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An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted southwest China at 8:04 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. Four people died and 10 others were injured after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck southwest China on Saturday morning.

山寨是一个全球性的问题，而且这个问题已经存在很多年了。但是科技的发展使这个问题愈演愈烈，而且严重恶化，背后原因可管窥一斑。Counterfeiting is a global issue and has been for years. Technology has just made it worse, much worse. And here's a clue as to why.
科技的发展使卖山寨产品的商家有了理直气壮要高价的机会，同时互联网也使山寨产品的销售变得更容易了。打造一个貌似口碑不错的网站是件很容易的事，这是在纽约运河街卖手机和苹果配件的商家永远都不能比的。而且有些“克隆”网站也经常让消费者上当，让他们以为自己以很低的价钱买到了正品。Technology has given counterfeiters the ability to make convincing electronic rip-offs — fast — while the Internet has made it easier to buy counterfeit products. Websites can be made to look reputable in a way that a sleazy middleman selling Air Phones and Apple-a-likes on Canal Street never could. And doppelganger websites frequently dupe customers into thinking they're getting the real deal, even at a fraction of the price.
纽约城市大学（City University of New Yor）的教授艾伦•齐默尔曼曾经撰写过大量关于山寨产品的文章，他指出：“山寨是一个非常暴利的行业。可以以很低的成本进入这个行业，而且就算哪天被抓住了，受罚的成本与其它违法行为相比也是很低的。”他还表示，海关和边检部门几乎无法阻止山寨的泛滥。根据齐默尔曼的计算，全球海关部门大概只截货了所有进口山寨商品的十分之一。
"It's a very profitable business," says Alan Zimmerman, a professor at The City University of New York who's written extensively about the impact of counterfeit goods on companies and the economy. "You can get into business at very low cost, and the penalties if you get caught are very small compared to other illegal activities." He adds that it's almost impossible for Customs and Border Protection to stop the problem. Zimmerman has calculated that customs agencies worldwide seize approximately one-tenth of one percent of total imports.
在去年美国海关和边防检查部门截获的山寨产品中，有84%来自中国大陆或香港。经常帮助各大品牌打击山寨产品的律师路易斯•费欧彻鲍姆把中国称为生产山寨商品的“狂野西部”，并表示中国政府没有持续地打击山寨产品，保护知识产权。Eighty-four percent of counterfeit goods seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2012 came from China or Hong Kong. Louis Feuchtbaum, a lawyer who helps brands fight fakes, refers to China as the "wild west for manufacturing counterfeit products." He describes a government that fails to consistently deter counterfeits and enforce intellectual property rights.
随着技术的推陈出新，许多之前的型号也渐渐过时，那么各大品牌是否还有必要花时间打击已经过时的山寨产品？对于这个问题，费欧彻鲍姆认为：“这个问题并不因为出了一款新产品就不存在了。”首先，山寨厂商的动作也很快。最近他的一个客户打算推出一款新产品，但正品尚未推出，山寨货就已经上市了。另外许多公司在销售新品的同时，也会继续折价销售老款产品。因此，费欧彻鲍姆说：“山寨给各大品牌带来的损害一直存在。”他还表示，山寨产品还可能使消费者面临潜在危险，比如电池爆炸或其它原因引起的火灾都是常见风险。With new innovations rendering previous models obsolete, should brands spend their time fighting outdated counterfeits? "The problem doesn't go away merely because there's a new product," says Feuchtbaum. For one thing, counterfeiters act fast. One of his clients recently had a product counterfeited before it even went onto the market. Older products also often remain in the supply chain as companies continue to sell different versions, with the older model at a discount. "Then there's the everlasting damage done to brands by counterfeits," he says, adding that fakes also put consumers in physical danger. He cites exploding batteries and other fire hazards as common risks.
虽然数码产品的山寨市场规模很庞大，但还是比不上进入美国的山寨服饰。在2012年美国查获的所有山寨商品中，服饰所占的比重达到29%，电子产品只占15%。福德汉姆大学（Fordham University）时尚法律与知识产权教授苏珊•斯卡菲迪指出，山寨服饰的比重之所以超过山寨数码产品，原因很简单：“仿造一款手机需要的技术仍然比仿造一个手提包复杂。”Despite the scale of the problem, there still seem to be fewer fake electronics than fake clothes and accessories reaching the U.S. Apparel and handbags represented 29% of all items seized in 2012 while 15% were electronics. Susan Scafidi, a professor in fashion law and intellectual property at Fordham University, says that the quantity of seized fashion goods still outstrips electronics for a simple reason: "It still takes more skill to craft a cellphone than to craft a handbag," says Scafidi.

