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HONG KONG, Jan 9 (SCMP): China is planning to realign hundreds of “state key laboratories” with the country’s technology priorities and articulate a 10-year programme to boost spending on fundamental science research, as Beijing rolls up its sleeves in competing for tech dominance against the United States.
At the national technology working conference on Tuesday, the Ministry of Science and Technology said China will carry out a systemic restructuring of the country’s national key labs and release a 10-year plan to boost the country’s basic scientific research.
Priorities for 2021 also include mobilising a nationwide system to seek breakthroughs in key research areas, and encouraging enterprises to take on a more dominant role in science and technology research, the ministry said at the conference chaired by Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang.
Have Covid and brutality killed Hong Kong s pro-democracy movement?
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By: Richard Lloyd Parry It was in November last year that I first met Spider-Man; then, as now, he looked nothing like a superhero. I found him at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the narrow campus in central Hong Kong where a tumultuous confrontation was taking place.
Looking back more than a year later, it was the climax of the democracy struggle. Everything that had happened since the summer led up to it; everything that happened since has trailed away.
None of this was obvious at the time. One thousand protesting students armed with bows, arrows and firebombs had occupied the campus, a city block of multi-storey buildings, courtyards and staircases, besieged by an encircling army of riot police. For two days, they had kept them at bay with their barricades and stones fired from giant makeshift catapults. And now the battle was turning.
Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat in Hong Kong
Senior clerics see the detentions as a sign China wants to close the Vatican mission
in the territory, while the local diocese attempts to rein in pro-democracy voices
By Greg Torode / Reuters, HONG KONG
In a high-walled Art Deco villa in the Hong Kong suburbs of Kowloon, the Vatican operates an unofficial diplomatic mission, its only political outpost of any kind in China.
The mission keeps such a low profile that it is not listed in the Roman Catholic Church’s formal directory of every priest and property in the territory. The two monsignors who staff the outpost have no formal standing with Beijing or the Hong Kong government, and they do not conduct official work, not even meeting Hong Kong officials.
Backpacking trips have been something of a rite of passage for young people for almost 70 years.
Whether you re setting off around the world, or exploring a particular region, country, or city, taking off with a few belongings and moving from destination to destination remains a hugely attractive prospect for those searching for fun and adventure.
Sadly, the border restrictions implemented due to Covid-19 have left most backpackers unable to travel extensively, and many are itching to hit the road once again. But even when the world begins to reopen, they might struggle to find their place in it.
Although round-the-world trips vacations date back centuries, it wasn t until the 1950s and 60s, when backpacking as we know it truly began.