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Today,

今天

We'll make a traditional Suzhou rice pastry, Fanggao.

我们来做一道

We'll make a traditional Suzhou rice pastry, Fanggao.

经典的苏州点心：方糕

Fanggao is made of plain rice and sticky rice,

方糕由大米和糯米制成

with different fillings and sizes.

可制成不同尺寸填充不同馅料

The first step

第一步

we sift the flour in the mould

我们将米粉筛入模具

and build an even layer.

并且将表面抹平

after that

然后

we put our date and walnut filling in the middle.

我们将枣和核桃制成的馅料

we put our date and walnut filling in the middle.

放在中间

Then we sift the flour

接着我们再将米粉筛入模具中

to make the second layer

接着我们再将米粉筛入模具中

on the top of the filling.

覆盖在馅料上方

When the layer is built,

随后我们用刮刀

we use a spatula to flatten the surface of the mould.

将表面整理平整

Make sure there's no gap in between.

确保中间没有空隙

Finally we steam it.

最后上锅蒸熟

After steaming, Fanggao is done.

The Fanggao we made today

我们这次制作的方糕

is date paste and walnut filling.

是红枣核桃馅

Traditionally Fanggao can be made

传统方糕也可以使用

with rose paste

玫瑰薄荷等馅料

and mint paste filling as well.

玫瑰薄荷等馅料

The design for Fanggao is different around Suzhou.

在苏州方糕造型各式各样

We use different elements of Suzhou garden

在方糕的设计中

for the design of Fanggao

会用到苏州园林的不同元素

to show customers the culture and beauty of Jiangnan.

以此展现江南的文化和韵味

Pastry

英 [ˈpeɪstri]      美 [ˈpeɪstri]

n. 糕点

Sift

英 [sɪft]         美 [sɪft]

v.筛

Paste

英[peɪst]        美[peɪst]

n.馅料

【爆竹声中一岁除，春风送暖入屠苏】#TrendingNow Amazing Hanfu transformation! Amid the boom of firecrackers, the year has come to its end; The spring breeze carries the sweet smell of wine and fortune. #ChineseNewYear

2022 marked the launch of the Potside Chats series! It has been an eventful year for the foreign staff in China Daily's New Media department. Join them as they reflect upon the year gone by and welcome the upcoming Year of the Rabbit!

President Xi Jinping sent his festive greetings on Wednesday to people throughout China ahead of Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, which falls on Sunday.

During meetings via video link with people from all walks of life in different regions of China, Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, called for implementing the measures for epidemic prevention and control in the new stage of COVID-19 response and ensuring that people of all ethnic groups across the country spend a safe and happy festival.

Through the video link, Xi talked with and sent his greetings to members of the public from Beijing, and Heilongjiang, Fujian, Henan and Sichuan provinces and the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Among those participating in the meeting were medical workers in a hospital, senior citizens at a welfare home, workers at an outlying oilfield, travelers and staff members at a high-speed railway station, vendors and customers at a wholesale market, and people in an ethnic minority village.

Xi said that every year before Spring Festival, he usually goes to see the people at the grassroots level. "I would like to chat with them to see what difficulties they still have, hear what plans they have in the new year, and share with them the festive happiness," he said.

Xi said: "This year, I choose to use the video link to see more places. Despite the screen separating us, I can still feel the strong festive mood in different parts of the country, and feel your joy and happiness. My heart is always with the people of all ethnic groups of the country."

He noted that Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation and also a happy moment for family reunions. "My biggest wish is that everybody spends a happy festival," he added.

Xi urged Party committees and governments at various levels to make earnest efforts to ensure adequate power, gas and heating supplies, provide people with abundant food and strengthen supervision over food safety.

During the Spring Festival holiday, efforts must be made to implement the various epidemic prevention and control measures formulated in line with COVID response situation in the new stage, guard against emergencies and accidents and ensure that people around the country enjoy a happy, safe and harmonious festival, he said.

Speaking on epidemic control, Xi said that over the past three years, China has carried out a rigorous COVID response policy, which has proved to be the correct choice, and the nation withstood the attacks of various rounds of virus mutations and reduced the rate of critically ill patients and the death rate caused by COVID infections.

As COVID response has entered a new phase and the situation remains grave, Xi called for further increasing medical resources, raising the capacity for providing medical services, increasing medicine supplies, particularly making all-out efforts to treat critically ill patients, and ensuring the normal order of medical services.

