The highly anticipated college entrance examination essay questions are finally out!
This year's essay questions can be said to keep pace with the times, with likes from the circle of friends, the popularization of artificial intelligence, and the lunar exploration project...... This requires candidates to not only familiarize themselves with textbooks, but also read outside of class.
And "Visiting the Stars: The Story of China Flying to Space" and "Ten Minimalist Artificial Intelligence Lessons" published by Yilin Press have successfully bet on the essay questions of this year's new curriculum standards Volumes I and II!
"Visiting the Stars: A Chinese Story of Flying to Space" takes the Chinese space station as the starting point, gathers the best contemporary Chinese science fiction writers, takes the Chinese space station as the starting point, based on the pioneering scientific and technological achievements of China's space, imagines the grand blueprint for Chinese to further explore the universe with the Chinese space station as the starting point, and realizes the perfect integration of the most cutting-edge aviation knowledge and the most brilliant poetic oriental imagination.
From Qu Yuan's "Tianwen" to Zhang Heng's "Lingxian", asking the stars is a romantic tradition of the Chinese.
From the Shenzhou manned spacecraft to the Tiangong space station, visiting the stars is the contemporary journey of the Chinese.
"Visiting the Stars: Chinese Stories of Flying to Space" records the bits and pieces of Chinese's visits to the stars with romantic and realistic imagination. From precision-running aerospace instruments to whimsical space hot pots, Jiang Bo, Baoshu and other writers imagined the possibilities of China's space station in the future. Behind their writing, there are not only the romantic imagination of the Chinese for thousands of years, but also the unremitting pursuit of contemporary Chinese astronauts. The Chinese's yearning for the stars has been consistent throughout the ages.
Go to the nine heavens and ask the sky. From asking the stars to visiting the stars, every small step for Chinese is a big step for all Chinese sons and daughters.
In addition to the essay questions for the college entrance examination, "Visiting the Stars" has also been a frequent visitor to major science fiction awards in the past two years, and the articles included in it have won many awards:
"The Weightless Language" (by Daywarm): Gold Award for Novella at the 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards;
"Our Martians" (by Bao Shu): Best Science Fiction Novella Award at the 2nd Science Fiction Planet Awards, Silver Award for Novella at the 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards;
"The Lake Wind Blows Through the Cold Moon" (written by Vientiane Fengnian): Silver Award for Short Stories at the 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards;
"Hanging by a Thread" (by Jiang Bo): Best Short Story Award at the 34th China Science Fiction Galaxy Awards, and Best Short Story Nomination Award at the 2023 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Awards.
At the end of this year, Yilin will also publish a collection of science fiction novels written by science fiction writers after entering BYD, which is in line with the hot spots of new energy, low-altitude economy, and new quality productivity, and looks forward to betting on the college entrance examination questions next year.
"Ten Minimalist Artificial Intelligence Lessons" keeps abreast of the latest advances in the field of artificial intelligence around the world, and examines various applications of artificial intelligence from face recognition to large language models, from unmanned driving to global economic management.
The content of the book is scientifically organized and includes many interesting sections such as knowledge boxes, legends, and glossaries. The step-by-step chapter arrangement effectively lowers the knowledge threshold, so that each chapter contains new knowledge without exceeding the reader's ability to accept it. The book also won the Best Children's Book Award in the 2023 China Children's Book List for its use in extracurricular reading for middle school students.