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The competition in short track speedskating is getting fiercer so South Korea is no longer China’s only opponent Pascal Siakam Jersey , according to national team head coach Li Yan.

Li has brought a 12-skater team to Shanghai for the ISU Short Track Speedskating World Cup, to be staged at Pudong’s Oriental Sports Center starting today.

A total of 160 skaters from more than 20 countries and regions will compete in men’s and women’s 500 meters, 1,000, 1,500, men’s 5,000 relay and women’s 3,000 relay races over three days of competition. Han Tianyu, the 2016 world championships 1,500 winner and overall champion, and Wu Dajing, worlds runner-up in the 500, will lead the men’s squad, while the women’s team is led by Fan Kexin, the 2016 worlds 500 winner.

“The team we have is relatively young,” Li told a press conference in Shanghai yesterday. “Our main goal is to prepare for the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, next February.”

The Shanghai event is the third stop of the six-leg World Cup this year. China ranks fourth out of 12 teams in the medal standing after the two stops, behind South Korea, Canada and the Netherlands.

“I know the team did not perform well enough in the last two World Cup stops,” said Li. “Every team has its own pace. We will concentrate on ourselves and seek to improve in the upcoming competitions.”

Asked whether China has been left behind in the competition against long-term rival South Korea, Li said the speedskating world is evolving, with more nations joining the top-tier competitions.

“Seven countries have shared the 20 gold medals produced in the first two World Cup events, which reveals the fierce nature of the competition,” she said.

“As a team with lots of past glories, we are aware of our responsibility (of making more achievements). South Korea is hosting the Winter Olympic Games in 2018 and it’s normal for their skaters to show strong competitiveness at this stage. I believe we will be strong, too, when China hosts the Winter Games in 2022.”

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LONDON, March 5 (Xinhua) -- As the dust was settling after World War Two, a survey was launched involving thousands of newly born British babies that would have a lifelong impact.

Their parents signed them up for what would become the world's longest scientific survey of humans.

Throughout their lives, from infancy, to childhood, their teen years, and on to old age, they would be monitored by scientists.

They have been measured, weighed, given blood and skin samples and provided DNA, each having their lives probed in unprecedented detail for 70 years.

The data played a key role in the creation of the British NHS in 1948 by exposing inequalities and social divides, leading to better healthcare, and credited with saving thousands of lives.

This week hundreds of the so-called Douglas babes, named after scientist James Douglas who created the project, have been attending official parties to celebrate the 70th birthday of the National Survey for Health and Development (NSHD).

Douglas wanted to find out why Britain had alarmingly high death rates for babies. He recruited almost 14,000 babies for the project, all born over a few days in March 1946.

Around 3,000 of those who joined the program in 1946 is still contributing to essential fact-finding for health researchers.

Professor Diana Kuh, from Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC), the study's director, said: ""We have kept a close eye on all those who were originally in the study. Some of these people have died, and from that we have calculated that just over 80 percent of the cohort children are still alive.""

""They have been helping us for seven decades of their lives. Their contribution to our knowledge about human development and ageing is enormously valuable for science and policy,"" Kuh said.

Helen Pearson, who has published a book this week about the survey, said: ""Seventy years ago in March 1946, when NSHD study members were born, they became part of something truly extraordinary - a group of babies who would be watched by scientists more closely than any before. The NSHD is today the longest running study of human development in the world, and the envy of scientists everywhere.""

""The story of the British birth cohorts is one of a struggle for survival, and the heroes are both the lifelong study members and the remarkable scientists who have fought for the studies in which they passionately believed,"" he said.

Even in their old age the participants are delivering fascinating results for those monitoring their progress. A research team and the Institute of Neurology at London's UCL are to put the lives of 500 of the pensioners under the microscope.

Kuh says they will be given brain scans and a battery of cognitive and sensory tests, to be repeated in two years. The results, adds Kuh, might give clues to those most likely to suffer from dementia.

""The study is now at a crucial stage, following study members as they get older and providing vital information. Modern science will learn even more than before about healthy and unhealthy ageing, and this knowledge is very likely to lead to new possibilities for prevention.""

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