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The robots have been designed to carry out many of the tasks, but others must still be done by as gateway humans, such as implanting devices within bones. The operations on Tuesday were Province’s cultural heritage provides all completed at around 1 pm. foundation for tourism, openingup “The combination of 5G tech nology with surgical robots is a huge technological advance that By ZOU SHUO been made in the first seven will help us share our skills with [email protected] months of this year, Hu said. more patients in distant Passenger throughput reached regions,” Tian said. “People Known for its rich history and 44.6 million at the Xi’an Xianyang across society can now have cultural heritage, Northwest Chi International Airport last year, access to top medical resources. na’s Shaanxi province is actively making it the seventh busiest air In the future, using robots and participating in the Belt and Road port in China, he said. 5G will be common. The medical Initiative to break new ground in Having been home to China’s community will be smarter.” its efforts to open up, the province’s capital for more than 1,000 years, Wei Wei arrives at Ziqing Lake Safari Park in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Wednesday. Ten pandas Jiang Wenxue, head of orthope top official said on the province enjoys a from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Chengdu, Sichuan province, dics at Tianjin First Central Hospi Wednesday. rich heritage with more were moved to the Nanjing park in one day by air. Among the 10, six were born overseas, of which two tal, where one of the surgeries took Shaanxi has been an than 50,000 cultural are a pigeon pair — one male and one female. YANG BO / CHINA NEWS SERVICE place, said 5G technology provid important gateway to sites and 7 million relics ed clarity and continuity of images China since ancient stored at its museums, he — videos and still photos — as well times. As early as the added. as stability, reliability and safety, Western Han Dynasty The province’s heri which helped the doctors in Bei (206 BCAD 24), trade tage also attracts many jing monitor progress and com routes were opened tourists from home and Top adviser calls for more efforts municate with their counterparts between East and West, abroad and is helping the in remote operating rooms. Shaanxi Party Secretary Hu Heping province become an “With the network, we can per Hu Heping said at a important international to improve quality of education form surgery regardless of the dis news conference at the tourist destination. tance,” Jiang said. State Council Information Office. Tourism revenue in Shaanxi The Tianjin subsidiary of the More than 100,000 foreigners reached 599 billion yuan last year, By ZHANG YI Chinese characteristics enters a new including preschool education, State Grid Group has been pro lived in Chang’an when it was capi with 630 million visits made, the [email protected] era, the contradiction between peo rural education, vocational educa moting the integration of the elec tal of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 press release said. Among them, ple’s increasing demand for quality tion, private education and teach trical grid and 5G technology and 907). At the time, Chang’an was 4.37 million visits were made by China’s top political adviser, Wang education and the unbalanced and ers’ welfare. Their suggestions will has developed plans to ensure that the only city in the world at the foreign tourists. Yang, called on other political advis inadequate development of educa be handed over to government power is not interrupted during time with a population of more The province welcomed about ers nationwide on Wednesday to tion is more prominent. departments. surgeries. than a million, he said. 370 million domestic and interna contribute their wisdom in helping “We must continue to regard mor VicePremier Sun Chunlan Xiang Huangmei, vicepresi Today, the province has econom tional visitors in the first half of achieve an education system that al cultivation as the fundamental briefed the political advisers about dent of China Telecom’s Beijing ic and trade exchanges with more this year, and tourism revenue can meet the demands of people. task of education, promote educa recent developments in the educa branch, said the bandwidth of 5G than 180 countries and regions. Its reached more than 373 billion The Standing Committee of the tional equity and improve the tion sector, calling for joint efforts is 10 times greater than 4G, total import and export volume yuan during that period, it said. National Committee of the Chinese income and social status of teachers,” from various sectors to create a which provides tremendous reached more than 351 billion Liu Guozhong, the province’s People’s Political Consultative Con Wang said. favorable environment for improv speed advantages. yuan ($49 billion) last