Looking back, Xi said that the past year was extraordinary and momentous. People on all fronts around the country have worked in unity to prevail over various difficulties and challenges, and made contributions and achieved new progress. "Everyone deserves credit!" he said.

This year is the beginning of fully implementing the guiding principles of the 20th CPC National Congress. Xi expressed his hope that in the new year, all the Chinese people will firm up their confidence and work hard together to make greater achievements.

记者：曹德胜

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英语新闻｜年增3%，中国GDP超121万亿元

China's GDP growth reached 3 percent year-on-year in 2022, indicating that the Chinese economy has made new headway despite multiple headwinds, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.

国家统计局周二表示，2022年中国国内生产总值同比增长3%，表明中国经济在多重阻力下仍取得了新的进展。

The country's annual GDP came in at 121.02 trillion yuan ($17.94 trillion) in 2022, surpassing the 120 trillion yuan threshold, according to the NBS.

据国家统计局数据显示，2022年我国年度GDP达到了121.02万亿元(17.94万亿美元)，超过了120万亿元的门槛。

GDP growth in the fourth quarter was 2.9 percent year-on-year, compared with 3.9 percent in the third quarter, the bureau said.

国家统计局表示，第四季度GDP同比增长2.9%，而第三季度为3.9%。

Industrial output, an important economic indicator, expanded by 3.6 percent year-on-year in 2022 and 1.3 percent in December.

工业产出是一个重要的经济指标，2022年同比增长3.6%，12月同比增长1.3%。

Despite the overall stable economic performance, the NBS said the foundation for economic recovery remains unstable. The country will comprehensively deepen reform and opening-up and focus on strengthening market confidence to promote improvements of the economy.

尽管总体经济表现稳定，但国家统计局表示，经济复苏的基础仍不稳定。我国将全面深化改革开放，大力提振市场信心，促进经济发展。

Last year's annual GDP growth of 3 percent marked a slowdown from 8.4 percent in 2021, according to the bureau.

国家统计局称，去年GDP年增长率为3%，较2021年的8.4%有所放缓。

Headwind

英 [ˈhedwɪnd]   美 [ˈhɛdˌwɪnd]

n. 顶头风

Threshold

英 [ˈθreʃhəʊld] 美 [ˈθreʃhoʊld]

n.门槛

Indicator

英[ˈɪndɪkeɪtə(r)]美[ˈɪndɪkeɪtər]

n.指标

英语新闻｜美国重蹈覆辙释放恶魔

In their joint statement delivered on Jan 11, US President Joe Biden "commended Japan's bold leadership in fundamentally reinforcing its defense capabilities" as illustrated in the new National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy and Defense Buildup Program.

在1月11日发表的联合声明中，美国总统拜登“赞扬日本在从根本上加强其防御能力方面的大胆领导”，如制定新的《国家安全战略》、《国防战略》和《国防建设计划》。

Considering the fact that US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy established the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and China almost immediately upon taking office, and that the bill passed by 365 votes to 65 in the House, there are quite a few politicians in Washington that view the world's largest developing country as a competitor, even a potential enemy. For them, a re-militarized Japan can act as a guard dog at the door of the "Indo-Pacific" to keep China contained.

考虑到美国众议院议长麦卡锡几乎一上任就成立了“美中战略竞争众议院特别委员会”，且该法案在众议院以365票对65票获得通过，华盛顿有不少政界人士将这个世界上最大的发展中国家视为竞争对手，甚至是潜在敌人。对他们来说，重走军事化之路的日本充当着在印太地区遏制中国的看门狗。

But few of them might realize how fierce their imagined guard dog is. According to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Japan's defense-related expenditure reached $50.69 billion in 2021, $647 million higher than that of 2020. The spending had already exceeded the 1 percent ceiling set by its so-called pacifist Constitution that Japanese politicians have vowed to break.

但很少会有人意识到他们想象中的看门狗有多么凶猛。据斯德哥尔摩国际和平研究所数据显示，2021年日本国防相关支出达到506.9亿美元，较2020年增加6.47亿美元，已经超过了其所谓和平宪法的规定上限1%，而日本政界人士誓言要打破这一上限。

Japan's maritime Self-Defense Force ranks fourth in the world, and it has more than 150 ships that exceed 550,000 in tonnage, more than those of the United Kingdom and France.

