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China NewsweekóRQó)HEUXDU\óóSupporting Physical
Bookstores
Beijing Youth Daily
March 2
The Beijing Municipal Government plans to
allocate 100 million yuan ($14.3 million) to
support physical bookstores in the city. The
fund will mainly be used to reduce their rent
from March to June.
Affected by the novel coronavirus epi-
demic, a large number of bookstores are
finding it difficult to reopen due to lack of
customers. According to a report, during the
Global Cooperation
Guangming Daily
February 28
Following the outbreak of the novel
coronavirus disease (COVID-19),
concerns and assistance from the
international society have relieved
the pressure caused by material short-
ages and helped scientific research
on the epidemic to some extent. Over
170 countries and 40 international
organizations have supported China
in various ways, demonstrating their
sincerity to participate in global health
governance.
Global health governance targets
public health events that threaten
people’s lives and health, economic and
social development, and even national
security. Cross-border virus spreading is
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tional security issue.
China has always attached great
importance to global cooperation in this
area. In the early stage of the outbreak,
it identified the pathogen and shared
the genetic sequence of the virus with
the World Health Organization and other
countries, laying the foundation for the
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Spring Festival in 2020, over 99 percent of
physical bookstores did not have a regular
income. In this situation, they need to devise
new strategy to survive. At the same time,
assistance from the government can help
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For bookstores, rent is the largest ex-
penditure when they remain closed. That
is also the focus of the supportive policy
announced by the government. It is hoped
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dence after the epidemic.
In recent years, brick-and-motar book-
stores have been hit hard by e-commerce
and e-reading tools. Besides helping the
operation of bookstores, support from the
government can also encourage the public
to buy and read more books.Physicist Xue Qikun has won the 2020 Fritz London Memorial Prize, along with Frank
Steglich from Germany and Valerii Vinokur from the U.S., the prize committee an-
nounced. Xue is the first Chinese scientist to receive the international award that
recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the field of low-
temperature physics.
The 57-year-old, who heads the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information
Sciences, won the honor for pioneering contributions to the experimental discovery of
quantum anomalous Hall effect. The Hall effect, discovered by Edwin Hall in 1879, is
the production of a voltage difference across an electrical conduc-
tor. Xue’s contribution will help accelerate the development of low
power-consuming electronics.
Xue is also vice president of the prestigious Tsinghua University
in Beijing. His research team won China’s State Natural Science
Award in 2019 for quantum discovery. He became an academician
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005.
The prize, awarded every three years, is recognized as the high-
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physicists have received it.