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一 |     The Powerball frenzy continued on Wednesday as numbers were drawn for the $1.73 billion jackpot.The winning numbers drawn for the jackpot prize were: 22, 24, 40, 52, 64 and red Powerball 10. The power play was 2.One ticket had all the numbers. It was sold in Frasier Park, California, which is located between Los Angeles and Bakersfield in Kern County.The grand prize, which had an estimated lump sum payout of $756.6 million, continued its ascent through billion-dollar territory after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Monday night, Powerball said.Monday's jackpot was the third-largest prize in Powerball history, officials previously said, making Wednesday's prize now the second-largest.Florida had at least one ticket on Monday that matched five and got the power play number, all adding up to a $2 million win. There were match five winners who won $1 million in California, Indiana, Oregon and Virginia.The last billion-dollar Powerball prize -- the jaw-dropping $2.04 billion -- was won in California in November of last year. The next largest prize -- $1.586 billion – was won in Jan. 2016 in California, Florida and Tennessee.Lottery officials said that while the odds of winning the big jackpot may be astronomical, the chances of winning a smaller prize were much better at 1 in 24.9.Jackpot winners can either take the money as an immediate cash lump sum or in 30 annual payments over 29 years. Both advertised prize options do not include federal and jurisdictional taxes.Powerball tickets cost $2 and are sold in 45 U.S. states as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. The drawings are also livestreamed online at Powerball.com.If no winners are declared from Wednesday night’s drawing, the next one to take place will be on Saturday, Oct. 14.。    (ECNS) -- The "China Corner" themed exhibition opened in the Blue Zone of the 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia, on Monday, highlighting the country’s achievements in combating desertification and restoring degraded land.    Held under the overall theme of COP17, "Restoring Land, Restoring Hope," the exhibition showcases China’s practices in desertification control through five sections.    During COP17, the Chinese delegation will participate in high-level dialogues on financing, drought resilience and grassland protection and propose the establishment of an International Day of Grasslands to further promote global cooperation on grassland conservation.    The “China Corner” highlights the achievements of the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, widely recognized as the world's largest afforestation program.    It also showcases China’s cooperation with Arab countries, Mongolia and Central Asian countries in combating desertification.    China will host nearly 20 side events during the conference to share its experience and technologies in desertification control, ecological restoration and sustainable development.    China’s desertified land accounts for about one-quarter of its total land area. After more than five decades of efforts, the country has achieved zero net growth in land degradation and effectively restored 53% of treatable desertified land.    Over the past five years, China has completed ecological restoration projects covering 36.6 million hectares. Its forest coverage rate has exceeded 25%, contributing about one-quarter of the world’s newly added green areas, according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.                            。

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