日本海上自卫队位居世界第四，拥有55万吨级以上的舰艇150多艘，超过了英国和法国。

Notably, it has two Izumo-class so-called helicopter carriers, one bearing the name Kaga that belonged to a sunken Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that participated in both the Shanghai Incident and the attack on Pearl Harbor. In October 2021, the two ships passed the US Navy's test landing of an F-35B fighter plane, showing that they could easily be turned into aircraft carriers, and so giving up the pretense that they were not built for that purpose.

值得一提的是，日本海上自卫队拥有两艘所谓的出云级直升机航母，其中一艘名为加贺号，属于旧日本帝国海军航空母舰。这艘航空母舰参与了上海事变和偷袭珍珠港。2021年10月，这两艘航母通过了美国海军F-35B战斗机的降落测试，表明它们航母化改造很容易，从而展露出日本想要改造航母的野心。

Further, on Jan 11, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida signed a defense pact with his UK counterpart Rishi Sunak in London allowing the two countries to station troops on each other's soil, a move that reminds the world of their alliance in 1902.

此外，1月11日，日本首相岸田文雄与英国首相苏纳克在伦敦签署了一项防务协定，允许两国互相在对方的土地上驻军，允许两国在对方领土上驻扎军队，此举让世人想起了1902年两国的同盟关系。

History always tends to repeat itself. Seventy-seven years after its unconditional surrender as a Fascist power, Japan is not only gaining military capability as it did before World War II, but also making arrangements with the Western powers that tried to appease it in the 1930s.

历史总是重复上演。日本作为法西斯国家，在无条件投降77年后，不仅获得了像二战前那样的军事能力，还与上世纪30年代打算安抚日本的西方大国达成了协议。

Even the appeasers are the same.

甚至安抚者都是一样的。

But the planners in Washington should beware their guard dog showing itself to be a wolf that does not heed the voice of its master.

但是，华盛顿的规划者应该提防他们的看门狗会变成一只不听主人话的狼。

That was the fatal mistake the US made in the 1930s. By continuing to export crude oil and used steel to imperial Japan even after the latter launched an invasion against China, the US not only deepened the sufferings of the Chinese people, but also suffered the Pearl Harbor attack on itself.

这是美国在上世纪30年代犯下的致命错误。美国在日本帝国主义发动侵华战争后，继续向日本出口原油和钢铁，不仅加深了中国人民的苦难，自己也遭受了珍珠港偷袭。

Expenditure

英 [ɪkˈspendɪtʃə(r)] 美 [ɪkˈspendɪtʃər]

n. 花费

Pacifist

英 [ˈpæsɪfɪst]      美 [ˈpæsɪfɪst]

n.和平主义者

Appease

英[əˈpiːz]      美[əˈpiːz]

v.安抚

French post office, La Poste, on Saturday issued two stamps to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rabbit, which starts on Jan 22.

1月14日，法国邮政公司La Poste发行了两款邮票，这是为庆祝1月22日即将到来的中国农历兔年。

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye said that 2023 is the year of the Rabbit, and the rabbit is an animal of incredible cuteness, well-behaved, gentle and quick-witted.

中国驻法国大使卢沙野在邮票发行仪式上发表讲话说，2023年是癸卯兔年，兔子精灵可爱，象征着乖巧温和、机智敏捷。

The rabbit represents the positive energy of the Chinese people who can overcome difficulties and improve themselves, Lu noted, adding that the Sino-French relations will surely write a new chapter and make rapid progress in the new year.

兔子代表着中国人民不断克服困难、超越自我的正能量。卢沙野表示，在新的一年里，中法关系必将取得长足发展，书写新篇章。

It has been 19 years since La Poste issued its first Chinese zodiac stamps, Philippe Wahl, president and chief executive officer of La Poste said.

法国邮政总裁兼首席执行官Philippe Wahl说，自法国邮政发行第一套生肖邮票以来，已经过去了19年。

Wahl said that by issuing Chinese zodiac stamps to celebrate the Chinese New Year, La Poste was paying sincere tribute to the Chinese culture.

Wahl说，法国邮政真诚地向中国文化致敬，并以发行生肖邮票的方式庆祝中国新年。

Featuring a crouching rabbit on a pink background, one stamp applies to the domestic mail service in France with a face value of 1.16 euro ($1.26). The other, a rabbit looking up on the background of the moon, applies to the international mail service with a denomination of 1.8 euro.

