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Into the cockpit Nation shares experience Children tour shielding girls from virus a hangar at the Mogan Mountain airport during By CUI JIA summer vacation [email protected] 53 in Deqing county, countries Zhejiang province, China shared its experiences have received epidemic on Tuesday. The on how to protect the life and control supplies from China local government health of women and girls during for women and children. organized the the fight against the COVID­19 activity for more pandemic at an international vir­ than 30 children tual roundtable meeting held by One of the key factors contrib­ of migrant work­ the United Nations Women on uting to the success of China’s ers to spark their Wednesday. efforts in containing the disease interest in avia­ The pandemic has significant has been the use of a whole­of­ tion and enrich implications for gender equality society approach that has lever­ their summer (Sustainable Development Goal aged the contributions and break. 5) given its disproportionate energies of women and men WANG ZHENG / impact on women, UN Women across key sectors to respond to FOR CHINA DAILY said during the virtual ministeri­ the pandemic, according to UN al roundtable meeting on ensur­ Women. ing progress toward SDG 5 amid China’s experience has demon­ the COVID­19 pandemic, entitled strated that when women are “From Response to Recovery”. mobilized and given the space Huang Xiaowei, deputy direct­ and opportunity to demonstrate or of the National Working Com­ their leadership, they can play a mittee on Children and Women critical role in effective response under the State Council and vice­ and recovery, it added. president of All­China Women’s The meeting aims to bring Chi­ Normalcy returning to South Federation, shared the efforts na and other global partners to made by Chinese women in epi­ discuss the impact that COVID­ demic control in the keynote 19 has had on gender equality speech. and women’s empowerment. Unity and cooperation are the Representatives from 11 coun­ best weapons to fight the COVID­ tries took part in the meeting. as Typhoon Hagupit moves on 19 pandemic. China has sent epi­ UN Secretary­General Antonio demic control supplies to women Guterres said that limited gains and children in 53 countries, she in gender equality and women’s Blue alert issued for Yellow Sea region said. rights made over the past dec­ China was also one of the first ades are in danger of being rolled as northbound storm regains intensity countries to be impacted by, and back due to the COVID­19 pan­ to contain, COVID­19. demic. By XING YI in Shanghai weather center, which has issued a [email protected] blue alert for provinces around the Yellow Sea and has advised ships at Life along China’s east coast had sea to return to port. Chips: Many businesses in mostly returned to normal by China has a four­tier color­coded Wednesday afternoon after an over­ weather warning system, with red night disruption caused by the land­ representing the most severe weath­ industry chain will benefit fall of Typhoon Hagupit on Tuesday. er, followed by orange, yellow and Hagupit, the fourth typhoon this blue. From page 1 the sustainable development of the year and the first to make landfall After making landfall, the semiconductor sector. The impor­ on the Chinese mainland, brought typhoon brought heavy rainfall to “It will greatly increase inte­ tance of chips has been further gales and torrential rains to China’s Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces as grated circuit enterprises’ profits, underlined by the US government’s east coast during the wee hours of well as Shanghai. A pedestrian hurries in the heavy rain during the morning rush hour and boost the confidence of all efforts to contain the rise of Chinese Tuesday before heading north to the Precipitation in Yongjia and on Wednesday in Shanghai. Typhoon Hagupit passed the city on employees who work in the sec­ tech companies,” Xiang said. west coast of the Korean Peninsula Yueqing in Zhejiang was highest, Tuesday night, bringing torrential rainfall. LIU XIN / FOR CHINA DAILY tor,” Mi said, “The move will also The State Council also said that late Wednesday. reaching 400 to 552 millimeters, attract more private capital to China will continue improving its With the advent of Hagupit, the which led to the grounding of hun­ bankroll promising semiconduc­ business environment for interna­ National Meteorological Center on dreds of flights, caused rail trans­ Many operations that had been Yet the typhoon will continue to tor companies.” tional chip companies to invest and Saturday upgraded the alert for the portation delays and brought suspended because of the storm — have an impact, according to the Xiang Ligang, director­general develop in the nation. More efforts typhoon from blue to yellow and operations at ports and ferry lines including the Shanghai Yangshan weather forecast. Large precipita­ of the Information Consumption will also be made to cultivate talent then from yellow to orange on Tues­ along the east coast to a halt. Deep Water Port, the world’s largest tion will dominate North China over Alliance, a telecom industry associ­ for the semiconductor sector. day, when the storm made landfall While the exact number