File photo of Li Ao. [Photo/VCG] BEIJING - Chinese mainland officials Monday expressed condolences over the passing of writer Li Ao in Taiwan. We are saddened to hear of the passing of Li and express our sincere condolences to his family, Zhang Zhijun, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said in a message to Li's family. Li exhibited strong nationalist feelings, upheld national reunification, opposed Taiwan independence, promoted Chinese culture and devoted himself to cross-Strait exchanges, Zhang said. Chen Deming, president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, also sent a message of condolence to Li's family, praising the writer's efforts to promote Chinese culture, support China's reunification and boost cross-Strait exchanges. Li, who had suffered from brain tumor since July 2015, died Sunday at the age of 83. black wristbandscustomise fidget spinner24 wristbandspersonalized rubber braceletsblack rubber braceletssilicone fidget spinner
Shanghai's Fudan University announced on Thursday that the 2017 Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award will be presented to three scientists for their extraordinary contributions to research on gravitational waves. The three individuals are Rainer Weiss, a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as Kip Stephen Thorne and Barry Clark Barish, both of whom are professors from the California Institute of Technology. Weiss invented the laser interferometer gravitational-wave detector that became the foundation for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), which detected gravitational waves for the first time in human history in September 2015, according to the executive council of the award. Thorne created research programs that modeled gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical processes and developed data analysis methods, while Barish was the former director of the LIGO project who created the international LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Barish also fostered greater collaboration between research parties that eventually enabled the detection of gravitational waves. The award ceremony will be held on Dec 17 in Shanghai. The laureates will share a monetary award of 3 million yuan ($455,000). The Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award was jointly founded by Fudan University and Zhongzhi Enterprise Group in 2015 to recognize scientists who have made distinguished achievements in the fields of biomedicine, physics and mathematics.
