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以铜为镜，可以正衣冠；以古为镜，可以知兴替，以人为镜，可以明得失。
唐太宗 (李世民, 598年－649年)
Using bronze as a mirror, you can wear your clothes and your hat properly; using the ancient times as a mirror, you know rise and fall; by using people as a mirror, you understand success and failure.
Aka 以史为鉴 (yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn).
The following is a translation of a Xinhua news article, published online on July 21. Links within blockquotes added during translation.
23 Media Managers from 18 Countries gather in Xinjiang to participate in “Silk Road’s Economic Belt Media Managers’ Research and Study Class from Relevant Countries”
Xinhua Urumqi, July 21 (Ayi Nu’er reporting) — On July 21, twenty-three media managers from eighteen countries along the “One Belt one Road” gathered in Xinjiang Urumqi to take part in a “Silk Road Economic Belt research class for media managers from relevant Countries”, organized by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China.
新华社乌鲁木齐７月２１日电（记者阿依努尔）２１日，来自“一带一路”沿线１８个国家的２３家媒体负责人共聚新疆乌鲁木齐，参加由国务院新闻办公室主办的“丝绸之路经济带相关国家媒体负责人研修班”，对新疆经济社会发展进行广泛深入了解。
At that day’s class opening ceremony, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee member of the standing committee and propaganda department director Tian Wen said that Xinjiang covers 1.6t million square kilometers, that it is a place where many cultures meet, and also a thoroughfare of the old Silk Road. After the “One Belt one Road” initiative had been put forward, Xinjiang, helped by its unique geographic situation and cultural advantages, as a core area for the Silk Road’s economic belt, actively built regional traffic hubs, trade and commerce logistics centers, financial centers, cultural science education centers, medical service centers, and comprehensively deepened exchanges and cooperation with the countries along the “Belt and Road”.
在当日举行的开班仪式上，新疆维吾尔自治区党委常委、宣传部部长田文说，新疆面积１６６万平方公里，是多种文化交汇之地，也是古丝绸之路通衢之地，“一带一路”倡议提出后，作为丝绸之路经济带核心区，新疆借助独特地缘、人文优势，积极建设区域性交通枢纽中心、商贸物流中心、金融中心、文化科教中心、医疗服务中心，全面深化与“一带一路”沿线各国交流与合作。
Taking part in this research class are media managers from France, Germany, Russia, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Canada, Egypt, and other countries, involving Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America.
参加此次研修班的媒体负责人来自法国、德国、俄罗斯、印度、巴基斯坦、哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、乌兹别克斯坦、加拿大、埃及等１８个国家，涉及亚洲、欧洲、非洲、北美洲四大洲。
Tarek Ramadan Mohamed Hussein, deputy editor in chief of Egpytian paper “Golden Pyramid Evening News”, said that the research and study class would be another step towards deepening awareness of the real level of Xinjiang’s development.
埃及《金字塔晚报》副总编塔里克·拉马丹·穆罕默德·侯赛因表示，研修班将进一步加深自己对新疆真实发展水平的认知。
From July 21 to 25, these media managers will have informal discussions and exchanges with Chinese experts and scholars from the fields of economics, culture, ethnic groups, religion etc.. They will also visit Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture and other places for visits and observations. After that, they will continue studies in Beijing.
２１日－２５日，这些媒体人士将与中国经济、文化、民族、宗教等领域专家学者座谈交流，还将前往新疆昌吉回族自治州、伊犁哈萨克自治州等地参观考察。之后，他们将赴北京继续考察学习活动。
Since 2012, the State Council Information Office has held seven classes for media managers from relative countries in a row, thus opening a new window for humanities exchanges.
国务院新闻办公室自２０１２年起，连续举办７期相关国家媒体负责人研修班，打开了新的人文交流窗口。
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Uyghurs and Muslim minorities situation, Aug 9, 2018
Global local sticks tv, Oct 22, 2009
Be more Xinhua, Oct 10, 2009
“Entwicklung basiert auf Stabilität”, CRI, Aug 14, 2018
凯赛尔·阿不都克热木, Xinhua, Aug 13, 2018
Press Review, China Digital Times, Aug 13, 2018
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The following is a translation of a Voice of America (VoA) Chinese service’s online article, published on July 27 this year. Links within blockquotes added during translation.
