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Translate the following two passages into Chinese.
Passage One
The labor force is the total number of people (aged sixteen and older) employed and the unemployed. The unemployment rate is the percentage of the labor force unemployed but lacking for work. The unemployment rate is a fungible item. Previously, the government gauged unemployment by the number of people who field unemployment claims in a given month.
However, because many people who are or become unemployed by the technical definition—that is, they are looking for work—don’t qualify for unemployment benefits, the result was a serious undercounting of the unemployed. Now the United States relies on the monthly Current Population Survey from the Commerce Department, which provides a more comprehensive set of numbers based on household polls.
Note that to be officially unemployed, a worker must be seeking employment. People without jobs who aren’t looking for work because they don’t think any exists have, in effect, dropped out of the labor force and become discouraged workers（丧志工人）. The labor force participation (LFP) rate can be revealing. It is the percentage of the total working-age population that is in the labor force.
In other words, the LFP rate is the relationship between who is eligible to work and who actually is working. Broken down demographically, variations in the LFP rate may offer clues to stories about social trends. As of the mid-1990s, the entry of women into the labor force in large numbers was probably the most significant economic shift of the post-World WarⅡ period. But in the latter part of the decade, participation by women leveled off and dropped in some sectors. Why this occurred is no clear; a natural leveling off does not seem to account for the change. More research, particularly into both women and men’s changing relationships to work, is needed. Interested reporters should find and bond with social scientists who study the workplace.
Economists talk about different types of unemployment: frictional, structural, and cyclical. The frictionally unemployment are people who haven’t had time to find a job yet because they are new to the labor force or are between jobs. Structural unemployment is a result of deep changes in the economy. Technological change may make some occupations obsolete. When people began driving cars instead of horses and buggies, a blacksmith’s skills were no longer necessary. The process by which jobs evolve and fade away as the skills they use become obsolete is called churning. Structural unemployment may also result from changes in international markets as lower-paid foreign labor force becomes available to do work that previously went to higher-paid domestic workers. In the last two decades workers in many important American industries, such as steel and textiles, have lost jobs to lower-paid workers in developing countries.

Passage Two
A global health crisis of the magnitude we are experiencing has not struck the international community for over a century. In this unprecedented crisis, all countries and all areas of our daily life are profoundly affected and in disarray. The sole weapon we currently possess against the virus is to constrain human contact as far as possible, and social distancing has become an important containment measure.
As a result, the world has come to a near standstill. From local transport to global supply chains, nothing has been spared. In urban traffic and on global trade routes, bustling movement has given way to a weird calm. Activity in the aviation sector has fallen by 90 percent; car sales have slumped by the same order of magnitude in some countries. The transport sector finds itself in a totally unprecedented situation. As a result of the restrictions in place around the world, its main function of facilitating social interaction has now come to a halt.
At the same time, it must continue to function where moving people and goods is an imperative, not a choice. Doctors and nurses must be able to get to work. Hospitals must be able to receive the supplies they need. Confined citizens rely on provisions being delivered to shops. Not least, international supply chains must continue to move as seamlessly as possible to keep the inevitable economic impact as limited as possible. Never before have world leaders put such constraints on the movement of people and goods.
Already we can see that, as terrible as the crisis is, it brings out the best in many. It is also a reminder of three essential factors for a successful recovery. First, we will overcome the crisis more quickly and effectively if we work together across existing divides, of whatever sort they may be. The example of companies from very different fields teaming up to build breathing aides together is a very practical example.
Second, expertise and evidence-based decisions count and make all the difference. We will hardly beat the virus and resurrect our economies based on guesswork and gut feelings. The sharing of private sector mobility data with governments to help contain COVID-19 infections is a shining example.
Third, while we deal with the crisis in the most effective way, we must start to think about the future and plan for the post-pandemic age. The world after the coronavirus crisis will no longer be the same. Many profound changes will be forced upon us. We do have the knowledge and the tools to shape them, and to seek out the opportunities in this epochal transformation, but we must make the right choices.

