Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in Africa, with a rich cultural heritage.
埃塞俄比亚是非洲最古老的国家之一，拥有丰富的文化遗产。
The
Ethiopian coffee ceremony is an important social tradition in the country.
埃塞俄比亚的咖啡仪式是该国重要的社会传统。
The Blue Nile, which originates in Ethiopia, is a major source of hydroelectric power for the region.
青尼罗河起源于埃塞俄比亚，是该地区重要的水力发电来源。
The
Ethiopian highlands are home to a diverse range of indigenous wildlife species.
埃塞俄比亚的高原是多种土生野生动物的栖息地。
The official language of Ethiopia is Amharic, spoken by a large portion of the population.
埃塞俄比亚的官方语言是阿姆哈拉语，被大部分人口使用。
The annual Great
Ethiopian Run is one of the largest road races in Africa.
每年的大埃塞俄比亚跑步比赛是非洲最大的公路赛跑之一。
Ethiopia is known for its ancient rock-hewn churches, particularly in Lalibela.
埃塞俄比亚以其古代的岩石教堂而闻名，尤其是拉利贝拉的教堂。
The
Ethiopian calendar is different from the Gregorian calendar, and New Year is celebrated on September 11th (or 12th in leap years)."
埃塞俄比亚的日历与公历不同，新年通常在9月11日（闰年为9月12日）庆祝。
The national dish of Ethiopia is injera, a sourdough flatbread, often served with various stews.
埃塞俄比亚的国菜是英吉拉，一种发酵的扁平面包，通常搭配各种炖菜。
Ethiopia has made significant progress in recent years in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction.
近年来，埃塞俄比亚在经济增长和减贫方面取得了显著的进步。
The company has recently installed 768 intelligent screen display terminals in the Ethiopian Skylight Hotel in Ethiopia, empowering the five-star hotel with advanced technology to create 730 smart guest rooms.
该公司最近在埃塞俄比亚的埃塞俄比亚天光酒店安装了768个智能屏幕显示终端，使这家五星级酒店拥有先进的技术，可以创建730个智能客房。
Ethiopian Airlines, the leading and fastest growing Airline in Africa, is celebrating the 50th year of the commencement of its service to China.
埃塞俄比亚航空公司是非洲领先且发展最快的航空公司，正在庆祝其开始向中国提供服务50周年。
Ethiopian Airlines is the first African carrier to fly to China, and has been connecting the country with the whole of Africa for half a century now.
埃塞俄比亚航空公司是第一家飞往中国的非洲航空公司，半个世纪以来一直将中国与整个非洲连接起来。
Marking the 50 years of service to China, Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO Mesfin Tasew said, "The beginning of flights to China 50 years ago heralded an important milestone in the history of the Airline.
埃塞俄比亚航空集团首席执行官Mesfin Tasew在纪念为中国服务50周年时表示：“50年前开始飞往中国的航班预示着该航空公司历史上的一个重要里程碑。
Ethiopian was among the first to serve China and has ever since been providing reliable services to the country.
埃塞俄比亚是最早为中国服务的国家之一，此后一直为中国提供可靠的服务。
China-Africa relation is projected to grow significantly in the coming years, and Ethiopian Airlines continues to serve the needs of the travelling public by availing the best connections to Africa and beyond, using its ultramodern aircraft.
预计未来几年，中非关系将显著发展，埃塞俄比亚航空公司将继续利用其超现代化飞机，利用与非洲及其他地区的最佳连接，满足旅行公众的需求。
"Ethiopian Airlines continued to offer uninterrupted service to destinations in China even during the COVID-19 pandemic although the frequency of its passenger flights were restricted.
“即使在新冠肺炎大流行期间，埃塞俄比亚航空公司仍继续为中国目的地提供不间断的服务，尽管其客运航班的频率受到限制。
When the services are fully restored, Ethiopian will operate a total of 35 weekly passenger flights to China.
当服务完全恢复后，埃塞俄比亚将运营每周35班飞往中国的客运航班。
In addition to its passenger flights, Ethiopian is also operating 31 cargo flights per week to nine destinations in China, including three new additions.
除了客运航班外，埃塞俄比亚每周还运营31个货运航班，飞往中国的9个目的地，其中包括3个新增目的地。
Ethiopian also added three more freighter destinations to China recently: two weekly flights each to Xiamen and Shenzhen as well as one to Chengdu.