中国兔年生肖纪念邮票共两款，其中，一款票面是粉红色背景衬托着俯卧的白兔，适用于法国国内邮政服务，面值为1.16欧元(合1.26美元)；另一款票面是蓝色背景上一轮满月衬托着站立起来的玉兔，适用于国际邮件服务，面额为1.8欧元。

The stamps, designed by Chinese artist Chen Jianghong, are marked with "The Year of The Rabbit" characters in both Chinese and French.

这套邮票由中国艺术家陈江红设计，以中文和法文“兔年”字样为标志。

Since 2005, the French post office has been celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year each year by issuing stamps featuring the year's zodiac animal.

自2005年以来，法国邮局每年都通过发行生肖邮票的方式来庆祝中国农历新年。

The twelve animals, representing the Chinese Zodiac to record the years and reflect people's attributes, are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.

十二种动物代表着中国的十二生肖，分别是鼠、牛、虎、兔、龙、蛇、马、羊、猴、鸡、狗和猪。生肖记录着岁月的变迁，也反映着人的性格。

Denomination

英[dɪˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃn]美[dɪˌnɑːmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n]

n. 面额

China will continue to strengthen treatment of severe cases and count fatalities in a scientific and fact-based manner, as the Chinese mainland recorded about 60,000 COVID-related deaths at hospitals since the optimization of its virus control strategy on Dec 8, a senior health official said on Saturday.

1月14日，一名高级卫生官员表示，中国将继续加强对重症患者的治疗，并以科学和基于事实的方式统计死亡人数。自12月8日优化疫情防控措施以来，中国大陆记录了约6万例与新冠相关的医院死亡病例。

Jiao Yahui, head of the National Health Commission's medical administration bureau, said that 59,938 deaths associated with COVID-19 were reported at hospitals across the mainland between Dec 8 and Thursday.

2022年12月8日至2023年1月12日，国家卫生健康委医政司司长焦雅辉表示，中国大陆各地医疗机构累计报告新冠病毒感染相关死亡病例59938例。

Of these deaths, 5,503 were caused by respiratory failure due to COVID-19, and the remainder resulted from a combination of the infection and preexisting illnesses, she said at a news briefing on Saturday.

1月14日，焦雅辉在新闻发布会上说，由新冠病毒感染导致呼吸功能衰竭的死亡病例5503例，其余死亡病例则是由新冠病毒感染和基础疾病合并导致的。

Jiao added that the average age of patients who died was 80.3 years, and over 90 percent of them had underlying conditions such as cardiovascular or metabolic diseases, late-stage tumors or kidney failure.

焦雅辉补充说，死亡病例平均年龄为80.3岁，其中90%以上的病例患有心血管或代谢疾病、晚期肿瘤或肾衰竭等潜在疾病。

"Winter is also the peak season of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases among the elderly. With the spread of COVID-19, the number of elderly deaths is relatively high, and we are attaching greater significance to protecting elderly patients and saving their lives," she said.

焦雅辉说：“由于冬季是老年人呼吸系统疾病高发和心脑血管疾病加重季节，近期又与新冠病毒感染相叠加，因此老年人的病亡人数比较多，这提示我们要更加关注老年患者，尽最大努力挽救患者生命。”

On Dec 7, China announced that it was upgrading its coronavirus control measures by allowing asymptomatic patients and those with mild infections to quarantine at home and was scrapping mass nucleic acid testing.

12月7日，中国宣布调整新冠病毒防控措施，允许无症状感染者和轻度感染者居家隔离，并取消大规模核酸检测。

On Jan 8, the management of the disease was downgraded to Class B from Class A, and the quarantine and testing requirements for inbound travelers were lifted.

1月8日，新冠疫情管理由甲类降为乙类，并取消入境人员隔离检测要求。

For scientific and fact-based death counts, Jiao said that a national platform aimed at collecting and analyzing deaths linked to COVID-19 was established. Starting on Dec 31, medical institutions across the country were required to report related deaths for the previous day to the platform. In addition, they were asked to gather and submit information on COVID-related deaths from Dec 8 to 29.

焦雅辉表示，目前已经建立了一个国家平台，旨在收集和分析新冠相关死亡人数，从而确保科学和真实的死亡统计。自12月31日起，全国医疗机构需向该平台上报前一天的相关死亡病例。此外，他们还需要收集并提交12月8日至29日期间新冠相关的死亡信息。

"As the amount of data and information was massive and we were striving to count the number of deaths in a scientific, objective and responsible manner, it took us a relatively long period of time to consult experts and analyze the causes behind the deaths," the senior health official said.

