， ill-effects will be stacked up in the long run， and by then， the whole tourism sector is going to be hard to recover.
In recent years， a growing number of people believe that scenic spot tourism management should be linked to the whole neighborhood encompassing the spot. This will effectively rid scenic spots of their reliance on high admission fees.
This model will plot scenic spots as part of the overall tourism map. So， although a spot is still an attraction， it is closely connected to other adjacent tourism resources. And tickets will no longer be the only source of revenue.Just as in the West Lake in Hangzhou of east China’s Zhejiang Province， the dismantling of the walls surrounding the scenic spot makes every cultural spot a part of the cultural and tourism network. This will add to the glamor of the city， and thus boost the comprehensive development of the area for a long time to come.
Scenic spots throughout the country should find a suitable model for themselves to make their cities as a whole an attraction， abandoning the old way of overdependence on ticket sales.
More Physical Work
Workers’ Daily June 12
According to the latest issue of China Comment， a bi-monthly magazine， the average time spent by primary school students on physical labor is 1.2 hours a day in the United States， 0.7 hour in the Republic of Korea and 12 minutes in China.
Student physical labor in most schools is not playing the role that it is supposed to. There are not enough opportunities for students to really engage in physical work or practice. Schools offer this class just to show that they have fulfi lled the requirement of the country’s educational system.
Social service was originally designed to make up for the shortage of on-campus physical work. However， due to the lack of work sites and resources， the arrangement cannot really help students gain any skills. In the past， every class was responsible for a patch of land on campus， where they regularly pulled weeds and did other work. Nowadays， people are hired to do this work. In some extreme cases， classrooms are cleaned by workers， not by the students who usually take turns every week.
Physical work is an important part of education for adolescents. It’s thus necessary for families， schools and society to join hands to make labor classes really effective， instead of replacing or squeezing out the class.
FUGITIVE RETURNS TO CHINA
Xiao Jianming， former chairman of Yunnan Tin Group in southwest China’s Yunnan Province， has returned to China and turned himself in nearly seven years after fl eeing overseas， China’s top anti-graft authority announced on May 30.
Xiao， who was also a deputy director of the finance and economics committee of the provincial people’s congress， is suspected of taking bribes， according to a statement by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China and the National Supervisory Commission.
Xiao fl ed overseas in December 2012 and was listed on the Interpol Red Notice in February 2015 after the Yunnan Provincial People’s Procuratorate issued an arrest warrant in August 2014.
Xiao， born in Yunnan in November 1947， is the 58th of China’s top 100 fugitives listed on the Interpol Red Notice who have returned to China， following the return of another fugitive Mo Peifen earlier this week.
The statement said Xiao’s return showed China’s resolve to hunt down corrupt fugitives， urging all other fugitives to surrender as soon as possible for leniency.
“Talk with each other， not at each other. Be rational in your approach and make use of tried-and-true mechanisms we’ve had in the past for dialogue at various levels. In the end， we need to find a solution that’s right for both people in both countries.”
Roberta Lipson， Director of the U.S.-China Business Council， during an exclusive video interview in Beijing on June 10
“The quality of Russia-China investment， trade and economic cooperation will be significantly improved in the next decade， while new forms of cooperation will emerge in such areas as technology， investment， goods and services.”
Sergei Luzyanin， Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences， in an interview with Xinhua News Agency about Russia-China cooperation on June 10
“As AI is increasingly seen as a significant source of productivity and opportunities， the discomfort or even pessimism regarding the technology cannot be neglected.”
Chen Xiaoping， Director of the Robotics Lab at the University of Science and Technology of China， who was appointed on June 12 to set up the Professional Committee for AI Ethics under the Chinese Association for Artifi cial Intelligence to draw up AI ethics guidelines
“In response to the pressure and challenges， it is necessary to deepen supply-side structural reform in the financial sector， so as to provide a more favorable business environment for foreign trade enterprises.”
Zhang Jianping， Director of the Research Center for Regional Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce （MOFCOM）， commenting on a MOFCOM report on China’s foreign trade on June 12