year, governor, said it has also made ference concluded a threeday ses He said that the social foundation ing education services. “The high speed of 5G has according to the news conference. great efforts in improving people’s sion on Wednesday that was of achieving a successful education Zhang Qingli, vicechairman of resolved the timelag problem and The Chang’an ChinaEurope livelihood and disposable income. themed on quality development of is that the whole society and every the CPPCC National Committee, brought about dramatic progress Freight Train has connected 44 The average disposable income education. family should have a scientific view urged political advisers to pool their in remote surgeries,” she said. countries and regions in Central among the province’s urban resi Wang Yang, chairman of the of education and success, and cor wisdom and offer constructive pro In June, Jishuitan Hospital per Asia, the Middle East and Europe. dents reached more than 33,300 CPPCC National Committee, said rectly understand the purpose of posals on education development. formed 5Gassisted remote robot The freight trains made 1,235 trips yuan last year, while rural resi that since the founding of the Peo education. The CPPCC is an important organ ic surgery on a patient in Yantai, last year, six times more than in dents’ disposable income stood at ple’s Republic of China in 1949, Chi Wang called on political advisers for political consultation under the Shandong province, monitored 2017. A total of 1,073 trips have more than 11,200 yuan, he said. na has established the largest to actively promote the country’s leadership of the Communist Party by doctors in Beijing. China Tele education system in the world and educational policies, do more to of China. Members serve as advisers com provided network support. enjoys a high global ranking. remove doubts and build consensus, in government, legislatures and Luo Jun, secretarygeneral of However, there is still a long way and guide the public to have a more judiciaries and put forward propos the International Health Indus to go before the country can culti comprehensive and rational under als on major political and social try Forum, a Beijingbased think vate an education system that satis standing of education. issues. tank, said the use of advanced fies all people, he said. During the session, the political technologies such as 5G, 3D He added that as socialism with advisers discussed seven topics Xinhua contributed to this story. printing and artificial intelli gence is an unstoppable trend in China’s medical sector. “The risks of surgery are highly Newspaper Society reelects veteran publisher controllable, and the medical teams always have emergency plans for power or network fail The Newspaper Society of Hong serve as one of the society’s 13 coun sional standards of journalism and ures,” he said. Kong reelected veteran publisher cil members. safeguard the interests of the industry. Lee Chojat as president, and senior Other council members are Alan Although the structure of the Yang Cheng contributed to media professional Keith Kam Lo (Am730), Zhang Jieling (Hong media industry has undergone enor this story. Woonting as chairman on Monday. Kong Commercial Daily), Alice mous changes, the society strongly At its 65th annual general meet Kwok (Hong Kong Economic Jour believes that traditional media still ing, the association also reelected nal), Eric Lai (Hong Kong Economic has credibility with fair and objec Briefly Siu Saiwo and Alice Kwok Yim Times), Keith Kam (Ming Pao Daily tive reporting. This is something ming as vicechairpersons. News), Siu Saiwo (Sing Tao Daily that cannot be easily replaced, it said Other officebearers elected were and The Standard), Lo Winghung in a news release. ZHEJIANG Honorary Secretary Zhang Jieling (Sing Tao Daily), Chow Chungyan The society has been organizing 5 die after truck tire and Honorary Treasurer Eric Lai (South China Morning Post), Alex the annual Hong Kong News Awards Chunfair. The society also reap Ho (South China Morning Post), Yu competition, in recognition of the catches fire in tunnel pointed Lau Chikuen as executive Shijun (Ta Kung Pao), Lin Ying (Wen outstanding work of journalists. A road accident that left five peo director and Lo Winghung as Wei Po and Lion Rock Daily), and This year’s competition in April ple dead and 31 injured in Zhejiang spokesman. Chung Wanching (The New Even received an overwhelming response province on Tuesday was caused Zhou Li, editorial board member ing Post). from the industry with more than by dense smoke from a truck that of China Daily Group, and publisher The society, established in 1954, has 630 entries submitted. caught fire in a tunnel, local A 3Dprinted “Terracotta Warrior” is displayed at an exhibition for and editorinchief of China Daily 14 member newspapers. It has authorities said on Wednesday. Shaanxi province in Beijing on Wednesday. ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY Hong Kong Edition, will continue to pledged to continue to raise profes CHINA DAILY Preliminary investigation showed that the accident occurred at 6:27 pm when a truck’s tire caught fire in a tunnel on the Shenyang Haikou expressway, according to Exhibit of ancient books to celebrate national library’s anniversary the publicity department of the city of Taizhou. A total of 36 people By WANG KAIHAO can trace the roots of Chinese civili history books in ancient China, tural relics and intangible cultural “That means each copy has an ID were sent to hospital for treatment, [email protected] zation today is largely attributed to which will also honor its author heritage has greatly risen among the card to indicate who collected it and five of whom died of smoke inhala these textual recordings.” Sima Guang, who coincidentally public in recent years, better protec where it is housed,” Chen said. tion, according to the department. An exhibition of ancient Chinese The National Museum of Classic was born exactly 1,000 years ago. tion of ancient books will become the Lin added that a database record books will kick off in Beijing on Sept Books, affiliated to the National The earliest printed comprehen next big talking point,” Chen said. ing overseas collections of ancient SICHUAN 7 to celebrate the 110th anniversary Library of China, will host the exhi sive Tibetan Buddhist sutras from A national project was launched Chinese books is also being built. He 12 accused of making of the National Library of China, the bition, which is currently scheduled 1410, collected by Sera Monastery in in 2007 to systematically investi estimated about 3 million copies are Ministry of Culture and Tourism to last three months. Lhasa, the Tibet autonomous gate, categorize, restore and digital now housed abroad. A section of the key meth ingredient announced on Wednesday. The catalog of exhibits, which has region, also reflects the rule of the ly copy huge numbers of ancient exhibition is set to display some Police in Southwest China’s Si The exhibit will include more been partially released to media by Chinese central government over books that are scattered nationwide. “national treasures” returned from chuan province said they had than 300 ancient books that are Lin Shitian, a veteran researcher of Tibet in history, according to Lin. It For instance, more than 200 pro overseas for the first time since 1949. recently caught 12 people after among the most precious selected ancient books at the National was printed in Nanjing, Jiangsu grams have been organized to train Examples showing Sinoforeign breaking up a ring suspected of from the collections of 40 public Library of China, covers a wide province, then China’s capital, and people to restore ancient books, and cultural exchanges in ancient times producing a key ingredient of crys institutions and 30 individuals range of book varieties and periods. was bestowed upon the monastery in the National Library of China are also on display, such as a 15th tal meth. The public security nationwide. For example, some samples of Liye by Emperor Yongle of the Ming alone, digital copies of 32,000 century edition of Almagest by bureau of Pengxi county, under the According to Chen Binbin, coun Slips, which were unearthed from Dynasty (13681644). ancient books have been uploaded ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy, city of Suining, said they had seized sel of the public service department Hunan province, are so far the only Lin highlighted the only surviving online. Euclid’s Elements in Manchu and 21 metric tons of ephedra sinica, a under the ministry, the exhibition known remnants of government copy of Libu Yunlue, an official dic According to the National Center other books in Latin, English, Ital source of ephedrine that can be will be the largest for ancient books documents from the Qin Dynasty tionary of poetic rhythm from the for Preservation and Conservation ian and other languages. Lin processed into methamphetamine, in the 70year history of New China. (221206 BC). Song Dynasty. When it appeared on of Ancient Books, there are 30 mil explained that many of them were from the ring’s den. The suspects “Compared with general cultural Also on display will be pages of the auction in 2013, it was hailed as “the lion ancient books in China, and an introduced into Chinese imperial will be charged with illegally pro relics, books are more fragile and Song Dynasty’s (9601279) printed biggest discovery of ancient Chinese ongoing general survey has regis courts through Western missionar ducing and trading narcotic sub more difficult to preserve,” Chen version of History as a Mirror, one books in recent years”. tered over 80 percent of them in a ies during the Ming and Qing (1644 stances, according to the police. said. “However, the reason why we of the most important chronological “As consciousness protecting cul national database. 1911) dynasties. XINHUA