The mudslide and a flash flood Friday evening also damaged a highway and knocked out power to 900 households, the Xi’an Emergency Management Bureau said on its social media account. It said rescue teams totaling 980 people with dogs were looking for the remaining missing people. 西安市应急管理局在其社交媒体账户上表示，周五晚上的泥石流和山洪还损坏了一条高速公路，并导致 900 户家庭停电。 据称，共有 980 人的救援队带着狗正在寻找剩余的失踪人员。
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/08/chinese-using-new-smuggling
An internal federal intelligence report indicates that U.S. authorities are concerned with a new Chinese migrant route that migrants are using to illegally cross into the United States through Florida. 一份联邦内部情报报告显示，美国 当局对一条新的中国移民路线感到担忧，移民利用该路线通过佛罗里达州非法进入美国。
Bankers Forced to Study Xi’s Thoughts as Party Tightens Grip
Firms holding studying sessions, writing papers on Xi Thought
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https://www.rappler.com/world/asia-pacific
According to flood control laws, when basin-wide flooding causes reservoirs, the first line of defense, to exceed their limits, water may be temporarily channeled to so-called “flood storage areas” – including low-lying populated land.
On July 31, Hebei province opened seven of its 13 designated flood storage areas, including two in the city of Zhuozhou in Baoding south of Beijing and north of Xiongan, a zone President Xi Jinping aims to develop into an economic powerhouse serving Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin.
根据防洪法，当全流域洪水导致第一道防线水库超限时，可以暂时将水引至所谓的“蓄洪区”——包括低洼的人口稠密地区。
7月31日，河北省启用了13个指定蓄洪区中的7个，其中两个位于北京以南的保定市涿州市和雄安以北的涿州市，习近平主席希望将蓄洪区建设成为服务河北、北京和河北的经济强国。 天津。
Swathes of northern China are submerged in filthy floodwater after days of historic rainfall battered the capital city of Beijing and surrounding areas. Torrents of brown water swept tons of rubbish through a park in suburban Beijing, while normally bustling main streets in Hebei province to the southwest of the capital turned to rivers. 连日来，首都北京及周边地区遭受历史性降雨袭击，中国北方大片地区被洪水淹没。 汹涌的棕色水流席卷了北京郊区一个公园里的大量垃圾，而首都西南部河北省通常熙熙攘攘的主要街道则变成了河流。
Dashcam footage obtained by Reuters shows a car plunging off a Shangzhi bridge, which had collapsed due to the rains and floods brought on by the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri in China’s Heilongjiang province. 路透社获得的行车记录仪镜头显示，一辆汽车从尚志大桥上坠落，该大桥因中国黑龙江省台风“多克苏里”余波带来的降雨和洪水而倒塌。
According to new rules taking effect from Sept. 1, monasteries, temples, mosques, churches and other religious activity venues are required to support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and leader Xi Jinping’s plans for the “sinicization” of religious activity. 根据9月1日生效的新规则，需要修道院、寺庙、清真寺、教堂和其他宗教活动场所来支持中国共产党的领导层和习近平领导人的宗教活动“新化”计划。
— Read on americanmilitarynews.com/2023/08/china-steps-up-political-control-over-religious-venues-sermons-and-activities/
A school gymnasium roof collapsed and killed 11 people in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province on July 23, 2023. Four others were injured. Local media reported that the girls’ volleyball team was practising inside the building at the time of the accident. Construction
2023年7月23日，中国东北黑龙江省一学校体育馆屋顶倒塌，造成11人死亡，另有4人受伤。 当地媒体报道称，事故发生时女排正在大楼内训练。 建造
最新版本于2023年5月发布。2022年初，RSF还发表了一份名为“中国新闻业大跃进”的报告，讽刺地提到了毛泽东的大跃进，在1958-1962年，最终导致了大规模饥荒和数百万人死亡。
the latest of which was released in May 2023. In early 2022, RSF also published a report called “The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China,” an ironic reference to Mao’s Great Leap Forward that, in 1958–1962, eventually led to massive starvation and millions of deaths.
— Read on globalvoices.org/2023/07/24/the-great-leap-backwards-of-media-in-china/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/16/china/china-cremation-data-covid-19-intl-hnk/index.html
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The World Health Organisation has said China has not given a full account of how many of its 1.4 billion population succumbed to the disease after it abruptly abandoned strict COVID curbs in December last year.
China said around 80,000 people died from COVID in hospitals across the country in the first two months after curbs were lifted, a period where funeral parlours said they were inundated and long lines of hearses queued outside crematoriums.
Some epidemiologists at the time estimated as many as 2 million people may die from the virus in China.
The province’s data, which did not state the cause of death, has since been taken down. Data for the fourth quarter was also not available. China’s ministry of civil affairs, which collates death statistics, has not published nationwide cremation data covering that period.
Both the Zhejiang provincial government and the ministry of civil affairs did not respond to requests for comment.
During the first three years since late 2019 when the pandemic broke out, China had kept the virus largely in check by adopting a strict “zero-COVID” policy of harsh lockdowns and mass testing.
But towards the end of 2022, the policy started failing as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spread rampantly and local governments struggled to cough up money and manpower to enforce the curbs.
China abruptly changed tack in December 2022 after protests in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities against the curbs.
In January, a government scientist estimated that 80% of China’s 1.4 billion people had become infected.
