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MADRID Cheap Jordan 1 Retro Flyknit For Sale , July 18 (Xinhua) -- Didac Lee was born in Spain's Catalan town of Figueras in 1974. He was one of the second generation Chinese people in Spain.


""Everybody used to stare at me at school. They spoke two languages and I didn't understand either of them. It took me quite a while to adapt,"" he said before explaining how his love of FC Barcelona football club was his foothold into Catalan society.


""I was different in every way, except when I was playing or we were watching a Barca game,"" he explained, saying he was no good as a player, so decided to become an executive at one of the most famous football clubs in the world.


He succeeded in that ambition and has spent the past three years in charge of new technologies at the club.


Lee's experience mirrors that of many and social anthropologist Joaquin Beltran at Barca's Autonomous University explained that many second generation Chinese in Spain are ""studying for all kinds of degrees and we are starting to see teachers Cheap Air Jordan 1 Flyknit For Sale , doctors, lawyers, physicists, economists...""


The Spanish 'El Pais newspaper on Saturday published an article 'How Chinese immigrants went from being dishwashers to doctors,"" which looks at the experience of second generation Chinese people living in the country showing how they are increasingly looking to education to establish themselves in high-level jobs.


The population of Chinese people in Spain has grown from 167 in 1961 to over 191,000 these days. And the number of Chinese students at Spain's universities has grown from 202 in 2003 to 6 Cheap Jordan 1 Flyknit For Sale ,381, of whom 2,435 are taking Masters Degrees.


Beltran said the trend will increase given that ""around 23 percent of Chinese living in Spain right now are under 15. The longer the parents have been here, the more money they will have saved, increasing their chances of investing in their children's education.""


""Chinese culture attaches great importance to education,"" he said.


El Pais also gives the example of 27-year-old Jianjia Wang Cheap Air Jordan 1 PINNACLE Metallic Gold White For Sale , who says she ""wanted to study, to open new doors and horizons for myself.""


Those studies led to her winning the 2010 UPF Empren Prize of 20,000 euros (around 22,000 U.S. dollars) to invest in a publishing house producing educational material for Chinese children in Spain.


This entrepreneurial spirit was highlighted in recent figures published by Spain's National Institute of Statistics which showed that Chinese are the only national group to see the number of people in work in Spain increase by 37,000 over the past 7 years of the crisis.


There are now 92,902 Chinese people working in Spain Cheap Air Jordan 1 Retro Purple Pink Black For Sale , half of whom either run their own companies or who are self-employed.

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BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official.


Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-tonne freighters.


China will use solid carrier rockets which rely less on launch facilities and feature mature technology Cheap Air Jordan 1 Phat Black Gold 364781-001 For Sale , Tang said, adding that key technology for the carrier rockets will be tested at sea this year and the service is expected to be available for international users in 2018.


At that time, Long March launch vehicles will be able to send satellites weighing 500 kilograms to a 500-kilometer-high sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of zero to ten degrees, Tang said.


Countries in the equator region have growing needs for launching near-equatorial and low-inclination satellites, said Fu Zhiheng, deputy general manager of China Great Wall Industry Corporation Cheap Women's Air Jordan 1 GS Black Pink 332148-019 For Sale , affiliated to the CASTC.


"The closer to the equator we launch a satellite, the less carrying capacity it will lose, and the lower the cost will be," Fu said, adding that space powers are competing to develop near-equatorial sea launches.


Currently, Long March carrier rockets have provided 60 commercial launches for domestic and international users Cheap Air Jordan 1 Retro Mens Blue White 552312-401 For Sale , Fu said.


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BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhua) -- All-girl Afghan robotics team will not attend an international robotics competition in the United States this month because their visa applications were denied not once, but twice.


The robotics competition, taking place on July 16-18 in Washington D.C., is an "Olympic"-style competition in which one team from every nation is invited to participate.


The Afghan team applied to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul for a second time after their applications were denied at first on July 4. However Cheap Air Jordan 1 Phat Carbon Fiber Black 364770-004 For Sale , this time they were barred again.


"When we heard that we were rejected we lost hope," said 14-year-old Sumaya Farooqi.


Afghanistan is not one of the six Muslim-majority countries from which travel is temporarily banned according to President Donald Trump's order. Syria, Iran and Sudan are on that list, but teams from these three countries were granted visas to attend the competition. In addition, members of the team from Gambia were allowed to enter the United States after initially being barred.


Team Afghanistan's robot has been granted entry into the U.S. for competition while its creators will have to watch the competition via a live Skype video link.