雙語資訊三則

雙語資訊三則

北京西站試行“刷臉”進站Beijing Railway Station Tests Face-ID System

北京西站采用了自動人臉識別系統，幫助乘客在春運期間更快地進入車站。通過將車票放在身份證上面，并讓機器掃描車票的二維碼，乘客在10秒內通過了安檢。在相機記錄他們的面部并且系統驗證ID信息之后，乘客就能被允許進入車站。北京西站自2016年11月起采用自動化系統，如果在即將到來的春運期間一切順利，可以進行推廣。

The Beijing West Railway Station has adopted an automatic face-recognition system to help passengers get into the station more quickly as the Spring Festival travel rush. Passengers getting through the checkpoint within 10 seconds by placing their tickets on top of their identification cards and letting the machine scan the tickets’ QR code. After the cameras record their faces and the system verifies the ID information, passengers are allowed to enter the station. The Beijing West Railway Station has adopted the automatic system since November and may expand its usage if everything goes well during the forthcoming Spring Festival travel rush.

全美26%新企業由中國投資China Invests in over 26% of US Startups

據一份報道顯示，隨著美國風險投資的低迷，中國的鈔票正涌入硅谷，目前來自中國的投資者們撐起了美國26%的新企業。據紐約一家投資研究公司CB Insights指出，在支持美國新企業的32個投資者中，諸如阿里巴巴和騰訊等中國互聯網巨頭以及中國風投資本家占主導地位。自從2014年以來，中國投資者每季度都要參與超過40起美國技術交易，2015年更是涉足了和優步、Lyft、AirBnB與其他企業的大型融資交易，單單是2015年投資在技術領域的資金就達到了100億美元。

China is flooding Silicon Valley with cash, as 26 percent of U.S. unicorns are currently backed by investors from Greater China, while venture capital investment in U.S. companies is down, according to a report. Among the 32 investors that have backed U.S. startups, Chinese internet giants like Alibaba and Tencent, as well as Chinese venture capitalists, are dominant, noted CB Insights, a New York-based investment research firm. Chinese investors have participated in over 40 American tech deals per quarter since 2014, and joined in major 2015 financing deals with the likes of Uber, Lyft and AirBnB among others, involving nearly $10 billion in U.S. tech funding for 2015 alone.

中國成全球留學生最多國家China Has Become the Single Largest Source of Overseas Students

2015年海外留學的中國學生共計126萬人，占全球國際學生總人數的25%。據中國和全球化研究中心(CCG)的一份報告顯示，中國已經成為海外留學生最大輸出地。據CCG的調查顯示，中國是包括美國、加拿大、英國和澳大利亞等英語國家學習的留學生最大輸出地，也是包括日本、韓國和新加坡等亞洲國家留學生的主要來源。統計數據顯示，2015年中國留學生占美國和加拿大全部留學生的比例超過了30%，占韓國全部留學生比例大約為62%。

In 2015, a total of 1.26 million Chinese students studied abroad, accounting for about 25 percent of all international students worldwide. According to an annual report by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), China has become the single largest source of overseas students.According to CCG’s research, China is the largest source of overseas students in English-speaking countries including the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia. It is also the top source for Asian countries including Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Statistics show that Chinese students account for more than 30 percent of total overseas students in the U.S. and Canada, and about 62 percent of international students in South Korea in 2015.