The article refers to a Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing, conducted on July 26.
World Uyghur Congress’ president Rebiya Kadeer was present at the hearing, and apparently made her remarks to VoA – quoted in the article – on the hearing’s sidelines.
Rebiya Kadeer: Uighurs Today is the Han Chinese peoples’ Tomorrow
Washington — “This is one of the most terrifying things currently happening,” Florida Senator Marco Rubio said. “What is happening under this regime’s jurisdiction looks like a science-fiction novel!”
华盛顿 —
“ 这是当今世界上发生的最令人毛骨悚然的事情之一， ”美国佛罗里达州联邦参议员鲁比奥(Marco Rubio)说，“这个政权治下发生的事情像是科幻小说！”
What he was referring to is the human rights crisis Xinjiang is currently facing.
他指的是新疆当下面临的人权危机。
As chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Rubio convened a hearing at Senate Office Building1) on Thursday (July 26), to closely follow the situation of Uighur and other Muslim racial minorities’ situation in Xinjiang. This was the US Congress’ first public hearing about this issue.
作为美国国会及行政当局中国委员会主席，星期四(7月26日)，鲁比奥在参议院大楼召集了一场听证会，关注维吾尔人和新疆其他穆斯林少数族裔的境遇。这是美国国会首次就这一问题举行公开听证。
Many witnesses attending the hearing said that an all-pervasive security system, DNA gathering, large-scale arbitrary detention, cruelty, extreme restrictions on religion and culture … the Chinese government was working hard to turn Xinjiang into the world’s most highly technogical “policing area”.
出席听证会的多名证人说，无孔不入的监控系统、DNA采集、大规模任意拘押、酷刑、对宗教和文化的极端限制……中国政府正在努力将新疆变为全世界最高科技的“警察地区”。”。
Ambassador Kelley E. Currie, representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, said that from April 2017 on, said that the degree of repression by the Chinese authorities, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, was “shocking”, and even hard to compare with the peak time of the “Cultural Revolution”.
美国驻联合国经济和社会理事会代表凯利·克里(Kelley E. Currie)大使说，从2017年4月起，以习近平为首的中国当局对维吾尔人的镇压程度“令人震惊”，即使是在“文化大革命”顶峰时期也难以比及。
“There are bans on ‘unsusual’ beards, and bans on women wearing combinations of glasses and veils in public squares. Muslims refusing to wear shorts, to smoke, to drink alcohol or to eat pork are regarded as criminals. Even refusing to watch official television station’s programs are proofs of crime,” she said.2)
“禁止男子留‘不正常的’胡须，禁止女性在公众场合戴面纱。拒绝穿短裤，拒绝抽烟、喝酒、吃猪肉的穆斯林都被当作犯罪，就连拒绝看官方电视台的节目也是罪证，”她说。
Gulchehra Hoja is a reporter3) at the Uighur team of Radio Free Asia’s headquarters in Washington D.C.. In February this year, she learned that nearly twenty of her own relatives in Xinjiang had been arrested by the Chinese public security department on that day. Before that, her younger brother had been arrested by police, and locked into a re-education camp.
古丽恰克热·霍迦是总部设在华盛顿的自由亚洲电台维语组的记者。今年2月，她得知自己新疆的近20名亲属在同一天被中国公安部门逮捕。此前，她的弟弟已被警方抓走，关进再教育营。
“Testifying here today, and bringing this up still makes me feel sad. My parents remain trapped, and more than twenty of my relatives remain unaccounted for. It can be said with near-certainty that they have been locked into the Chinese government’s so-called ‘re-education camps’,” she said in tears.
“今天我在这里作证 ，说起这些依然让我感到悲伤，我的父母目前仍然被困， 我的20多名亲属仍然下落不明。几乎可以肯定他们被关进了中国政府所谓的‘再教育营’， ”她含着泪说。
Relatives of her five Uighur colleagues have also been arrested and sentenced in China, and this is only a microcosm of the tragedies going on in countless Muslim households in Xinjiang. According to a number of sources, the number of Uighurs imprisoned in the authorities’ “education and transformation” camps is currently at more than one million.
