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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

SHANGHAI, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — China's first C909 medical rescue aircraft arrived in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, on Tuesday and was handed over to China Flying-Dragon General Aviation Co., Ltd., marking a milestone in the development of the country's commercial aircraft industry.

With a maximum design payload of 10 tons and a range of 3,700 km, the C909 medical rescue aircraft can operate at high-altitude airports and can be easily converted to perform missions such as transporting medical teams, providing medical care to remote areas, and transporting the sick and wounded, according to the aircraft's developer, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd.

Flying Dragon is the country's first local general aviation company, approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. It carries out rescue operations, police flights, aerial photography and short-haul transportation.

An air medical alliance called "Wings of Life C9" was also established in Zhengzhou on Tuesday, bringing together more than 40 representatives from healthcare, aviation, manufacturing, insurance and government agencies.

The alliance will seek to expand the use of the C909 in the aeromedical field, contributing to the construction of the country's public health system and emergency response. -0-

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BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — A joint cultural performance was recently held in Mohe City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, by the Greater Khingan Region of China's Heilongjiang Province and the Aldan Region of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War.

According to the Internet portal chinahlj.cn, the event was held under the theme “Together Preserving History, Hand in Hand Opening the Future.” Chinese and Russian artists jointly performed with bright numbers, giving the audience an unforgettable cultural holiday.

The program “Welcome to Mohe to admire the polar lights”, presented by the Greater Khingan Arts Theater, colorfully demonstrated the landscapes of forest expanses and unique folk traditions of the region. Thanks to the performance, the audience seemed to plunge into the boundless expanses of the Greater Khingan, felt the rhythmic pulse of this land, and was deeply imbued with the sincere devotion and dedication of the border residents to their homeland.

The performance by the string ensemble of the State Philharmonic of the Republic of Sakha /Yakutia/ fully demonstrated the exceptional sophistication of Russian music, allowing the audience to enjoy its unique charm. The Chinese pieces performed by the ensemble, including “Little Apple”, combined a familiar melody and an exotic style of performance, clearly reflecting the mutual enrichment and interweaving of Chinese and Russian cultures.

To thunderous applause, the performance successfully ended with a joint performance of the song “We are friends” by Chinese and Russian artists. The melody of the song echoed in the sky above Mohe, symbolizing the deep and long friendship of the peoples of China and Russia, inspiring people to remember history, cherish peace and jointly discover a better future. -0-

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BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists have found that Earth's atmosphere has experienced three major oxygen transitions over the past 2 billion years, moving from anoxic to oxygen-abundant, providing new insights into the origins of life, evolution and long-term biohabitability of the planet.

The study, conducted by scientists from Chengdu Institute of Technology and Nanjing University, was recently published in the journal Nature. It presents data on triple oxygen isotopes in sulfate salts found in sedimentary rocks.

"Our study provides the first direct evidence to date that oxygen levels on Earth reached their current levels around 410 million years ago, confirming a three-stage process by which our planet's surface was saturated with this life-giving gas," said Li Chao, a professor at the Institute of Sedimentary Geology at Chengdu University of Technology.

He explained that triple oxygen isotopes refer to the three stable isotopes of oxygen, and their relative abundance in various natural substances was not constant, but underwent subtle changes due to biogeochemical processes in the atmosphere and oceans. By measuring these subtle differences – much like reading the Earth’s “fingerprint” – scientists can infer how ancient environments on our planet’s surface evolved.

However, researchers have long lacked effective tracking methods and data that can summarize changes in Earth’s surface oxygen supply, its sources and sinks, and key controlling factors. This study addresses this gap by combining systematic sample analysis and the integration of documentary data.

New data show that the first sudden increase in oxygen content occurred in the Paleoproterozoic era /2.4-2.1 billion years ago/, the second in the Neoproterozoic era /about 1 billion years ago/, and the third in the Paleozoic era /about 440 million years ago/.

These changes indicate that oxygen levels on Earth gradually increased from low levels, approaching the current oxygen-rich stable state about 410 million years ago, and this process continued for almost 2 billion years.

Meanwhile, during the Neoproterozoic, dramatic, interconnected shifts in carbon, sulfur, and oxygen isotopes suggest that as atmospheric oxygen increased, it began to periodically acidify the largely oxygen-poor oceans.

"This study not only lays a solid foundation for understanding the stepwise evolution of complex eukaryotic life, but also opens up new perspectives for studying the formation of habitable planets and ancient hydrocarbon source rocks," Li Chao said.

“It also demonstrates the interactive relationship between the atmosphere and the oceans throughout this long process, providing the basis for a crucial step in answering the fundamental question of when and how the Earth became habitable,” he concluded. -0-

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BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — Early in the morning of Sept. 1, an elementary school in Heihe, east China's Heilongjiang Province, was filled with unusually lively children's voices. The Russian "Hello" was intertwined with the Chinese "Good morning." The corridors of the school were filled with a noisy crowd of children. Blond-haired Russian students and their Chinese peers stood on tiptoe, holding hands, looking at the class assignment lists posted on the classroom doors.

According to the internet portal sina.com, Heihe Primary School has accepted 32 Russian students this new school year. The lively atmosphere of the “international campus” has become the most vivid embodiment of the people’s friendship between China and Russia.

"Mom, today I will teach Sasha to write two Chinese characters – "zhong" and "guo" /together they mean "China"/. At 07:30 in the morning, a Chinese student Wang Zixuan with a backpack on her back walked through the school gate and immediately saw a Russian girl named Sasha in a blue school uniform, who was holding a handwritten newspaper decorated with drawings of the flags of China and Russia. They became "language partners" last year, and now Wang Zixuan can confidently say in Russian: "Sasha likes to eat pelmeni", and Sasha can tell Wang Zixuan the Russian fairy tale "Snegurochka" in Chinese.

