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When Song Xiaomeng, a 25-year- old teacher in Shanghai, discussed her travel plans for the upcoming seven-day National Day holiday with her friends, they raised such destinations as Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Australia for consideration, but Hong Kong was not on the list.
Song said Hong Kong seems less appealing to them partly due to the lingering anti-mainland sentiment and its lack of new tourist attractions.
Song is not alone in holding such views. Hong Kong, for a long time one of the most popular destinations for Chinese mainlanders, saw slower growth of mainland tourist arrivals recently.
The number of mainland visitors to Hong Kong fell almost 10 percent in July, compared with the growth of 11 percent a year earlier.
Even Ocean Park, one of the most popular attractions as well as a must-see in Hong Kong, witnessed a 15-percent year-on-year plunge in tourist arrivals during the summer holiday.
In contrast, almost 580, 000 tourists from the Chinese mainland visited Japan in July, more than double the number in the same month last year.
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Major polluting emissions in China have been on a large-scale decline in the first six months the year.
According to statistics released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, year-on-year figures showed that the emission of chemical oxygen demand and other major pollutants decreased by 3 to 9 percent in the first half of this year.
China increased daily sewage treatment capacity by 3-and-a-half million tons, with total daily capacity achieving 175 million tons. Regulations were put in place for 270 paper-making, printing and dyeing operations requiring further treatment and recycling of waste water.
During the first six months, power plants that remove nitrogen oxide reached a capacity of 750 million kilowatts, accounting for 87 percent of total installed thermal power capacity.
Coal-fired power plants that remove sulfur dioxide now accounted for 96 percent of total installed coal-fired power capacity in China as of the end of June.
China has also increased gas usage by 750 million cubic meters, replacing almost 2 million tons of coal, in its nationwide coal-to-gas projects.
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25岁的上海教师宋晓梦（音译）和朋友们讨论国庆七天假期的旅行计划时，考虑的目的地有日本、韩国、泰国和澳大利亚，但是香港并不在他们的考虑范围内。
宋晓梦（音译）表示，香港对他们没有太大的吸引力，部分原因是当地持续的反内地情绪以及新旅游景点的缺乏。
宋晓梦（音译）并不是唯一有这种想法的人。香港长期以来一直是最受内地游客欢迎的热门目的地之一，但是近期前往香港旅游的内地游客增幅却持续放缓。
7月内地旅客访港人数同比减少近10%，而去年7月的总人数增幅高达11%。
海洋公园是香港最受欢迎的景点之一，也是前往香港旅游必去的景点，但是连海洋公园在暑假期间的游客量也较同期下降了15%。
相比之下，7月份约有58万名中国内地游客造访日本，比去年同期增加一倍以上。
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今年上半年，我国主要污染物排放量大幅度下降。
据环保部公布的同比数据显示，上半年，我国化学需氧量排放总量和其他重要污染物总量的下降幅度在3%至9%之间。
全国新增污水日处理能力350万吨，污水日处理能力累计达1.75亿吨。270个造纸、印染等重点项目实施废水深度治理及回用工程。
今年上半年，脱硝装机容量累计达7.5亿千瓦，占火电总装机容量87%。
截至六月底，全国脱硫机组占全国煤电总装机容量96%。
全国各地煤改气工程新增用气量7.5亿立方米，替代燃煤近200万吨。
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重点讲解
重点讲解：
1. appeal to 对…有吸引力；使感兴趣；
例句：If anything, swimming will appeal to her most strongly.
如果说有什么能强烈地吸引她，那就是游泳了。
2. compared with 与…相比；和…比起来；
例句：Compared with a quite ordinary star, like the sun, the earth is small indeed.
与一个很普通恒星如太阳相比较，地球的确很小。
3. in contrast 相比之下；与…相反；
例句：In contrast, the lives of girls in well-to-do families were often very sheltered.
相反，生活在富裕家庭的女孩子通常都备受呵护。
4. account for （数量或比例上）占；
例句：Students account for most of his readers.
他的小说的绝大多数读者是学生。
