A woman wearing a face mask rides a bicycle on a bridge in front of the financial district of Pudong, which is covered in smog, during a polluted day in Shanghai on November 28, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING, Jan. 27 -- Researchers have disclosed that air quality affects people's emotional expressions on social media. They collected and analyzed 210 million geotagged tweets on Sina Weibo across China's 144 cities from March to November in 2014 and constructed a daily city-level expressed happiness metric based on the sentiment. The researchers compared the PM2.5 concentrations with the mood index and found that the two numbers were inversely related. According to the study published in the journal of Nature Human Behavior, the researchers examined questions like: Does air pollution affect a citizen's expressed happiness in real time? Do the effects of pollution on happiness vary on different days such as weekends, holidays and very hot days? And whether different population groups are affected by air pollution? They found that people suffer more on weekends, holidays and days with extreme weather conditions. The expressed happiness of women, high-income people and the residents of both the cleanest and dirtiest cities are more sensitive to air pollution. crossfit silicone wristbandsprinted-wristbandbusiness silicone wristbandsfigured wristbandblank wristbandcamo silicone wristbandssilicone wristbandsrubber band bracelets
BEIJING-- China should become more welcoming for overseas talent and and draw fully on their expertise, Zhang Jianguo, vice minister of human resources and social security said.We should create a better system for international talent to work in China, including assessment and incentive measures, he was quoted as saying by Study Times, a weekly newspaper affiliated to the Party School of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.Zhang called for the country to be more welcoming towards scientific and technological talent who are capable of making major innovations and promoting technological reform, as well as entrepreneurs and people from all walks of life who have a global and strategic vision.He also recommended giving foreign talent greater say in decision-making in the development of a technology, and allowing them to take part in fund allocation and resource mobilization.A report delivered at the 19th National Congress of the CPC in October 2017 said that talent is a strategic resource for China as it endeavors to achieve national rejuvenation and stay ahead of international competition.We must follow the principle of the Party exercising leadership over personnel, assemble the best minds from across the world and draw fully on their expertise, and step up efforts to make China a talent-strong country, the report said.