埃塞俄比亚最近还增加了三个飞往中国的货运目的地：每周两班飞往厦门和深圳的航班，以及一班飞往成都的航班。
With five passenger and nine cargo scheduled services, Ethiopian Airlines operates combined 66 weekly flights to 10 destinations in China.
埃塞俄比亚航空公司提供五项客运和九项货运定期服务，每周运营66班飞往中国10个目的地的航班。
This came at an education-themed summit that was organized by Huawei Ethiopia on Friday in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, under the theme "Accelerate the Digital Education Journey for Ethiopia.
周五，华为埃塞俄比亚公司在埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴组织了一场教育主题峰会，主题为“加快埃塞俄比亚的数字教育之旅”。
"Zelalem Assefa, head of ICT and digital education at the Ethiopian Ministry of Education, said during the occasion that the East African country is developing a digital education strategy to make education more accessible and engaging through digital technology.
”埃塞俄比亚教育部ICT和数字教育负责人Zelalem Assefa在会上表示，这个东非国家正在制定一项数字教育战略，通过数字技术使教育更容易获得和参与。
He said Huawei has been a key partner of the Ethiopian Ministry of Education in the digital transformation of the education sector in the country.
他说，华为一直是埃塞俄比亚教育部在该国教育部门数字化转型方面的关键合作伙伴。
During the summit, experts, academia as well as heads of major Ethiopian universities discussed challenges and opportunities for promoting technology adoption in the education sector, while addressing different perspectives about digital education, such as improving school management effectiveness.
在峰会期间，专家、学术界以及埃塞俄比亚主要大学的校长讨论了促进教育部门采用技术的挑战和机遇，同时探讨了数字教育的不同观点，如提高学校管理效率。
ADDIS ABABA -- The Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway Share Company (EDR) has disclosed an income of 2.5 billion Ethiopian birrs ($47.4 million) for the past five months.
亚的斯亚贝巴——埃塞俄比亚-吉布提铁路股份公司（EDR）披露，过去五个月的收入为25亿埃塞俄比亚比尔（4740万美元）。
Abdi Zenebe, the chief executive officer of the EDR, said the Chinese-built 752.7-km Ethiopia-Djibouti railway was able to transport more than 500,000 metric tons of cargo in the past five months, eventually generating 2.5 billion Ethiopian birrs in income, state-run Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported Monday.
据官方埃塞俄比亚通讯社周一报道，EDR首席执行官Abdi Zenebe表示，中国修建的752.7公里埃塞俄比亚-吉布提铁路在过去五个月内能够运输超过50万公吨的货物，最终产生25亿埃塞俄比亚比尔的收入。
The income was said to have about 600 million Ethiopian birr increase as compared to the same period of the previous Ethiopian fiscal year.
据称，与埃塞俄比亚上一财年同期相比，收入增加了约6亿埃塞俄比亚比尔。
In August last year, the railway started vehicle shipment from ports in Djibouti to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital.
去年8月，该铁路开始从吉布提港口向埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴运送车辆。
ADDIS ABABA -- Chinese construction giant China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation on Saturday signed an agreement with an Ethiopian company to build a business complex in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
亚的斯亚贝巴——周六，中国建筑业巨头中国土木工程建设总公司与一家埃塞俄比亚公司签署了一项协议，将在埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴建造一座商业综合体。
"The tragic crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 exposed fraudulent and deceptive conduct by employees of one of the world's leading commercial airplane manufacturers," said David P. Burns, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's criminal division.
“狮航610航班和埃塞俄比亚航空302航班的悲剧性坠机事故暴露了全球领先的商用飞机制造商之一的员工的欺诈和欺骗行为，”美国司法部刑事司代理助理司法部长大卫·P·伯恩斯(David P. Burns)说。
Under the terms of the DPA, Boeing's $2.5-billion fine is composed of a criminal monetary penalty of $243.6 million, compensation payments to Boeing's 737 MAX airline customers of $1.77 billion, and the establishment of a $500-million crash-victim beneficiaries fund to compensate the heirs, relatives, and legal beneficiaries of the 346 passengers who died in the Boeing 737 MAX crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, according to the statement.
