“With your fingers crossed, inhale; then slowly lift your arms above your head.” Lu Jing, 66, is demonstrating a Ba Duan Jin exercise in a video she posted on the Douyin video app. As one of a handful of high-level professionals in China, Lu     1     (teach) Ba Duan Jin since 2005. Each morning from 7 to 8:30, she organizes offline exercise sessions, attracting many a     2     (participate) every day.

Ba Duan Jin is     3     easy-to-learn indoor exercise     4     (consist) of a sequence of eight qigong movements that strengthen the muscles, improve circulation and respiration, and boost the immune system. Such health benefits appeal     5     Lu’s followers aged 16 to 70. “Losing weight is difficult for women at my age, but my ‘love handles’ have gone!” one says. “I need to be     6     (high) concentrated on the coordination of my movements and breathing so I feel     7     (liberate) from anxiety,” says another.

Lu is keen     8     (collect) feedback from viewers and interact with experienced practitioners. In Lu’s opinion, Ba Duan Jin is not a rigid fitness regime. It’s important to listen to people’s responses, so that the traditional exercise can     9     (tailor) to meet modern people’s needs. That is     10     we truly inherit the treasure of Chinese culture.

China plans to expand its space station to six modules(舱)from three in coming years, a researcher at the China Academy of Space Technology said on Wednesday.

The space station will play     1     important role as “space home port”,     2     (provide) an alternative platform for near-Earth missions as the International Space Station (ISS) nears the end of its lifespan(寿命). The ISS     3     (expect) to be decommissioned (退役) after 2030. The lifetime of the Chinese space station will be more than 15 years. It is longer than the 10 years the country     4     (previous) announced.

China’s self-built space station, also     5     (know) as Tiangong, or Sky Palace in Chinese, has been     6     full operation since late 2022. And it hosts a maximum of three astronaut s at an orbital altitude of up to 450 kilometers.

It will have a weight of 180 tonnes after expansion, about 40 percent of the mass of the ISS,     7     has been in orbit for over two decades.

Regarding the expansion, another module is also in the plan. Other plans, including the development of large space telescopes, 3D printers, intelligent robots     8     a warning system, are also underway.

Chinese state media said last year that China would be matchless as the ISS was approaching     9     (retire), and added that China had been requested by several countries     10     (send) their astronauts to the Chinese station.

China-made autonomous sweepers are grabbing attention all over the globe, as the country uses its technological expertise (专长)     1     (release) new quality productive forces in the field of cleanliness.

A Shanghai-based high-tech company has received     2     world’s first road testing license for autonomous sweepers. The company’s latest product,     3     (launch) in March, combines three cleanliness tasks—sweeping, road spraying, and garbage transportation and is able to cut overall cleanliness operation costs by 70 percent. Equipped     4     technologies including millimeter-wave radars (雷达), cameras and high-precision positioning, the sweepers can achieve precise edge fitting, safe obstacle (障碍) avoidance, emergency avoidance, flexible turning and direction switching during operation.

In recent months, its advanced technology and features have attracted the attention of several local residents as well as     5     (visitor). The vehicles operate powerfully, especially during extreme weather. After completing the daily cleaning tasks, they     6     (automatic) drive to the garbage collection area and complete dumping (倾倒) task by     7     (they).

Liang Haiming, director of Hainan University’s Belt and Road Research Institute, said that unmanned sweepers made in China have advantages in automation technology, smart management and the application of new energy,     8     helps to improve safety and work     9     (efficient).

“In addition to cleanliness, the field of autonomous driving     10     (include) limited and low-speed environments such as distribution, shared travel, public transportation, ports and terminals, and mining operations,” Liang said.

Bai Tinggui, who was born in the 1990s, is     1     attendant for the high-speed trains on the Chongqing section of China Railway Chengdu Bureau Group Co Ltd. This     2     (year) Spring Festival travel rush marks a decade of her dedicated service.

Every time she met elderly passengers     3     traveled alone, she would think of her grandparents, which made her start to think about how to provide more assistance for the elderly.

Gradually, through her work, Bai became familiar     4     more public welfare work and was     5     (active) engaged in related projects. In the last three years, she     6     (participate) in various activities as a volunteer, offering help to those in need. In addition to her daily work, Bai also uses her time off     7     (help) key groups such as the elderly and children at the railway station.

Bai Tinggui’s story is a beacon(灯塔) of hope     8     a reminder of the impact one individual can make. Her dedication to service extends beyond her professional responsibilities. Her involvement in volunteer activities     9     (be) a testament to her belief in giving back to the community. And there surely will be a growing trend among individuals in the railway sector to participate in social welfare activities,     10     (contribute) to a more inclusive and supportive society.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is one of the world’s    1     (old) medical system with a long history. It is    2    system of healing based on the Chinese philosophy of the connection between nature and human beings,     3    theories refer to yin and yang, the Five Elements, etc.

TCM has two main    4     (feature), an overall point of view and treatment according to a differentiation of syndromes (综合症). The therapeutic (治疗的) methods of TCM involve different approaches, such as acupuncture, herbal medicine and qi gong,     5     (allow) the body to heal itself in a natural way.

Western medicine    6     (introduce) into China in the middle of the 17th century. During the first two centuries, several different views,     7     (relate) to the future of TCM and the relation between TCM and Western medicine, appeared. Some advocated complete westernization of Chinese medicine, others were in favor of keeping it complete.

Nowadays, more and more people realize each of the two medical traditions has its own advantages and advise that the two systems should benefit     8     each other’s strong points.

In the future, diverse forms — including TCM, Western medicine and possibly other variants (变种) — can work together with each other rather than in    9     (compete). This combined approach will    10     (eventual) become safer, faster and more effective.

In early 2022, the Ministry of Water Resources in China planned to invest 800 billion yuan building water management projects during the year. But the country     1     (see) the funds reach 823 billion yuan by the end of September.

Last year, the large-scale development played a significant role in ensuring stable home fund     2     promoting employment. Over 2. 5 million workers     3     (employ) in the development, including almost 2.1 million people from rural China. People also noted the     4     (remark) growth in funds it raised for water management projects. Almost 1. 16 trillion yuan was collected across the country last year, 44 percent more than 2021. Over 203.6 billion yuan was raised     5     government bonds, roughly 1.5 times that of the previous year. Over 37.9 billion yuan was invested     6     (expand) and renovate (翻新) 529 medium and large-scale irrigated areas in 2022. Thanks to the     7     (invest), over 10,000 kilometers of irrigation channels were built or renovated.

During the rare drought in the Yangtze River Basin last year, the complete systems in many of those irrigated areas functioned     8     (efficient) in reducing the impacts of the drought and reducing losses. Such irrigated areas guaranteed water supply to 11.3 million hectares of farmland in     9     (strike) regions. Despite the drought, the basin saw     10     good harvest of grain.