1. Is the minus 52 degree arctic cold sweeping across the United States? The Chicago government is "burning the tracks" to ensure that trains run. Chicago local time reported on January 30, 2019 that the Midwestern region of the United States has ushered in unprecedented extreme cold weather, and some states even have low temperatures.
To minus 52 degrees!
The Chicago government adopted a method of "burning the tracks" to ensure that trains ran.
It is reported that if the temperature is too low, the train rails cannot withstand it. Such ultra-low temperatures will cause the metal of the rails to deform or even break. Therefore, staff heat the rails to ensure train operation.
2. The U.S. report stated that the government “shutdown” caused an economic loss of US$11 billion. A report released by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office on January 28, 2019 showed that the partial “shutdown” of the federal government from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019
It is expected to cause approximately US$11 billion in economic losses to the United States.
The report said that the government "shutdown" crisis may have caused a loss of 0.1% of U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of last year, about $3 billion; in the first quarter of this year, U.S. real GDP may have lost 0.2%, or about $8 billion.
According to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office, with the end of the government "shutdown", the U.S. economy is expected to return to normal, but approximately US$3 billion of losses cannot be compensated, equivalent to 0.02% of the estimated GDP in 2019 on an annualized basis.
3. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro underwent surgery? The operation lasted 7 hours. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro underwent surgery on January 28, 2019, to remove the colostomy implanted in the abdominal cavity during the first operation in September last year.
Suture the intestines.
Presidential spokesman Rego Barros said Bolsonaro underwent surgery at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, which lasted seven hours.
4. The Vietnamese police handed over a "fox hunting" target to China? Suspected of contract fraud. On the afternoon of January 28, 2019, under the coordination of the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam, the Vietnamese police handed over a "fox hunting" subject to the Chinese working group at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi.
Zhang, a fugitive suspect suspected of contract fraud.
According to an investigation by the Chinese police, in 2015, Zhang forged a goods purchase and sale contract and took out a loan of more than 3 million yuan from a state-owned bank. He refused to repay the loan after the repayment period, and fled abroad, hiding in many places.
In mid-January 2019, after learning clues that Zhang was in Vietnam, the Chinese police immediately asked the Vietnamese side for assistance.
The Vietnamese police attached great importance to the incident and quickly deployed inspections, and arrested Zhang in a factory in Vietnam on January 25.
5. Tsinghua master died in a fire in the Netherlands? Local universities donated money to him. Zhang Maolin, a doctoral student who graduated from Tsinghua University, unfortunately passed away due to a local apartment fire on January 17, 2019. He was only 28 years old.
According to Leiden University, Zhang Maolin was born in Yangtang Village, Qidong, Hunan in 1991. He studied at Tsinghua University as an undergraduate, and then received a master's degree from Tsinghua University. In 2017, he was funded by the China Scholarship Council to study for a PhD in astronomy at Leiden University in the Netherlands.