【Today's Cover】
On the evening of the 4th, the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games in Beijing was held at the National Stadium, and the Chinese delegation entered the stadium singing the music of the motherland. Image source: Visual China
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Infographic. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Junxi
●As of February 3, 2022, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have reported a cumulative total of 3,001.624 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. (Source: National Health Commission)
Pure technology
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●On the 4th, the research team of Li Dapeng of the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology in Germany published a paper in science in the form of a cover paper that revealed for the first time how plants can cleverly assemble their specific metabolites to cope with the non-host resistance mechanism of the leafhopper, a major agricultural pest. (Source: CCTV News Client)
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●Recently, the research team of Deng Hongkui of Peking University, the research team of Peng Xiaozhong of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the research team of Shen Zhongyang of Tianjin First Central Hospital cooperated to systematically evaluate the safety and efficacy of IPS-derived islet transplantation in the treatment of diabetes by USing preclinical primate diabetes animal models, laying a solid foundation for further standardizing the clinical research on the treatment of diabetes by IPS-derived islet transplantation. The relevant research results were published online on the 4th in the international authoritative journal "Nature and Medicine". (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
Look at the world
On the 2nd, people lined up for testing at a mobile COVID-19 testing point in the German capital Berlin. Xinhua News Agency, photo by Stefan Zetz
Marco Cavaleri, head of vaccine strategy at the European Medicines Agency, said at a press conference on the 3rd that he encouraged pharmaceutical companies not only to study monovalent vaccines against Omicron, but also to study vaccines that are effective for a variety of variants. Conducting clinical trials on multiple vaccines will be the "strongest way to push the envelope," but "if clinical trials of a monovalent vaccine against Ami kerong can be carried out quickly, I think we will only support it." (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
The Amazon region of Brazil has seen high levels of deforestation in recent years. Image source: Universal Television Brazil
According to the latest data released by Brazil's National Institute of Space Research, the area deforested in the Amazon region of the country is the highest in January since monitoring began in 2015, and exceeded the historical record on January 21. Data from Brazil's Real-Time Deforestation Monitoring System shows that the Amazon region reached 360 square kilometers of deforestation in January. (Source: CCTV News Client)
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At 13:13 EST on the 3rd, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 49 "Starlink" satellites at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX has launched a total of 2,091 StarLink satellites and launched the more expensive StarLink Premium service. (Source: The Paper)
According to a notice from Ecuador's Ministry of environment, the country's crude oil pipeline spill on January 28 has contaminated Yasuni National Park, the country's largest nature reserve. The report of the accident party OCP Company shows that after the company found that the pipeline leaked, it closed the pressure valve in time, organized manpower to block the spread of pollution, and recovered crude oil. Even so, some of the pollutants have spread to Yasuni National Park. (Source: CCTV News Client)
Look at the weather
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● From the fifth day of the Lunar New Year (February 5) to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the largest rain and snow weather process since the Tiger Year will occur in the central and eastern parts of the mainland. The process has the characteristics of wide range, large magnitude, complex rain and snow phase, and local frozen rain, and the impact will affect more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions and cities, and there will be heavy snow in Hunan, Hubei, Anhui and other parts, and heavy snow in southeast Tibet. (Source: China Weather Network)
Editor: Zhang Qiqi
Review: Yue Liang
Final Judgement: Wang Yu