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    The most important moment in a young person’s life:

    13 million high-school graduates will be taking the college entrance exam (“gaokao”) in a few days in China. 😱

    The top universities accept only about 50,000 students — that’s 0.4% acceptance rate. Ouch!

    In the end, about 10 million will end up going to college, so it’s not too bad for the rest.

    But great innovations and progress will depend on those 0.4% crème de la crème.

    This exam tradition is almost 2000 years old in China. It’s the basis of meritocracy.


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    By the way. Gaokao is not like SAT in the US.

    Gaokao is on another level. It involves two days of exams that have multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank and essay questions.

    And the subjects are everything under the Sun:

    Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Chinese language, history, philosophy, foreign language (English) and so on.

    The exam depends on what the student wishes to study in college. Math is one of the compulsory subjects.

    A sample math question:

    If x + y ≥ a, x - y ≤ -1, and the minimum value of z = x + ay = 7, what is a? 😰

    A. -5
    B. -5 or 3
    C. 3
    D. 5 or -3

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    I thought I'd add this, which I found fascinating. How the heck do the Chinese use computer keyboards??


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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    I thought I'd add this, which I found fascinating. How the heck do the Chinese use computer keyboards??

    Interesting - I didn't know that before.
    So I searched for how many Chinese language symbols there are and was wondering, if new symbols are added from time to time (even in recent years) and I couldn't find any clear answer.
    (I came to this question when asking for which western words do not exist any Chinese equivalents. In such cases either formulating with existing words or phonetic spellings are used.)
    I thought - there must exist by now some extensive computer library for all Chinese language symbols and some means to track changes and additions over time or does one have to use a Chinese web search?
    Who knows and can fill me in on this?
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    From conflict to coexistence: China sees changing human-wildlife relations

    * Monday marks the International Day for Biological Diversity.

    * Humans are exploring ways to avoid conflict and coexist with wild animals in harmony.

    * While some residents are trying to live in harmony with wild animals, some others have changed their way of making a living.

    BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Residents in the rural area are used to having unexpected visitors - wild animals like hedgehogs and weasels. But what if the intruder is an elephant?

    Pu Cuifen, from a village in Eshan County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, had that experience two years ago when a herd of wild Asian elephants left their forest habitat in Xishuangbanna, trekked hundreds of kilometers northward to the provincial capital Kunming and then headed back home to the nature reserve.

    "I've only seen elephants in a zoo before, not expecting a wild elephant would appear at my doorstep," said Pu, a villager group leader, adding that she immediately mobilized villagers to evacuate overnight for safety.

    The elephants harmed no one but had corn and beans in the farmland, causing losses of up to 50,000 yuan (about 7,127 U.S. dollars). With government-supported insurance, the villagers got compensated soon.

    "Learning the elephants arrived home, we felt happy for them," said Pu.

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    This aerial photo taken on Aug. 13, 2021 shows a herd of wild Asian elephants in Mojiang County of Pu'er, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Photo by He Yougang/Xinhua)

    This epic journey of wild Asian elephants indicates an increasing population of the species in China and provides a successful experience to solve the "human-wildlife conflict," said Chen Fei, director of the Asian elephant research center under the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

    Monday marks the International Day for Biological Diversity.

    With the continuous ecological conservation efforts in China, endangered wild animal species, such as Asian elephants, snow leopards and Siberian tigers, have seen a rise in populations and expanded their habitats, with humans exploring ways to avoid conflict and coexist with them in harmony.

    COEXISTENCE WITH LOVE

    Asian elephants, a pivotal species in the rainforest ecosystem, are under first-class national protection in China. The elephants are mostly found across Yunnan.

    Although its population is declining worldwide, the population of the endangered species in China has grown from 150 in the 1980s to 360 at present, thanks to protection efforts over the past decades.

    Statistics show up to two-thirds of wild Asian elephants have wandered out of the nature reserve, leading to more contact with humans.

    In the past, villagers would chase away the elephants to protect their crops and avoid financial losses, which may irritate the animals and lead to human injuries or deaths. Afraid of the giant animals, some villagers did not dare to leave their homes or farm in the field.

    Wan Yong, head of the provincial forestry and grassland bureau, said Yunnan raised the compensation standard for the crops more prone to be consumed by elephants. Such compensation will help protect the interests of farmers and, at the same time, avoid the wild animals seeking food on farms from being attacked, said Wan.

    The province has also created "canteens" for the wild elephants, growing over 600 hectares of their favorite food, such as elephant grass and bamboo.


    This aerial photo taken on May 9, 2023 shows a field where people grow favorite food for wild elephants in Dadugang Township of Jinghong City, Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

    A national park for Asian elephants is also in the works.

    Wang Chuan, 44, lives in a village in Jiangcheng County, where a dozen wild elephants wander nearby.

    "Instead of attacking them or chasing them away, villagers now simply leave them alone," said Wang. "Our crops might get damaged, but we tolerate them with love."

    CONSERVATION WITH HEART

    While some residents are trying to live in harmony with wild animals, some others have changed their way of making a living, from damaging the environment to protecting it.

    In Gyirong County, a core area of Qomolangma National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, former logger and hunter Migmar has become a wild animal rescuer in the reserve on the China-Nepal border with Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak at 8,848.86 meters at its core.

    He and his seven colleagues take turns patrolling every day. Since the establishment of the wildlife rescue station in 2019, they have rescued 17 wild animals, including those under China's first-class national protection, like a snow leopard.

    Migmar, a former logger and hunter who has become a wild animal rescuer, feeds a rescued bharal at the wildlife rescue station of Qomolangma National Nature Reserve, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 14, 2023. (Xinhua/Sun Fei)

    Last year, he took care of an injured red muntjac attacked by a beast. He learned to bandage the deer and clean its wounds, and six months later, he released it into the wild.

    "Animals don't talk, but I can feel their trust. We have the responsibility to protect them," said Migmar, 44.

    In northeast China's Jilin Province, the forest farm where Zhao Yan worked to produce timber has become part of a national park for the protection of tigers and leopards.

    In the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, which spans an area of over 1.4 million hectares in Jilin and Heilongjiang, Zhao patrols more than 200 days a year, installing and checking infrared cameras and surveying the living conditions of wild animals.

    "I'm not an expert, but a long time of fieldwork has given me abundant data on wildlife," said Zhao, now deputy director of the monitoring center for scientific research of the national park administration's Hunchun branch.

    This undated photo taken with an infrared monitoring camera shows a wild Siberian tiger in Tianqiaoling forest area, northeast China's Jilin Province. (Xinhua)

    The latest data show that the population of wild Siberian tigers in the park has exceeded 50, while the figure was 27 around 2017. Meanwhile, the number of Amur leopards in the park has increased from 42 in 2017 to more than 60.

    Zhao said the comeback of the giant cats has shown that the ecological chain is restoring, and their protection efforts have paid off.

    "I hope wild animals can live at ease, with humans and wildlife coexisting in harmony," he said.
    (Video reporters: Sun Min, Si Xiaoshuai, Shao Meiqi, Tenzing Nima Qadhup, Lodro Gyatso, Tian Jinwen; video editors: Jia Xiaotong, Hui Peipei, Zheng Xin, Lin Lin) ■

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