根据DPA条款，波音的25亿美元罚款包括2.436亿美元的刑事罚款、向波音737 MAX航空公司客户支付的17.7亿美元赔偿金，以及建立一个5亿美元的基金来补偿狮航610航班和埃塞俄比亚航空302航班事故中346名乘客的继承人、亲属和法定受益人。
ADDIS ABABA -- Ethiopian Minister of Health, Lia Tadesse on Monday commended Chinese tech firm ByteDance for donating COVID-19 medical supplies.
Tadesse made the remark during a ceremony held in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to receive a donation of 100,000 COVID-19 testing kits donated by Bytedance.
ADDIS ABABA — Massive medical supplies donated by China's Jack Ma Foundation to 54 African countries arrived on Sunday morning in Addis Ababa, capital of the East African nation of Ethiopia, through an Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight.
In the latest attempt, Ethiopia joined the eWTP last month to develop a multifunction digital trade hub to serve as a gateway for Ethiopian products to China, a center for cross-border e-commerce and trade within Africa, and a training center.
The drive also included implementing the capacity building and training, which consists of a number of programs, including specialized programs for Ethiopian entrepreneurs, business leaders and university lecturers.
Investigators said neither step was taken in the October 2018 crash of a Lion Air flight in Indonesia or in March's crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight shortly after takeoff in Africa.
MAX jets were grounded in March following crashes on Oct 29, 2018, of a Lion Air flight in Indonesia and March 30 of an Ethiopian Airlines flight in Africa.
Nearly 100 lawsuits have been filed against Boeing by at least a dozen law firms representing families of the Ethiopian Airlines crash victims, who came from 35 different countries, including nine US citizens and 19 Canadians.
"A preliminary investigation suggests the aircraft's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, an automated anti-stall device, apparently forced the noses of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines flights down and into a fatal plunge when it erroneously determined the planes were about to stall.
For semi-skilled manufacturing workers, Chinese firms provide training to slightly more workers than Ethiopian or other foreign-owned firms, the report showed.
The research studied 76 companies, 31 of them Chinese, and 1,500 Angolan and Ethiopian workers were interviewed for the report.
The US broadcaster CBS News said the deal is a vote of confidence in the company, which is trying to win back trust following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max in March and the loss of a 737 Max last year in Indonesia that together claimed 346 lives.
China was the first to halt the commercial operations of all Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes after a deadly Ethiopian Airlines plane crash on March 10.
On March 10, all 157 people aboard a flight of Ethiopian Airlines perished shortly after takeoff.
The Ethiopian Airlines crash killed 157 people and 189 people died in last year's Lion Air crash.
Luttig, 64, who has served as general counsel since joining Boeing in 2006, will "manage all legal matters associated with the Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accidents," the Chicago-based aircraft company announced in a statement.
"The downgrade of Boeing's stock follows the crashes of Ethiopian Airline Flight 302 on March 10 and Lion Air Flight 610 on Oct 29, 2018.
After the crashes of Lion Air in Indonesia in October and Ethiopian Airlines this month, which killed a total of 346 passengers and crew members, critics have cited the self-certification process as evidence of an overly cozy relationship between the FAA and the industry.
Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air reportedly declined to buy the two add-on safety devices.
Information contained on flight recorders for the Indonesia and Ethiopian planes has not been released, but analysts say the pilots may not have known how to turn off the anti-stall device after it pointed the nose of the plane down, and that may have been a factor in the crashes.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg made his public comments about the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, and restated the commitment to safety.
"Thexa0open letter came afterxa0Muilenburgxa0issued a statement on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accident investigation on Sunday.
The 737 MAX jet has been grounded globally for safety concerns following the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian plane, which killed 158 people.
Though the investigation into the causes of the crash are still in progress, French air accident investigators confirmed on Monday that flight recorder data from the Ethiopian Airlines jet showed "clear similarities" with the Lion Air jet.
HONG KONG - More countries and regions in Asia-Pacific have decided to ground the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft over safety concerns after the fatal crash of an Ethiopian Airlines' passenger jet on Sunday.
The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi, Kenya crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board.
An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed earlier Sunday minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board and becoming the second air crash involving the Boeing 737 MAX 8 in less than five months.