Translate the following two passages into English.
Passage One
　　在新冠疫情全球蔓延的困难时刻，东亚国家选择开放合作，签署了RCEP，给区域经济复苏注入新的动能。RCEP 的签署，将进一步促进东亚地区的贸易和投资，加强区域产业链、供应链合作，实现地区国家优势互补，互惠互利。
　　作为东亚经济增长的主要引擎，中国率先控制疫情并实现经济复苏，助力地区国家应对疫情冲击，贯彻新的发展理念，推动高质量发展，加快构建新发展格局，在坚持扩大内需的同时，推进高水平对外开放，充分彰显中国支持贸易自由化、主动向世界开放市场的大国担当。
　　中国积极参与RCEP 谈判，并在此过程中发挥了不可或缺的作用。中方将一如既往支持东盟发挥主导作用，同各方合作做好RCEP 实施工作，使成果更早惠及地区企业和民众。
RCEP的签署是各方8年努力磋商的结果，也是深化东亚区域经济合作的新起点。各方通过相互合作，促进疫后经济复苏，造福地区国家和人民，为构建开放型世界经济作出积极贡献。

Passage Two
　　职业教育，是国民教育体系和人力资源开发的重要组成部分，是广大青年打开通往成功成才大门的重要途径。职业教育已为各行各业累计培养输送2亿多高素质劳动者。我国经济持续快速发展，职业教育功不可没。
2019年1月，国务院颁发了《国家职业教育改革实施方案》（the Implementation Plan for the Reform of the National Polytechnic Education) （以下简称“方案”。）明确指出，职业教育与普通教育是两种不同教育类型，具有同等重要地位，但“方案”颁布以来，我国职业教育改革走上了快速发展的道路。
　　天津尝试构建职业教育与普通教育互补的现代职业教育体系，首批599 名职业教育本科生已经毕业，学生就业率远高于普通本科，就职领域集中于战略新兴产业和高端制造业。
　　在西藏，职教扶贫工作取得新突破。西藏职业技术学院毕业生就业率从2018 年的70%跃升到95.17%，充分证明了“职教扶贫”政策是成功的。
　　但目前来说，相对于普通高等教育，职业教育仍是我国教育领域的短板。数据显示，我国技能人才已超过2亿，占就业总量的26%。然而高等技能人才仅有5000万人，占技能人才总量的28%。在一些人心中，职业教育“低人一等”。职业教育认可度和吸引力有待增强。为此，我们必须提高技能人才待遇，畅通职业发展通道。

Passage 1
New drone footage gives a glimpse of the damage that Hawaii’s Big Island sustained in the wake of volcanic explosions in recent days. Smoke can be seen billowing off the lava as it creeps down roads and through wooded areas toward homes. Fires are visible with terrifying streams of brightness breaking through the surrounding areas of black. After a day of relative calm, Kilauea roared back in full force on Sunday, spewing lava 300 feet in the air, encroaching on a half mile of new ground and bringing the total number of destroyed structures to 35. There have been 1,800 residents evacuated from their neighborhoods where cracks have been opening and spilling lava. In evacuated areas with relatively low sulfur dioxide levels, residents were allowed to return home for a few hours to collect belongings on Sunday and Monday. Officials said those residents—a little more than half of the evacuees—were allowed to return briefly, and they would continue to allow residents in if it could be done safely.
“Things got pretty active,” an official said at a Saturday press conference. “The eight volcanoes were pretty active, to the point where lava was spewing and the flow started spreading so we got additional damage out there. I’m not sure what the count is, but we thought it was just continuing to go. Fortunately, seismicity has laid down and the volcanoes have gone quiet now.” But officials had cautioned that while the lava flow was quiet, it wouldn’t be for long. “More volcanoes could open up, the existing ones could get active again. There’s a lot of lava under the ground so eventually it’s going to come up.” The island was also rocked by a 6.9-magnitude earthquake on Friday, which caused landslides near the coast, but minimal structural damage. The United States Geological Survey （USGS） said Sunday the island had experienced more than 500 earthquakes—13 with a magnitude greater than 4.0—in the 24 hours following the 6.9-magnitude quake. But, the concern for residents continues to be the lava and gas emitted from volcanoes. “The lava is definitely destroying people’s homes—we don’t have an exact count—but it is a devastating situation.” Hawaii County head said Saturday. “There’s no way we could’ve predicted this.”

