美国驻华大使馆官邸行政总厨兼大使管家罗朗先生（Michael D. Rosenblum），北京兴基铂尔曼饭店西餐厨师长。罗朗出生于美国，曾在纽约、北京等多家知名餐厅担任厨师长，能讲一口流利的汉语。他十四岁开始就在纽约工作，近二十年的烹饪生涯中曾到过印尼，泰国等五个国家工作，并凭借其精湛的厨艺在这些国家的饮食行业创下不小名气。此前，他在北京著名的Saffron餐厅担任行政厨师长。在中国人经营的西餐厅里他让广大的中国食客感受到了带有中国特色的西方美食。
他曾受邀参加过北京电视台举办的《食全食美》系列栏目， 并在许多权威的饮食刊物上发表过文章，目前他有三本著作正在创作过程中。他坦言，他将倾注毕生的精力来钻研美食和美食文化。
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广东韶关双峰寨
双峰寨位于广东省仁化县城西19公里的石塘镇石塘村. 该寨是乡绅李德仁为防范土匪抢掠，筹银三万，于清光绪二双峰寨(14张)十五年（1899年）动工，至庚戍年告竣（公元1915年），用了十六年的时间建成，至今已有100多年历史。连护城河在内，总占地面积为11300平方米。双峰寨原名石塘寨，后取寨门前门楣横匾“双峰保障”之意，改称为“双峰寨”至今，该寨1949年前已崩塌，中华人民共和国成立后重修。
欲进寨门必须先经护城河，这河宽13.7米，水深1.5米，周围护城河的面积为4878平方米，河上有吊桥，吊桥分两段，中间有一个桥墩，（1976年改为水泥桥）。过了吊桥城堡又被两重寨门深锁，第一重两扇大门用全封樟木制成，厚5寸（15厘米），大门顶有“双峰保障”四个大字。第二重门与大门结构相同，门顶有“保安门”三个大字。古城堡内攻、防、守相结合的设计环环紧扣，以一个主楼（也称中楼）和四个炮楼为主轴，东西两面城墙中间各有个瞭望台，其间用围墙相连。主楼为五层，高15.3米，四个炮楼比主楼稍矮，为13米，围墙四面以走马廊相连，廊分两层，底层宽3.15米，可用作住户，据称可住千人；上层宽1.2米，联通包括主楼在内的五个炮楼，值此守望相助。走廊每隔3.9米有一小炮眼，共有55个小炮眼，炮眼居高临下，从不同角度可消灭不同方向来犯之敌。双峰寨城堡外形略呈长方形，堡内面积约有一个足球场大。双峰寨墙体异常坚固，虽经百年沧桑，但至今未发现有一砖自动脱落，墙体全部用石灰石及青砖再加上糯米浆、黄糖、石灰浆及桐油砌成，其坚固程度，丝毫不逊色于据说用糯米浆、青砖砌成的南京中华门城墙。我们在城墙走廊的炮眼远眺，前方一马平川，任何一个目标都尽入眼底；走着走着还不时发现一些青砖上烧成有“费金三万”、“李自性视公名下”、“李德仁等筹建”的字迹。这些墙砖的文字记载虽然百年不朽，但它后来成了红色堡垒、发生过农民暴动中最伟大的战斗，都是大地主富豪们所始料不及的。
The PLA likely sent warships, warplanes, used radar installations and satellites to track the US warship’s movements in the Taiwan Straits, and the US vessel would be stopped if it crossed the red line, exactly what the Americans are expecting to happen with their provocation.
The Chinese mainland must be fully prepared for the worst. We surely do not want a war now. But we should be the one that is least afraid of the situation spiraling out of control as we are defending the territorial integrity.
Yuefei Qin, male, born in 1985, native of Chongqing.He studied at Chongqing No.2 Foreign Language School in 1998. In 2001, he entered Chongqing Nankai Middle School.When he graduated, he took the American Standardized Test for Admissions and scored absolutely high.After that, he entered Yale University and received a full scholarship of US$46,892 a year from the university. He enjoyed tuition, accommodation, books, travel expenses and many other free services. That year, Yale only admitted two high school graduates from China.
In 2011, after graduating from university, Qin Yuefei chose to return to rural China to work as a university official in He Township, Hengshan County, Hunan Province, where he convinced farmers to start their own businesses. CCTV “the most beautiful village official”, a personal first-class merit. 8 February 2017, won the ”
ten Moving China 2016 Person of the year” . 2018 January, elected as a deputy to the 13th National People’s Congress. At the 2018 National People’s Congress, Qin Yuefei proposed a bill on precision poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.
The Three Gorges Dam in Central China’s Hubei Province on Thursday is set to face the largest ever flood peak since it was built. The reservoir has been ready to confront the challenge by coordinating with dams at its upper stream to retain the flood water, said the Three Gorges Corp.
The latest hydrometeorological forecasts estimated the inflow flood peak of the Three Gorges project will reach 73,000 cubic meters per second at 8 am on Thursday, the largest volume since it was built in 2003.
To confront the flood peak, dams in the upstream of the Yangtze River – including Wudongde, Xiluodu and Xiangjiaba dams, also managed by the Three Gorges Corp – will work together under “elaborate deployment and operation” to jointly retain the flood, the Three Gorges Corp said in a statement it sent to the Global Times on Wednesday.
The dams will sufficiently exert the flood defense function of a cascade reservoir within the basin, and are expected to ease the flood defense pressure for Southwest China’s Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality, as well as the Three Gorges project, according to the statement.
It is estimated the inflow water peak will be cut down to 68,000 cubic meters per second from 70,000, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the discharge flow of the Three Gorges project will increase to 46,000 cubic meters per second from 42,000 under the demand of the Changjiang Water Resources Commission under the Ministry of Water Resources.
On Saturday, the Three Gorges Dam withstood the No.4 flood of the Yangtze River of the year, which had an inflow of 62,000 cubic meters per second.
Two days after, the No.5 flood occurred along the upstream of the Yangtze River.
Several branches of the upstream of the Yangtze River saw record flood peaks due to constant heavy rainfall.
China’s self-developed operating system Kylinsoft V10, which was officially launched on August 13, is to meet the rising needs for a self-reliant and safer operating system.
Developed jointly by China Standard Software Co and Tianjin Kylin Information, subsidiaries of China Electronics Corporation (CEC), Kylinsoft V10 meets the needs of the 5G era and achieves multi-terminal integration by connecting mobile phones, tablets, PCS and other devices, according to CEC’s report.
The Kylin technology can support a large number of Android applications, and has seamlessly transferred more than 3 million Android compatible hardware and software to domestic platforms.
One of the most important things of V10 is that its desktop version has integrated with the Android compatibility ecosystem, which enables users to download and run a huge number of Android applications, Kong Jinzhu, executive president of Kylinsoft, said in his speech at the launch, adding that the Kylin system has received a high recognition and the massive adaption in governmental departments ranges from customs to transport and agriculture.
The first batch of nuclear-grade zirconium sponge independently produced by a Chinese company was recently shipped to Russia, it was announced on Monday by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) on its official WeChat account.
For a long time, zirconium alloy material used for fuel assembly in domestic nuclear power plants depended on imports, according to CNNC.
This is the first time that China has sent nuclear-grade zirconium sponge of its own in bulk overseas, marking a breakthrough in the country’s nuclear-grade zirconium material exports. It also signals that China’s nuclear-grade zirconium sponge manufacturing has reached the international level, CNNC said.
In the nuclear industry, zirconium sponge is used to produce zirconium alloys for nuclear reactor components, such as the cladding for fuel rods, according to the Zircon Industry Association.
