The film, Red Chili stars actresses Lyu Liping and He Xinyuan as well as actor Wang Naixun. The theatrical release    1    (come) to an end in a cinema in Beijing's Chaoyang district last Wednesday, It tells a story about how two left-behind teenagers, a sister and broth-er, living in a remote village deep in the mountainous areas of Hubei province earn money by selling red chilies during a summer holiday. Their aim is to purchase a smart phone     2    (have) a video call with their parents who work in a big city far from their home village.

To make the dream of buying the phone     3    reality, the teenagers have to first buy the chili harvest from fellow villagers and then trek across hills and rivers,     4    (shoulder)the heavy load of the chilies, in order to arrive at a bustling market in a town    5     they can sell the chilies at a higher price. Being the middlemen     6     (challenge) both of the youngsters for long. But they deal with many troubles during the journey.

    7    (direct) by Li Junlin, a graduate from Beijing Film Academy, it shows the youngsters’     8     (clever) as they deal with adults from different backgrounds.

Li says that he hopes the film can draw the public's attention to the     9     (spirit) world of young ones and inspire them to care more     10     left-behind children.

Play the financial markets: it’s not rocket science

Back in the 1950s, economists developed Nobel Prize-winning theories for how best to invest money in financial markets. And     1     (do) it, they drew on the theory of probability. The result was Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT),     2     shows how to create a mix of stocks, bonds and other assets (股票、证券和其他资产) to get the best possible return for the     3     (low) risk. By feeding in past performance data for each asset, the formulas of MPT reveal the relative proportions of each     4     (need) to achieve this best performance.

To pull off this miracle, MPT involves some fearsome equations that only rocket scientists might     5     (expect) to solve. But—like any attempt to model reality with mathematics—MPT makes assumptions, and the bad news is     6     they’re not very realistic. A wealth of data now suggests that MPT simply cannot capture the real complexity of markets,     7     (make) its conclusions not that trustworthy.

Even Harry Markowitz, the US economist who won the economics Nobel Prize in 1990 for developing MPT,     8     (admit) he ignored his own theory and simply split his investments equally between stocks and bonds.

The lesson of the laws of chance this time is: don’t get too clever. When it comes to investment, history suggests most of us may do best     9     simply dividing our money among so-called index trackers that just follow entire sectors of the market—and then forget about them     10     we retire. After all, caution is the best policy.

Born in 1946 in New York, Claudia Goldin, professor at Harvard University,     1     (award) the Nobel Prize in economics for her work on women in the labor market in October, 2023. She found that women generally receive a     2     (low) pay than men. She looked at over 200 years of US data,     3     showed that much of the gender pay gap could     4     (historic) be explained by differences in education and jobs.

Female participation in the labor market follows     5     U-shaped form over the whole period, and the participation of     6     (marry) women decreased when society changed from farming to industry in the early 19th century, but then started to increase with the     7     (grow) of the service industry in the early 20th century, her research has shown.

“It is obvious that understanding women’s role in the labor market is important for society. Thanks to Goldin’s research, we are now equipped     8     a deeper understanding of the factors contributing to the gender pay gap     9     which challenges may need     10     (address) in the future,” Jakob Svensson, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, said in a statement.

China’s technique of growing Juncao,     1     is the herbal plant used in the growing of edible (可以吃的) mushrooms, has led to     2     (globe) poverty reduction.

Lin, the chief scientist of National Engineering Research Center of JUNCAO Technology and     3     professor at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, started to plant the grass in 1983. The technique later spread from Fujian Province to other     4     (area) in the country and has even reached countries across the world.

Juncao is helpful to many farmers in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. So far, the technique     5     (introduce) to more than 100 countries around the world. Twenty years ago, villagers in Papua New Guinea began to learn this modern biological technology     6     the help of Chinese agronomists (农学家). After the Juncao grass was     7     (successful) planted in Papua New Guinea, villagers,     8     (shout) “Juncao, China!” expressed their excitement. Many people in developing countries have rid     9     (they) of poverty through growing Juncao grass and mushrooms.

Many Chinese experts have been trained     10     (extend) the technique to more countries, contributing Chinese wisdom to the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Globalisation has profoundly transformed the world. Changes in the sphere of economics, politics, and society have a great impact on our daily lives. Besides the numerous opportunities that globalisation     1     (bring) us, such as increased interconnectedness resulting from advanced communication technology and the expansion of the world market, it     2     (create) a number of significant challenges. Many jobs have become insecure, people work on the basis of short-term contracts, or they     3     (require) to work long hours for low wages. However, the transformations brought on by globalisation is alive with other facets of our lives     4    . There is a growing uncertainty that is significantly reshaping family and community life,     5     (include) the way it influences young people’s decisions on partnership and family formation.

This round table will feature experts from different regions of the world,     6     will offer their insights into this complex phenomenon, and propose policy-oriented solutions for challenges     7     families and communities increasingly deal with in a globalised world.

In particular, the round table will analyse the changes in the structure and functions of the family     8     (result) from globalisation. The question of how families and communities can benefit best from modernity and globalisation,     9     at the same time build resilience against the negative aspects, will receive special attention. The exchange of best practices and lessons     10     (learn) from different countries and regions will serve as the basis for future-oriented solutions.