Sentences with phrase «sichuan province»

The 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan province, at magnitude 7.9, claimed nearly 80,000 lives.

In order to know the influence of adolescents» self - concept on the subjective well being and the function of coping styles in them, the author adopted the Tennessee Self - Concept Scale, Simplified Coping Style Scale and the Questionnaire on the Subjective Euphoria, and made a survey on six middle schools of Sichuan province and got back 867 valid answered questionnaires.

ABSTRACT: In order to know the influence of adolescents» self - concept on the subjective well being and the function of coping styles in them, the author adopted the Tennessee Self - Concept Scale, Simplified Coping Style Scale and the Questionnaire on the Subjective Euphoria, and made a survey on six middle schools of Sichuan province and got back 867 valid answered questionnaires.

Chengdu, Sichuan province, China was a hive of Bitcoin - related activity as the city played host to three major events related to the cryptocurrency.

In June, it was reported that several Bitcoin mining companies had been shut down or relocated in Mabian Yi Autonomous County, home to a prosperous mining industry in southwest China's Sichuan province.

The rebuke came after Sichuan Electric Power Company ran a story indicating that China's State Grid was about to ban bitcoin mining entirely in Sichuan province.

China is home to nearly two - thirds of the bitcoin hashrate with mining operations rampant in the Sichuan province and the autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia and Tibet that provide cheap hydroelectricity and cooler temperatures for the energy - intensive process of mining cryptocurrency.

While they have taken some steps to rein in electricity usage in areas such as Sichuan province, the practice still continues generally unabated to this day.

Mabian Yi Autonomous County is home to a prosperous mining industry in the southwest China's Sichuan province, and the reason for the situation is unclear.

On August 8, 2017, an earthquake occurred in China's Sichuan province, near the popular tourist area of Jiuzhaigou, killing at least 5 people and injuring more than 100 others.

So it is a very good news indeed to learn that four cubs were born in the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Centre, southwest Sichuan province, in China.

In China's Sichuan province, near the city of Guangyuan, almost two dozen carefully designed buildings have been erected by Rural Urban Framework, a research and design collaborative based at The University of Hong Kong, as part of reconstruction efforts after the 2008 earthquake there.

The May 12th earthquake in Sichuan province, China was completely devastating.

While Sichuan province has very real challenges ahead, strong leadership and integrated planning could lead the region to a much greener future.

A small dog with a lot of determination and pretty strong legs gained web notoriety after it reportedly followed a group of cross-country cyclists on an 1,100 bike journey from Sichuan province in China to Llasa in Tibet.

Last week, Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina agreed to jointly develop shale gas resources in southwestern China's Sichuan province.

Apple also said that it has completed the construction of solar projects worth 40 megawatts in China's Sichuan province.

The competitive advantage of Apollo is that it has mining rights to certain quarries such as Dashuigou (大水沟) and Majiagou (马家沟) within Sichuan province that gives them access key precious metals such as telluride, bismuth, indium, selenium and others that go into making thin - film modules.

Let's first see how Chengdu (成都 ） and Shuangliu (双流) in Sichuan province are seeking to leapfrog Jiangsu province and Baoding (in Hebei province) as the solar PV manufacturing hubs of China.

I attended the inaugural Western China Photovoltaic Industry & New Energy Development Forum which was held in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province earlier this month (June 5 - 7).

Some of you may recall the image above, which I included with a recent post on efforts to make schools less likely to fall down in earthquakes like the one that shattered so many communities in China's Sichuan province.

I first began reporting on this issue after the dreadful school collapses in the potent 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan province, then quickly learned about similar vulnerability in Oregon — where hundreds of schools have been deemed deeply vulnerable to the next inevitable great earthquake on the Cascadia fault.

This is a very different situation than, say, in China's Sichuan province, where tens of thousands died in a devastating 2008 earthquake that shattered thousands of vulnerable buildings, but people clamored for change — particularly for safer schools.

