Editor's Note On April 9, the Overseas Edition of People's Daily (Page 10) published an article titled "Chinese Academy of Sciences team achieves breakthrough - achieving efficient decomposition and transformation of waste plastics", which introduced the latest research results on the use of microwaves to treat waste plastics published in the international academic journal Nature Communications by Ma Wangjing and others from the Oil and Gas Development Center of the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in cooperation with Tsinghua University, Oxford University and other universities.   Recycling waste plastics is helpful for environmental restoration and the development of related industries, but existing technologies make it difficult to directly recycle contaminated mixed waste plastics, which need to be s...

Editor's Note The United States, in the name of "adjusting the tariffs of trading partners", is actually practicing "indiscriminate trade bullying". Its unilateral tariff increase policy has evolved into a disorderly impact on the global industrial chain - many countries have chosen to compromise under pressure, trying to make concessions in short-term interests in exchange for easing trade disputes, and falling into a vicious cycle of "using land to serve Qin". Only China has not given up on principled issues, and with its firm stance of "counter-equal and bottom-line thinking", it has declared to the world that sovereignty and dignity cannot be traded. This is not only a positive response to bullying, but also a benchmark practice for emerging economies to maintain multilateral order in the context of globalization.   At 12:01 Beijing time on April 9, the so-called "r...