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An aerial photo taken on June 7 shows wild Asian elephants in Jinning District of Kunming， capital of Yunnan Province. The herd made a temporary stop there while migrating north. Asian elephants are mostly found in Yunnan， where their wild population has grown to about 300， up from 193 in the 1980s.

A Flying Leap in Life

Students run out of an exam site after completing their college entrance exam at a middle school in Changsha， Hunan Province， on June 9. The annual college entrance exam， known as the gaokao， kicked off on June 7 with a record 10.78 million candidates signing up for the test. This is also the biggest-ever collectively organized event since the coronavirus outbreak， with millions of students gathering in around 7，000 venues across the country.

Cross-Border E-Commerce

The customs of Alashankou Port， also known as the Alataw Pass， said that more than 57 million cross-border e-commerce packages worth over 1 billion yuan（$160 million） have been exported via the port since January 2020， Xinhua News Agency reported on June 7.

Toys， digital products， clothing and daily commodities manufactured across the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang， Jiangsu and Guangdong have been shipped to Europe by road transport and freight train since the cross-border e-commerce business was launched in the inland port in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in January 2020.

Streamlined customs clearance at the port has helped slash delivery time and costs and improved customer experience， Yang Ping， an operator with Alashankou international express railway company， said.

Alashankou is Chinas closest railway port to the European Union.

Hospital Service

China will make efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of public hospital service， Li Bin， deputy head of the National Health Commission， told a press conference in Beijing on June 7.

Noting the rapid rise in the publics need for medical and health services， Li said the move is necessary to support Chinas high-quality， sustainable and safe development.

Last week， the General Office of the State Council issued a circular urging the improvement of public hospital service， mapping out six key tasks in the field.

The circular highlighted innovation in areas including system building， technology and management， as well as the balanced allocation of medical resources.

Biodiversity Meeting

A subsidiary event of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity （COP15） kicked off on June 6 in Kunming， capital of Yunnan Province.