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China&`&s vocational education system is now the largest in the world, with almost 30 million students. That&`&s according to a report presented to the top legislature, the National People&`&s Congress, by Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.
While acknowledging some achievements, the report pointed out many problems the system faces, including poor public recognition and fluctuating funding.
The report is a result of the NPC Standing Committee&`&s first survey of the vocational education. It highlights the poor public perception of vocational education as one of the principal impediments to its development.
It is a widely accepted practice that universities cream off the best students, and after the big players have satisfied their hunger for new admissions, vocational colleges pick up the scraps.
When it comes to finding a job, vocational graduates are often excluded from applying for top vacancies. While more than 90 percent of them will secure jobs, salaries for most are far from decent. Promotion prospects are no less grim.
The report suggested honoring skilled technical workers and stated that technicians&`& salaries should be increased. It also proposed new regulations to ensure fairness for vocational students in the job market.
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China has become a world leader in high-speed railway technology with its development of a cutting-edge permanent magnet synchronous traction system. The system will take bullet trains to an ultrafast 500 kilometers per hour.
The advanced 690-kilowatt traction system was developed by CRRC Corporation, China&`&s train-making giant, at its Zhuzhou Institute in central China&`&s Hunan province. The new product will soon enter mass production.
The institute says that now China has its own permanent magnet synchronous traction system with full intellectual property rights, marking a new chapter in the country&`&s high-speed railways. Only a handful of countries are capable of manufacturing the sophisticated apparatus, including Germany and Japan.
Experts say the adoption of the technology will reshape the high-speed railway industry because traction equipment is the most important part of a bullet train.
Currently, most high-speed trains in service in the world are propelled by a traction system first developed in the 1970s.
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The number of complaints for harmful content online has reached 1 million for the first time in May, and sexually oriented information was the No 1 offender.
China&`&s cyberspace watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration, received 1.7 million complaints from the public that month, and has since taken steps to deal with it.
According to the administration, 830,000 complaints were related to sexual offences, accounting for almost 60 percent of all complaints. That was followed by political and fraudulent complaints.
In May and June, the administration conducted a campaign to fight online obscenity and clean up the Internet for web users, especially the young people, the most active group by far.
Hong Daode, a law professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, welcomed the move and suggested the public security departments should monitor the online promotion of prostitution.
The administration has opened accounts on WeChat, the most popular instant messaging tool in China, and on micro-blogging platforms, in order to make it easy for the public to report improper content on the Internet.
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The Great Wall is under assault from both man and nature, and preservation is proving to be no easy task.
Part of the wall running through the wilderness of Funing County in Hebei Province has gone to rack and ruin, with many sections crumbling and leaving large gaping holes.
According to China&`&s official Xinhua News Agency, this is not an uncommon scene. Exposure to the elements has left many parts of the structure too fragile to even withstand bad weather. In 2013, several towers in Funing collapsed during a torrential downpour. A 36-meter section in Hebei Province was destroyed by a storm in 2012.
Overgrown vegetation is accelerating the decay process, and big trees are taken root in between the bricks.
It is not just natural forces, but tourism and other human activities that are contributing to the Wall&`&s demise.
In Lulong County, many of the local homes are built with thick grey bricks, exactly like the ones used for the Great Wall.
Some of the bricks are carved with ancient Chinese characters and drawings. They are often sold on the black market for around 40 yuan each, roughly 6.4 U. S. dollars.
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The Palace Museum in Beijing may have wider jurisdiction over its surrounding areas in the future, that&`&s according to a draft blueprint released recently.
The 100-hectare museum, also known as the Forbidden City, was China&`&s royal palace from 1420 to 1911. It was listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 1987.
However, its auxiliary buildings, adjacent waters and green spaces are administered by many other institutions, making it difficult to coordinate protection efforts.
The blueprint was drafted by an architect with the China Architecture Design and Research Group. It is the first long-term protection blueprint overseeing the museum&`&s work in multiple fields.
The draft is waiting for approval by the State Council, China&`&s Cabinet. If passed, it will take effect before the end of this year.
The Palace Museum is the world&`&s biggest museum housed in a former royal palace. Fifteen million people visit the museum every year on average, topping all the big museums in the world.
The Palace Museum introduced a policy in June to cap the daily visitor number at 80,000.
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