她的另外五名维吾尔同事也都有家人在中国被拘捕、判刑，而这只是无数新疆穆斯林家庭悲剧的缩影。各方消息来源说，目前被关在中国当局以“教育转化”为名建设的营地中的维吾尔人有100多万。
Well-known Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer told VoA that among her family people, more than thirty people had been arrested. She said that the actual number of Uighurs under arrest could be as high as 2 million, and that many children in the region had been sent to orphanages.
知名维吾尔活动人士热比娅告诉美国之音，她自己的家人中有30多人被抓走。她说，被拘禁的维吾尔人的真实数字可能高达200万，当地还有很多儿童被送进孤儿院。
“What is happening in East Turkestan brings to mind the crimes of nazi Germany against Jews during the second world war,” she said. “US Congress should put forward a resolution to close these concentration camps. US officials should earnestly raise the issue of the Uighurs with Chinese officials.”
“发生在东突厥斯坦的事让人联想到第二次大战期间纳粹德国对犹太人的罪行，” 热比娅说，“美国国会应该提出决议案，关闭这些集中营。美国官员应该严肃地和中国官员提出维吾尔人的问题。”
Kadeer also said that not only Americans, but Chinese people too, should stand up. She hoped to send this kind of message to the Han Chinese through the Voice of America: “Our today (is) their tomorrow.”
热比娅还说，不仅是美国，中国人也应该站起身来。她希望通过美国之音向汉人传达这样一个信息：“我们的今天，（就是）他们的明天。”
Rubio said that it was also disturbing that there were companies that intentionally or unintentionally became helpers in the Chinese authorities’ violations of human rights and privacy. He mentioned Hikvision and Dahua technology company as suppliers of monitoring equipment to the authorities in Xinjiang, and also criticized an American company from Massachusetts for supplying DNA gathering tools to Xinjiang.
鲁比奥议员说，在新疆镇压运动中同样令人不安的是，一些企业有意或无意地成为中国当局侵犯人权和隐私的帮凶。他点名中国的海康威视和大华科技公司为新疆当局提供监控设备， 同时批评美国麻萨诸塞州的一家公司为新疆提供DNA采集工具。
He said that some multi-national companies that didn’t like certain positions held by the US government refused to do business with the government, but lobbied in Washington every day, hoping to enter China’s vast markets, turning a blind eye to China’s governing Communist Party’s human rights violations.4)
他说，一些跨国公司因为不喜欢美国政府的某些立场，拒绝和政府做生意，却每天在华盛顿游说，希望进入中国的广阔市场，对中国执政的共产党侵犯人权的行为视若无睹。
“This is really appalling, and absolutely hypocritical,” he said.
“这实在令人气愤，太虚伪了，” 鲁比奥说。
Also testifying at the hearing were US department of commerce officials, scholars, and journalists. With several lawmakers, from the dimensions of US-Sino relations, they explored the political options of dealing with the issue, including raising world peoples’ attention to the fate of the Uighurs, restricting American companies’ relevant business with China, punishing Xinjiang central government officials based on the Magnitsky act, etc..
在听证会上作证的还有美国商务部官员、学者以及新闻工作者。他们和多名议员一道从美中关系的维度探讨处理该问题的政治选项，包括继续引起世人对维吾尔人命运的关注，限制相关美国公司与中国的生意往来，通过《全球马格尼茨基人权问责法》惩治新疆主政官员等。
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1) this probably refers to the 124 Dirksen Senate Office Building
2) from Currie’s written statement (as of July 25, i. e. one day before the hearing):
The scope of this campaign is truly breathtaking: authorities now prohibit “abnormal” beards and the wearing of veils in public, and classify refusal to watch state television, refusal to wear shorts, abstention from alcohol and tobacco, refusal to eat pork, fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, or practicing traditional funeral rituals, as potential signs that individuals harbor extreme religious views.
