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一 | 在2019年的国际消费电子展（CES）上，IBM展示了其最新型号的量子计算机IBMQ SystemOne。批评人士说，量子计算机位于2.3米高的玻璃框架内，看起来像一件艺术品。    

    American teacher Ronald Sakolsky reunites with desert fighter Yin Yuzhen at an airport in Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on August 23, 2026. Photo: Xinhua
    
A long-awaited reunion that captured wide public attention unfolded on Sunday evening when American teacher Ronald Sakolsky and Yin Yuzhen, a model worker renowned for planting trees and combating desertification, reunited and embraced tearfully with overwhelming emotion at an airport in Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, after 27 years of separation across the ocean.
The reunion began with a single act of generosity in 1999. When Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a China-US education exchange program, he was moved by Yin 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 they 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.
This hug, transcending time and distance, marked not only friendship between the two countries, but also showcased the sincerity of Chinese people and a green miracle made possible through continuous joint efforts. 
         Seeds of China-US friendship sown long ago, now stand as towering woods. Illustration: Liu Rui/GT     Hug across 27 years 
At 2:48 am on early Sunday morning, Ronald Sakolsky arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport after over 10 hours of flight. As he stepped into the arrivals hall, he greeted the waiting reporters with earnest Putonghua "Wo hui lai le," meaning "I'm back."
"When I saw the lights in Beijing as we were landing is when I realized that I am back in my second home." 
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." 
He then flew to Ordos for the meeting with his desert reclamation partner. 
Yin waited at the arrival gate at the airport in Ordos very early, murmuring English sentence she particularly learned for this occasion - "Welcome to China, my brother." Her eyes were fixed on the escalator and she wiped away her tears multiple times during the wait, the Global Times reporter observed. 
Sakolsky said in earlier interview with the Global Times that he was looking forward to this reunion and could not hold his tears back when he thought of the moment. He was about to give Yin a hug when they meet. 
When Sakolsky finally appeared in front of Yin, their eyes welled up. Stepping off the elevator, Sakolsky could barely contain his excitement, muttering "Oh my God, oh my God." They hurried toward each other and locked in a tight embrace at last - the long-awaited hug 27 years in the making. 
"This is a dream come true, from a lady who is the hero of the story, not me," Sakolsky told the Global Times at the airport, barely holding his emotion. "She made a promise 27 years ago, and she kept her promise." 
Talking about his donation almost three decades ago, Sakolsky said the purpose was to help her, "because she was beautifying the motherland." 
Now, in response to an invitation to return to China for a trip to see the green planting from his donation and to returning to the city of Luoyang, Central China's Henan Province, where he taught in the exchange program for several years, Sakolsky noted that "China had done so much for me that I wanted to say thank you to China."
A return of kindness 
For this reunion after 27 years, Yin had carefully prepared. Steamed buns, meaning "upward," fresh vegetables and fruits picked in the land transformed from desert.
Yin, never familiar with any foreign language, learned some English phrases, including "welcome to China" she practiced, "my brother" to greet Sakolsky, and "more, more" to persuade the American friend to eat more. 
On Sunday, Yin did her hair and wore a red scarf alongside an outfit with a green shade, which she picked particularly for the reunion, as "green is the color of the Earth," as she told the Global Times.
Yin is not the only old friend that was looking forward to the reunion. 
While Sakolsky was still on his over-10-hour flight from the US to Beijing, Bai Fan was also on the way - driving over 850 kilometers from Luoyang to Inner Mongolia. The journey would take a day and a half. 
Bai was the vice principal of Luoyang Foreign Language School, overseeing international affairs. Sakolsky was an exchange teacher there through a China-US program, and was Bai's "neighbor right across the hall."
Why drive such a distance? Bai had prepared special cultural gifts - peony porcelain and Hanguan Kiln purple clay tea ware, distinctive local handicrafts that proved too bulky and fragile for air travel or high-speed rail. 
Bai recalled Sakolsky's continuous interest in Chinese culture, and sending a replica of Terracotta Warriors to the US at Sakolsky's request. "I hope he can take these Luoyang elements and Chinese symbols to the world," Bai told the Global Times in a phone interview on Sunday. 
Bai is also eager to see Sakolsky at a place that they had traveled together 27 years ago. When Sakolsky came to Luoyang for the exchange program, Bai was his designated liaison. Together, they traveled to the heart of the Mu Us Desert to deliver the $5,000 donation.
Bai still vividly remembers the desolate desert back then, where finger-thin saplings were watered ladle by ladle by Yin. At that time, Sakolsky had constant concerns about whether the tiny saplings could survive in the wasteland, which makes today's sprawling 50,000-tree forest even more miraculous.
The changed and unchanged 
Things have changed over the past 27 years. While waiting for Sakolsky, Yin jokingly said he got less hair, and she would not be able to recognize him if running up to him on street. 
The passage of time has brought far more than personal aging, according to Bai, another witness to the decades-long changes. "Everyone is growing older. Our families have expanded with more children, local communities have grown in population, and the surrounding environment is constantly evolving, just as our cities are undergoing profound transformations." 
On a night tour in Ordos on Sunday, Sakolsky, watching a fountain light show, said that "it is a 21st century city, but it looks like a 22nd century city. In the 2000s, Chinese government made a promise to Chinese people to beatify this country, and they succeeded." 
For Sakolsky, probably the most profound transformation lies in the depth of his human connection forged. 
"27 years ago, we were just friends and acquaintances. We are brother and sister now. So much has happened since then, but the important thing is many people have seen the story and now they can also help to make China beautiful," he told the reporters. 
Through joint efforts of people like Yin, the Mu Us Desert has turned from wasteland into a green oasis. China has contributed about 25 percent of the world's newly added green areas and taken the lead in achieving zero growth in land degradation, per official data. 
Meanwhile, there are things unchanged, including a vintage photo of the three standing in the desert that has decorated Bai's office through all these years - a permanent reminder of their original aspiration. 
This reunion will witness them retake the classic photo and plant new saplings together, expanding their green mission. 
。虽然看起来很精致，但它仍然是一个实验装置。IBM声称Q System One是“世界上第一个完全集成的、用于科学和商业目的的通用量子计算系统”，但这是一个值得怀疑的描述。Q系统1可设计用于商业用途，但尚未完全就绪。不是你想象中的量子计算机。像Q系统1这样的量子计算机基本上还是实验设备。在实际任务中，它们不能超过经典计算机（事实上，你的笔记本电脑在现实的实际计算中可能更强大），相反，它们是研究工具。让我们看看量子设备是如何工作的。英国苏塞克斯大学量子技术教授温弗里德·亨辛格说：“它更像是一块踏脚石，而不是一台实用的量子计算机。不要把它看作是“能解决量子计算所知道的所有问题的量子计算机”，而是把它当作一个原型，让你能够测试和进一步开发未来可能有用的程序。即使是作为一个实验设备，IBM也不打算在百思买（BestBuy）中开始销售Q System One。公司没有透露购买这些机器的成本，甚至他们的生产数量。与其他IBM Quantum计算机一样，用户只能通过云访问它们，公司和研究机构可以在IBMQ网络上购买时间。IBM还宣布了两个新客户：能源巨头埃克森美孚（ExxonMobil）和欧洲粒子物理研究所（CERN），欧洲研究实验室（CERN）建造了大型强子对撞机。当谈到量子计算时，我们必须知道量子比特，或量子比特，是量子计算机使用的基本信息单位。与传统的以1或0的形式存储数据的比特不同，量子比特充分利用了称为叠加的量子现象。

