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Flat-water canoe and kayak Lin Wenjun, a female Xiamen athlete, won two gold medals and a bronze medal at last month's ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, Germany.

Ms. Lin's performance in the 200-meter canoe sprint earned her a spot on China's team for next year's Olympic Games in Paris. She is the first athlete from Xiamen to earn a spot on the 2024 Olympic team.

The local tourism bureau announced recently the current list of check-in spots for its Sports Travel campaign. The program encourages residents and tourists to visit 30 local spots associated with sports and athletics in the city and to check in online. The current roster of spots include the Xiamen Olympic Museum, the city's health trails, Xinlin bay's cross-sea bicycle path, the Meifeng Sports Park and Egret Stadium.

The Xiamen Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network opened its first route on August 31, 2008. It has carried a total of nearly 1.5 billion passengers over the past 15 years.

Today, the BRT network ferries 15 percent of the city's bus passenger traffic and holds roughly seven percent of the local transportation network's bus capacity across its eight lines.  Passengers travel a combined 84,000 kilometers per day. A BRT bus arrives somewhere on the network every 26 seconds.

The 23rd China International Fair for Investment and Trade will launch in Xiamen on Friday. An estimated 80,000 guests from 1,000 entities and roughly 100 countries are set to participate in this year's CIFIT.

The fair's total exhibition area is 120,000 square meters spread over three pavilions dedicated to investment promotion, industrial innovation and development and project capital cooperation Pavilion.

Construction is currently underway for the main upper structure of the first SM commercial complex project outside the island of Xiamen. The project in western Maluan Bay New Town is adjacent to Fulian road.

The one-billion-yuan project covers 28,900 square meters and is slated to open in 2025. The facility will feature more than 140,000 square meters of gross floor area.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering recently announced their biannual lists of candidates for the academies. The nominees include five Xiamen academics. Four of the local nominees hail from Xiamen University.

A Xiamen University research team lead by Xia Ningshao recently published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine detailing the team's study of P85-Ab, a marker for nasopharyngeal cancer.

The team suggested that detecting the marker can help in the early diagnosis of cancer, allowing for improved treatment outcomes. The team is hopeful that a commercially available detection reagent for P85-Ab will lead to important clinical applications.

Trial operations formally began on August 31 for the Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou section of the Ningbo-Guangzhou high-speed railway. When the railway is fully operational, the route will place Fuzhou and Xiamen with one hour of each other. The new route features China's first cross-sea high-speed railway in China and boasts a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour.

Local officials announced last week that concrete pouring is now complete for the entirety of the concrete structure of the upcoming terminal for the Xiamen Xiangan Airport. The main structure of the north parking building has also been capped. The main structure of Corridor  C was capped earlier this month.