The traditional Chinese medicine has a long history in China. We can trace back to 6000 years ago. It was an age of Shen Nung in Chinese history. Up to now there are many doctors treating the sick in the way of the traditional Chinese medicine all over China. Doctors will give you a prescription after a diagnosis, in which there are a certain amount of traditional Chinese medical materials. It will be given according to a patient’s situation. In other words, they are dry original materials collected from nature without being processed. The Chinese medicine started to be effected by the medicine from the west can be dated back to 100 years ago. Before that all Chinese were used to the treating way of the traditional Chinese medicine. So anything that can exist has a reason. However, today the traditional Chinese medicine faces a great challenge. It is not about how many people trust it or not, but the materials themselves. The materials to be used as a medicine should be collected from nature. But now many of them are grown by human. In other words, those plants that are planted by human might not grow in a natural way. Besides, human might use some chemical fertilizers to make it grow faster. It is a bad effect to its medical efficiency. The fate of the traditional medicine relies on how many medical materials we have from nature. The more expanding for human’s territory we do, the less space we will have for the traditional Chinese medial materials. Today if we want to save the traditional Chinese medicine, we still have time and space.

A new FAST, the largest telescope in the world, has finished its installment. It is located in Guizhou province. Its caliber is 500 meters. It is equal to 30 football fields, which lasts 20 years from designing to building. Its size is ten times of Bonn telescope in Germany, 2.25 times of Arecibo telescope in America. The mission for the Chinese FAST is to explore universe, whose first task is to look for pulsar so that we can study the relationship between Black Hole and pulsar in universe. Another task is to look for civilization on other planets in universe. Looking at the history, the first telescope’s caliber was only 4.2 centimeters and 1.2 miters in length. Using it, Galileo found craters on moon, macula, the satellite of jovial, which helped human learn more about universe. As time goes by, with the new Chinese FAST, we have reasons to expect more new things to be discovered. It is a great step forward to explore universe for the world.

From the picture you see that ice cubes were placed in front of a building in college campus of Guangxi. It was around 7.2 tons ice cubes carried from the ice making factory. It is midsummer and really hot in most parts of China now. The temperature is around 34 degrees these days in many parts of the country. When we have no air conditioners in the dormitory, we still have many ways to get ourselves cool down, such as getting outside of the house in the night time, or in the day time, staying under the tree, or staying inside the great hall or stadium. 34 degrees is high but it is not an extreme temperature. Young kids can’t bear it. What I am caring about is our young kids’ adaptability to the environment. Looking at the students in my school, the problem is quite similar. You can often see that when doing morning exercise, during around 15 minutes, some students get fallen in a faint. Another example, students ask to open air conditioners when the temperature comes up to around 25 degrees. If it is not opened a class will not be continuous. Sometimes, when there was something wrong with the electricity, a class will be inefficient. Students in class will move restlessly and cannot be concentrated on their learning. I doubt our young kids’ adaptability to the environment. Compared with the older generations, they are weaker. There was no air conditioner before. Workers worked in the sun with high temperature without much complaint and students kept quiet in the classroom. Farmers worked in the fields, cutting weeds with hoes so that weeds died in the sun as soon as possible. Are younger generations weaker? Do you have any ideas about it?

As everybody knows, China has the largestpopulation in the world, up to 1.3 billion. Chinese government spared no effortto control the population until last year. It has been lasted for 35 yearssince one-child policy was carried out. During this period, everybody complaintthat the too large population had brought lots of problems to China even to theworld, because everybody got to consume resources. Most of the Chinese peoplesupported this one-child policy made by the Chinese government. It is estimated that the population in China will go down to around 0.1billion by the end of 21st century. Generally, Chinese people shouldbe happy about the dropping of the population. We still remember how a largepopulation had great effect on the quality of people’s life. But today, whenthe population is going down, some of the people have an idea that it willbring bad effects to China, especially in economy and that China should keep abigger population in the future. Do you think so?

In the latest speech of Trump, he once more talked about the trading of China. Openly, he said China had totally controlled its exchange rates, which has caused lots of problems to America in trading and other areas. He showed his opinion that he doesn’t support TPP, for it will bring lots of bad effects to America but be helpful to those countries which control the exchange rates such as China. Therefore, he would take measures to solve the problems if he is successful to be the next president of America. In other words, if Trump becomes the president, a war of economy between China and America might happen. As a businessman, he clearly knows how to make profits from business. He again and again stresses that he will put up prices in tariff for China. Both countries have argued about the exchange rates for many years, but as time goes by, we can see that both countries have profited from it though it goes with lots of arguments. Is it as serious as Trump said? Is it the time for America to fight against China in trading? What will happen when Trump starts a war between China and America in trading? Do you have any ideas?

