当地时间5月10日，比尔·盖茨穿着正装出现在纽约市曼哈顿上西区的高档餐厅“Marea”外，在参加完大女儿詹妮弗·盖茨的毕业典礼之后，他和家人们来这里庆祝。         Workers harvest Ottelia acuminata at a planting base at Yong'an Village of Eryuan County in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on Oct. 18, 2024.(Photo by Luo Xincai/Xinhua)Under the summer sun, Erhai Lake in southwest China's Yunnan Province glistens thanks to its clear blue water dotted with floating white blossoms. Tourists stroll and cycle around the spot, where limpid waters, lush mountains and blooming flowers combine in weaving a picturesque scene.
The delicate blossom seen floating there is Ottelia acuminata, an aquatic plant endemic to China, which is known to have extremely strict water quality requirements. It demands high water transparency, cleanliness and calcium content, and survives only in unpolluted waters, serving as a reliable natural indicator of aquatic ecological health.
Its large-scale revival vividly testifies to Erhai Lake's remarkable ecological restoration achievements.
China's Ecological and Environmental Code, enacted on Saturday, stipulates nationwide protection and restoration of river and lake ecosystems, providing solid legal support for systematic water ecological governance across the country.
As China advances its Beautiful China initiative, this code is expected to strengthen rule-of-law guarantees for ecological protection and provide fresh impetus for the country's green and low-carbon transition.
In the early 1990s, agricultural pollution worsened Erhai Lake's water quality, causing frequent blue-green algae outbreaks. A severe algae bloom hit the lake in 1996, leaving the water turbid and smelly. As the environment degraded, Ottelia acuminata nearly disappeared from the lake.
Thanks to years of targeted ecological protection and restoration efforts, the lake's water quality has improved steadily, maintaining an excellent Grade II standard from January to June 2026, and creating favorable conditions for the return of Ottelia acuminata.
Official data show that the plant's coverage on Erhai Lake has surged from 90,000 square meters in 2021 to 950,000 square meters in 2026, marking a remarkable ecological recovery.
The improved water environment has also brought tangible economic benefits, turning the lake's ecological advantages into a sustainable industry. From lake ecology to farm cultivation and consumer products, Ottelia acuminata's dual ecological and economic value has been fully realized.
In 2018, environmental worker Zhong Lan noticed the edible plant's great potential for water purification and industrial development. With support from local authorities and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in eastern China, she started a company and built a professional research base in 2024, developing standardized planting techniques that enable high-yield, repeated harvests and offering jobs for local villagers.
Villager Li Xinyuan, who quit Ottelia acuminata cultivation years ago due to low profits, resumed planting in 2023 and earns a stable monthly salary of 4,500 yuan (about 663 U.S. dollars) at the base.
His fellow villager Du Hongquan earned over 100,000 yuan last year from growing the plant and has more than doubled his planting area this year. "The base takes full charge of sales, so we can plant without any worries," Du said.
Eryuan County, the source of Erhai Lake, now has more than 200 hectares of Ottelia acuminata plantation area, creating numerous jobs yearly. The plant has been developed into a diverse range of products like tea, plant-based coffee and cookies.
"I used to think it was exclusive to Yunnan, but I can try it elsewhere too," said a tourist surnamed Ai after tasting the plant at a hotpot restaurant in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province.
The beautiful lakeside scenery at Erhai has also boosted local tourism. In 2025, Dali received over 120 million tourist visits, attracting visitors to enjoy lake views and experience local Bai ethnic culture, with 407,000 long-term visitors.
Last month, the State Council issued a plan for building a Beautiful China during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), setting out the overall requirements, targets, key tasks and major projects for comprehensively advancing this initiative.
According to the plan, China will achieve overall improvement in ecological and environmental quality and make significant progress toward building a Beautiful China by 2030, with green production and lifestyles largely established and the carbon peaking target reached on schedule.
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天空中飘着细雨，现年68岁的微软创始人尽显亿万富翁的派头，由保镖为他撑伞，这个倒也无可厚非。

现年27岁的詹妮弗在当天正式从西奈山伊坎医学院毕业，结束了长达六年的学习时光，进而还拥有了西奈山儿科项目的住院医生的资格。

詹妮弗的妹妹，现年21岁的菲比·盖茨在自己的社交媒体上分享了姐姐毕业典礼上的画面，并且附上了“她是一名医生”这样的文字，很是为姐姐感到骄傲。

获得住院医生资格的詹妮弗，是否会按部就班地上班，目前尚不可知，毕竟她还有一个名叫莱拉的1岁多的女儿需要照顾。

詹妮弗和埃及裔的丈夫纳耶尔·纳萨尔目前住在纽约一处价值5100万美元（约3.7亿RMB）的顶层公寓中。

B | 尽管她的父亲曾表示未来将捐出自己的数十亿美元的财富，“以避免宠坏孩子”，但现在他的儿女们显然已经享受了荣华富贵。

目前就读于位于加利福尼亚州的斯坦福大学的菲比，当天也出现在了餐厅外，她是和妈妈梅琳达·弗朗茨·盖茨一起现身的。

尽管就读的也是名校，但菲比将更多的时间花在了高档派对上，显然她更愿意当一名在社交媒体上拥有影响力的名媛，尽管普遍认为，她的外形和气质实在过于平凡，除了顶着“有钱爸爸”的光环之外，并没有什么值得夸耀的。

C | 不过不得不说，那一点就足够了。

D |

21岁的菲比打扮得略显成熟，似乎很是努力地配合了毕业典礼这样的场合，但现年59岁的梅琳达却截然不同，鲜艳的挂脖花裙让她看上去容光焕发。据悉，梅琳达平时跟前夫相聚的机会不是很多，没有什么重要的事情，已经不再是夫妻的他们尽可能不见面，而这一次为了女儿而进行的团聚，也算是久违了。

在和亿万富翁丈夫的婚姻存续期间，梅琳达很少会被关注外表，事实上当时的她偏爱端庄朴素的造型，但现在不同了，她更愿意让别人重视她的存在。

之前梅琳达外出时，左手无名指上佩戴了一枚大钻戒，为此有了订婚的传闻。但很快她就通过知情人士予以了澄清，不仅订婚的事情不存在，就连之前交往的记者男友也成为了过去式。也就是说，梅琳达现在单身，但就像她曾经接受盖尔·金采访时说的那样，“我仍然渴望爱情！”。

相对来说，和前妻分开后的盖茨还是幸运的，很快就找到了另一半，前甲骨文CEO马克·赫德的遗孀宝拉·赫德。两个人虽然没有达到谈婚论嫁的程度，但关系还是稳定的，已经“官宣”了彼此作为恋人的存在。

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不过也许是为了表达自己以家人为重的决心，这一次盖茨并没有带上他的女友。