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Chinese diver He Chong won gold in the men's 3-meter synchronized springboard event, alongside Qin Kai on July 23 as well as in the men's 3-meter springboard on July 26 at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. He has claimed the title three consecutive times, the second person in history to achieve such a feat.

Born in Guangdong Province in 1987, He started practicing diving at the age of 6. The diver won gold in the men's 3-meter springboard event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 13th FINA World Championships in Rome during 2009 and 2010 FINA Diving World Cup in China to achieve a grand slam.

Film Festival Jury

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Director and actor Jiang Wen was appointed a member of the jury at the 70th Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 28 to September 7, becoming the only Chinese on the judging panel. A restored version of Jiang's first directorial film In the Heat of the Sun shot in 1994, which won the Best Actor prize at the 51st Venice Film Festival for its young leading player Xia Yu, will be shown at the festival.

The director is one of the most important filmmakers in China today. His second directorial effort, Devils on the Doorstep took the Grand Prix at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. His more recent works include The Sun Also Rises in 2007 and Let the Bullets Fly in 2011.

"Some foreign brands are high in price, but inferior in quality."

Qiu Baochang, head of the legal team at China Consumers' Association, on July 28. Nearly two thirds of the complaints the association received about baby formula in the first half of the year regarded foreign brands

"I would say the most important reason good Chinese scientists choose to stay in the United States is because of the scientific culture (in which) they have bigger freedom to pursue research of their choice."

Joseph Jen, former undersecretary for research, education and economics for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on July 28, in response to a People's Daily report in June that said China is experiencing the world's worst brain drain

"It's definitely inappropriate to let individuals run the websites for adoption services, but they exist because the government fails to step in."

Tong Xiaojun, an adviser for Save the Children China Program, a non-governmental organization focusing on children's rights and welfare, in response to an online adoption website created in 2007, which has helped about 300,000 families with fertility issues adopt children

"Chinese cities, including Beijing, have not established a system that can provide solid services for individual tourists."

Zhang Hui, a tourism management professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, in response to the capital's declining number of visitors in the first half of the year, on July 30