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According to Xinhua News Agency reporters abroad, the word "Earth Hour" has quietly become popular these days. This is an environmental protection activity initiated by the World Wide Fund for Nature, which advocates people to turn off the lights for one hour and express their confidence and determination to resist climate warming with practical actions. This year, nearly 3,000 towns in more than 80 countries and regions around the world participated in this activity on the evening of 28th, with the number of participants reaching 654.38 billion. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called it "the biggest public concern about climate change in history". The "Earth Hour" lights-out campaign was launched in different countries and regions around the world at 20: 30 on the 28th, and New Zealand and Fiji in the southern hemisphere became the first countries to turn off the lights. There are 44 towns in New Zealand this year, and Chatham Island in the Pacific Ocean is the first to turn off the lights. New Zealand's largest city Auckland, the 328-meter-high tallest building in the southern hemisphere "Tower of the Sky" and the capital Wellington Parliament Building "Honeycomb" all turned off their lights for one hour. At Scott camp on the Antarctic continent, although the local temperature dropped to MINUS 30 degrees Celsius, 26 New Zealand expedition members turned off all unnecessary lights and appliances that night. After that, this unprecedented "turn off the lights relay" spread all the way to Australia. At 20: 30 local time, the bright lights of many landmark buildings in Sydney, Australia's largest city, went out instantly. The famous Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Parliament Building of New South Wales all joined the one-hour action. This is the third time Sydney has participated in the Earth Hour. On March 3 1 2007, it was more than 2 million residents in Sydney who first responded to the call of WWF and turned off their lights for one hour. With the rotation of the earth, the "Earth Hour" activity continued to enter South Korea westward. At 20: 30 local time in Seoul, the capital, the lights of all landmark buildings were all turned off, and the indoor and outdoor lights of 522 buildings where the Seoul Metropolitan Government Building and its subordinate institutions were located were all turned off for one hour during the event. In China, some public places, institutions and families in nearly 20 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Baoding, Changchun, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Wuhan and Hong Kong participated in the "Earth Hour" activities. In the capital Beijing, from the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube to the CBD area of Chang 'an Street, the tallest building headed by Yintai Center turned off its lights for one hour for environmental protection. Many residents also choose to turn off the lights, computers and televisions at home and spend this unusual weekend night with coffee and candlelight dinner. In Hong Kong, the lights of more than 800 buildings in Hong Kong 1 0 have been extinguished one after another, including the tallest building in Hong Kong, the International Financial Center, and many landmark buildings such as the Peak Tower, Tsing Ma Bridge, Bank of China Tower and Central Plaza at the top of Taiping Mountain. There are 647 Philippine towns participating in the "Earth Hour" event. From Luzon Island in the north, Visayas Islands in the middle and Mindanao Island in the south, residents of these towns turned off their lights at the same time and silently expressed their determination to resist global warming in the dark. In Russia, more than 20 landmark buildings, such as Moscow city government building, federal building and Ukrainian hotel, have turned off their night lighting systems. On the vast land of Russia, from Primorsky Krai in the Far East to Kaliningrad in the western border, many cities have participated in this activity. At 20: 30 local time, Francesco Totti, captain of Italy's Rome football team, turned off the lights of the Colosseum in the center of Rome, and other famous landmarks such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Colosseum in Verona also turned off their lights for one hour, expressing Italians' support for the global environmental protection movement. More than 65,438+000 Italian towns have joined the Earth Hour. More than 200 French cities participated in Earth Hour. In the capital, Paris, the municipal government extinguished the lights of more than 200 places of interest and other buildings, such as Notre Dame de Paris, Louvre, Invalides, Pantheon and Place de la Concorde, among which the Eiffel Tower, as a symbol of Paris, attracted the most attention. This year is the first time Belgium has participated in Earth Hour. Nearly 200 townships and more than 300 enterprises across the country actively participated. In Brussels, the famous Grand Plaza, Atomic Ball Tower, Belgian French Radio and Television Tower and other landmark buildings and places all joined the ranks of turning off the lights for one hour. At 20: 30 local time, with the lights reflected on the Egyptian pyramids and the Sphinx instantly extinguished, the "Earth Hour" activity kicked off in Egypt, an ancient country with world civilization. Places of interest in southern Egypt, such as Karnak Temple, abu simbel temple Temple and Philae Temple, were also turned off. Although Nairobi, a poor Kenyan capital with insufficient electricity, has never been a brightly lit city that never sleeps, it, like many other cities in the world, took part in the "Earth Hour" on the evening of 28th, turning off the lights in some landmark buildings for one hour to show its concern for global climate change. Football kingdom Brazil participated in the "Earth Hour" for the first time this year, and the whole country 107 cities responded. That night, all the landmark buildings such as Parliament Building, Cathedral, National Theatre and National Museum in the capital Brasilia were turned off for one hour. The crossover cable bridge, Pacamba Stadium, municipal theater, Ivella Pera Park, Museum of Modern Art and Sheraton Hotel in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, also joined the lights-out. This year, more than 250 Canadian cities participated in the "Earth Hour" event, among which it is striking that online media played an important role in gathering the popularity of the event. The Canadian Green Party, which is responsible for organizing this event, publicized this year's "Earth Hour" event. In addition to informing the community and contacting the media, it also publishes news through well-known online communities such as Facebook, with obvious effects. Suddenly everyone is talking about it. In new york, the largest city in the United States, when 20: 30 arrived, Times Square, which was just as bright as day, suddenly darkened under the gaze of tens of thousands of tourists. The Empire State Building, Brooklyn Bridge, Chrysler Building and other landmark buildings also shed their gorgeous coats at the same time. In Chicago, the third largest city in the United States, which is famous for its skyscrapers, more than 200 high-rise buildings have their lights turned off for an hour. This is the second year that the city has participated in the "Earth Hour" activities. In Mexico City, as Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of Mexico City pressed the button, "Earth Hour" relayed westward into Mexico, and the lights of more than 0/00 landmark buildings and more than 2 million ordinary citizens' houses in Mexico City were extinguished one by one.