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This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.
The number of international students studying in the United States is at a record high, with almost one-third coming from China, which ranks first in the academic year.
According to a report released by the Institute of International Education in the U.S., a record number of almost 890,000 international students went to the U.S. in the 2013-2014 academic year, to pursue studies in various academic courses. That's an increase of 8 percent over the previous year.
Topping the list is China, which has more than 270,000 students studying in the U.S., an increase of almost 17 percent over the previous year. China accounted for 31 percent of the total number of international students.
China is followed distantly by India, with around 100,000 students, an increase of 6 percent over the previous year, reversing a three-year trend of declining numbers of Indian students at the U.S. universities.
In the previous year, international students contributed some 27 billion dollars to the U.S. economy.
According to the report, the U.S. hosts more of the world's 4.5 million globally mobile college and university students than any other country in the world, almost doubling the figure hosted by Britain, the second leading host country.
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Britain's Old Royal Naval College has unveiled the country's first major exhibition on the life of Yan Fu, a renowned Chinese thinker, educator and translator who served as a cultural bridge between China and Britain more than 100 years ago.
Yan was born in 1854 and was one of the first ever Chinese students to study in Britain. At the age of 23, he was sent to the then Royal Naval College in London to study naval expertise and went on to become one of the most influential intellectuals in modern China.
The exhibition is called "Yan Fu and Chinese Imperial Students at the Royal Naval College", and it showcases a myriad of historical documents, books, artifacts and photographs, seeking to portray the life and times of this extraordinary thinker and his fellow Chinese students.
After finishing his studies, Yan returned to China as an accomplished "enlightenment thinker", translating and introducing to China the "Evolution and Ethics", "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Spirit of the Laws", among many other works.
Through his writings and translations, Yan presented the people of China with insights into Europe's natural, social, and political sciences as well as theories of economics and philosophy, which were much needed in China at the dawn of its turbulent journey to modernity.
He is still highly regarded in China today for his pioneering role in Chinese modern history. The exhibition runs until February 1 next year.
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Chinese archaeologists have discovered another important site of human activity dating back 300-to-500,000 years, roughly contemporary with the Peking Man.
Dozens of stone, animal bone and horn tools have been found at a limestone quarry site in a hill in the coastal city of Dalian in northeast China.
Researchers have obtained more than 1,000 important samples since the joint excavation began in August by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Dalian Natural History Museum.
Stone tools and large herbivorous animal bones that appear to have been cut or smashed by humans show the site was an important site for early human activity.
Scientists explain that deer and antelope horn tools were also used at caves in Beijing's suburbs, where the skulls of Peking Man, or Homo erectus, were found in the 1920s and 1930s.
Peking Man was first believed to have lived there around 500,000 years ago. But some Chinese scientists later said they were actually 200,000 years older, probably from a mild glacial period.
The new discovery is likely to be the earliest cultural ruins in northeast China, making it important for the study of human evolution and the origin of culture in the region.
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U.S. researchers say they've identified "weak spots" on the surface of the deadly Ebola virus that are targeted by the antibodies in ZMapp, the experimental drug cocktail administered to several patients during the recent Ebola outbreak.
The study provided a 3-D picture of how the ZMapp antibodies bind to the virus.
Using an imaging technique called electron microscopy, the new study found that two of the ZMapp antibodies bind near the base of virus, appearing to prevent the virus from entering cells.
A third antibody binds near the top of the virus, possibly acting as a beacon to call the body's immune system to the site of infection.
ZMapp, developed by San Diego-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical, was used in August to treat several patients diagnosed positive with the Ebola virus.
Five of the seven patients who received ZMapp survived and the treatment is expected to go into clinical trials early next year.