Passage 2
Just as in America, in Britain too, the story told by official statistics does not always match people’s experience. That is especially true in places like Newcastle, a former shipbuilding city, which lost out to competition from Asia in the 1970s and has seen living standards stagnate ever since. The U.S. economy, we are told, is booming. In the past two quarters, gross domestic product has risen by more than 3%, the stock market is soaring and unemployment is down to a 17-year low of 4.1%. Many people, though, don’t feel that upside. The perception gap is huge. Unemployment, more broadly measured, is higher than the headline number suggests because many people have simply given up looking for work or are working in part-time jobs when they want a full-time job. One of the prime faults of GDP is that it deals in averages and aggregates. Aggregates hide the inequality. And averages don’t tell us very much at all. Barring a few recessions, the U.S. economy has been on a near relentless upward path since the 1950s. Yet according to a Pew Research Center report, the average hourly wage for non-management private-sector work was $$20.67 in 2014, just $$1.49 higher than in 1964, adjusted for inflation.
Studies suggest that people care more about relative than absolute wealth. If that is true, then as a minority have become richer, the majority have grown more miserable. In a famous experiment carried out at Emory University, two monkeys were put side by side and given cucumbers as a reward for performing a task. When one of the monkeys was given better-tasting grapes instead, the monkey receiving cucumbers became distraught, flinging its now despised reward at its trainer. The problems with using GDP as a barometer go beyond masking inequality. Invented in the U.S. in the 1930s, the figure is a child of the manufacturing age—good at measuring physical production but not the services that dominate modern economies. How would GDP measure the quality of mental-health care or the availability of day-care centers and parks in your area? Even the Belarusian economist who practically invented GDP did not like the fact that it counted armaments and financial speculation as positive outputs. Above all, he said, GDP should never be confused with well-being. That suggests we need to find different ways of measuring our success. For the most part, we have become obsessed with a single measure that offers only limited information.

Passage 1
　　互联网是一个社会信息大平台，亿万网民在上面获得信息、交流信息，这会对他们的求知途径、思维方式、价值观念产生重要影响，特别是会对他们对国家、对社会、对工作、对人生的看法产生重要影响。网民来自老百姓，老百姓上了网，民意也就上了网。各级党政机关和领导干部要学会通过网络与民众保持联系，经常上网看看，聊聊天、发发声，了解公众所思所愿，收集好想法好建议，积极回应网民关切、解疑释惑。
　　网民大多数是普通群众，来各行各业，各自经历不同，观点和想法肯定是五花八门的，不能要求他们对所有问题都看得那么准、说得那么对。要多一些包容和耐心，对建设性意见要及时吸纳，对有困难的人要及时帮助，对不了解情况的要及时宣介，对模糊认识要及时廓清，对怨气怨言要及时化解，对错误看法要及时引导和纠正。

Passage 2
　　当今，世界各国的实力较量涉及诸多因素，其中最重要的一个要素是市场规模。哪个国家的市场大，对其他国家的吸引力就越大，也越容易处于领先地位。中国有14亿人口，这就决定了它拥有世界上最大的消费市场。经济学家都认为，过去这些年，中国市场发展的速度是世界上最快的。
　　连续九年，中国是世界上最大的汽车市场。2016年，美国销售了1700万辆汽车，同年中国则销售了2400万辆，其中在中国的美国合资公司销售的汽车占比很大。中国还是世界上最大的智能手机市场，也是最大的服装、电商、国内旅游和农产品市场。中国市场展现了惊人的发展潜力。在中国，中产和富裕阶层人士迅速增长，年轻人有了全新的消费习惯，线上线下销售渠道覆盖了全国各地。随着医疗、养老产业不断发展，还将进一步提升中国人的消费能力。