of casual­ automated container terminal the next three days. ation, said that compared with pre­ Zhang Wenfeng, an engineer at a in Yueqing, Zhejiang province, at ties brought by the typhoon is not yet located in Hangzhou Bay south of Rainfall may reach over 200 mm vious policies which chiefly benefit Shanghai­based chip startup, said about 3:30 am before moving north known, Xu Guochao, a 39­year­old Shanghai — resumed by Wednesday in the central and southern areas of chip design enterprises, the new he was encouraged by the new pol­ past Shanghai and downgrading to grassroots official, died while helping afternoon, according to China News North China, including Shanxi and package of favorable measures is icy incentive. “With strong govern­ a tropical depression at 5 am on villagers evacuate Xixi township in Service. Hebei provinces, said the National designed to support companies in ment support and local companies’ Wednesday. Zhejiang, the Xinhua News Agency Most of the outdoor screening ses­ Meteorological Center. the entire semiconductor chain, growing input into R&D, this is the Since the tropical depression reported. sions for the ongoing Shanghai The center also warned of land­ including chip equipment, materi­ best time for me to work at a chip moved to the Yellow Sea, it has In general, the disruptions caused International Film Festival reopened slides and torrents in mountainous al, packaging and testing. company.” picked up intensity to become a by the typhoon have remained lim­ to the public on Wednesday night, areas because of the expected heavy “Such change underlines a tropical storm, according to the ited. the event’s organizers said. precipitation. rational and long­term vision for Cheng Yu contributed to this story. Study: Some US colleges allowing students to take their classes in China

From page 1 was a sophomore, to increase his “The university said the govern­ who are currently in China and are for foreign universities, many have chances of getting into a top US uni­ ment had cut its funding due to the unable or prefer not to travel to their lowered admission requirements, “However, from a policy and secu­ versity. The senior high school stu­ We’re tired of the pandemic, which meant I would US campuses this fall. making it easier for Chinese stu­ rity perspective, the US is no longer dent returned to his hometown in have to spend 400,000 to 500,000 The Shanghai campus will wel­ dents to be admitted to well­known the top choice, and we’re considering Dongguan, Guangdong province, in uncertainties, of not yuan ($57,600 to $72,000) each year come some 2,300 Chinese under­ universities abroad, he added. sending our daughter to other coun­ mid­March, just as the pandemic knowing whether the in the US, and the costs are simply graduates and 800 graduate Tom Dretler, chairman of educa­ tries, such as Canada, the United became more serious in the US. too high,” the 24­year­old said. students from NYU and NYU Abu tion consultancy US News Global Kingdom or Australia,” Xu said. “Coming home was not an easy policies will get stricter, Ni said he was also worried about Dhabi for the fall semester, the Education, said he thinks the atmos­ China is the largest source of inter­ choice, since it affects my university whether our visas will his safety in the country, as there university said. phere of interaction and the overall national students in the world, with application, as I have not taken the was no sign that the pandemic Duke University also plans to cooperation framework between 662,100 leaving the country to study SAT, but my family and I still believe be invalidated, or would be brought under control allow around 125 students to spend the US and China in terms of educa­ overseas in 2018. Almost half chose that safety is the most important whether we will be anytime soon. Hostile policies of the fall semester at Duke Kunshan tion remain healthy, despite current to study in the US. thing,” the 18­year­old said. the US government toward Chinese University, the college it runs with bilateral frictions. Since 2009, China has been the Although he is still worried about targeted and blamed students also prompted his return, Wuhan University in Kunshan, The broad context of the policies biggest source of international stu­ returning to the US for undergradu­ for the pandemic, so he added. Jiangsu province. issued by the Trump administra­ dents for US schools. According to ate studies, he said it is too late to Many Chinese students were hor­ Cornell University unveiled a tion this year was that the US is the US­based Institute of Interna­ come up with a plan B, as he has coming home is a rified and emotionally exhausted by “study away” program last month going to have an election in around tional Education, one in three of the spent the past three years preparing tough but natural a succession of US measures that will allow Chinese students to 90 days. The president is trying to more than 1 million overseas stu­ for the US college enrollment system. choice.” announced since last year, he said. spend the fall semester at one of determine a strategy, or any strate­ dents in the US came from China in “I’m afraid my only choice is to They included limiting job opportu­ several elite domestic colleges, gy, to reverse his standing