1. South Korea’s photovoltaic and wind power capacity was 17.6 gigawatts (GW) last year, and the government plans to increase it to 42.7GW by 2025. Wen Zaiyin said that to carry out a major transformation of the economic structure, the goal of the new green policy is also to achieve carbon neutrality, which will further strengthen the potential of new energy through technological innovation.

2. As of Sept. 1, Russia’s international reserves reached an all-time high of 618.11 billion US dollars, including 132.697 billion US dollars in currency gold reserves, the Russian Central Bank said on Sept. 7.

3. El Salvador’s parliament passed a bill on June 9 approving bitcoin as the country’s legal currency, which came into effect on September 7, 90 days later. On July 7, El Salvador will become the first country in the world to officially recognize Bitcoin as legal tender.

4. Alexander Fyodorov, vice chairman of the Russian investigation Commission, said at a forum that more than 4000 members of Japanese germ forces who committed atrocities against civilians during World War II fled to the United States and escaped responsibility. These include “Unit 731″ and “Unit 100″ of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Only 12 people were tried in the Khabarovsk trial.

5. El Salvador: starting to use bitcoin as legal tender, companies are required to accept bitcoin in exchange for goods and services, unless they cannot accept electronic currency because of technical restrictions. Fast-food giants such as McDonald’s, Starbucks and Pizza Hut have begun to accept bitcoin payments at local franchises.

6. U.S. Department of Energy: solar energy has the potential to supply 40% of the electricity in the United States by 2035, and the rest is mainly provided by wind (36%), nuclear power (11%, 13%), hydropower (5%, 6%) and bioenergy / geothermal energy (1%). And actions to reduce carbon emissions could save $1.1 trillion to $1.7 trillion, surpassing the additional costs of the transition to clean energy and creating nearly 1.5 million jobs. It is expected that by 2035, the savings from technological advances will completely offset the costs, and consumers’ electricity prices will not rise.

7. The latest App Annie report shows that British and American users spend more time on TikTok than YouTube. On average, US viewers watch more than 24 hours of TikTok per month, compared with 22 hours and 40 minutes of YouTube. The gap between the two is even greater in the UK, with TikTok watching an average of 26 hours a month, compared with less than 16 hours for YouTube. Earlier, the agency’s data showed that in 2020, TikTok overtook Facebook to become the most downloaded iOS and Android app in the world.

8. ECB: keep the benchmark interest rate at 0.000%; deposit rate at-0.500%. The ECB’s marginal lending rate is-0.25%. Key interest rates will remain at current or lower levels until inflation reaches 2 per cent by the end of the forecast period. Inflation is likely to be moderately above target in a short period of time.

9. Because of global warming, some thermostat animals are making their beaks, legs and ears bigger to dissipate heat, especially among birds, a recent study has found. The researchers expect changes in prominent appendages such as ears to increase, such as elephants or large ears that will grow cartoon Dumbo in the future.

10. onhap: the South Korean government says it will strive to increase the production efficiency of the shipbuilding industry by 30% by 2030, train 8000 shipbuilding production and technical personnel, and enhance digital productivity such as intelligent shipyards. In 1-7 months, the world’s new ship orders were 30.21 million modified gross tons, accounting for 42 per cent of the total.

11. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tan Desai: the world has received 5.5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine, 80% of which are in high-income and upper-middle-income countries. At present, nearly 90 per cent of high-income countries have achieved the goal of vaccinating 10 per cent of their population against COVID-19, and more than 70 per cent of high-income countries have vaccinated 40 per cent of their population against COVID-19, but no low-income country has achieved both goals.