Tianjin explosion video captures fear of eyewitnesses - BBC News
Footage of two massive explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin, taken by a stunned eyewitness, captured the fear and terror of those who saw what happened. Dozens of people died and hundreds were injured when a warehouse owned by a company specialising in handling hazardous goods caught fire and exploded. City officials say they still did not know what materials were at the warehouse at the time of the fire, or what caused the blasts. Eyewitness Dan van Duren filmed the moment of the explosions, before he and others fled to avoid the danger.
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Live: 'Real Time China' – Fancy a view of White Swans in Central China? 黄河上的“天鹅湖”
The Central Chinese City of Sanmenxia is renowned for its white swans, hence the city’s nickname – a city of white swans. These birds from Siberia come to the central Chinese city every October to escape the cold winter. To make sure these birds live comfortably there, the Sanmenxia Yellow River Wetland provides food and a safe living environment. 5,000 white swans have been found in the city as of 2018. The Yellow River Wetland is home to 276 bird species. CGTN's Li Jianhua takes you on a tour of the Yellow River Wetland. For the bird lovers, stay tuned!
Huge blast rocks gas plant in China's Henan province
A huge blast has rocked a gas plant in central China. Many windows and doors within a 3km-radius of the Yima gasification plant in Sanmenxia city in Henan were shattered. The number of casualties was not immediately known.
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Residents Reeling after Blast Rocks Homes
Residents are reeling following a gas plant blast in Yima City, central China's Henan Province on Friday that has caused severe damage to nearby residences.
A device in a gas factory owned by the Henan Coal Gas (Group) Co. Ltd., located in Yima, exploded at around 17:45 Friday, according to the government of Sanmenxia City, which administers Yima.
According to the press office of Sanmenxia Municipal Government, 12 people died in the blast, another 19 people were seriously injured, and three more are still unaccounted for as of 17:00 Saturday.
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Several Killed by Huge Explosion at Gas Plant in China
An explosion at a gas plant in central China has killed at least ten people and injured several more.
The incident in the industrial city of Sanmenxia sent a shockwave that damaged buildings within a 3km radius.
Industrial accidents in China occur regularly because of poorly enforced safety regulations.
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12Provinces Suffer from Severe Drought
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While the south is experiencing severe floods, severest drought
in decades is hitting 12 provinces in China such as Henan,
Hebei and others.
Some areas have been without water for three months.
Experts analyze water and ecology are destroyed at the cost
of rapid economic growth.
Projects such as the Three Gorges Dam and the Water Diversion
are causing huge negative impact to the surrounding ecology.
Severest drought in decades has occurred in 12 provinces
such as Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Inner Mongolia,
Xinjiang and others the summer of this year.
For instance, Shaanxi suffered its worst drought in 53 years,
Henan suffered the worst one in 63 years.
Some areas have been without water for three months.
Mainland media reported that as of July 30, drought covers
more than 11.9 million acres of farm land,
affecting 2.07 million farm animals.
More than 1.6 million people lack drinking water.
Drought mainly centers in Henan province, accounting for half
of the drought stricken area in the entire nation.
Mr. Du, a resident of Henan: There has been no rain. All the
crops were dry dead. We have to get drinking water in pails
from tens of miles away, as well as food.
Mr. Du indicates the local government has done nothing to the
disaster despite the severity of the drought and the hardship.
A peasant of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, Mr. Zhao, told NTD TV
about the local drought.
He also revealed that local reservoirs
were deliberately destroyed.
Mr. Zhao: The crops have withered. The reservoirs and the
wells were ruined intentionally long ago.
Since then, there has been no harvest.
Mr. Zhao explains, since local leaders deliberately
destroyed the irrigation facilities, farming was forced to stop.
The deserted land was then resold and became personal gain
for the village leaders. Villagers were left with nothing.
The Tibetan Plateau, the birthplace of some of China's major
rivers, suffers severe damage and pollution after dozens of
years of exploitation in the west.
Dry riverbeds are widespread in the Plateau.
Similar issues have also occurred to many other areas in China,
such as the northeast wetlands being swallowed up
by real estate development.
Sulmaan Khan, assistant Professor of Chinese
Foreign Relations at Tufts University, described in an article in
Foreign Affairs magazine, “The Chinese public is tired of the
water shortages, unsafe drinking water, and soil contamination
caused by haphazard urban development.”
The water shortage is not only a serious damage to the ecology,
but also suicidal.
The article mentioned the water diversion project brings
immense ecological risks.
“It is quite possible that the project will disrupt the river
systems and exacerbate water shortages, rather than solve them,
by triggering soil erosion.”