Translate the following two passages into Chinese.
Passage One
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. Providing women and girls with equal access to education, health care, decent work, and representation in political and economic decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large. Therefore, gender equality and women’s empowerment are one of the overarching priorities of UNESCO.
This is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality.
Increasing attention is being placed on gender equality issues globally, buoyed by several legal and normative instruments, conventions and declarations. Chief among these are the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The latter, which was the outcome of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, in 1995, emphasizes the key role of media to promote gender equality in all spheres; all stake-holders are called to join forces to combat “stereotyping of women and inequality in women’s access to and participation in all communication systems, especially in the media”. UNESCO’s commitment and strategy to this end is pursued through a two-fold approach: (i) gender-specific programming and (ii) taking gender-focused actions in all of UNESCO’s fields of work.
UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector has fully embraced this commitment and has engaged globally in a wide range of gender-specific initiatives across its divisions and main actions. Equality between women and men working in the media, and equality in news reporting on women and men, are of equal importance and are being stridently pursued. In cooperation with the International Federation of Journalists and many other partners, UNESCO has adopted this global framework of Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media (GSIM). These indicators have been developed to enable effective assessment of related development in the media.
In order to further enrich the GSIM resource, and as a fundamental step for its completion, a second round of consultation was carried out online with UNESCO media partners globally. Broadcasting and print associations contributed comments, suggestions and insights to further enhance the document. The consultation with these associations was essential because it enables UNESCO to embed into the GSIM the perspectives of these key partners. This enables us to stress that use of the GSIM is not an attempt to limit freedom of expression and the independence of media, but to voluntarily enrich these underlying characteristics. UNESCO is confident that, if fully implemented, the GSIM will produce an impact in both qualitative and quantitative terms.

Passage Two
When rainfall is measured in feet, not inches, we are witnessing climate change bearing down on us. Catastrophic destruction tied to the Atlantic hurricane season, monsoon rains in Mumbai, and downpours in Niger are just a few of the many extreme weather events that are being intensified by global warming. While the rise of a few degrees in temperature may not be enough for a person to run a fever, that change is enough to radically impact the earth’s climate. By way of comparison, the earth was once rendered largely uninhabitable by a one to two-degree Celsius drop in temperature—an era now referred to as the Little Ice Age. In response to the threat posed by global climate change, most nations have committed to significant mitigation efforts, through the Paris Agreement, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
But will these collective efforts be enough? Some scientists are trying another approach, exploring new tools to deliberately alter the global climate system. These discrete and diverse technologies are often grouped under the all-encompassing and poorly defined rubric of “climate engineering” or “geoengineering.” These radically different approaches aim to either halt the process of global warming by removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere or to counteract warming already under way.
The problem is, while several tools seem to be gaining ground in computer models, laboratories, and even real-world experiments, public discussion has not kept pace with their advancement. To date, there has been too little transparency and international dialogue around the progress, feasibility, risks and benefits of these efforts. Climate engineering and current mitigation and adaptation efforts are not mutually exclusive. Experts generally agree that these new technological approaches alone are unlikely to provide adequate protection from the dangers posed by rising global temperatures.
In 1965, the Science Advisory Committee raised concerns about manmade climate change and warned that “man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment.” More than 50 years later, the field of climate engineering remains largely unknown, especially to policymakers and the public.
There are real risks to using or rejecting climate engineering. While it is tempting to be for or against climate engineering, what decision makers need to do now is to gather scientific facts and ask as many questions as possible about what the deployment of these technologies might mean for individuals, societies, nations and regions.

Translate the following two passages into English.
Passage One
　　琴心和小核桃是两个出生在2016年的“萌妹子”。在卧龙国家级自然保护区（National Nature Reserve）进行了两年的野化培训后，2018年12月27日，它们在龙溪-虹口国家级自然保护区被放归。当时两只熊猫接受了体检，它们的生长发育和各项生理指标均正常。
　　两只大熊猫放归后，科研人员组成的监测小组立即着手对它们进行跟踪监测。无线电监测、GPS数据下载及分析、大熊猫粪便样品采集、生存环境调查、红外相机监测等多种设备和手段的应用，让监测队员可以随时掌握两只熊猫的动向。
　　通过收集相关数据，开展野外研究，监测人员希望了解两个小家伙能否逐步适应新的野外环境，融入野生大熊猫种群。
“我们保护区位于大熊猫分布区的中段，其显著特点是直接联系着岷山山系和邛山顶最大的大熊猫野生种群栖息地。”保护区虹口站站长刘波表示：“这里是野生大熊猫生存、繁衍以及圈养（captive-bred）大熊猫放归的天然走廊。”