这位高级卫生官员表示：“由于数据和信息量巨大，我们正努力以科学、客观和负责任的方式统计死亡人数，我们花了相当长的时间咨询专家并分析死亡背后的原因。”

Since the initial phase of the epidemic, China has been counting the deaths of patients whose nucleic acid test results were positive as COVID-19 related deaths, Jiao said. The criterion, she said, is basically in line with standards adopted by the World Health Organization and major countries.

焦雅辉说，自疫情初期以来，中国一直将核酸检测结果呈阳性的死亡患者计算为新冠相关死亡人数。她表示，这一标准与世界卫生组织和主要国家采用的标准基本一致。

According to data released during the news briefing, the numbers of patients visiting fever clinics, needing emergency care and being hospitalized had reached their peaks and were now declining.

根据新闻发布会期间发布的数据，前往发热门诊就诊、需要紧急救治和住院治疗的患者数量已达到峰值，目前正在下降。

While the number of severe COVID-19 cases at hospitals has been slowly declining since Jan 5, the figure is still on the higher side at around 105,000 as of Thursday, Jiao said.

焦雅辉说，1月5日以来，尽管医院的新冠重症病例数一直在缓慢下降，但截至1月12日，这一数字仍偏高，约为105000例。

The occupancy rate of critical-care beds was 75.3 percent on Thursday, lower than the alarming threshold of 80 percent. "The country's capacity of critical-care beds can meet demands," she said.

截至1月12日，重症床位使用率为75.3%，低于80%的警戒阈值。焦雅辉说：“国家的重症床位能够满足救治的需要。”

As trips made by migrant workers during the Spring Festival holiday have triggered concerns over the medical capacity in rural areas, Jiao said the country is beefing up its stock of drugs, oxygen cylinders, pulse oximeters and other medical equipment at grassroots health clinics.

由于春节期间外出务工人员的出行引发了人们对农村地区医疗能力的担忧，焦雅辉表示，国家正在基层卫生诊所增加药品、氧气瓶、脉搏血氧仪和其他医疗设备的库存。

"County-level authorities are required to set up a task force dedicated to transferring severe cases to higher-level hospitals, and each township-level health clinic must have an ambulance," she said.

焦雅辉说：“县级政府部门要成立专门的工作组，将重症病例转移到更高一级的医院，每个乡镇卫生院都必须有一辆救护车。”

Jiao added that progress is being made in building inventories of antiviral pills and strengthening treatment capabilities at grassroots health clinics.

焦雅辉补充说，在建立抗病毒药物库存和加强基层卫生诊所的治疗能力方面正在取得进展。

On Saturday, Health Minister Ma Xiaowei spoke by telephone with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, during which they exchanged views on the current virus control work, according to a statement released by the National Health Commission.

1月14日，据国家卫生委员会发布的一份声明称，卫生部长马晓伟与世界卫生组织总干事特德罗斯·阿达诺姆·盖布雷耶苏斯通了电话，双方就当前的新冠病毒控制工作交换了意见。

China has engaged in multiple technical briefings with the WHO since adjustments were made to its virus control policy and will continue to unite with the international community to fight the disease, Ma said.

马晓伟说，自世界卫生组织病毒控制政策作出调整以来，中国已经与世界卫生组织进行了多次技术报告，并将继续与国际社会团结一致，共同抗击该疾病。

He added that China has been sharing information with the WHO and other countries since the early phase of the epidemic, and was the first to identify the pathogen causing the disease and share its genome sequence with the world.

马晓伟补充说，自新冠疫情爆发以来，中国一直在与世界卫生组织和其他国家共享信息，并且是第一个确定导致疫情的病原体并与世界共享其基因组序列的国家。

Tedros said he highly appreciated the Chinese government's efforts in handling the epidemic, and thanked the country for conducting long-term exchanges and sharing epidemic information with the WHO.

特德罗斯表示，他高度赞赏中国政府在应对疫情方面所做的努力，并感谢中国与世界卫生组织进行长期交流和共享疫情信息。

They agreed to strengthen their technical communication and join efforts to safeguard global health.

他们同意加强技术沟通，共同维护全球健康。

Optimization

英 [ˌnɔːməlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n]  美  [ˌnɔːrmələˈzeɪʃn]

n.最佳化，最优化

Asymptomatic

英 [ˌeɪsɪmptəˈmætɪk]   美 [ˌeɪsɪmptəˈmætɪk]

adj. 无症状的