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Fees charged for returning tickets will also be changed. Passengers will be charged a rate equal to 5 percent of their ticket's price if they return the ticket 48 hours or earlier before the train's departure. A 10-percent rate will be charged if a return occurs within 48 hours leading to the departure but 24 hours before it. A return within 24 hours before departure is subject to a 20-percent rate.

Retired Chinese basketball great Yao Ming has collaborated with the world's largest beer producer to launch a short film warning against the dangers of drunk driving.

Fudan University(复旦大学：Fùdàn dàxué), located in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai, is one of China's most prestigious learning institutions. Fudan, founded in 1905, takes its name from a famous line in the Confucian classic(儒家经典：rújiā jīnɡdiǎn) – The Book of History(史记：Shǐ jì): Brilliant are the sunshine and moonlight, again the morning glory after a night. Fudan's name thus means ever pushing forward with renewed energy.

Fudan University is under the direct jurisdiction of the State Ministry of Education, enjoys national construction priority. Fudan University and Shanghai Medical University(上海医科大学：Shànɡhǎi yīkē dàxué) merged into a new Fudan University in April, 2000. Fudan University is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary research university with many highly-ranked majors and programs.

Fudan University consists of 29 schools and departments, with seventy undergraduate disciplines. The University confers bachelor's degrees in seventy academic disciplines, and master's degrees in two hundred and twenty five disciplines (with fifty of them established by the University itself), and doctoral degrees in twenty-four Level I and one hundred and fifty-three Level II academic disciplines (with twenty-nine of them established by the University itself). There are also twenty-five research stations that offer postdoctoral fellowships.

This rare brown panda is walking proof that, when it comes to nature, it's not always a case of black and white. Unlike his more common monochrome cousins, giant panda Qizai's coat is tan and brown.这只罕见的棕色大熊猫证明了，在自然环境中，大熊猫并不永远都是黑白的。大熊猫七仔和它单色的亲戚不同，它是黄褐色与棕色相间的。
The quirky creature is one of a rare subspecies that exists only in the remote Qinlig Mountains in western China.这只奇怪的动物是罕见物种之一，仅存在于中国西部秦岭一带山区里。
Staff at the Shaanxi Wild Animal Research Centre, where the panda is cared for, say many others like him have only patches of brown in their fur – making Qizai especially rare.七仔现在正在陕西野生动物研究中心被悉心照料，那里工作人员说七仔这样的大熊猫实属罕见，因为大部分像它一样的熊猫都是只有星星点点的棕色皮毛。
'He has a totally brown and tan coat which is very rare. Most just have a few brown patches,' one keeper said.“它有着完全是黄褐色与棕色的皮毛，这实属罕见。大多数大熊猫都只有几块棕色的皮毛而已，”一位饲养员说。
Experts believe the colony of 300 pandas' unusual colouring is down a combination of a genetic mutation and the animals' local diet in the remote mountainous region.专家相信这只熊猫不同寻常的颜色，是源于基因突变以及熊猫在偏远山区的饮食。
'They only exist in the wild on these mountains and there are brown variants of other species in the area too,' the keeper said.“它们仅存活在野外山区，那里也有其他物种的棕色变种” 饲养员表示。