Passage Two
　　污染防治攻坚战是全面建成小康社会决胜阶段的三大攻坚战之一。目标是到2020年生态环境质量总体改善，主要污染物排放总量大幅减少，环境风险得到有效管控。
　　生态环境问题本质上是高资源消耗、高污染排放的经济发展方式造成的。所以我们必须提高资源开发利用效率，减少资源消耗，并将生态文明（ecological conservation）的要求融入到经济建设中，加快形成节约资源和保护环境的产业结构、生产方式、生活方式。我们要加快建立健全五大生态文明体系，即生态文化体系、生态经济体系、目标责任体系、生态文明制度体系和生态安全体系等。这些体系的建立有助于我们从根本上解决生态环境问题。
　　我们要树立良好的生态环境是最大的民生福祉这一基本民生观。坚持生态为民，重点解决损害群众健康的突出环境问题，从打赢蓝天保卫战到水污染防治、土壤污染防治、农村人居环境整治、城市污水治理，还自然以宁静、和谐、美丽，不断满足人民日益增长的对美好环境的要求。

Passage 1
Perhaps you’ve temporarily misplaced your cell phone and anxiously retrace your steps to try to find it. Or perhaps you never let go of your phone—it's always in your hand, your pocket, or your bag, ready to be answered or consulted at a moment’s notice. When your battery life runs down at the end of the day, you feel that yours is running low as well. New research shows that there’s a psychological reason for such extreme phone dependence: According to the attachment theory, for some of us, our phone serves the same function as the teddy bear we clung to in childhood. Attachment theory proposes that our early life experiences with parents responsible for our well-being, are at the root of our connections to the adults with whom we form close relationships. Importantly, attachment in early life can extend to inanimate objects. Teddy bears, for example, serve as “transitional objects.” The teddy bear, unlike the parent, is always there. We extend our dependence on parents to these animals, and use them to help us move to an independent sense of self. As suggested by scientists, a cell phone has the potential to be a “compensatory attachment” object. Although phones are often castigated for their addictive potential, scientists cite evidence that supports the idea that “healthy, normal adults also report significant emotional attachment to special objects”.
Indeed, cell phones have become a pervasive feature of our lives: The number of cell phone users exceeds the total population of the planet. The average amount of mobile or smartphone use in the U.S. is 3.3 hours per day. People also like to be near their phones. Many people report being distressed when they’re separated from their phone. Phones have distinct advantages. They can be kept by your side and they provide a social connection to the people you care about. Even if you’re not talking to your friends, lover, or family, you can keep their photos close by, read their messages, and follow them on social media. You can track them in real time but also look back on memorable moments together. These channels help you “feel less alone”.

Passage 1
　　人类在漫长发展进程中创造了丰富多彩的世界文明，中华文明是世界文明多样性、多元化的重要组成部分。中医药作为中华文明的杰出代表，是中国各族人民在几千年生产生活实践和与疾病作斗争中逐步形成并不断丰富发展的医学科学，不仅为中华民族繁衍昌盛作出了卓越贡献，也对世界文明进步产生了积极影响。
　　中医药在历史发展进程中，兼容并蓄、创新开放，形成了独特的生命观、健康观、疾病观、防治观，实现了自然科学与人文科学的融合和统一，蕴含了中华民族深邃的哲学思想。随着人们健康观念变化和医学模式转变，中医药越来越显示出独特价值。
　　新中国成立以来，中国高度重视和大力支持中医药发展。中医药与西医药优势互补，相互促进，共同维护和增进民众健康，已经成为中国特色医药卫生与健康事业的重要特征和显著优势。

Passage 2
　　人人有饭吃，是人类最基本的生存权利，是一切人权的基础。全球农业发展取得了长足的进步，但饥饿和贫困依然是一种“无声的危机”，是深深困扰全人类的“阿喀琉斯之踵”。目前世界上还有8亿多贫困人口面临着食物不足、营养不良的威胁。促进农业发展，消除饥饿和贫困，依然是世界面临的重大挑战，也是全人类肩负的共同责任。国际社会应当携起手来，加强农业合作，更多关注发展中国家、尤其是一些最不发达国家的诉求。应减少贸易保护，加强对最不发达国家农业技术、资金等支持，提高全球农业生产水平和粮食安全保障水平。
　　中国作为世界上最大的发展中国家，任何时候都是维护世界粮食安全的积极力量。尽管中国农业进一步发展面临不少困难，但我们仍将不懈努力，用行动来兑现诺言，主要依靠自己的力量解决好吃饭问题。我们愿与世界各国携手奋进，共同创造一个无饥饿、无贫困、可持续发展的世界。