The scores of the national entrance exams for colleges had been released. Students who took part in the exams have already got their own scores and the minimum passing scores for each grade have been shown in different areas. Lots of students are worrying about how to choose a right major and college for themselves as their priority, though they have some reference books, such as Colleges admissions directory, The Instruction for how to file the intention for colleges, and so on. They are facing an important choice in their life, but many of them have no their own opinions. It is the reason why they find it hard to finish the tasks. It is a problem about career planning. Talking about Career Planning, we see that it is a lack of education in our schools. There is no a good system for it in our education, including curriculum, related courses, related activities and so on in primary school, or secondary school. Students learn lots of things only from books. There is less experience for them such as directly going to some factories or doing practical operation. Besides, lots of students have no a long-term plan. So when now they have only several days for them to choose which way they will go in the future, they hesitate in this crossing road. For those who have already prepared for it before, they will be calmer. Career planning is a big topic. Would you like to talk something about it?

A great tornado hit Yan Cheng city in the north of Jiangsu province in the afternoon yesterday. Up to now, it was reported that 98 people died and 846 injured. You can imagine how strong the tornado was. From the picture below you see that the third floor of the building had been seriously damaged and the door had been broken. It is one of the places which suffered great damage, in which there is a kindergarten. 120 kids were on the third floor at the right time. When the great tornado came they were inside the classroom. The door of the classroom was broken soon. Bravely, 6 teachers worked together to block the wind from the hole. Children inside the classroom were safe though some of the teachers were injured. They are great teachers. They deserve to be called heroes. A building was hit by tornadoThe door was broken

A new ranking of the costliest cities for living in the world had been released. HK becomes No. one. Shanghai ranks No. 7 and Beijing is No. 10 in the list. Surprisingly, among the top ten cities, Asia occupies a half. China has three. Compared with the people in the western countries about life, people in the east live a lower income life. China is still one of the developing countries, but there are three the costliest cities. The same survey based on the same data has been carrying out for 22 years. The statistic includes more than 200 items from housing, traffic, coffee, to beer, almost any basic elements for life which supports a person’s life in a city. Among the cost, house renting is a key data, which must be up to the international standard. In other words, the house you rent is in a suitable community when it is taken as a sample. When you are living in the costliest city what do you think about it? What does this list tell us? Do you have any ideas about it?

Chinese Gao Kao ended on June 8th. Students of senior 3 celebrated it. They held parties, spent the whole night drinking in bars, or did something to get relaxed. It was a hard time for them during the preparation for Gao Kao. Almost a year, they didn’t have weekends. They couldn’t go visiting some places of interest they like. They got to read and read every day from morning till night. We can understand how crazy they were to celebrate the moments when they were free. Students would invite their teachers to celebrate together to have a big dinner and called it Graduation Dinner. One of the programs is that everyone talks something in the party. I like it very much, because some of the students’ stories are touched. I still remember one student’s speaking. He said, “Thank you very much, teacher. I am very naughty, and always break rules of our class, but you are always patient enough to tell me what to do and what not to do. Today, I am sure I have grown up. I know what I am going to do in the future.” I am proud of doing a job like this to help students grow up.

Several days later, people in Britain will decide if Britain leaves European Union or not. It is really a hard time for the people not only in Europe but also in the world because people in the world can imagine how strong effect it will bring to the world. All statistics about bad effects to economy, culture, community and so on which might happen have already been given by experts and politicians. Those who care for this great event are waiting for its result of public voting. Surely, we got to accept any result. British people have their own right to decide where to go. It is not easy to get European countries united. Many people in Europe have offered a lot to realize the dream of getting united. Becoming a union is absolutely stronger than any single country including the power of its economy, military, and so on. Looking back at the history in the world, the United States is a very good example. So I have several questions. Why do British people want to leave? Are they selfish? As we know European Union are facing lots of problems right now. Why do they not think about how to look for solutions together to solve the problems in this Union? Leaving is British people”s best choice? There is saying in China “We are in the same boat”. Only can thinking together and finding out a better way together help European Union move forward. What do you think about it?