【Today's Cover】
In mid-February, the snow in Beijing was clear, and the snow in the Summer Palace had not disappeared, and it was wrapped in silver, which was beautiful. Image source: Visual China
Message stations
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ren Chao
● On the 15th, the Ministry of Education held a press conference, and Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education, pointed out at the meeting that a breakthrough will be made in deepening the comprehensive reform of basic education. Promote the establishment of a labor education list system in all localities and schools, promote the normalization and effective development of labor education; deepen the reform of examination evaluation, accelerate the promotion of unified propositions at the provincial level of the middle school examination, effectively improve the quality of propositions, and ensure that propositions are based on standards, difficulty and moderation, and the connection between teaching and examination. (Source: China News Network)
Yani Wetland, Tibet. Image source: Visual China
●The State Forestry and Grassland Administration announced the news on the 15th that the State Forestry and Grassland Administration recently approved the construction of four national terrestrial ecosystem positioning observation and research stations, including the swamp meadow in the Sanjiang Plain of Heilongjiang, the Yani wetland in Tibet, the Muli grassland in Qinghai, and the xining city in Qinghai. (Source: CCTV News)
New discoveries
Image source: Visual China
● On the 15th, samuel Wasser's team at the University of Washington published a paper in Nature and Human Behavior, saying that the team's researchers used DNA from more than 4,000 African elephant ivory to identify the network that illegally trafficked ivory out of Africa. (Source: China Science Daily)
Predominantly white, slightly greenish samples of spodumene. The paper sent a photo courtesy of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
●Recently, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Scientific Expedition Research Team of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered super-large lithium ore in the Qiongjiagang area of the Himalayas. The lithium mine is considered to be "expected to become the third largest lithium mine in mainland China after Bailongshan and Chuanxi Methyl card in southern Xinjiang" and is "the first pegmatite lithium mine with industrial value in the Himalayas". The results have been published in the Journal of Petrology. (Source: The Paper)
Pure technology
Lunar landing sampling area (a) and Chang'e-5 landing area impact crater statistics (b). Courtesy of the Aerospace Academy of sciences
● On the 15th, Nature Astronomy published an important result of lunar scientific research online. Using the isotopic age of the Chang'e-5 lunar sample and the statistical results of the impact crater in the landing area, researchers from the Institute of Aerospace Information Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other units have established a new and more accurate model of the lunar dating function based on the current commonly used lunar dating function. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)
● Recently, a paper published in the British journal Nature Communications said that under the gravitational conditions simulating the moon and Mars, the oxygen production of electricity-decomposed water was reduced by 11% compared with the general Earth's gravity conditions. The paper points out that in the future, before humans establish possible settlements on the moon or Mars, they may need to consider consuming more energy to produce oxygen that can be breathed. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)
Look at the world
● On the 15th, Russia successfully launched the "Progress MS-16" cargo spacecraft to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. According to the plan, the spacecraft carrying 1600 kilograms of supplies will dock with the International Space Station on the 17th. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
Watching the Winter Olympics
China's Gu Ailing in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Zhuang
● On the 15th, in the final of the women's steeplechase skills of freestyle skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's Gu Ailing scored a high score of 86.23 points, and won a silver medal after winning the gold medal in the big jump. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
Source: Xinhua News Agency
● On the 15th, the final of the men's snowboarding platform at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was held on the Beijing Shougang Ski Jump, and China's Su Yiming won the gold medal. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
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