The Ethiopian Airlines Monday announced suspension of the commercial operations of all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
ADDIS ABABA - Chinese construction and engineering company, China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd (CGGC), has signed a contract agreement with the Ethiopian government to take part in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
According to the contract agreement involving $40.1 million, CGGC will take part in pre-power generation activities of Ethiopia's grand hydro-electric dam, which will be regarded as Africa's largest hydro dam upon completion with a total volume of 74,000 million cubic meters, the Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) revealed on Tuesday.
Ethiopian Electric Power head, Abrham Belay, said during the signing ceremony in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa that the agreement with CGGC is expected to speed up construction of the dam.
Officials at the Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) recently told Xinhua that the East African country is working to reach 17,300 MW of energy by the end of 2020, from the current 4,280 MW of energy through energy projects in hydro, wind, geothermal and biomass energy.
In April, the Ethiopian government announced plans to generate $1 billion annually from the extraction of natural gas and crude oil deposits.
Mamo is one of the nearly 60 Ethiopian managerial professionals cultivated by the company over the past decade.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says this has led to meaningful improvements in foreign direct investment.
The Ethiopian government, which has been expressing its concern over the minimal share of local medical drugs production for the East African country's domestic use, stressed the benefits of the Chinese pharmaceutical firm in saving large amount of hard currency through import substitution.
Demeke Mekonnen, deputy prime minister of Ethiopia, said during the plant's inauguration ceremony that despite the Ethiopian government's various measures to support the pharmaceutical sector, the "sector has not yet evolved into where we projected it to be - both in terms of its investment portfolio, production capacity, technology acquisition and the creation of employment opportunities.
Ethiopian government is financing the construction of the industrial park which is expected to be commissioned later this year.
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's national flag carrier Ethiopian Airlines (ET) is mulling flights to Chongqing, a major southwestern Chinese city, an Ethiopian official said on Monday.
Berta also said Ethiopian Airlines wants to attract an increasing number of Chinese tourists to Ethiopia as the East African country seeks to be a top tourism destination in Africa.
Ethiopian Airlines currently has five destinations in China, being Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou.
Ethiopian Airlines became the first African carrier and the fourth in the world to fly to China back in 1973.
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia's national air carrier Ethiopian Airlines (ET) will commence flights to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in June 2018, an Ethiopian official said on Wednesday.
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's national air carrier Ethiopian Airlines (ET) is mulling flights to the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.
Chinese tourists are also a rising demographics with the East African country attracting 41,660 Chinese tourists in 2015, a trend the Ethiopian government expects to grow in the coming years.
Ethiopia had earned $3.32 billion from 886,897 tourists that visited the nation during the Ethiopian Fiscal Year 2016/17 that ended on July 8.
Hangzhou however is not the only Chinese destination that Ethiopian Airlines is mulling starting flights to.
Ethiopian Airlines currently flies to five destinations in China: Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
ADDIS ABABA — Chinese companies, with close to 379 projects that were either operational or under implementation during the past five years, are on top of Ethiopia's investment landscape both in number and financial capital, an official at the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) told Xinhua Tuesday.
According to Mekonen Hailu, EIC Communications Director, 279 of the total 379 Chinese companies were set operational in Ethiopia with projects that worth over 13.16 billion Ethiopian birr (over $572 million) from 2012 to 2017 period, while the remaining 100 are under implementation.
According to Hailu, the Ethiopian government has given due emphasis to the manufacturing sector, as the country is shifting to industry-led economy from the largely agricultural one, and the contribution of Chinese companies is immense.
The statement was made on Monday by Tadesse Haile, state minister of economic affairs at the office of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.
CSCEC, well known for its flagship African Union Headquarters building in Ethiopia's capital, is currently building Ethiopia's new National Stadium after an agreement was signed with the Ethiopian Ministry of Youth and Sports in January last year.
ADDIS ABABA — A 3,000-hectare irrigation project built by China's Jiangxi Water and Hydropower Construction is expected to be commissioned in October, an Ethiopian official said Friday.
The statement by Bizuneh Tolcha, director of Public Relations and Communications Directorate at the Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE), said the project costs $55 million.
"The project is funded jointly by the World Bank and the Ethiopian government with so far 55 percent completion rate," said Tolcha.
Tolcha said the project is part of the Ethiopian government's plan to ensure food self-sufficiency and earn hard currency from the export of crop products.
