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$5,000 grew into a forest: American donor returns to China to reunite with desert reclamation partner_我的网站
一 | Danielle 编译 今天（4月22日），总理Christopher Luxon和司法部副部长Nicole McKee宣布，政府正在恢复“三振”法。
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At 2:48 am on early Sunday morning, after a flight of more than 10 hours, Ronald Sakolsky arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport. As he stepped into the arrivals hall, he greeted the waiting reporters with earnest Putonghua "Wo hui lai le," meaning "I'm back."
The thrill of his homecoming had washed over him most vividly during the final moments of his flight. "When I saw the lights in Beijing as we were landing is when I realized that I am back in my second home."
Sakolsky, an American retired teacher from Pennsylvania, is visiting China from Sunday to September 1 for a journey that will take him to Beijing, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Central China's Henan Province. It is a reunion nearly three decades in the making.
That reunion began with a single act of generosity. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by Yin Yuzhen and her husband's tireless efforts to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. He raised $5,000 to fund their local tree-planting initiative. The young saplings bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
After decades of lost contact, Yin, a national model worker renowned for her desert restoration achievements, launched an online search for her American benefactor in May, hoping to reconnect with the man who helped launch her lifelong desert reclamation mission.
What followed was a remarkable wave of online support: within less than 48 hours, a nationwide search had tracked Sakolsky down. That swift effort led to their long-awaited virtual reunion, a video call that brought them face to face for the first time in 27 years.
Asked what he is most looking forward to about this journey, Sakolsky told the Global Times that "I want to see Ms Yin, see the forests, see the students I have not seen for almost 30 years, my colleagues. I want to see the Chinese people."
The trip itself felt like a dream he never thought would come true, he added.
Now, the dream is about to come true. Later on Sunday, Sakolsky will fly to Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the site of the transformative environmental project that bound his fate with Yin's all those years ago.
During his China visit, Sakolsky will join Yin in a new tree-planting activity. He will also hold exchanges and discussions with teachers and students from the Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School where he once taught, and participate in official China-US teacher exchange events, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
As he prepares to see the transformed landscape with his own eyes, Sakolsky shared with the Global Times about how much China itself has changed over the past two decades. From photographs, he said, he had already seen the barren desert he remembered turn into lush green forests; he had also heard that Luoyang has become far more vibrant and beautiful.
"Hopefully the message gets out to the world that Chinese and Americans can work together and make a peaceful world," he said.
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三 | 新西兰“三振”法的核心内容是，罪犯如果犯有40种严重性犯罪或暴力犯罪，第一次将被处正常判决，同时被第一次警告；第二次不得假释，并被第二次警告；第三次被直接按最高刑期处罚，而且刑期内不得假释，除非有一些例外情况，如法院认定这种情况“明显不公正”。 2021年，工党废除了这项立法，遭到了国家党和行动党的批评，他们称工党“对犯罪的态度软弱”。 国家党修订并恢复“三振”法 McKee今天表示，政府致力于“恢复法律和秩序，并对罪犯实施应当的惩罚”。“我们明确表示，反复的严重暴力或性侵犯是不可接受的。”“我们要让每个新西兰人在家中、工作和社区中感到安全。”总之，对于反复犯罪的行为，政府释放出零容忍的态度。 政府正在进行法律修订，以建立一个“更可行的制度”。 新内容包括： 除涵盖之前的40项严重暴力及性犯罪外，新增勒死和窒息罪； “三振”法只适用于24个月以上的刑期； 扩大“明显不公正”的一些例外，允许司法自由裁量权，以避免非常严厉的处罚结果，或处理异常情况； 认罪辩护后能获得的好处有限，以避免受害者再次受到创伤，并改善法庭延误; 确保第二次或第三次犯谋杀罪的人，获得适当时长的非假释期。 司法部预计在6月底之前向内阁提交法案草案，之后提交给国会。 相关阅读： 2022年8月9日 《三振法废除法案》通过三读 司法部长官宣：新西兰“三振”法成为历史 优先党一票否决 废除“三振”法议案被废除 Andrew Little：“三振出局法”OUT！ 对降低犯罪率无效！ 注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。
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