By:Zheng Qian |
From:english.eastday.com | 2021-01-20 19:24
This year’s Chinese Laba Festival, the festival on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, falls on Wednesday 20th January. As such, the Jade Buddha Temple, one of the Buddhist temples in Shanghai which distributes congee each year for the Laba Festival, has given out 4,000 bowels of Laba congee to nursing home residents in Putuo, Jing’an and Changning districts, instead of holding the normal massive congee-distribution event in front of the temple.
Volunteers wrap up the Laba congee. [Photo/ Sun Zhan from thepaper.cn]
As a symbol of blessings from the Buddha, the Laba congee distributed by Buddhist temples is a festive treasure for the general public in China. This year, as part of a more stringent pandemic prevention effort, the temple, together with others, have canceled the annual grand distribution ceremony.
Jack Ma addresses rural teachers at virtual social welfare event after reports of his disappearance Riyaz Ul Khaliq | 20.01.2021
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After months of silence, Chinese magnate Jack Ma on Wednesday appeared addressing a forum of teachers amid probe into his businesses.
Jack virtually connected to Rural Teachers Award ceremony participated by at least 100 teachers.
The news was first broke by Tianmu News site based in east China s Zhejiang province, where Alibaba is headquartered, and soon after, the shares of Alibaba rose in the stock market.
Jack himself was an English teacher who later turned to entrepreneurship and built Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.
Jack Ma Yun, the English teacher turned business magnate behind Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, appeared during a rural teacher-themed social welfare event via video link on Wednesday, according to media reports.