in the the 2018­19 academic year. continue to study in the US, as I Ni Shiya, a Chinese student who nities for international graduates including Peking and Tsinghua uni­ polls, and one of his strategies is to However, implementation of a would fail miserably if I participated studied in the US for four years from US universities, prohibiting versities in Beijing. make comments about China­US string of US government policies in the national college entrance Chinese students from receiving Hu Min, president of New Chan­ relations, Dretler said. seen as unfriendly and its blaming of exam in China. Going to study in oth­ visas to study in STEM (science, nel International Education Group, Many US universities now offer China for the pandemic, as well as er countries also requires lots of Safety concerns technology, engineering and math­ an overseas study consultancy spring and summer admission in protests over racial issues, have made preparation,” Xiao said. Moreover, while education quali­ ematics) fields, and the recent poli­ based in Beijing, said although the addition to the conventional fall many Chinese students reconsider However, he said, recent hostile ty remained the most important fac­ cy flip­flop on whether foreign pandemic has dampened the enthu­ admission. They are also rolling out plans to study in the US. policies and rhetoric by some US tor considered by Chinese students students whose universities were siasm of some parents and students flexible measures for students, with The UK has beaten out the US for politicians who oppose China when deciding which country to only teaching online would be for overseas study, it was not a major 61 percent scheduled to offer online the first time to become the preferred appear to be deterring many young­ study in, safety was the second­most granted visas. hurdle for those who were commit­ teaching, and 16 percent planning overseas study destination for Chi­ er Chinese students from choosing important factor this year, up from “We’re tired of the uncertainties, ted to studying abroad in the long to adopt hybrid teaching that allows nese students, according to a new the country. seventh place last year. The degree of not knowing whether the policies term, as they would come up with students to finish the remaining report by New Oriental Education The idea that studying overseas of xenophobia was seventh this year, will get stricter, whether our visas ways to deal with the inconvenience parts of their programs after the and Technology Group, an overseas guaranteed access to better educa­ up from 13th place last year, accord­ will be invalidated, or whether we it has brought. pandemic is no longer a significant study agency based in Beijing. tion resources is gaining less trac­ ing to the EIC report. will be targeted and blamed for the “It has not changed the fact that threat, he added. In a survey of 6,673 Chinese stu­ tion among parents and students, Ni Shiya, who has spent the past pandemic, so coming home is a many parents still want their chil­ Yu Lizhong, chancellor of NYU dents by the company, 42 percent Xiao said, especially as Chinese uni­ four years in the US, returned to tough but natural choice,” Ni said. dren to receive a quality education, Shanghai, said the pandemic and hoped to study in the UK, com­ versities continue to improve aca­ China in July after Georgia State gain international experience and tensions in the China­US relation­ pared with 37 percent who pre­ demically. University cut funding for his doc­ Remedy measures become more independent, disci­ ship have not seriously dampened ferred the US. That is a significant A report by EIC Education, an toral program due to the pandemic. To prevent a steep decline of Chi­ plined and confident by studying students’ long­term enthusiasm to turnaround from four years ago, education consultancy based in Bei­ He obtained a master’s degree in nese student enrollment, some US abroad by themselves,” he said. pursue overseas study and foreign when 30 percent of respondents jing, found that 16.3 percent of stu­ sports management at Rutgers Uni­ universities have resorted to special While the US has tightened visa universities are still eager to enroll hoped to study in the UK and 46 dents are uncertain about whether versity, but just over a month into arrangements to allow them to pur­ policies for some Chinese students, Chinese students as they usually pay percent planned to go to the US. to go abroad to study, while 14.5 per­ his four­year doctoral program at sue their programs without leaving the UK has reopened its post­study full tuition. cent have delayed their overseas GSU, the university decided to cut China. work visa to attract more interna­ If bilateral tensions persist in the Losing appeal study plans by half a year and 11.3 the funding, which included a Under the New York University tional students, Hu said. long­term, more Chinese students Xiao Yejiong transferred to a US percent have delayed them by one monthly subsidy and $40,000 a year Global Network’s “Go Local” plan, Given that Chinese students have will choose destinations that are high school two years ago, when he year due to the COVID­19 pandemic. for tuition, he said. NYU Shanghai will host students become a major source of revenue more welcoming, he said.