Such pairs have already become the norm for this educational institution. The school administration has specially developed the “Chinese-Russian Partnership Program” so that children from the two countries study together from the first day of school. Desks in the classrooms are also arranged according to the principle of “Chinese-Russian combination”, Chinese characters are written on the left side of the board, and the corresponding Russian words are indicated on the right, even the lesson schedule is printed in two languages.

“I used to worry that the child wouldn’t understand Chinese, but now she comes home every day and teaches us to say ‘thank you’ and ‘goodbye’,” says Ekaterina, who brought her daughter Katya to school with a smile in her not-so-good Chinese. The family lives in the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, which is separated from Heihe only by the Heilongjiang River (Amur), which takes just 20 minutes to cross every morning on a cross-border pontoon bridge.

For the convenience of Russian families, the school administration not only launched a special cross-border school bus, but also created a “Russian Language Help Desk” with bilingual Chinese-Russian teachers who answer questions about admission and even help parents obtain the necessary documents for their children’s cross-border education, such as visa extensions, health insurance, etc.

“Last winter the river froze and the school bus moved to a ferry, the teachers came to the pier half an hour before the children arrived to meet them. It was very thoughtful of them,” says Ekaterina, showing a photo saved on her phone in which the Chinese teacher wraps Katya in a scarf, and the girl’s smile looks especially warm against the white snow.

In the classroom, cultural integration is even more vivid. During a Chinese language lesson in Room 2 of Grade 3, when teacher Li Na was teaching the children the ancient poem “Reflections on a Quiet Night,” a Russian boy, Misha, raised his hand and asked, “Teacher, does the moon also mean melancholy in Russia?” Li Na seized the opportunity to invite Misha to tell a legend about the moon, and the lesson instantly turned into a “small cultural class.” Misha told the story of “The Moon Girl and the Hare” in a mixture of Chinese and Russian, the Chinese children vied with each other to add the legend of “Chang’e Flying to the Moon,” and at the end, the entire class recited an adapted version of “Reflections on a Quiet Night” in Chinese and Russian. The lines in Chinese, “The moonlight in front of the bed is like frost on the ground,” combined with the exclamation in Russian, “The moon shines brightly,” became the most special melody of the lesson.

During the long break, the sports ground turned into a “small square for cultural exchanges.” Russian children taught their Chinese classmates the traditional round dance “Katyusha,” while Chinese children engaged their friends with the games “Throw the Handkerchief” and “Jumping Through the Rubber Band.” During lunch, the cafeteria specially offered a “Chinese-Russian set”: on the left – Russian borscht, on the right – Chinese fried eggs with tomatoes. The children exchanged cutlery, “You try my pelmeni, and I’ll try your borscht,” even the picky eaters gobbled it all up with extraordinary appetite.

Russian fifth-grader Alyosha’s favorite treat is Chinese mooncakes, a traditional treat for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Last Mid-Autumn Festival, he made mooncakes with his Chinese classmates and even brought the homemade ones home for the family to try “the taste of the Chinese moon”; and Chinese student Li Yutong keeps the Russian nesting dolls Alyosha gave her, each depicting iconic buildings from the two countries, from Tiananmen Gate to the Kremlin, from the Heilongjiang River Bridge to the Annunciation Opera House.

“Mutual learning between cultures should start with children joining hands,” says Zhang Min, deputy director of Heihe Primary School. To deepen cultural exchanges, the school holds an annual “Chinese-Russian Culture Week,” where children wear traditional costumes from each country, perform national dances and songs, and display handicrafts. Russian children make “Matryoshka lanterns” out of colored paper, Chinese children make “Russian huts” out of clay, and last year’s Culture Week saw the performance “Friendship Bridge on the Heilongjiang River” staged by children from both countries broadcast via video link to schools in Blagoveshchensk, drawing warm applause from teachers and students from both countries.

This “cross-border campus” is based on a long history of friendship on the Chinese-Russian border. Heihe and Blagoveshchensk are separated by a river and are called “Chinese-Russian twin cities.” In recent years, with the deepening of border trade and cultural exchanges between China and Russia, more and more Russian families have chosen to send their children to study in Heihe, not only because of the high quality of education, but also because “you can learn Chinese and experience Chinese culture right at home.”

Nowadays, many of the Russian graduates of Heihe Primary School are engaged in Sino-Russian trade or cultural exchanges, and some have entered Chinese universities, continuing to promote the cause of friendship between the two countries.

“I want to become a translator so that more Russians learn about China, and so that more Chinese people love Russia,” says sixth-grader Nadya, who dreams of going to university in Beijing and whose Chinese has already reached the fourth level of the HSK, seriously.

From the classrooms of Heihe Elementary School to the Friendship Bridge over the Heilongjiang River and gifts passed on by children from both countries, this cultural exchange that started in school is slowly changing the lives of many people.

Ekaterina, who often participates in school parent-teacher meetings, learned to cook Chinese food and opened a cafe in Blagoveshchensk with Russian-Chinese flavors, which is very successful; Chinese parent Mr. Wang, through communication with Russian parents, began importing Russian honey and chocolate, becoming a “people's ambassador” for trade between the two countries.

As the head of the propaganda department of the Heihe city party committee said: “When children from the two countries study, play and grow up together, the friendship established between them will be like the waters of the Heilongjiang River – long and deep, a ‘soft power’ that cannot be replaced by any diplomatic rhetoric.” -0-

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