Scientists in China won the "Guardian of the Earth Award" of the United Nations Environment Programme in 2024. On December 10th, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced the winners of the "Guardian of the Earth Award" in recognition of their outstanding contributions in dealing with land degradation, drought and desertification. Six people and projects from China, Brazil, USA, Romania, India and Egypt won prizes. Lu Qi, a scientist from China, won the "Science and Innovation Award" and was the first person from China to win this award category. Lu Qi is the chief scientist of the Chinese Academy of Forestry and the founding president of the Three North Engineering Research Institute. He has played a key role in promoting the implementation of the world's largest afforestation project, establishing a desert ecological research network and partnership, and promoting multilateral cooperation to curb desertification, land degradation and drought. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: The modern national new database of agricultural germplasm resources has been completed and put into operation. On December 10th, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a press conference to introduce the general survey of agricultural germplasm resources in China. Liu Lihua, director of the Seed Industry Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced that in order to protect the germplasm resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has continuously increased the construction of the protection and utilization system of germplasm resources, and initially established a protection and utilization system that combines in-situ protection and translocation preservation, living protection and genetic material preservation. Complement, national protection and provincial protection. In terms of crop germplasm resources, a modern national crop germplasm resource bank has been built and put into operation, with a preservation capacity of 1.5 million copies, which can meet the needs of long-term strategic preservation in the next 50 years. In terms of livestock and poultry resources, the construction of the world's largest national livestock and poultry germplasm resource bank is accelerating, and it is expected to be basically completed by the end of next year, when the preservation capacity of livestock and poultry genetic materials will reach 33 million. In terms of aquatic resources, the world-class national marine fishery biological germplasm resource bank has been put into operation, with a preservation capacity of 350,000 copies. (CCTV News)
European regulators have learned to investigate the advertising agreement between Google and Meta for teenagers. European regulators have learned to investigate the advertising agreement between Google and Meta for teenagers and have asked Google to provide more information about the cooperation with Meta's secret advertising. According to informed sources, European Commission officials have been investigating a series of advertising activities on YouTube to promote Instagram to young people.On December 10th, it was reported that Yizi International, a snack and candy company, was exploring the acquisition of Hershey, a well-known chocolate manufacturer in the United States. This potential transaction is expected to create a food giant with a total sales of nearly $50 billion. People familiar with the matter said that Yizi had made preliminary contact on a possible merger. By the end of last week, the market value of Yizi was about $84 billion, compared with $35 billion at Hershey. People familiar with the matter said that the consultation was at an early stage and it was uncertain whether an agreement would be reached.Scientists in China won the "Guardian of the Earth Award" of the United Nations Environment Programme in 2024. On December 10th, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced the winners of the "Guardian of the Earth Award" in recognition of their outstanding contributions in dealing with land degradation, drought and desertification. Six people and projects from China, Brazil, USA, Romania, India and Egypt won prizes. Lu Qi, a scientist from China, won the "Science and Innovation Award" and was the first person from China to win this award category. Lu Qi is the chief scientist of the Chinese Academy of Forestry and the founding president of the Three North Engineering Research Institute. He has played a key role in promoting the implementation of the world's largest afforestation project, establishing a desert ecological research network and partnership, and promoting multilateral cooperation to curb desertification, land degradation and drought.
Monitoring of main funds: The net sales of Cyrus exceeded 1.9 billion yuan. According to the data, today's main funds flowed into the food and beverage industry, commercial retail, national defense and military industry, and the net outflow from the new electric industry, medicine, computers and other sectors, of which the net outflow from the new electric industry was 4.779 billion yuan. In terms of individual stocks, the giant ship has an intelligent daily limit, with the net inflow of main funds of 1.018 billion yuan ranking first, while Oriental Seiko, Yonghui Supermarket and Jianghuai Automobile are among the top net inflows of main funds; Sellers were sold for 1.995 billion yuan, ranking first in net outflow, while vision china, Straight Flush, Hengrui Pharma and other major funds were in the top.The change in the concept of quantum communication has boosted Starlight's second board, Starlight's second board, Demei Chemical, Fudan Fuhua and Hongda New Materials' daily limit, and Guo Dun Quantum, Keda Dachuang, Hexin Instrument and Geer Software have followed suit.The Israeli army launched about 250 air strikes in Syria within 48 hours. The website of Syrian Human Rights Watch, headquartered in Britain, released a message on the 10th that since the Syrian opposition forces announced on the 8th that they would "liberate Damascus and overthrow the Assad regime", Israel launched about 250 air strikes against Syria, destroying many important military facilities in Syria. According to reports, in the past 48 hours, Israeli air strikes targeted airports, warehouses, radars, military signal stations and multiple weapons and ammunition depots in Syria.