二 | 这意味着它们实际上同时作为1和0存在。这种计算的优点是它可以使您可以处理的信息量成倍增加。一对量子比特可以以1或0的形式存在，它可以表示四种可能的状态。三个量子比特可以代表八种状态。

三 | 300个量子比特可以代表比宇宙中原子总数更多的状态。那么Q系统1有什么特别之处呢？IBM表示，主要的成就是将一台实验量子机转变成一个更可靠的系统（看起来像一台大型计算机）。量子计算是非常复杂和复杂的。芯片需要保持在冻结的温度下，并且容易受到小电流波动或物理振动的影响。

四 | IBM表示，Q System One可以将这些问题最小化。”这是IBM为市场带来的技术，而其他公司并没有真正做到这一点。我们知道如何做集成系统。

五 | IBM量子研究副总裁BobSutor说：“量子计算机的电子产品还不容易获得。你需要一个温度控制环境，你需要最小化振动，你需要最小化任何可能干扰量子计算的因素。

六 | Sutor说，像Q System One这样的机器的一个实际优势是可以减少研究中的停机时间。在一次电源浪涌引起技术人员的困惑或不满之后，在Q System One这样的设备上重置量子计算机要快得多。

七 | ”它过去需要几天或几周，但现在只需要一个小时或几天，”萨托说。尽管这些听起来像是边际收益，但如果我们能用量子计算机改变我们梦想的世界（例如，发现新药物，探索融合能源），可靠的研究绝对是至关重要的。

八 | 也许同样重要的是，Q系统1似乎是其中的一部分。

九 | 这台机器是由一家工业设计咨询公司MAP项目办公室设计的，该公司曾与Sonos、Honda和Graphcore合作。Q System One安装在一个9英尺高的硼硅酸盐玻璃立方体中，内部结构精致，包裹在闪亮的黑色圆形外壳中。这让人想起2013年苹果的MacPro和2001年电影《太空漫游》中的巨石。

十 | 它看起来像来自未来的计算机。对于IBM来说，这不仅仅是一个额外的好处，也是计划的一部分。这家拥有107年历史的公司可能仍然每季度盈利数十亿美元（主要来自传统的公司交易），但它面临着一些分析师所称的“不可逆转的结构性衰退”。在技术产业最新的增长领域：移动和云计算没有取得领先地位，它需要新的收入来源才能在第二世纪生存下来。人工智能是一个风险，量子计算是另一个风险。Sutor指出，Q System One应该激发人们对量子计算和IBM本身的信心。

十一 | ”当人们看到量子计算系统时，他们的眼睛会发光，因为他们知道这个系统，传言中说的，或者说是太超前的，最终开始产生。当他们看到这个系统时，他们会说，“啊，IBM看到了前方的道路！”像Q系统1这样的机器在这些方面仍然有用，让人们对未来有一个一瞥。但我们需要记住的是，还有很多工作要做。

十二 | ”我不认为这是一个突破，但这是迈向量子计算商业化的重要一步，”亨辛格说。

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