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TOKYO, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) — Japan’s elderly people have accounted for 28.4 percent of its population, hitting a record high, Japanese government statistics revealed Sunday. The country’s seniors constituted 12.9 percent of Japan’s labor force in 2018, also a record high, according to data released by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry. Japan, with the world’s oldest population, has 35.88 million people aged 65 or older, up 320,000 compared to 2017, according to the data …

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developer said Tuesday. The newly-developed TQ-800 motor is expected to be used in a multinational interconnected high-speed train project, according to the CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Co., Ltd. Adopting a fully-enclosed and directional cooling structure, the TQ-800 motor boasts high power density, excellent low-temperature adaptability and low maintenance cost, the company said. The successful development of the motor breaks the monopoly of foreign technologies in this area and lays a solid foundation for the upgrade of …

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PARIS, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — Global warming would be more severe than expected by 2100 unless governments take concrete moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, French scientists warned on Tuesday. By 2100, global mercury rise would reach 6 to 7 degrees Celsius due to “rapid economic growth driven by fossil fuels”, experts from the National Center for Scientific Researches, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and weather agency Meteo France warned. “Only one of …

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China will hold the sixth World Internet Conference in October in the river town of Wuzhen in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, according to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) Wednesday. The conference will run from Oct. 20 to 22, with the theme of “Smart, connectivity, openness and cooperation: jointly build a community of shared future in cyberspace,” said Liu Liehong, deputy director of the CAC, at a press conference. Focusing on science and technology, industries …

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U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered interest rates for the second time this year amid growing risks and uncertainties stemming from trade tensions and a global economic slowdown. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed’s rate-setting body, trimmed the target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 1.75 percent to 2 percent after concluding its two-day policy meeting, following a rate cut in late July that was its …

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A conservation initiative by a global Chinese firm has won the 2019 Champions of the Earth award, the UN highest environmental honor, according to a statement from UN Environment (UNEP) issued on Thursday in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Ant Forest, a green initiative on the world’s leading payment and lifestyle platform Alipay, was honored on Thursday for turning the “green good deeds of half a billion people” into real trees planted in some of China’s …

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Five new remote-sensing satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert Thursday. The five satellites were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 2:42 p.m. (Beijing Time). The satellites belong to a commercial remote-sensing satellite constellation project “Zhuhai-1,” which will comprise 34 micro-nano satellites, including video, hyperspectral, and high-resolution optical satellites, as well as radar and infrared satellites. The carrier rocket was developed by the …

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Over 80 percent of college students interviewed in a recent survey believe that frugality is important in one’s life, China Youth Daily reported. Of the 1,988 college students surveyed, 87.9 percent thought people should be frugal, while 83.8 percent claimed that they pay attention to their costs of living expenses. Most of the students surveyed managed to maintain their monthly living expenses in a reasonable range, with 77.3 percent of the interviewees spending between 1,000 …

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