Development of sustainable, world class specialized, export-driven and competitive industrial parks is the major target of Ethiopia's vision towards economic development, according to Arkebe Oqubay, Special Advisor to the Ethiopian Prime Minister.
The Ethiopian government has planned to construct 10 industrial parks across the country aiming at enhancing job opportunities, earn revenue and promote technology transfer, said Sisay Gemechu, Ethiopia's Industrial Parks Development Corporation CEO.
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia is set to inaugurate two industrial parks built by Chinese firms next month, the state-owned Ethiopian Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) said Friday.
ADDIS ABABA - China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) is to build an industrial park in the resort city of Bahir Dar, 552 km north of Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa at a cost of $60 million.
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Airlines has increased its weekly direct flights to China to 34 with the opening of thrice weekly flights to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province.
Speaking at a ceremony starting the flight to Chengdu on Sunday in Addis Ababa International Airport premises, Liu Tao, Counselor at the Chinese embassy in Ethiopia said with Chengdu being an economic and culture hub for inland part of China the new route has great potential to enhance the agricultural, trading, tourism cooperation with the outside of the world with Ethiopian acting as bridge.
Busera Awol, Chief Commercial Officer at Ethiopian Airlines, said the new route is just the latest manifestation of both countries' deep bond ever since 1973 when the national carrier opened its first route to Beijing.
"With this new flight to Chengdu the major hub for Air China, which is our ally and star alliance partner, passengers from Ethiopian Airlines' vast and growing network, will be able to connect to dozens of cities in China, including Shenzhen, Kunming, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Changsha and Urumqi, similarly Chinese travelers will enjoy faster travel and connection to more than 54 countries and further to Sao Paulo, Brazil and the US with minimum layover in Addis Ababa Hub," explained Awol.
As part of its commitment, Ethiopian plans to utilize its latest fleet, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus 350 airplanes, emphasizing how it values its share in the world's largest air travel market.
Ethiopian Airlines was the first African carrier and the fourth in the word to fly to China back in 1973.
In addition to the Already launched three weekly flights to Chengdu, Ethiopian Airlines currently operates daily nonstop flights to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hongkong.
A member of the ground crew directs an Ethiopian Airlines plane at the Bole International Airport in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa August 21, 2015.
[Photo/Agencies]ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's state-owned air carrier Ethiopian Airlines (ET) is to start flights to Chengdu, the capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, on May 22, adding its roster of destinations to the world's most populous nation to five.
In a statement sent to Xinhua on Thursday, Ethiopian Airlines says it plans to inaugurate the new destination in the presence of China's Ambassador to Ethiopia La Yifan, ET's CEO Tewolde Gebremariam and Abadula Gemeda speaker of Ethiopian Parliament at a ceremony on Sunday.
ADDIS ABABA - China's Dongfang Electric Corporation will build a 120-megawatt (mW) wind farm in Ethiopia's Somali regional state, an Ethiopian official said Thursday.
In a statement sent to Xinhua, Bizuneh Tolcha, Public Relation and Communication Director at the Ethiopia Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE), said the Ethiopian government expects the project to be started by July.
"The wind farm project is expected to need 18 months to finish, cost about $257 million to construct with 85 percent of the funding coming from the China's Export-Import Bank and the rest from the Ethiopian government," he said.
The Ethiopian government plans to increase its electricity generation capacity from the current 4,200 mW to about 17,300 mW by 2020 using hydro, wind, geothermal, biomass and solar energy.
Handiso Selamu Yisihak, an Ethiopian researcher at the Luban Workshop International Development Research Center at Tianjin University of Technology and Education, said a key factor behind the popularity of the workshops in Africa is that they cater to the needs to improve skills and promote industrialization in Africa.
ADDIS ABABA — Coffee exporters in Ethiopia, known as the birthplace of Arabica coffee, are enjoying the rising coffee market in China as an increasing number of Chinese consumers tend to value Ethiopian coffee.
The growing demand for Ethiopian coffee in China has presented a potential market for coffee exporting countries such as Ethiopia, said Abdullah Bagersh, general manager of SA Bagersh Pvt Ltd Co. "Over the past five to 10 years, we are seeing growing demand for Ethiopian coffee in China and it has created one of the most promising coffee markets in the world," said Bagersh.