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Typhoon Cempaka, the seventh typhoon this year, made landfall in the coastal area of south China's Guangdong Province Tuesday night, bringing strong winds and heavy rains.     The typhoon landed on the coast of Jiangcheng district in the city of Yangjiang, packing winds of up to 118.8 km per hour near its eye, the provincial meteorological center said.     It also has called back 384 fishing vessels and asked 2,680 fish-farming workers to be evacuated ashore. Nearly 5,000 people in the city have been evacuated to safety.   The Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, the provincial cap...

An elderly student introduces herself to her class in fluent English. "My name is Peng Shengwu. I am 80 years old. I like singing, playing piano and learning English. Welcome to Changsha and to my university."   After years of study in Changsha, in Hunan province, Peng has mastered conversational English. She can even understand some English news broadcasts. "Learning makes me happy. And besides," she said with a mischievous grin, "I don't want to get senile dementia."   A passionate learner, the patient, optimistic grandmother also helped her hearing-impaired grandson become a men's single...

Picture taken on Oct. 8, 2012 shows Nord Stream pipeline equipments before the opening ceremony of the North Stream second gas link in Portovaya bay, near the town of Vyborg in northwestern Russia. (Xinhua)   "The Germans have put forward useful proposals and we have been able to make progress on steps to achieve that shared goal ... to ensure that Russia cannot weaponize energy flows," a State Department spokesperson said.   The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that Washington and Berlin had made progress on the contentious issue of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.   The 1,230...

Fixed-asset investment by China's centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) rose 10.5 percent year on year to 1.1 trillion yuan (about 170 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2021, official data showed.   The data put average year-on-year investment growth for the same period of 2021 and 2020 at 8.7 percent from the 2019 level, according to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council.   In June alone, central SOEs invested 291.27 billion yuan, an increase of 49.6 percent from the previous month.   During the January-June ...

China's 2021 box office revenue topped 29 billion yuan (about 4.48 billion U.S. dollars) as of Thursday.   The milestone this year was hit more than a month later than in 2019, when the same total was achieved on June 12, according to data from box office tracker Maoyan.     Comedian and actress Jia Ling's maiden directorial project "Hi, Mom" and Wanda Pictures' comedy "Detective Chinatown 3" lead the yearly chart, with total respective earnings of 5.41 billion yuan and 4.52 billion yuan, or more than 18 percent and 15 percent of the total.   The only two foreign films in the top 10 are t...