3) from Gulchehra Hoja’s testimony:
As I testify before you here today, it grieves me to no end to say that my parents remain under threat, and more than two dozen of my relatives in China are missing – almost certainly held in re-education camps run by authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
4) starting here – or, if it takes too long to load, “a partial and rough transcript”
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“Mistakenly deported”, CBC Radio, Aug 8, 2018
Research and Study Class, Aug 19, 2018
Turkey, Anadolu Opinion, Oct 31, 2017
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The following is a translation of an article from Heilongjiang Daily (黑龙江日报). Links within blockquotes added during translation.
There are (or were) at least two prominent women named Li Min. Second from left is deceased Li Min; second from right is Mao Zedong’s daughter Li Min. Photo: Kremlin.ru, President Medvedev’s 2010 visit to China, CC BY 4.0
Main Link: Farewell Ceremony for late Comrade Li Min’s Remains held in Harbin
This papers news of July 29 (Guo Minghua and Sun Jiawei reporting) — Quiet funeral music filled the air, grief knew no limits, and people from all walks of life were in incomparable sorrow, saying their last farewell to Comrade Li Min who was lying peacefully among fresh flowers and incense cedar. The farewell ceremony for Li Min, former vice chairperson of the China People’s Political Consultative Conference’s Heilongjiang Provincial Committee, and warrior of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, was held at Harbin Tianheyuan Funeral Parlor. Nearly one-thousand cadres and members of the masses had rushed there to deeply mourn this outstanding member of the Chinese Communist Party, this time-tested, loyal warrior of Communism.
本报29日讯(记者郭铭华孙佳薇)哀乐低回、哀思无限，各界人士怀着无比沉痛的心情，向安卧在鲜花翠柏中的李敏同志作最后告别。29日上午，中国人民政治协商会议黑龙江省委员会原副主席、东北抗联老战士李敏同志遗体告别仪式在哈尔滨天河园殡仪馆举行，近千名干部、群众赶来，深切悼念这位中国共产党优秀党员、久经考验的忠诚的共产主义战士。
Comrade Li Min died in Harbin, on July 21, at 03:39 hours, from illness, aged 951).
李敏同志因病于7月21日3时39分在哈尔滨逝世，享年95岁。
Provincial leaders Zhang Qingwei, Wang Wentao, Huang Jiansheng, Chen Haibo, Wang Changsong, Li Haitao, Gan Rongkun, Wang Aiwen, Zhang Yupu, Wang Zhaoli, Jia Yumei and Du Heping attended the farewell ceremony.
省领导张庆伟、王文涛、黄建盛、陈海波、王常松、李海涛、甘荣坤、王爱文、张雨浦、王兆力、贾玉梅、杜和平出席告别仪式。
Du Yuxin, Song Fatang, Zhang Zuoji and others also attended the farewell ceremony.
杜宇新、宋法棠、张左己等也出席了告别仪式。
At 08:30 hours, the farewell ceremony began. Tianheyuan Funeral Parlor had been decorated in a dignified and solemn manner, with Comrade Li Min’s portrait at the center. Li Min’s body was covered with the CCP’s flag, and with the sound of the funeral music, everyone stood solemnly, with people tearfully observing a moment of silence.
8时30分，遗体告别仪式开始。天河园殡仪馆观天厅布置得庄严肃穆，正中悬挂着李敏同志的遗像。李敏同志的遗体上覆盖着中国共产党党旗，在哀乐声中，全场肃立，人们含泪默哀，深情缅怀李敏同志的光辉业绩和崇高风范。
Comrade Li Min was born in Heilongjiang Province, Tangyuan County, Wutonghe Village, on November 5, 1924. In 1936, she joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, and she joined the CCP in January 1939. She was sent to the USSR for studies in 1940, and after instruction travels within the Anti-Japanese United Army, she became a political instructor at the communications operations, and deputy party branch secretary in 1942, and received the military merit medal. In August 1945, after entering the Northeast with the Soviet Red Army, she took part in Suihua Prefecture‘s government building, army building, women masses, and other work. From November 1982 to 1993 she served as vice chairperson of the China People’s Political Consultative Conference’s Heilongjiang Provincial Committee.
