A photo taken on Dec 10, 2018, shows the Wu Pao Chun Bakery in Shanghai. [Photo/IC] A bakery scheduled to officially open next week in downtown Shanghai jointly invested by a Taiwan star baker and Singaporean company Bread Talk has attracted more talk than expected, as netizens, suspicious of the brand owner's alleged pro-Taiwan independence political stance, called for a boycott of the bakery. The shop, Wu Pao Chun Bakery, on one of Shanghai's most prosperous commercial streets, Huaihai Road, is the popular Taiwanese bakery's first branch on the Chinese mainland. It has been enjoying brisk business since it started a trial operation on Friday, despite early winter drizzle that has dampened the eastern city for days and the spiraling speculation on its founder's political stance. Wu Pao-chun, the bakery's founder, was born in southern Taiwan's Pingtung county in 1970, and started his career as an apprentice baker in Taipei at the age of 15. He founded the bakery in Kaohsiung in 2010 after he earned second prize in what's considered the bread-making Olympics, Coupe Louis Lesaffre, in 2008 and won the title of Master Baker two years later. Despite the baker's popularity in Taiwan, Wu has been slow to expand. In 2016 when asked about his plan for new branches, Wu was quoted by Taiwan People News as saying, Although the Chinese market has more than 1.3 billion customers, the world's market has over 7 billion. I won't put my eyes only on China. The words have been interpreted as Wu's support for Taiwan independence and in extreme cases, some media distorted them as, I would rather go starving than open a branch on the Chinese mainland, which aroused criticism and protest by mainland netizens at the bakery's recent expansion. In response, Wu issued a statement on the bakery's website on Monday, saying he's proud of being Chinese, supports the 1992 Consensus, and wants to contribute to cross-Straits economic exchanges. He also called for a news conference in the bakery's flagship store in Kaohsiung on Tuesday, where he further clarified his stance. I am just a professional baker, and the world of the bakery is pure and simple, he said. I am happy that many young people choose this profession because of me and I feel responsible to create a better market for them. Kaohsiung's mayor-elect, Han Kuo-yu, attended the news conference in support of Wu. Master Wu is just a baker who wants to develop his business for a better life, he said. So I hope people on both sides can protect and cherish him. According to The Straits Times, Wu and Singaporean company Bread Talk signed a joint venture agreement in March to bring Wu's bakeries to Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, as well as Hong Kong and Singapore. Bread Talk took an 80 percent stake in the deal and Wu Pao Chun Food Ltd holds the remainder. make your own silicone wristbands uksiliconeband cawholesale custom wristbandscustom made bracelets for hersilicone wrist bracelets
BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have developed a fully bioabsorbable capacitor as an energy storage unit, which can be used for powering implantable medical electronics.Biodegradable electronic devices can be fully or partly degraded in biofluid and environmental water. They can be used in implantable medical diagnoses and therapy, avoiding side effects caused by long-term implantation and second operations. They can also serve portable consumer electronics, which achieve self-degradation after being discarded and avoid high collection costs.For biodegradable electronic devices, the biodegradable power source is an indispensable part of realizing normal operation. However, research about energy supply for biodegradable implantable electronics is very limited.Scientists from the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as well as Beihang University have developed a fully bioabsorbable capacitor that can act as a power source for implantable medical electronic devices.The capacitor is 1.5 centimeters long, 1.5 centimeters wide and one millimeter high. Experiments on mice showed that it can be implanted underneath the skin and work normally in vivo for 50 days. It can achieve a high voltage window of 1.5 volts, and 70 percent of its capacitance was kept after 3,000 charging cycles.After it reaches its work limit, it can be decomposed and absorbed by the body without surgical removal.According to Li Hu, one of the researchers, the bioabsorbable capacitor provides a feasible solution for powering biodegradable implantable electronics in the future. It can be applied as a power source for implantable medical devices to achieve effective treatment of relevant diseases without side effects.Li said the performance of the bioabsorbable capacitor is world-leading with regard to its biocompatibility, work time, operation voltage and capacitance retention.We are also trying to further improve its capacitance to satisfy the specific power requirements of implantable medical devices, Li said.The research was published as cover research in the journal Advanced Science. get rubber bracelets madesilicone bandscustom silicone bracelets canadarubber bracelet trendtwenty one pilots rubber bracelet<%2fcenter>