世界卫生组织表示，中国去年 12 月突然放弃严格的新冠病毒控制措施后，尚未详细说明其 14 亿人口中有多少人死于这种疾病。
中国表示，解除限制后的头两个月，全国各地的医院约有 8 万人死于新冠肺炎，殡仪馆表示，在此期间，殡仪馆人满为患，火葬场外灵车排起长队。
当时一些流行病学家估计，中国可能有多达 200 万人死于该病毒。
该省的数据没有说明死因，但已被删除。 第四季度的数据也无法获得。 负责整理死亡统计数据的中国民政部尚未公布该时期的全国火葬数据。
浙江省政府和民政部均未回应置评请求。
自2019年底疫情爆发以来的前三年，中国通过采取严格的封锁和大规模检测等严格的“零新冠”政策，在很大程度上控制了病毒。
但到 2022 年底，随着高传染性 Omicron 变种的猖獗传播，以及地方政府难以拿出资金和人力来执行限制措施，该政策开始失效。
在北京、上海和其他城市发生反对限制措施的抗议活动后，中国于 2022 年 12 月突然改变策略。
一月份，一位政府科学家估计，中国 14 亿人口中的 80% 已被感染。
There were 171,000 cremations registered in the eastern province of Zhejiang in the first quarter, well above the 99,000 in the same period in year before, Chinese financial media outlet Caixin reported, citing official data released by the province. The official statement was later removed from the internet, according to Caixin.
[…] However, that number was widely seen as an underestimate because the government narrowed the criteria for classifying deaths caused by Covid-19 late last year. An estimate in January by Zuo-Feng Zhang, chair of the department of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles, put the number of deaths at about 900,000 in those five weeks.
[…] Although Zhejiang province deleted the first quarter data from its website, Caixin cited an unnamed local government official as saying that “some” of the deleted data was accurate and that cremations increased mainly because of the coronavirus. [Source]
据中国财经媒体财新网援引该省公布的官方数据报道，今年第一季度，该省登记火葬量为17.1万起，远高于去年同期的9.9万起。 据财新网报道，该官方声明随后从互联网上删除。
[…] 然而，这个数字被广泛认为是低估的，因为政府去年年底缩小了 Covid-19 造成的死亡分类标准。 加州大学洛杉矶分校菲尔丁公共卫生学院流行病学系主任张作峰一月份估计，这五周内的死亡人数约为 90 万。
[…]尽管浙江省从其网站上删除了第一季度的数据，但财新援引一位不愿透露姓名的当地政府官员的话说，“部分”删除的数据是准确的，火葬数量增加主要是因为冠状病毒。 [来源]
新冠疫情激增期间，中国省份火葬数量猛增
中国媒体删除了有关新冠疫情后火葬数量激增的文章
https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-province
Cremations in the Chinese province of Zhejiang rose more than 70% year-on-year in the first quarter, government data showed, an unexplained jump that occurred as a COVID outbreak swept the country.
About 171,000 cremations were registered in Zhejiang – home to around 5% of China’s population – in the first three months of 2023, up from 99,000 in the same period last year, according to data on the province’s civil affairs bureau website.
The World Health Organisation has said China has not given a full account of how many of its 1.4 billion population succumbed to the disease after it abruptly abandoned strict COVID curbs in December last year.
China said around 80,000 people died from COVID in hospitals across the country in the first two months after curbs were lifted, a period where funeral parlours said they were inundated and long lines of hearses queued outside crematoriums.
Some epidemiologists at the time estimated as many as 2 million people may die from the virus in China.
The province’s data, which did not state the cause of death, has since been taken down. Data for the fourth quarter was also not available. China’s ministry of civil affairs, which collates death statistics, has not published nationwide cremation data covering that period.
政府数据显示，中国浙江省第一季度火葬量同比增长超过 70%，这是新冠疫情席卷全国期间出现的不明原因的激增。
根据浙江省民政局网站的数据，2023年前三个月，浙江省登记的火葬数量约为17.1万起，高于去年同期的9.9万起，占中国人口的5%左右。
世界卫生组织表示，中国去年 12 月突然放弃严格的新冠病毒控制措施后，尚未详细说明其 14 亿人口中有多少人死于这种疾病。
中国表示，解除限制后的头两个月，全国各地的医院约有 8 万人死于新冠肺炎，殡仪馆表示，在此期间，殡仪馆人满为患，火葬场外灵车排起长队。
当时一些流行病学家估计，中国可能有多达 200 万人死于该病毒。
该省的数据没有说明死因，但已被删除。 第四季度的数据也无法获得。 负责整理死亡统计数据的中国民政部尚未公布该时期的全国火葬数据。
https://themessenger.com/news/top-china-scientist-wont-rule-out-covid-19-lab-leak-theory
the former head of China’s Centers for Disease Control said he couldn’t dismiss the possibility that the Covid-19 pandemic was caused by a laboratory leak, BBC reported Tuesday. 据英国广播公司 (BBC) 周二报道，中国疾病预防控制中心前负责人表示，他不能排除 Covid-19 大流行是由实验室泄漏引起的可能性。
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/biden-labels-chinese-president-xi-a-dictator.html
The intelligence agency said many Dutch companies and institutions find it difficult to make a proper risk assessment of economic and scientific cooperation with China.
“The country often conceals that the Chinese government or the Chinese army may be involved in such cooperation in the background,” said the report. “The disadvantages of cooperation often only become apparent in the longer term.”
It also said that China targets Dutch high-tech companies and institutions through “corporate takeovers, academic cooperation, as well as illegitimate (digital) espionage, insiders, covert investments and illegal exports”.
该情报机构表示，许多荷兰公司和机构发现难以对与中国的经济和科学合作进行适当的风险评估。
“该国经常隐瞒中国政府或中国军队可能在幕后参与此类合作，”报告称。 “合作的弊端往往只有在长期内才会显现出来。”
它还表示，中国通过“企业收购、学术合作以及非法（数字）间谍活动、内部人员、秘密投资和非法出口”来瞄准荷兰高科技公司和机构。
