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> Chine netizens spend 28.5 hours online per week

中國人均每周上網28.5個小時，你是多長時間？

A staff member helps nior citizens pay the hospital bills via mobile phone at Beijing Tiantan Hospital under the Capital Medical University in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 9, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]

Last year, China had 1.03 billion netizens, with an internet penetration rate of 73 percent, while the proportion of mobile internet urs reached 99.7 percent. People spent an average of 28.5 hours on the internet every week.2021年，中國的網民規模達10.32億，互聯網普及率達73％，網民人均每周上網時長達到28.5個小時，而網民使用手機上網的比例達99.7%。

Last year, 57.6 percent of the rural population had access to the internet, while 43.2 percent of people age 60 and older ud the internet.

去年，在農村地區，57.6%的人口使用互聯網，43.2%的60歲以上人口使用互聯網。

The platform economy is developing rapidly, covering daily activities such as travel, dining and accommodations. The number of people using the internet to order food deliveries, hail rides and book travel rvices has rin in recent years.

近年來，平臺經濟蓬勃發展，使用網上外賣、網約車、在線旅行等服務的用戶總體增長。

Last year, the proportion of people who ud the internet for work purpos and medical rvices ro 35.7 percent and 38.7 percent, respectively, year-on-year, due to Covid-19.

去年，因新冠肺炎疫情影響，在線辦公、在線醫療的用戶規模增長率分別為35.7%和38.7%。

> Extreme heat ars parts of Europe

歐洲多國面臨高溫“烤”驗

A man us a small fan to cool off while waiting for a train at Liverpool Street Station in London on Tuesday. The United Kingdom is languishing in extremely hot weather, with temperatures in London reaching 40.2 C, the highest on record, according to Met Office figures. [Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/EPA]

Extreme heat has engulfed parts of Western Europe, with wildfires raging in France and Spain, a worning drought in Portugal, and the third-hottest day on record in the UK on Monday. 極端高溫席卷了西歐部分地區，法國和西班牙野火肆虐，葡萄牙干旱加劇，英國周一（7月18日）是出現有記錄以來第三熱的一天。

Fire has spread across 27,000 acres in the Gironde region of southwest France, forcing 32,000 people to evacuate, the local prefecture said Monday night.

當地政府周一（7月18日）晚上說，大火已經蔓延到法國西南部吉倫德省2.7萬英畝的地區，迫使3.2萬人疏散。

The nearby town of Cazaux recorded 42.4 degrees Celsius (108.3 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, the hottest since its weather station first opened more than 100 years ago, in 1921, according to French national meteorological rvice Météo France.

根據法國國家氣象局Météo France的數據，附近的卡索鎮周一的氣溫記錄為42.4攝氏度(108.3華氏度)，這是自100多年前1921年該氣象站首次啟用以來的最高溫度。

In Spain, wildfires swept the central region of Castile and Léon, as well as the northern region of Galicia on Sunday, Reuters reported.

據路透社報道，西班牙周日（7月17日）的野火席卷了卡斯蒂利亞和萊昂中部地區，以及加利西亞北部地區。

Fire also forced the state railway company to suspend rvice between Madrid and Galicia.

火災還迫使國家鐵路公司暫停了馬德里和加利西亞之間的服務。

> Japane figure skater Hanyu Yuzuru retires from competing

羽生結弦宣布退役，不再參加競技比賽

Japane figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu enjoys a strong fan ba in China. [Photo/Agencies]

Japan's two-time Olympic figure skating champion Hanyu Yuzuru announced that he would retire from competitions and turn professional, at a press conference in Tokyo on Tuesday. 當地時間19日，日本兩屆奧運會花樣滑冰冠軍羽生結弦在東京召開的新聞發布會上宣布，他今后不再參加競技比賽，但將繼續做一名職業花樣滑冰運動員。

He completed a "Super Slam" in 2020 after finishing first at the Four Continents Championships, before which he had collected the Junior Worlds and Junior Grand Prix Final titles in 2010, two Olympic gold medals at Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018, two World titles in 2014 and 2017, and a straight sweep of four titles at the Grand Prix Finals, from 2013 to 2016.

他在2020年完成了 "超級全滿貫"，在這之前，他在2010年收獲了世界青少年花樣滑冰錦標賽和青少年大獎賽總決賽的冠軍，在2014年索契冬奧會和2018年平昌奧運會獲得的兩枚奧運金牌，2014年和2017年的分別獲得世錦賽冠軍，并在2013年至2016年期間連續獲得四屆大獎賽決賽冠軍。

In addition, he is a six-time champion at the Japane nationals.

此外，他還曾六次獲得日本國民賽冠軍。

The quad axel will remain on his checklist when he turns professional, Hanyu said at the press conference.

羽生在新聞發布會上說，當他成為職業選手時，將繼續挑戰阿克塞爾四周跳。

> Biden approval rating falls to 36%, matching record low

美國總統拜登支持率降至36%

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US President Joe Biden's approval rating fell by three points to 36 percent this week, tying the lowest rating of his 19 months in the White Hou, as inflation takes a toll on American life, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday. 路透社聯合民調機構益普索集團7月19日完成的一項最新民意調查顯示，隨著通貨膨脹對美國民眾生活持續造成影響，美國總統拜登的公眾支持率下降3個百分點，降至36%，與他入主白宮19個月以來的最低水平持平。

Biden's approval rating has been below 50 percent since August 2021, and has hovered around its record-low since first hitting it in May, raising alarms that his Democratic Party is on track to lo control of at least one chamber of Congress in the Nov 8 midterm elections.

自2021年8月以來，拜登的支持率一直低于50%，并在今年5月首創新低，之后便在此低點徘徊。人們開始擔憂，拜登所在的民主黨可能會在11月8日的中期選舉中失去對美國國會至少一個議院的控制權。

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