From London’s Trafalgar Square to major cities across Britain, tens of thousands of British people have joined Chinese communities    1     (welcome) the arrival of the Chinese New Year.

In Manchester there was a Dragon Parade,    2     (lead) by a very breathtaking 54-meter long dragon, ending in Chinatown    3    people could enjoy a wide range of Chinese food and enjoy a spectacular fireworks show.    4     (celebrate) also took place in Liverpool, Birmingham, Lake District, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Newcastle.

Academic Dr. Wu Kegang said, “ The Chinese New Year event in Britain is now     5    (impress) than ever and it is growing every year”.

On arrival in Britain 26 years ago from Guangdong, south China,    6     first thing Wu noticed was that Chinese New Year was celebrated    7    (main) in towns and cities with big Chinese communities. “You would go to London Chinatown and join your countrymen to celebrate,    8     to Chinatowns in places like Liverpool and Manchester for events almost only held for Chinese people,” Wu recalled.

“    9     is different now, is that we are seeing local communities all over the country taking part alongside their own Chinese populations,” he said. “ It is clear to me that the event will continue to grow in Britain where Chinese New Year    10    (earn) its place in the calendar of events so far.”

Young Chinese consumers are becoming fans of home-made brands and turning their back on foreign products.

According to a recent survey by weniuan.com, about 96% of the     1     (interview) young people said they were willing to purchase guochao products, which refer to products produced by homegrown brands. At the same time, 91.6% of them expressed their     2    (expectation) for more video programs digging deeper into traditional Chinese culture than before. Over the past decade, Chinese food, drink and personal care brands     3     (expand) their market share by 3.3% to nearly 70%.     4     (gradual), the opinion that foreign products are superior has been abandoned by Chinese youngsters.

The age group of the interviewees ranged from the post-90s generation     5    the post-2000s generation. Unlike older generations     6     might favor Western culture and brands, young Chinese people     7     (raise) when the country’s economy was taking off, so they tend to have strong confidence in their     8    (nation) identity and culture.

The young people, who nowadays have access to     9     wide variety of China’s cultural heritages, are carrying the responsibility of       10     (spread) Chinese culture. Obviously, they’re really doing well.

A unique exhibition of paintings opened at the Shanghai Mental Health Center on Thursday—all the 49 paintings are created by three hospitalized artists with schizophrenia (精神分裂).

With the theme of “loud hailer”, the exhibition offers people with the mental disorder a chance to express themselves artistically and allows their voice     1    (hear) by the public, officials from the center said. This can arouse     2    (aware) and promote better understanding and support for people with mental diseases, they added.

“Loud hailer means two-way communication. These paintings are created by patients     3    have been hospitalized for a long time. They live in a     4    (relative) closed environment. So we want to use this exhibition to achieve communication between these hospitalized artists     5    the audience,” said Chen Mengyuan, the curator.

Dr Xie Bin from the Shanghai Mental Health Center said the exhibition also aims to remove the stigma (污名) attached       6     people with schizophrenia.

“We hope more people with mental disease will become     7    (scholar), artists and even great scientists like John Nash through medical treatment and a good     8    (society) environment.”

Nash was an American mathematician who     9    (award) the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics and whose life as     10    schizophrenia patient was described in the movie A Beautiful Mind, based on his book of the same name.

Chinese people have spent more time on leisure activities this year compared with the period before COVID-19 pandemic     1    (strike), according to a recent report by the China Tourism Academy.

The academy said that urban residents' leisure time is     2    (close) related to their work. They have spent more time on leisure activities on weekends this year, about 4.4 hours a day, compared with     3     average of 3.82 hours a day on workdays.

The time that people in rural areas spend enjoying leisure activities     4    (rise) nearly 39 percent compared with 2019, increasing to 4.36 hours a day from 3.14 hours before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Shopping at physical     5    (store) remains the most popular leisure activity for both urban residents and people in the countryside, followed by activities like     6    (face) treatments, hairdressing and manicures (美甲). The report said it will be difficult     7    (increase) people's leisure time in the future due     8     the large amount of time they spend working and looking after children.

A recent survey     9     was conducted by the academy shows that 50 percent of urban residents work over eight hours a day and 15 percent work over 10 hours a day. Dai Bin, chairman of the academy, said at an online conference that with more rural residents     10    (spend) time on leisure activities, the tourism market and travel companies will embrace (拥抱) new growth in the future.

Nowadays, social networking addiction has become a rising concern. Social networking addiction is a phrase sometimes used     1    (refer) to someone spending too much time using social media and it     2    (influence) their daily life profoundly.

Addiction usually refers to habitual     3    (behave) that is difficult to control and it may lead to negative effects. In most addictions, people feel forced to do certain activities so often that they become harmful habits,     4     then affect other important activities such as work and study.

In that context, a social networking addict could     5    (consider) someone with a powerful inner drive to use social media repeatedly—     6    (constant) checking status updates or following people’s     7    (profile) on Weibo, for example, for hours on end..

But it is hard to tell when fondness for     8     activity becomes dependency and crosses the line into a damaging habit or addiction. Does     9    (spend) three hours a day on Weibo reading random information of strangers mean you’re addicted     10     Weibo? How about five hours? You could argue you are reading headline news or need to stay current in your field for work, right?

Invisible People

If you have the time, check out an amazing YouTube channel that I recently found     1     （call）"invisible people". It's a channel with     2     （hundred）of interviews of homeless people     3     share their story and how they survive day to day.

The man who operates the channel     4     （be）formerly homeless and has devoted his life to helping     5     homeless, The name "invisible people" certainly suits the channel well. For indeed there are so many "invisible" beings who are suffering every day, both humans and animals, and yet our     6     （social）either pays little for people to     7     （cruel）treat and kill animals, or completely     8     （ignore）those who are in desperate need.

Occasionally, someone who watches the videos posted on that channel is near one of the people interviewed and is able     9     （help）in some way. Some of the videos are truly heart-breaking but it's important to see what people go through. We can't turn a blind eye or treat them as if they're invisible. We cannot behave as it's been said, "Worship a homeless man on Sunday, and then ignore a homeless man     10     Monday."

A Chinese v-logger (视频博主)     1     has millions of intentional fans has given rise to debate on the methods used     2     (promote) Chinese culture overseas.

Liziqi,     3     Chinese internet celebrity (名人), has found herself at the center of Chinese social media as netizens discussed her contributions in promoting Chinese culture overseas. On Weibo, the topic of “whether Liziqi is promoting Chinese culture”     4     (attract) 760 million views and 62,000 engagements since Monday.

Li’s videos focus on traditional Chinese food and country lifestyles of Chinese farmers. Li’s you Tube channel has 7.43 million flowers, more than BBC.

Global audiences have expressed their love for her videos and     5     (admire) for her rural life. Many have started referring to her     6     a spokesperson for the Chinese country lifestyle.

Many Chinese fans recognize her success in promoting Chinese traditional culture. “Her videos show the beauty of Chinese culture     7     (gentle) and vividly, which is much better than some traditional cultures products,” said one Chinese netizen. One of her videos     8     (introduce) Chinese paper-making that     9     (begin) to exist during the Han Dynasty has been viewed 7.07 million times on YouTube.

“Cultural promotion via official way and civil recreational channels are equally important. We need to present good     10     (story) about China from multiple dimensions (多维度)” Liang Yanmin, a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, told the Global Times.