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Whiz kid gets a greeting from Apple CEO

Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent birthday greetings on his Weibo account to an 8-year-old boy who has been presenting programming tutorials on social media. Cook was impressed by the boy's enthusiasm and talent for programming. The boy, who goes by the name of Vita, is a primary school student in Shanghai. He set up the tutorial channel on video streaming site Bilibili in August and has garnered about 60,000 followers and more than 1 million views. His father, Zhou Ziheng, has been Vita's main support, editing his videos and helping to run the channel. Zhou, a freelance translator of scientific and technology books, began teaching his son－at age 5－how to write computer code.

Hengdian filming base offers free studios

China's largest filming base, Hengdian World Studios, started offering all its facilities free to film and teleplay crews on Tuesday, in a move to boost the domestic industry. A full-scale replica of the Forbidden City, the Old Summer Palace and scores of other palaces and gardens are among the best-known antique-style architecture inside the center. The base in Zhejiang province was established in 1996.