China Weekly News Quiz: June 7-14, 2020

1

A cluster of dozens of COVID-19 cases was detected at a popular wholesale market in Beijing last week. The Chinese capital had not reported any COVID-19 case for several weeks before June 11. For how long had it gone without a case?

About two weeks
About three weeks
About a month
About two months

1 / 7

2

An Australian man was sentenced to death in China last week. What's his crime?

Drug trafficking
Murder
Espionage
None of above

2 / 7

3

As many as 19 people lost their lives in an accident in Wenling City in east China's Zhejiang Province on June 13. What caused the tragedy?

Gas tanker explosion
Forest fire
Building collapse
None of the above

3 / 7

4

China has released a 15-year plan for ecological protection and recovery, pledging to build a "Beautiful China" by 2035. Per the plan, what is the forest cover target?

21 percent
23 percent
26 percent
27 percent

4 / 7

5

Three Chinese scientists from the country's Chang'e-4 team last week won the highest award by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) – the 2020 IAF World Space Award. What is Chang'e-4 famous for?

First soft landing on the far side of the Moon
First nuclear-powered spacecraft
China's first manned space expedition
None of the above

5 / 7

6

China last week released a national census on pollution sources. It shows that by the end of 2017, there had been over 3.6 million pollution sources. Almost half of these sources were in five provinces. Which province is not among these five?

Shandong
Jiangsu
Zhejiang
Jiangxi

6 / 7

7

China last week removed the name of an endangered animal from the list of species that can be used for making traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Which animal is it?

Pangolin
Snake
Scorpion
Deer

7 / 7

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