李敏同志1924年11月5日出生于黑龙江省汤原县梧桐河村，1936年参加东北抗日联军，1939年1月加入中国共产党。1940年被派往苏联学习，1942年抗联部队编为教导旅后，在通讯营任政治教员、党支部副书记等职，被授予战斗功勋奖章。1945年8月随苏联红军进入东北后，参加绥化建政、建军、妇女群众等工作。1982年11月至1993年任黑龙江省政协副主席。
As a Northeastern Anti-Japanese United Army veteran, Li Min vigorously propagandized the Northeastern Anti-Japanese United Army history, promoted the Northeastern Anti-Japanese United Army spirit, propagandized and promoted the spirit of patriotism. She received the Order of Stalin medal, the Soviet War of National Defense Victory order, the remembrance medals of the 60th and 70th anniversaries of the Chinese People’s Victory in the Anti-Japanese War, as well as the Red Army Long March Victory’s 80th Anniversary commemorative medal – more than thirty medals in total. Comrade Li Min put forward that fourteen, instead of eight years of the Chinese People’s Glorious Anti-Japanese War should be included in China’s nation-wide primary and middle school textbooks, a proposal which was adopted2). Comrade Li Min whole life was a revolutionary life, a glorious life, and a huge life.
作为东北抗联老战士，李敏同志大力宣传东北抗联历史，弘扬东北抗联精神，宣传弘扬爱国主义精神，她生前曾荣获斯大林勋章、苏联卫国战争胜利勋章，中国人民抗日战争胜利60周年、70周年纪念章，以及红军长征胜利80周年纪念章等三十余枚奖章。李敏同志提出了关于将中国人民抗日战争光辉历史由八年改为十四年并纳入全国中小学教科书的建议被采纳。李敏同志的一生是革命的一生，光荣的一生，也是伟大的一生。
Leaders and comrades of the Provincial People’s Congress standing committee, the Provincial government, the Provincial Political Consultative Conference’s and military region, garrisoned troops, military police, from Harbin, and other provincial-level comrades, lifetime friends of Li Min, relatives and others also took part in the farewell ceremony.
省人大常委会、省政府、省政协和省军区、驻军、武警及哈尔滨市领导同志，其他副省级老同志，李敏同志生前友好、亲属等也参加了告别仪式。
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1) Depending on how you count birthdays. As Li Min was born in November 1924, she was 93 years old when she died.
2) [Update, Aug 10] The textbook revision ascribed to Li Min was reported by the Guardian in January 2017, but without a mention of any particular activism leading to this step. Chinese media reported in 2010 that in a local or regional northeastern event, a “Longjiang Internet Media Conference”, Li Min had advocated a revision of this kind, arguing that Chairman Mao fully recognized the Northeastern Anti-Japanese United Army’s role and achievements in the entire Anti-Japanese War, and [he also] pointed out that the war of resistance against Japan began in 1931.
However, no mention of Li was made in a Xinhua report in January 2017.
The revision, Xinhua wrote, had been made after serious expert studies, organized by the ministry of education. In fact, in recent years, historians and educationalists have made active efforts to guide the young generations to a more real, more comprehensive understanding of the War of Resistance. The revision also crushed some foreign forces’ distortions of the organic links between the eight and the fourteen years of war of resistance, and removed the arbitrary blotting of the Chinese Communist Party’s role as the Chinese nation’s tower of strength.
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李敏 (黑龙江省政协副主席),Wikipedia, acc 20180808
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Oldrich Cip, a longtime advocate of shortwave radio, died on July 27.
RTI’s 2016 QSL, showing the broadcasting station’s central building (top left) and two of the Tamsui transmission towers (bottom left)
Radio Taiwan International’s German service announced that test transmissions from Tamsui, NW Taiwan, will be aired this coming Thursday, August 9. According to RTI, there will be two broadcasts with analogue signals, and two with DRM signals. Airtime: about five minutes each – see tables below.
| day | time (UTC) | frequencies |
| Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018 | 17:00 – 17:05 | 11,990 kHz |
| Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018 | 18:00 – 18:05 | 9,700 kHz |
| day | time (UTC) | frequencies |
| Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018 | 17:15 – 17:20 | 11,990 kHz |
| Thursday, Aug 9, 2018 | 18:15 – 18:20 | 9,700 kHz |
Later in August and September, they are planning for twelve one-hour broadcasts – see “Geplante Sendetermine und Frequenzen” on their website – which are subject to change.
