Sanxingdui Ruins

Chinese archaeologists announced on Saturday that some new major discoveries have been made at the legendary Sanxingdui Ruins site in Southwest China, helping shed light on the unified, diverse origin of the Chinese civilization.

Archaeologists have found six new sacrificial pits and unearthed more than 500 items dating back about 3,000 years at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan Province, the National Cultural Heritage Administration announced in the provincial capital Chengdu. So far, archaeologists have unearthed various important cultural items from four of the pits, including pieces of gold masks, gold foil, bronze masks, bronze trees and large numbers of ivories.

COVID antibodies

About 40 percent of COVID-19 positive patients in Wuhan, capital of Central China’s Hubei Province, have antibodies that can offer protection against being reinfected with the virus for at least nine months, said a new article published in the medical journal The Lancet.

According to the study, the adjusted COVID-19 positive rate in the city hardest hit by the virus earlier last year was just 6.9 percent, indicating that only a small proportion of the city population was infected after the epidemic outbreak.

Sleeping time

Nearly 60 percent of young Chinese interviewed in a recent survey by China Youth Daily said they habitually go to bed late and don’t fall asleep until after 11 p.m.

The survey was conducted to mark the 21st World Sleep Day, which fell on Sunday. Of the 2,002 survey respondents aged between 18 and 35, only 8.5 percent said their average sleeping time exceeds eight hours, and over four-fifths usually sleep between six and eight hours a night.

Visa policy

Chinese embassies in multiple countries including Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, the Philippines, Pakistan and Norway have streamlined visa application procedures for foreigners who have been inoculated with China-produced vaccines, in an effort to resume normal personnel exchanges in the post-pandemic era.

In view of resuming people-to-people exchanges between China and other countries in an orderly manner, the office will provide facilitation for visa applicants who have been inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines produced in China and obtained vaccination certificates, the statements read.(SD-Agencies)