Poverty alleviation high on agenda during president’s

President Xi Jinping is paying great attention to poverty reductio

n work during his inspection tour of the mountainous Chongqing municipality.









The first medical breakthrough in the field was made by Wa

Wang’s team after eight years of research in 1986, when they made a drug to cure acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Wang recalled that chemotherapy was the main treatment for M3 practiced by doctors across th

e world years ago. However, the five-year survival rate after chemotherapy was only 10 to 15 percent.

During his research on M3 in 1978, Wang happened to read a research p

aper about Israeli experts successfully testing the cellular differentiation of leukemia cells into n

ormal cells in mice-a process where a cell changes from one cell type to another under certain circumstances. This pape

r inspired Wang to research on the circumstances, in which leukemia cells can become normal.

Since then, he started research on the topic, and studying the induction and differentiation of leukemia cells.

The research hardly achieved any progress until 1983, when Wang was inspired by another re

search paper which mentioned that white blood cells of patients with M3 can turn into normal cells with 13-cis-retinoic acid.


Yu said she has two very good friends who are single

We hang out together every weekend, and I enjoy being with my friends more than going on a date with

someone I just met — that’s why I think I will be not actively looking for a relationship in the next few years,” she added.

Coontz said one reason people are waiting longer to get married is because more of them, es

pecially women, are going to college. Even after graduation, most people want to wait until they have paid

off at least a good portion of their college debt and acquired a steady job, she said.

Two earners are increasingly necessary for people to establish a middle-class lifestyle, so mos

t individuals want to make sure that they and their partner have decent earnings prospects.

“Another part of the answer is that our expectations of marriage — especially women’s expec

tations — are much higher than in the past, and their options outside marriage are greater,” said Coo

ntz. “So, they can be more ‘picky’ about their mates, and they can afford to wait until they find one who suits them.”


More air links can be expected as the two sides agreed






Actions will be taken to fully implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, it added.

The two sides reiterated their commitment to promote multilat

eralism and maintain the international system with the United Nations at its core. They agre

ed to oppose protectionism of any form, promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, maintain the

World Trade Organization (WTO)’s central role and jointly push for necessary reforms to the WTO.


Harrowing scenes after Cyclone Idai with inland ocean visibl

　　As many as “300 to 400” bodies line the banks of a road out of the city of Beira in Mozam

bique, according to an eyewitness account, and flood waters have formed an inland

ocean that is visible from outer space.The harrowing scene, described by Zimbabwea

n Graham Taylor, suggests that the human toll of Cyclone Idai is likely to far exceed officiaal estimates. It follows reports fr

om aid agencies on the ground detailing how entire villages and towns have been completely flooded in the wake of last Thursday’

s high-end Category 2 storm.Taylor said the bodies were located on a 6 kilometer (3.7 mile) t

rack of highway, where flood waters had created an inland ocean, submerging entire villages around a “densely populated” s

ugar-cane plantation. The area is a mere fraction of the land in the southeast African nation left flooded after two major rive

rs burst their banks in the days following the storm.The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red

Crescent Societies (IFRC) said Friday that the destruction left by the cyclone is “worse than

we imagined” and warned that the humanitarian needs “will tragically only deepen in the coming weeks.”