A new study in ECNU Review of Education by Yansi Hou analyzes the 2024 National Education Conference, highlighting five major education policy tasks and the rhetorical role of leadership speeches in China’s policymaking. The research reveals how structured political discourse—covering history, theory, current conditions, and future goals—guides national education strategy and public consensus. The study sheds light on China’s evolving efforts to build a world-leading education system by 2035.

From richer biodiversity and benefits for pollinators, to carbon storage in soils, while balancing hay yields for grazing livestock, the study published in Nature Communications by researchers at Lancaster University and The University of Manchester, in collaboration with the Universities of Yale and Bergen, shows that using combinations of different restoration techniques can markedly enhance the restoration of grasslands.

Estimating the pose of hand-held objects is a critical and challenging problem in robotics and computer vision. While leveraging multi-modal RGB and depth data is a promising solution, existing approaches still face challenges due to hand-induced occlusions and multimodal data fusion. In a new study, researchers developed a novel deep learning framework that addresses these issues by introducing a novel vote-based fusion module and a hand-aware pose estimation module.