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A spectre haunts this book—the spectre of Europe. Just as the 700 pages of Tony Blair’s autobiography could not escape the shadow of Iraq, so the 700 pages of David Cameron’s memoir are destined to be read through a single lens: Brexit.
For all its detailed accounts of coalition talks with the leader of the liberal Democrats or Syria debates with Barack Obama, Brexit is the story. Cameron acknowledges as much, writing several times that he goes over the events that led to the leave vote of 2016 every day, “over and over again. Reliving and rethinking the decisions, rerunning alternatives and what-might-have-beens.” Later he writes: “My regrets about what had happened went deep. I knew then that they would never leave me. And they never have.”
It’s this which gives the book its narrative arc, one it shares with Blair’s. Both tell the story of a man whose previously charmed path to success is suddenly interrupted, running into a catastrophe that will haunt him to his last breath. The build-up is the same in both cases, a series of consecutive victories—winning his party’s leadership, rebranding and modernising that party to appeal to the centre ground, reaching Downing Street, winning re-election—only to make a decision that will wreak lasting havoc.
Cameron offers the same defence for Brexit that Blair gave for Iraq: yes, things might have turned out disastrously, but my mistake was honest, I acted in good faith, I only did what I truly believed was right.
Which is not to say that his memoir is not self-critical. On the contrary, Cameron scolds himself throughout and not only on Brexit. He writes that he often misses the wood for the trees, getting lost in policy detail and failing “to see the bigger, emotional picture”.
Nevertheless, his memoir reminds you why Cameron dominated British politics for so long. The prose is, like him, smooth and efficient. The chapter describing the short life and death of the Camerons’ severely disabled son, Ivan, is almost unbearably moving. With admirable honesty, Cameron admits that the period of mourning did not only follow his son’s death but his birth, “trying to come to terms with the difference between the child you expected and longed for and the reality that you now face”. What had, until then, been a charmed life was interrupted by the deepest heartbreak.

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A new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, jointly produced with the International Resources Panel, says that a type of unbridled international trade is having a damaging effect not only on rainforests but the entire planet. The report, which called for a raft of new Earth-friendly trade rules, found that the extraction of natural resources could spark water shortages, drive animals to extinction and accelerate climate change-all of which would be ruinous to the global economy.
The economic fallout of covid-19 is just an overture to what we would see if the Earth's natural systems break down. We have to make sure that our global trade policies protect the environment not only for the sake of our planet but also for the long-term health of our economies.
With the demand for natural resources set to double by 2060, the report called on policy makers to embrace what is known as a “circular” economic model. That would see business use fewer resources, recycle more and extend the life of their products. It would also put an onus on consumers to buy less, save energy and repair things that are broken instead of throwing them directly.
While the circular model could have “economic implications” for countries that depend on natural resources, it would give rise to new industries devoted to recycling and repairing. Overall, the report predicts a greener economic model would boost growth by 8 percent by 2060. There's this idea out there, that we have to log, mine, and drill our way to prosperity. But that's not true. By embracing circular economy and reusing material, we can still drive economic growth while protecting the planet for future generations.
Some countries, both in the developed and developing world, have embraced the concept of a circular economy. But the report said international trade agreements can play an important role in making those systems more common. It called on the World Trade Organization, which has 164 member countries, to take the environment into consideration when setting regulations. It also recommends that regional trade pacts promote investment in planet-friendly industries, eliminate “harmful” subsidies, like those for fossil fuels, and avoid undercutting global environmental accords.
Re-orienting the global environment isn't an easy job. There are a lot of vested interest we have to contend with. But with the Earth's population expected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, we need to find ways to relieve the pressure on the planet.

