China's Wang Han (top) and Shi Tingmao compete in the women's 3-meter synchronized springboard diving final at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Sunday. The pair won China's first diving gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. [Photo/Xinhua]
>China leads Tokyo gold rush
The Chinese delegation won a total of 6 gold medals in the previous two days
China led the gold rush on the second day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with weightlifters Li Fabin, Chen Lijun and divers Shi Tingmao and Wang Han launching the national team to the top of the medal table on Sunday. Team China secured six golds, one silver and four bronzes to lead the medal haul, ahead of hosts Japan, who grabbed five golds and one silver.
On July 25, the Tokyo Olympic Games ended the second competition day, in the weightlifting event, China's li fabin and Chen Lijun won gold, and in the diving event, China's combination Shi Tingmao and Wang Han won gold, so far, the Chinese sports delegation won a total of 6 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 4 bronze medals, ranking first in the medal table, and the host Japanese delegation won 5 gold and 1 silver and ranked second.
The United States was in third place with four gold, two silver and four bronze medals.
The U.S. delegation finished third in the medal table with a record of 4 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze.
On Saturday, student Yang Qian won China's first gold of the Tokyo Games in the women's 10-meter air rifle. China's two other gold medals on Saturday were won by Hou Zhihui in the women's 49kg weightlifting and Sun Yiwen, who won the women's epee.
On July 24, shooting athlete Yang Qian, still a student, won the first gold for the Chinese delegation at the Women's 10m Air Rifle Event at the Tokyo Olympics, Hou Zhihui won the gold medal in the women's weightlifting 49 kg final, and Sun Yiwen won the final of the women's epee individual event.
Rescuers carry sand bags onto a vehicle to prepare for the typhoon In-Fa at a village in Dongyang city, Zhejiang province, on July 26, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
>Emergency response called for typhoon areas
The 'fireworks' landing emergency response was activated
Chinese authorities on Sunday launched a level-IV emergency response for disaster relief as Typhoon In-Fa hit the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang. The response was co-activated by the China National Commission for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Emergency Management for disaster-stricken areas, including Zhoushan, Shaoxing and Ningbo.
On July 25, the National Disaster Reduction Commission and the Ministry of Emergency Management urgently launched the national level IV disaster relief emergency response in response to the disaster caused by typhoon "fireworks" to Zhoushan, Shaoxing, Ningbo and other places in Zhejiang Province.
Work teams dispatched to the affected regions earlier shall also serve as disaster-relief forces to inspect losses and provide guidance to local departments, the ministry said.
The working group dispatched in the early stage was transformed into a disaster relief working group on the spot, went deep into the disaster area to inspect the disaster situation on the ground, and guided and assisted the local governments to do a good job in disaster relief work.
Typhoon In-Fa made landfall in east China's Zhejiang province at noon on Sunday, packing winds of up to 38 meters per second at its center according to the provincial flood control headquarters. The typhoon -- the sixth this year -- hit land in Putuo district of Zhoushan at approximately 12:30 pm, the headquarters said.
According to the Zhejiang Provincial Flood Control and Drought Control Headquarters, this year's No. 6 typhoon "Fireworks" has landed in Putuo District of Zhoushan around 12:30 on July 25, with a maximum wind speed of 38 m/s in the center.
Zhejiang has opened more than 12,000 temporary shelter facilities to the public.
Zhejiang Province has opened more than 12,000 resettlement sites to the public.
In the neighboring megacity of Shanghai, Typhoon In-Fa felled over 1,000 trees and caused waterlogging in several places as of Sunday at noon.
In neighboring Shanghai, as of noon on July 25, more than 1,000 trees had fallen and waterlogged in many places due to typhoon "fireworks".
All inbound and outbound flights at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport and Hongqiao International Airport were canceled on Sunday.
On July 25, shanghai pudong international airport and Hongqiao international airport, all passenger inbound and outbound flights canceled.
All inbound high-speed trains for Shanghai's railway stations were canceled starting 7 pm Sunday.
After 19:00 on July 25, all high-speed trains from all directions to shanghai railway stations were suspended.
An outlet of New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. [Photo/Provided to China Daily]
>China to rein in tutoring sector
The 'double reduction' policy comprehensively regulates off-campus training
Chinese authorities have introduced a guideline to ease the burdens of excessive homework and off-campus tutoring for students undergoing compulsory education.
On July 24, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Further Reducing the Homework Burden and Off-campus Training Burden of Students in the Compulsory Education Stage.
The guideline, jointly issued by the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council on Saturday, bans local authorities from approving any new tutoring institutions for academic course training during the nine years of compulsory education. All existing curriculum-based tutoring institutions will have to register as nonprofit organizations and cannot raise money from the public, the guideline said, adding investment in such institutions by listed companies will also be prohibited.
The "Opinions" require that all localities no longer approve new discipline-based off-campus training institutions for students in the compulsory education stage, and existing discipline-based training institutions are uniformly registered as non-profit institutions, and capitalization operations are strictly prohibited. Listed companies must not raise funds through the stock market to invest in discipline training institutions.
Tutoring institutions should not offer overseas education courses, nor teach content too advanced for the school curriculum, it said. Curriculum-based training will also not be allowed on weekends, national holidays or during winter and summer vacations.
The "Opinions" strictly prohibit training institutions from providing overseas education courses, strictly prohibit training that exceeds the standard and advances, and must not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days, and winter and summer vacations to organize subject-based training.
Skyline of historical neighborhood of Quanzhou [Photo by Chen Yingjie for chinadaily.com.cn]
>Quanzhou added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Quanzhou's 22 Historical Sites of the Song and Yuan Dynasties were successfully applied for as a whole
"Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China" was inscribed onto the UNESCO World Heritage List on Sunday during the ongoing 44th Session of the World Heritage Committee hosted in Fuzhou, Fujian province, bringing the total number of the country's UNESCO World Heritage sites to 56.
On July 25, the 44th World Cultural Heritage Congress, which is being held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, officially inscribed China's "Quanzhou: World Marine Trade Center of Song and Yuan China" project on the World Heritage List, becoming the 56th World Heritage Site in China.
The new entry includes 22 sites and monuments across Quanzhou, which reflect a prosperous picture of maritime trade from the 10th to 14th centuries.
The Quanzhou heritage series consists of 22 monuments and sites that together show the scene of the highly prosperous maritime trade in the 10th and 14th centuries.
The Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties witnessed a peak in ancient Chinese maritime trade, and Quanzhou, then known overseas as Zayton, grew into one of the busiest seaports in the world.
The Song and Yuan dynasties witnessed the heyday of ancient Chinese maritime trade, when the "Thorn Tong Port" was one of the busiest seaports in the world, and the Thorn Tong was now Quanzhou.
The 22 representative historic monuments and sites include administrative buildings and structures; facilities showing the city's structure, such as its gates, walls and roads; religious sites and statues that witnessed multicultural communities; cultural memorial sites and monuments; iron and ceramic production sites and the city's transportation network formed by bridges, docks and pagodas that guided voyages.
The 22 sites include the ruins of administrative institutions, the remains of key facilities in the urban pattern composed of city gates, city walls, road networks, etc., religious buildings and statues of diverse communities, historical sites of cultural monuments, ceramics and iron smelting production bases, and a water and land transportation network consisting of bridges, docks, and navigation towers.
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