The following is an excerpt from an article published by Daily Economic News (每日经济新闻) online (每经网), from Shanghai. Before and after the translated paragraphs, it addresses more global aspects of the current heatwave.
Links within blockquotes added during translation.
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It is said that the trusty brothers from the Northeast are packing to leave for the South, to avoid the heat …
据说东北的老铁们已经开始收拾去南方避暑的衣服了…..
In Shenyang, the maximum temperature has recently reached 37.6 degrees C., which is the second-highest temperature ever recorded in Shenyang ever since weather recording began. A Liaoning Satellite TV reporter took a thermometer onto a bus without air condition and actually measured 46 degrees C.!
在沈阳，近日气温最高已达到37.6℃，这是有气象记录以来沈阳第二高的温度。辽宁卫视的一位记者拿着温度计到一台没有安装空调的公交车上测了一下，结果发现竟有46℃！
As a result, there aren’t enough air condition installers in the Northeast! Gomei‘s official Weibo channel says that only during the last week of July, sales of air conditioners in the Northeast’s three provinces rose by 1,726 percent, and even by 3,545.4 percent in the Shenyang area, compared with the same period last year, with several tens of thousands of air conditioners waiting to be installed.
结果，东北的空调安装师傅不够用了！国美官方微博显示，仅7月最后一周，东北三省空调销量就同比增长1726%，沈阳地区更是同比增长3545.4%，数万套空调处于待安装状态。
And it’s not only the people who can’t stand it, it’s the sea cucumbers, too!
不光是人受不了，海参也受不了了！
According to Securities Times, Mr. Wang, with a cultivation experience of over ten years of working 240 mu of sea cucumbers on the Jinzhou coast, found in a first assessment that the losses this year are at least 2 million. Mr. Wang told a reporter that the maximum water temperature for sea cucumbers is 32 degrees C., and that once this limit is reached, they won’t last for more than 48 hours. After 48 hours, they will melt, and the high temperatures of this year have already lasted for nearly a week.
根据证券时报的报道，有十多年养殖经验的王先生今年在锦州沿海养了240亩左右的海参，据其初步评估，此次的损失至少得两百多万。王先生告诉记者，海参的水温极限就是32℃，达到32℃不能超过48小时，超过48小时就会自己融化了，而今年的高温已经持续了近一个星期。
Reading this, condescending smiles may appear on the faces of the little Southern companions: Coming to the South to escape the heat? Isn’t it obvious that calorization is normal here?
看到这，南方的小伙伴可能要轻蔑一笑：来南方避暑？难道你们不知道南方的人可都是要热化了吗？
According to Central Meteorological Station statistics, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang and the central western areas have seen ten to eighteen days of temperatures of more than 35 degrees C. since July 10.
根据中央气象台统计，从7月10日以来，重庆、湖北、湖南、江西、安徽、浙江中西部等地35℃以上高温日数已达10～18天。
Since the beginning of this year, the number of high-temperature days has exceeded twenty days in parts of Jiangnan and Huanan, with western Huanghai, central Chongqing, eastern Hunan, southern Jiangxi, southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong among the areas where there were the number of high-temperature days exceeded those in other years by ten days.
今年以来，江南、华南部分地区高温日数超过20天，其中黄淮西部、重庆中部、湖南东部、江西南部、福建南部、广东东部等地高温日较常年同期偏多10天以上。
Even an African friend says unreservedly that “China is too hot, I’m going back to Africa to get away from the heat.”
