Original title: 2021-09-20 news and newspaper Abstract Newsletter
Domestic newsletter:
September 19 this year is the first day of the Mid Autumn Festival holiday. The national railway is expected to send 10.5 million passengers, and 705 additional passenger trains are expected to be arranged. The passenger flow of the Yangtze River Delta railway has increased significantly. In terms of highways, most of the expressway sections affected by rainfall have resumed traffic. Airports across the country operate smoothly.
The National Games ushered in the fourth competition day after its opening on September 19. Rowing, swimming, weightlifting, karate and other events produced many gold medals. Among them, the athletes who participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games performed well. Wang Shun from Zhejiang won the 400m medley. Li Wenwen of Fujian won the gold medal in the women's weightlifting 87kg class.
The Chinese maritime police 1302 fleet cruised in the territorial waters of Diaoyu Island on September 19.
International newsletter:
Novel coronavirus pneumonia has been diagnosed in 42085220 cases in Beijing at 5:21 on September 20th, and 673761 cases died, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University. In the past 24 hours, 40202 confirmed cases and 356 deaths were added.
The mayor of Kabul appointed by the Afghan Taliban held his first press conference on the 19th and introduced a number of municipal related work. At present, the Kabul municipal government is facing the difficulty of insufficient budget and is trying to control the price level in the capital.
Extremist groups said on the 19th that they were responsible for a series of bombings in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. A car bomb exploded near a Taliban base in Jalalabad on the 19th, killing at least two civilians and wounding one Taliban member. The previous day, there were several explosions in Jalalabad, which extremist groups claimed killed and injured at least 35 Taliban members.
La Palma volcano in Spain erupted on the 19th. Witnesses said that two hours after the eruption of La Palma volcano began, lava continued to erupt from at least two craters. As of press time, the local government has evacuated about 300 people.
September 20 is Japan's day of respect for the elderly. According to the latest data released by Japan's Ministry of general affairs, the number of elderly people aged 65 and over in Japan and their proportion in the total population have reached an all-time high. According to statistics, Japan's elderly population aged 65 and over reached 36.4 million, accounting for 29.1% of the total population. According to the data released by the United Nations, the proportion of the elderly population in Japan is much higher than that in Italy and Portugal. According to the 2020 labor force survey released by the Ministry of general affairs, 9.06 million elderly people were still working in Japan last year, an increase for 17 consecutive years and a record high.
Indian police said on the 19th that a serious traffic accident occurred in the central chetisgarh state that day, killing 9 people and wounding 7 others. Due to poor road conditions and illegal operations such as speeding and overloading, traffic accidents occur frequently in India. According to incomplete statistics, about 150000 people die in traffic accidents in India every year.