As was explored here following the enormous toll in student (and teacher) deaths from the earthquake in China's Sichuan province, this doesn't take high technology or big budgets — simply adherence to well established norms for designing buildings to sway instead of crumble or pancake.

Something remarkable is unfolding on the Web and in state - controlled media in China as citizens aggressively challenge officials over the collapse of so many schools in the powerful earthquake that shook the mountains of Sichuan province.

Many of the schools that collapsed in the 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan province were found to have flawed iron reinforcement.

After the destruction of hundreds of poorly built schools in China's Sichuan province, I wrote repeatedly here and in print about similar vulnerability identified by engineers and seismologists in that state, despite the clear record of devastating quakes and tsunamis generated by the Cascadia fault beneath the sea bed off the Northwest coast.

But with the possible vote coming one day after the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province, I've got to ask another question.

The potent temblor that hit China's Sichuan province also exacted an outsize toll on schoolchildren, as several crowded schools pancaked into rubble.

When China's Sichuan province was rocked by a severe earthquake, tens of thousands of students (and their teachers) died in collapsed schools.

More than a thousand schools in Oregon are ready to fall in a quake that could be 32 times more powerful than the one that shattered eastern Sichuan province.

As research for a new project I went to a stainless steel factory in Sichuan province, Southwest China.

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will honour the youngest victims of the devastating 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan province by holding a live tribute on the opening weekend of its summer exhibition Ai Weiwei: According to What?

That August, the artist was beaten by Chinese police for trying to testify for Tan Zuoren, with whom he had investigated the aftermath — student casualties as well as poorly constructed buildings and infrastructure — of the devastating 8.0 - magnitude earthquake that shook the Sichuan province in May of 2008.

Jiuzhaigou is a fairy tale scenic sight in the north - western part of the Sichuan province in China.

Popular Chinese dishes include Chow Mein; noodles stir fried with soy sauce and shredded beef, chicken or pork, seafood or egg; Wonton; a pastry wrapper filled with minced pork, fresh vegetables and seasonings, and cooked and served in a chicken soup and Kung Pao chicken; a spicy, stir - fried dish of chicken, vegetables, peanuts and chillies originating in the Sichuan province.

The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on the outskirts of Chengdu in the Sichuan province of China is one of the best locations in the world to get exposed to the giant pandas (called giant only to distinguish them from the smaller red pandas).

Choose from these 10 hotels travellers love most in Chengdu, and rest assured that you'll have only the top rated hotels in the capital city of China's Sichuan province, which are narrowed down regularly, based on real feedback from fellow travellers who have enjoyed their stay there and with great satisfaction.

Visit historical sights and Sichuan province in a chauffeured luxury car.

Rich in bamboo and largely devoid of human development, the rugged highlands of Sichuan province are the last stand of the giant panda.

Children carry their schoolbags climb on a cliff on their way home in Zhaojue county in southwest China's Sichuan province

Schoolchildren carry their schoolbags climb on a cliff on their way home in Zhaojue county in southwest China's Sichuan province

Then there's the older, rocker - mulleted Peng, who says arthritis forced him from his native Sichuan province to relocate his wife and four (soon five) children here.

The Sichuan province in the southwestern corner of China is known for its fiery dishes.

This very fast stir fry is native to the Sichuan province of China.

Currently scheduled for launch in December 2013 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, the Chang» e 3 mission aims to land a Chinese rover on the Moon.

On June 19, a CZ - 3 rocket launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province failed to deliver a television broadcasting satellite into orbit.

Sichuan province is prone to earthquakes, including the devastating Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008 when a 7.9 magnitude quake hit the area, killing over 70,000 people.

More than 87,000 people were killed or went missing as a result of the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in China's Sichuan province, the largest quake to hit China since 1950.

After examining eight such families from the Sichuan province of southeastern China, the duo discovered that in two of the families, the parents (who could hear) had one mutated copy of the gene for myosin VIIA.