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　　北京市妇女联合会是北京地区各族各界妇女的群众组织，也是中华全国妇女联合会的地方组织。其基本职能是代表和维护妇女权益，促进男女平等。北京市妇联的最高权力机构是北京市妇女代表大会，每五年举行一次。北京市第十四次妇女代表大会于2019年6月18日开幕。
　　过去五年，北京市认真贯彻男女平等的基本国策，制定了一系列惠及妇女儿童的法规政策，大力实施妇女儿童发展规划，持续完善妇女工作的科学机制，领导和支持妇联改革不断取得新成效。当前，北京正努力把北京市建成国际一流的和谐宜居之都。要实现这个目标，需要包括妇女在内的全市人民共同奋斗。
　　北京市各级妇联组织应认真学习贯彻习近平总书记关于妇女和妇女工作的重要论述，进一步增强责任感和使命感，坚持服务大局，深化妇联改革，充分发挥妇女的“两个独特作用”，维护妇女合法权益，帮助她们解决最关心最直接最现实的利益问题。同时鼓励广大妇女践行社会主义核心价值观，坚守社会公德、职业道德，弘扬家庭美德、个人品德，传承中华民族传统美德，积极引领文明风尚，鼓动妇女踏实干事创业，做自尊自信自立自强的新时代女性。

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“十三五”期间，中国坚定不移走生态优先，绿色发展之路，全力以赴建设人与自然和谐共生的现代化。
　　第一，建制度，立规章，依靠法制护航绿色发展。近年来，从生态环境损害赔偿到生态环境保护督察，从修订大气污染防治法到民法典，都充分体现绿色发展理念，并出台了60多项相关配套制度，构建起完善的生态环境法律框架，为绿色发展提供有力支撑。
　　第二，治污染，调结构，坚决打好污染防治攻坚战。5年来，我国向污染宣战，实施大气、水、土壤污染防治三大攻坚战。不断创新污染防治方式，不断拓展防治领域，加大防治力度。2019年，全国重点城市PM2.5和二氧化硫平均浓度分别比2013年下降43%和73%，重污染天数下降81%。蓝天越来越多，水质越来越好，生态环境越来越美。
　　第三，划红线，筑牢生态屏障，夯实高质量发展的绿色基础。近年来，各地纷纷发布生态环境管控方案。如今，25%的陆地国土面积已被划入生态保护红线，并建立了1.18万处自然保护地，占陆地国土面积的18%。
　　随着这些政策和措施的落实，经济社会发展和生态环境保护逐步走向双赢。

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Where there is financial connection, we see that rapid improvements in quality of life can quickly follow. In modern world, there are several important channels to achieving this greater financial connectivity. I want to highlight two today: increased capital mobility and increased financial inclusion.
First, enabling capital to flow more freely. Allowing capital to flow across borders can help support inclusive growth. Right now, foreign direct investment is only 1.9 percent of GDP in developing countries. Before the global financial crisis, it was at 2.5 percent. Making progress on major infrastructure needs will require capital flows to rise again and to be managed safely. Greater openness to capital flows can also bring down the cost of finance, improve the efficiency of the financial sector, and allow capital to support productive investments and new jobs.
Second, we also need increased financial inclusion. Challenges come with opening up capital markets. Thankfully, we know from experience the elements that are required for success. These include sound financial regulation, transparent rules for investment, and attention to fiscal sustainability. A few numbers: close to half of the adult population in low and middle-income Asia-Pacific economies do not have a bank account. Less than 10 percent have ever borrowed from a financial institution. And yet, we know that closing the finance gap is an “economic must-have” for nations to thrive in the 21st century. IMF analysis shows that if the least financially inclusive countries in Asia narrowed the finance gap to the level of Thailand, the poverty rate in those countries could be reduced by nearly 4 percent. How can we get there? In part, through policies that enable more women and rural citizens to access financial services. The financial gender gap for women in developing countries is about 9 percent and has remained largely unchanged since 2011.
There is no quick fix, but we know that Fintech can play a catalyzing role. In Cambodia, for example, strong public-private partnerships in supporting mobile finance has led to a tripling in the number of micro-financial institutions since 2011. These institutions have now provided loans to over 2 million new borrowers, representing nearly 20 percent of the adult population. Many of these citizens had never had a bank account. Now they can save for the future and perhaps even start a business of their own.
These are ideas that can work everywhere. But countries have to be willing to partner and learn from each other. The IMF and World Bank launched the Bali Fintech Agenda last October. The agenda lays out key principles-from developing financial markets to safeguarding financial integrity-that can help each nation as it strives for greater financial inclusion.