连非洲友人都直言：“中国太热了，我要回非洲避暑。”
According to China Youth Daily, young Sami from Ethiopia who is working in Chongqing took a twenty-day holiday from his company in early July because of the heat and returned to Africa. But on his return to Chongqing, it was still “brutally hot”, making him thinking about a second return home, as in his home town, temperatures were only twenty degrees after all, while it was over 40 degrees in Chongqing …
据中国青年报报道，在重庆工作的埃塞俄比亚的小伙Sami，在今年7月初，因为天气太热，曾向公司请了20多天的高温假，回非洲避暑。但当他再次回到重庆，还是直呼“热哭了”，想再次请假回家，毕竟家乡只有20多度，而重庆已经40多度了……
Xiao Bian, as a Northerner who once worked in Africa, tells everyone here that the East African high plains are really cool, and he would therefore persuade the trusty Northeastern brothers that as the South isn’t welcoming, the East African high plains are a bit more understanding …
小编作为曾经在非洲工作过的北方人，在这里告诉大家，东非高原真的很凉快，所以劝一句东北的老铁们，南方是别来了，东非高原了解一下…..
In fact, it isn’t only China which is being roasted, but the entire northern hemisphere.
其实不光是国内，整个北半球都在经受高温“烤”验。
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The article turns to more serious aspects of the heat from there – global warming – but not without noting that some time in future, the legend of the Mongolian Navy could become true.
Links within blockquotes added during translation — JR
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“Chinese companies increase acquisitions, German government defends layer by layer!”, Germany’s First Television channel reported on July 27. The German government would for the first time make use of new trade regulation and veto China Yantai Taihai Group’s acquisition of Leifeld company for “strategic security” reasons. “Wirtschaftswoche”, quoting people from government circles, reported that Leifeld company was situated in the small western German city of Ahlen, and a technological leader in the field of high-strength material. Interrelated material could be used in the aerospace industry, and in the nuclear industry. There were some two-hundred employees working for the company. The report said the government’s reason for its decision was that selling the company “endangered Germany’s public order or security”. A German official also told media that the German government wanted said company’s missile and nuclear technology to remain in Germany’s hands.
“中国企业加强收购，德国政府层层防御!”德国电视一台27日报道称，德国政府将首次动用新的贸易法规，以“战略安全”为由否决中国烟台台海集团对德国莱菲尔德公司的收购。《经济周刊》援引政府圈内人士报道说，莱菲尔德公司位于德国西部小城阿伦，是高强度材料领域的技术领先者，相关材料可用于航空航天业，也可用于核工业。该公司有员工约200人。报道称，政府做出这一决定的理由是，出售该企业“危及德国的公共秩序或安全”。一位德国官员还对媒体说，德国政府希望该公司的火箭和核技术掌握在德国手里。
How does China view the first case of a Chinese acquisition being vetoed by the German government? Foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said at a press conference on July 27 that China had taken note of the reports related to the case and expressed concern. He said that facing the current complicated situation of growing protectionism and unilateralism, China and Germany, as major global economies, had a common responsibility to maintain free trade and multilateralism. By broadening the two countries’ mutually beneficial cooperation with bidirectional openness and assistance, and by maintaining open global trade, positive energy could be inserted. It was hoped that Germany would view Chinese investment objectively, and create a stable institutional framework with a fair market for Chinese companies going to Germany.
中方如何看待德国政府将首次否决中国企业收购案？中国外交部发言人耿爽27日在记者会上表示，中方注意到有关报道，并对此表示关注。他说，面对当前保护主义和单边主义加剧的复杂形势，中国和德国作为世界主要经济体，有责任共同维护自由贸易和多边主义，通过扩大双向开放助力两国高水平互利合作，为维护开放型世界经济注入正能量。希望德方客观看待中国投资，为中方企业赴德投资创造公平开放的市场准入环境和稳定的制度框架。
German media say that this will be the first time for Germany’s government to put a new external-trade regulation to use that was passed in July 2017. The background for its formulation had been robot manufacturing company Kuka. According to the regulation, when investors from outside the EU want to acquire more than 25 percent of German companies’ shares, this will be examined by the German government. The examination periods have also increased from two to four months.
德国媒体表示，这将是德国政府第一次启用去年7月通过的新对外贸易条例。该条例制定的背景是中国企业收购了德国工业机器人制造商库卡等关键技术公司。按照规定，欧盟以外的投资方收购德国企业25%以上的股权，将接受德国政府的审查。调查时间也从原来的2个月增加至4个月。
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Prepared to veto, Reuters, Aug 1, 2018
Regular press conference, FMPRC, July 27,2018
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