But, Beijing has yet to develop a plan that addresses the entirety
of its environmental woes.
Chinese financial think tank researcher Gong Shengli:
The water diversion and the Three Gorges dam, as well as the
Sanmenxia power plants built by the Soviet Union,
have resulted in disasters hard to resolve.
Many seismic activities and mud slides in surrounding areas
such as Chongqing, Sichuan and so forth, have been analyzed
to be greatly connected to ecological damage brought
by the Three Gorges Dam.
Temperatures between August 2 and 4 reached as high as
37 to 39 degrees C, and even 40 degrees in the Sichuan Basin,
Chongqing, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.
July 30, Hydrology and Resources Bureau of Henan Province
issued a drought warning: No rainfall is expected next week.
And by mid-August, most parts of Shaanxi will continue under
high temperatures and little rain, the drought will worsen.
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China: Blast occurred in the air separation unit
Aerial footage taken on Saturday has revealed the scale of devastation after a huge explosion ripped through a gas factory in central China's Henan Province on Friday. The explosion took place at around 17:45 at an air separation unit of the gas factory owned by the Henan Coal Gas (Group) Co. Ltd., located in the city of Yima.
At least 10 people have been killed, with 19 severely injured and five others remaining missing, while many others are thought to have sustained injuries. The core blast site has been reduced to ruins and covered by massive dust and debris, with all major facilities having collapsed.
The force of the explosion also heavily impacted on the surrounding area with severe damage being seen as far as 300 meters away from the core blast site. The ground nearby is covered with a mess of broken glass, rubble from collapsed walls, and a huge sea of debris. A pungent smell also still hangs in the air. All glass from windows within a radius of three kilometers was shattered due to the powerful shockwave triggered by the blast, while buildings in the area have been damaged to varying degrees.
Observation Tower, Happy Valley Wuhan China
Take a ride on the observation tower at Happy Valley, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
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North China Plain | Wikipedia audio article
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North China Plain
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The North China Plain (Chinese: 華北平原; pinyin: Huáběi Píngyuán) is a large-scale downfaulted rift basin formed in late Paleogene and Neogene and then modified by the deposits of the Yellow River and is the largest alluvial plain of China. The plain is bordered to the north by the Yanshan Mountains, to the west by the Taihang Mountains, to the south by the Dabie and Tianmu Mountains, and to the east by the Yellow Sea. The Yellow River flows through the middle of the plain into the Bohai Sea.
Below the Sanmenxia Dam is the multipurpose Xiaolangdi Dam, located in the river's last valley before the North China Plain, a great delta created from silt dropped at the Yellow River's mouth over the millennia. The North China Plain extends over much of Henan, Hebei, and Shandong provinces. and merges with the Yangtze Delta in northern Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. The Yellow River meanders over the fertile, densely populated plain emptying into the Bohai Sea. The plain is one of China's most important agricultural regions, producing corn, sorghum, winter wheat, vegetables, and cotton. Its nickname is Land of the yellow earth.
The southern part of the plain is traditionally referred to as the Central Plain (pinyin: Zhōngyuán), which formed the cradle of Chinese civilization.The plain covers an area of about 409,500 square kilometers (158,100 sq mi), most of which is less than 50 metres (160 ft) above sea level. This flat yellow-soil plain is the main area of sorghum, millet, maize, and cotton production in China. Wheat, sesame seed, and peanuts are also grown here. The plain is one of the most densely populated regions in the world.
Beijing, the national capital, is located on the northeast edge of the plain, with Tianjin, an important industrial city and commercial port, near its northeast coast. Shengli Oilfield in Shandong is an important petroleum base. It is also home to the Yellow River.
North China Plain | Wikipedia audio article
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North China Plain
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- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The North China Plain (Chinese: 華北平原; pinyin: Huáběi Píngyuán) is a large-scale downfaulted rift basin formed in late Paleogene and Neogene and then modified by the deposits of the Yellow River and is the largest alluvial plain of China. The plain is bordered to the north by the Yanshan Mountains, to the west by the Taihang Mountains, to the south by the Dabie and Tianmu Mountains, and to the east by the Yellow Sea. The Yellow River flows through the middle of the plain into the Bohai Sea.
Below the Sanmenxia Dam is the multipurpose Xiaolangdi Dam, located in the river's last valley before the North China Plain, a great delta created from silt dropped at the Yellow River's mouth over the millennia. The North China Plain extends over much of Henan, Hebei, and Shandong provinces. and merges with the Yangtze Delta in northern Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. The Yellow River meanders over the fertile, densely populated plain emptying into the Bohai Sea. The plain is one of China's most important agricultural regions, producing corn, sorghum, winter wheat, vegetables, and cotton. Its nickname is Land of the yellow earth.
