Norway took first place in the medal table; Britain approved China's nuclear power technology; and the National Development and Reform Commission interviewed the coal industry

(20220209) Daily News Express

1. Norway rose to the top of the Medal Table at the Winter Olympics

On the 6th day of the Winter Olympics, Norway, a nordic ice and snow powerhouse, began to exert its strength and jumped to the first place in the medal table of the Winter Olympics. China dropped to 4th place:

The top 10 countries in the medal table are ranked as follows:

2. The cumulative number of confirmed covid-19 cases worldwide has exceeded 400 million

According to the statistics of the new crown epidemic at Johns Hopkins University, as of 17:21 Eastern Time on the 8th (6:21 Beijing time on the 9th), the cumulative number of confirmed covid-19 cases worldwide exceeded 400 million, reaching 400244031, and the cumulative number of deaths was 5761208.

The United States is the country with the largest cumulative number of confirmed and fatal cases so far, with 77025027 cumulative confirmed cases and 908262 cumulative deaths. The countries with more cumulative confirmed cases include India, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, Russia and Turkey, and the countries with more cumulative deaths include Brazil, India, Russia, Mexico and Peru.

3. Canada's anti-vaccine demonstrations have triggered imitation effects in many countries

The anti-COVID-19 vaccine demonstrations launched by Canadian truck drivers have not only become a rallying point for anti-pandemic restrictions, but have also provoked imitation effects in countries such as the United States and New Zealand.

Dozens of New York city government employees marched through the streets on Monday (Feb. 7) holding giant U.S. and Canadian flags to protest the city's mandatory vaccination against covid-19, Agence France-Presse reported. According to the regulations, municipal employees who do not receive vaccinations will face dismissal. Participants in the demonstrations included firefighters and teachers.

New Zealanders also blocked streets near parliament houses in Wellington on Tuesday in trucks and campervans to protest government restrictions and vaccination regulations.

Similar calls have emerged on social platforms in Europe, France, Belgium and other countries. Final tense development remains to be seen.

4. The United Kingdom approves China's nuclear power technology

Despite the UK government's concerns that involving China in key domestic infrastructure projects could jeopardize national security, the UK's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Authority and the AGENCy issued a joint statement on February 7 confirming that China's indigenous nuclear power technology Hualong One passed the UK's universal design review. Under the agreement signed between the two countries, Hualong One will be used for the construction of the Bradwell B nuclear power project in the south-east of England.

The "Bradwell B" nuclear power project is one of the projects signed by the Chinese nuclear power company CGN in 2016 with EDF and the British government to build a new nuclear power package in the UK. According to the plan, the "Bradwell B" nuclear power project will build two "Hualong One" units, jointly owned by EDF and CGN.

This is of great significance for the international promotion of China's nuclear power technology, and it is also an inevitable choice for the United Kingdom, which has suffered from an energy crisis.

5. The scale of population migration during the Spring Festival has doubled, and Sichuan Guangdong people love to go home

Data from China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. shows that from the first day of the Spring Festival (January 17) to February 2, the national railway carried 90.35 million passengers.

On the day of the start of work after the holiday, all localities ushered in the peak of returning to work. Taking February 8 as an example, 29.02 million passengers were sent across the country on the same day. Among them, the railway is expected to send 8.35 million passengers, 19 million passengers on the road, 480,000 passengers on the waterway and 1.19 million passengers in civil aviation. The national highway is expected to flow 29.3082 million vehicles.

According to the data of AutoNavi Map and Baidu Map, the peak of the return journey occurred on February 6 (the sixth day of the first month of the first month). Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Hunan, Shandong, Anhui, Hubei, Henan, Guangxi and Zhejiang became the top ten most popular provinces in the country, and Guangdong topped the list with a 13.47% migration rate. The top ten provinces in the country are Sichuan, Guangdong, Hunan, Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hubei, Guangxi and Jiangxi.

6. The National Development and Reform Commission interviews enterprises with inflated coal prices to stabilize coal prices

On the afternoon of February 9, the Economic Operation Regulation Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission will preside over a video conference to arrange for the stabilization of coal market prices and interview some enterprises with inflated prices.

The participating units included Shanxi Provincial Energy Bureau, Inner Mongolia Energy Bureau, Shanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission, National Energy Group, China Coal Group, Hegang Group, etc.

The annual long-term price of coal prices is 725 yuan / ton, and the current main contract price of thermal coal has reached 877 yuan / ton.

7. The total number of 5G base stations in China accounts for more than 60% of the world

According to the People's Daily, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently released the "2021 Communications Industry Statistical Communiqué", showing that by the end of 2021, the mainland has built and opened 1.425 million 5G base stations, built the world's largest 5G network, and achieved coverage of all prefecture-level cities and urban areas, more than 98% of county urban areas and 80% of townships and towns.

The total number of 5G base stations in the mainland accounts for more than 60% of the world, and the number of 5G base stations per 10,000 people has reached 10.1, an increase of nearly 1 times over the end of the previous year. More than 300 cities have launched the construction of gigabit optical fiber broadband networks.

8. Guangzhou will spend 345.2 billion yuan this year to do 650 large projects

The Guangzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission has published a notice on the official website about the key project plan of Guangzhou in 2022 (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"). Guangzhou has arranged a total of 650 key projects this year with an annual investment of 345.2 billion yuan and 130 preparatory projects with an annual investment of 18.8 billion yuan.

Among them, there are 227 infrastructure projects, involving information, aviation, ports, highways, high-speed rail, subways, energy, etc.; 278 industrial construction projects, of which 128 are strategic emerging industries and advanced manufacturing industries, 138 are modern service industries; 9 projects are ecological and environmental protection projects; 88 projects are social and people's livelihood; and 48 are key work projects such as urban renewal.

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