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This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Yun Feng in Beijing. Here is the news.

China has strengthened security checks of government websites, hoping to clean up those that are not up to standard by the end of next year.

China's top Internet watchdog says that security checks of government websites is a key task for the country, as their data and information are sensitive and relate to state security.

Officials from the Cyberspace Administration of China made the remarks at the first China Cyber Security Week, which was held last week.

Government departments will pool more resources to speed up the security of their websites. It's also their duty to guide social websites to enhance their online security.

The administration has regular technology training for government officials, teaching them about cyber security and how to effectively prevent online attacks.

More than 2,000 government websites were hacked last year, up by 35 percent year-on-year. The hacking could cause information leaks and threaten State security, according to the center's report.

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A top climate official says that the recent landmark climate agreement with the United States is a win for both sides and will inject positive energy into the upcoming global climate change negotiations in Lima, Peru, early next month.

Xie Zhenhua, vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that China is confident of meeting its 2030 goals for a peak in carbon dioxide emissions and lifting the share of non-fossil fuel to around 20 percent of energy use.

Xie says China will make the goals legally binding by incorporating them into the next three Five-Year Plans.

China aims to cut its 2020 carbon intensity, the amount of carbon dioxide produced per unit of GDP, by 45 percent from the 2005 level.

China's emissions goal was announced in a US-China agreement during a visit to Beijing earlier this month by US President Barack Obama, who set a target at the same time for the US to cut its emissions by around 27 percent by 2025.

China will submit a package to the UN early next year outlining the country's actions for post-2020.

You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Yun Feng in Beijing.

As the global community battles the Ebola crisis sweeping across West Africa, UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is investigating new approaches to combat the epidemic.

Right now, the newly created Innovation Unit of UNICEF is working with real-time data to create an Ebola response plan.

The Unit was formed seven years ago and is focused on using emerging technologies to deliver better results for children, said the 2014 Innovation Annual Report.

In terms of real-data usage to help stop Ebola, real-time data can immediately shed light on what works and what doesn't so authorities can act immediately.

As of now, the Innovation Unit is working on a set of applications for health workers that will process real-time data through a basic mobile phone; and this method will eliminate the paper based waiting time.

So the program will provide direct and immediate information to governments about Ebola cases.

To date, the World Health Organization has reported more than 15,000 Ebola cases in eight countries since its outbreak, with almost 5,500 reported deaths, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the three hardest-hit West African countries.

Mali, previously free from the disease, is the latest country to register Ebola cases, six in total, all of which have been fatal.

At present, the governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are faced with dealing with the most complex outbreak since the virus's discovery in 1976.

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China has become the largest market for illegal wildlife trading with a huge number of related animal products being sold online. That's according to a new report by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, a major animal welfare group.

The report says that at least 18,600 animal products were for sale online in China at the beginning of this year. Of the 21 online marketplaces monitored in China, wildlife products valued at almost 3 million U.S. dollars were available for sale in March and April.

The products mainly involved ivory, rhinoceros horns, tortoises and birds. The nonprofit group also says that ivory trade dominated all the sales in the country, accounting for almost 80 percent of the total.

Worldwide, investigators found 33,000 endangered wildlife and related products for sale on 280 online marketplaces in 16 countries early this year; and the Internet poses a real threat to wildlife.

In China, the number of illegal wildlife products sold online increased from 550 items in 2008 to 2,000 this year, but that did not mean the situation is worsening because the investigations this year were broader in scope and more comprehensive. The group says that only four websites were monitored in 2008 compared with the 21 tracked this year.