The southern part of the plain is traditionally referred to as the Central Plain (pinyin: Zhōngyuán), which formed the cradle of Chinese civilization.The plain covers an area of about 409,500 square kilometers (158,100 sq mi), most of which is less than 50 metres (160 ft) above sea level. This flat yellow-soil plain is the main area of sorghum, millet, maize, and cotton production in China. Wheat, sesame seed, and peanuts are also grown here. The plain is one of the most densely populated regions in the world.
Beijing, the national capital, is located on the northeast edge of the plain, with Tianjin, an important industrial city and commercial port, near its northeast coast. Shengli Oilfield in Shandong is an important petroleum base. It is also home to the Yellow River.
Les premières images de l'explosion d'une usine de gazéification en Chine
Une énorme explosion a frappé, vendredi 19 juillet, une usine de gazéification dans le centre de la Chine, brisant des vitres dans un rayon de trois kilomètres. Un premier bilan fait état de nombreux blessés et deux disparus. La déflagration s'est produite vers 17h45 (10h45 à Paris) dans un atelier de l'usine Henan Coal Gas (Group) située dans la localité de Yima, dans la ville de Sanmenxia à environ 900 kilomètres au sud-ouest de Pékin, selon l'agence de presse Chine nouvelle. Elle a touché une unité de séparation de l'air de l'usine mais pas les zones des réservoirs de gaz, rapporte l'agence. Les explosions accidentelles surviennent régulièrement en Chine, généralement dans le secteur industriel.
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Air pollution in China | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:34 1 Pollution statistics
00:00:45 1.1 Soil contamination
00:02:28 1.2 Waste
00:04:10 1.2.1 Electronic waste
00:05:09 1.3 Industrial pollution
00:12:36 1.4 Water pollution
00:14:16 1.5 Air pollution
00:16:22 1.5.1 Particulates
00:20:38 1.5.2 Government's response to the air pollution
00:24:56 1.5.3 Four-color alert system
00:25:44 1.6 Light pollution
00:26:47 2 Pollutants
00:26:56 2.1 Lead
00:28:45 2.2 Persistent organic pollutants
00:30:04 2.3 Yellow dust
00:31:44 2.4 Coal
00:33:41 2.5 Other pollutants
00:34:09 3 Impact of pollution
00:36:08 3.1 Cross-border pollution
00:36:17 4 Criticisms of government environmental policies
00:37:25 5 Pollution ratings
00:38:32 6 National Sword Policy
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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Speaking Rate: 0.7344062411563758
Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-B
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Pollution in China is one aspect of the broader topic of environmental issues in China. Various forms of pollution have increased as China has industrialised, which has caused widespread environmental health problems.China will either shut down or curtail operations at dozens of steel plants from November 2017, over the next five months under an aggressive action plan to reduce winter pollution in Beijing and its surrounding areas.
Pollution in China | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:30 1 Pollution statistics
00:00:39 1.1 Soil contamination
00:02:07 1.2 Waste
00:03:33 1.2.1 Electronic waste
00:04:24 1.3 Industrial pollution
00:10:46 1.4 Water pollution
00:12:12 1.5 Air pollution
00:13:59 1.5.1 Particulates
00:17:38 1.5.2 Government's response to the air pollution
00:21:15 1.5.3 Four-color alert system
00:21:57 1.6 Light pollution
00:22:51 2 Pollutants
00:23:01 2.1 Lead
00:24:34 2.2 Persistent organic pollutants
00:25:42 2.3 Yellow dust
00:27:07 2.4 Coal
00:28:48 2.5 Other pollutants
00:29:13 3 Impact of pollution
00:30:54 3.1 Cross-border pollution
00:31:04 4 Criticisms of government environmental policies
00:32:02 5 Pollution ratings
00:32:59 6 National Sword Policy
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
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Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Speaking Rate: 0.9701608547785194
Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Pollution in China is one aspect of the broader topic of environmental issues in China. Various forms of pollution have increased as China has industrialised, which has caused widespread environmental health problems.China will either shut down or curtail operations at dozens of steel plants from November 2017, over the next five months under an aggressive action plan to reduce winter pollution in Beijing and its surrounding areas.
Erhu
The erhu is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a southern fiddle, and sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle. It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras. It is the most popular of the huqin family of traditional bowed string instruments used by various ethnic groups of China. A very versatile instrument, the erhu is used in both traditional and contemporary music arrangements, such as in pop, rock, jazz, etc.
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