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ZXY:
Peng Liyuan meets with students of Austrian school in Beijing
Peng Liyuan, Chinese President Xi Jinping's wife, met with a group of students and teachers from Sydney, Australia Tuesday afternoon at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in central Beijing.
In a merry atmosphere, Peng, together with the 11 girls and five teachers, watched a video recalling her visit to the Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney in November 2014 during Xi's state visit to Australia, and listened to the girls telling their experience over the past ten days in China.
Prior to Beijing, the girls went to Shanghai and Nanjing in east China, Chengdu in the southwest and Xi'an in the northwest.
They had conversations with students in Nanjing No.1 Middle School - a sister school of Ravenswood - took a high-speed train between Shanghai and Nanjing, saw pandas in a research base in Chengdu and the terra cotta warriors in the ancient city of Xi'an.
They also visited the Great Wall and the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, the main venue of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Calling their visit "fruitful and rewarding," Peng said the girls not only saw the picturesque scenery of China and had a taste of the Chinese history and culture, but also knew quite some Chinese friends.
"I hope the visit will help deepen your understanding of China," said Peng.
She encouraged the girls to make the best of their youth to study more and travel more, and continue to learn the Chinese language and culture so as to be "young ambassadors" and contribute greater share to the friendship between Chinese and Australian peoples.
Speaking highly of the booming development of education cooperation between the two countries in recent years, Peng expressed the hope that both sides can further expand two-way education cooperation in the hope of nurturing more successors to the cause of China-Australia friendship.
As UNESCO Special Envoy for the Advancement of Girls' and Women's Education, I am fully aware how important education is for all girls and the world," Peng said.
"We need to work together to ensure the equal access to education for all girls in the world so that they can enjoy a happy life," she said.
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LCJ:
US suicide rate surges, particularly among white people
The suicide rate in the US has surged to its highest level in almost three decades, according to a new report.
The increase is particularly pronounced among middle-age white people who now account for a third of all US suicides.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report did not offer an explanation for the steep rise.
However, other experts have pointed to increased abuse of prescription opiates and the financial downturn that began in 2008 as likely factors.
The report did not break down the suicides by education level or income, but previous studies found rising suicide rates among white people without university degrees.
"This is part of the larger emerging pattern of evidence of the links between poverty, hopelessness and health," Robert D Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, told the New York Times.
CDC reported on Friday that suicides have increased in the US to a rate of 13 per 100,000 people, the highest since 1986.
Meanwhile, homicides and deaths from ailments like cancer and heart disease have declined.
In the past, suicides have been most common among white people, but the recent increases have been sharp.
The overall suicide rate rose by 24% from 1999 to 2014, according to the CDC. However, the rate increased 43% among white men ages 45 to 64 and 63% for women in the same age-range.
In 2014, more than 14,000 middle-aged white people killed themselves.
That figure is double the combined suicides total for all blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and Alaska Natives.
The suicide rate declined for only two groups: black men and all people over 75.
LZY:World Leaders to Sign Climate
Agreement on Earth Day
Leaders from 130 nations are gathering at the United Nations to sign the historic climate deal reached in Paris last December. The signing happens on the 46th anniversary of Earth Day. Since 1970, every year people around the world observe the day by doing different activities to clean up the environment.On April 22, 1970, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson organized the first Earth Day with a “national teach-in on the environment.”Earth Day Network says 20 million Americans gathered in the streets, parks and meeting halls “to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment” in large rallies across the country.This year, more than a billion people will celebrate the day by working for a clean environment. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has urged countries to take action to fix climate change. “That is the only way which we can save this one, only, planet Earth.” Island nations are very vulnerable the stronger storms and rising sea levels brought on by climate change. One example is the Pacific island of Fiji. Super Cyclone Winston crashed into the island nation last February, killing 44 people and causing $1 billion in damage.A remote Fijian village is photographed from the air during a surveillance flight conducted by the New Zealand Defence Force on Feb. 21, 2016. Fiji’s Prime Minister Josaia Bainimarama talked about their fear about the future: “The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as Winston’s is increasing. And we all have to be fearful about what this means―not only for ourselves, but for future generations.” It was last December, in Paris, France that world leaders worked out the details for the historic agreement. It limits the rise in global temperatures to well below two degrees Celsius.It provides a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions those include pollution from factories and the burning of fossil fuels like coal. The agreement calls for a way to stop the effects of warming the planet. That includes moving towards using renewable energies, like wind and solar― or power from the sun. Putting the plan into action will take several steps. First, the 130 leaders gathering in New York Friday will sign the agreement. Then their governments must ratify or formally approve it-- to put it into action. Selwin Hart is director of the U.N. Climate Change Support Team. He says the Paris Agreement must cross two important lines to become enforceable. First, at least 55 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change must ratify the agreement. And those 55 countries must represent 55 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. China and the U.S. are the biggest contributors to the world’s global greenhouse gases. Together, the countries are responsible for about 40 percent of the world’s emissions. Both the U.S. and China support the agreement. They are pushing for its early adoption by all the nations. The target date to start the agreement is 2020. That could change. If all the countries ratify it quickly, it could happen this year, or in early 2017.
