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A |     Danielle 编译 本周二（4月30日），新西兰薪酬管理局建议在下次大选前，给国会议员们涨薪近3%。         加薪意味着，后排议员的年薪将达到16.8万纽币，内阁部长的年薪将略高于30.4万纽币，而总理的年薪将在第一年涨至48.4万纽币。

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    Chinese picture book artist Cai Gao Photo: VCGOn Saturday Beijing time, the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award ceremony was held in Canada. Eighty-year-old Chinese picture book artist Cai Gao attended the event in person to receive the medal and certificate, becoming the first Chinese illustrator to win this honor in the award's 60-year history.
The prize is awarded every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) to a living author (since 1956) and illustrator (since 1966). The award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize for children's literature," honoring lifelong achievements that have made a lasting and important contribution to children's literature. 
During the award ceremony, IBBY President Basarat Kazim praised Cai for the elegant, unrushed style in her works, which encourages children to look closely and discover beauty in quiet corners, according to the Guangming Daily. 
Kazim said Cai's works have an unhurried elegance that encourages children to look closely and discover beauty in quiet, everyday moment.
"This year's winner, Cai Gao, is extremely special. She is as beautiful a person as the drawings she does," Kazim said.
Following author Cao Wenxuan's win of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards as a writer of children's literature in 2016, Cai's achievement means that Chinese creators have now won both the author and illustrator categories, a "double victory."
In her acceptance speech, Cai said, "The future of the world lies in children. There is no greater happiness than creating for them." She also noted that children's books are bridges, connecting cultures and hearts around the world.
Reflecting on her childhood and her years teaching in rural villages, Cai recalled that after six years working as a rural primary school teacher in the 1980s, she joined a publishing house, where she spent two decades as a children's book editor. "This job taught me the most important lesson: to see life through the eyes of a child, and to use art as a way of expressing my feelings about life," she noted.
"I feel the profound weight of this gift from life. I'm filled with mixed emotions. I'm moved and grateful for everything I've been through. Every experience has shaped me into the person I am today," she added.
Alongside her editing career, Cai kept creating original picture books. Her well-known book Yueliang Baba is based on folk songs her grandmother would sing in her native Changsha dialect. Works like Huocheng 1938 (lit: Fire City 1938) were inspired by memories of wartime in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province. The rural scenery and farming scenes in The Land of the Peach Blossom, a book which is also listed as textbooks for primary school students in Japan, all reflect her lifelong connection to the Hunan countryside and many years quietly editing books at her desk, according to the China News Service. 
Though her illustrations reflect the atmosphere of the times, Cai told the Global Times that her stories' true intentions go beyond the visual; she hopes her work can teach children that "fearlessness and love are ways to overcome hardship."
Books such as Bao'er, Hua Mulan, The Land of the Peach Blossom, and The Hundred Birds' Feather Robe have established Cai as an illustrator who skillfully interprets traditional Chinese culture. She constantly revisits the classics, striving to connect ancient stories to contemporary social and cultural themes.
Before winning the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2026, Cai became, in 1993, the first Chinese illustrator to win the Golden Apple Award, one of the world's top international honors for children's illustration. Cai has always emphasized that these awards do not belong to her alone. 
"When I learned that I had won the award, my first thought was of all the creators of my generation. This award is not just mine, it belongs to all of us," she said.
Cai's victory fills a six-decade gap for Chinese illustrators in the award's history, Zhang Peng, an associate professor at Nanjing Normal University and also president of the university's publishing house, told the Global Times. It also shows that original picture books, rooted in Chinese tradition and told with Eastern aesthetics, are fully capable of earning global recognition, Zhang added.
Zhang noted that for a long time, the Chinese children's book market was dominated by foreign imports, and local authors often struggled with the anxiety of imitating Western works. At 80, Cai has set a striking example for the industry with her use of ink-and-wash folk art, proving that the more grounded in national culture a work is, the wider its global reach. This has inspired greater confidence among local creators and encourages more people to focus on traditional Chinese culture, while paving the way for Chinese children's books to go global.
"Cai's achievement is no accident. It marks the moment when Chinese children's books truly found their own voice on the world stage," Zhang said.
。薪酬管理局主席Geoff Summers昨天说：“即使对比澳大利亚的州议员，大多数人的薪资都比新西兰议员高，除了塔斯马尼亚州。”          他说，在制定新的工资标准时，他们考虑到了生活成本危机，但没有达到“经济困难时期”的门槛。         反对党：优先给工人加薪          据Newshub报道，反对党党魁Chris Hipkins认为，新西兰所有工作的人都应该得到更高的工资。         Hipkins说他已经获得了“不错的收入”，是一名“收入丰厚的新西兰人”。         “重点是其他新西兰人的收入，要确保他们的收入跟上生活成本上涨的步伐，”他说。

D | 政府应该优先考虑工人的收入。

E | “这是一个更大的问题，我们希望每个人的收入都在增加，这样人们就能应付生活成本。但这不是本届政府正在做的事情。

F | ”          Hipkins担心，政府现在的政策无法增加人们的收入。“我认为，如果政府能够确保新西兰人的涨薪幅度达到国会议员的水平，这对政治家来说就没有什么问题了。

G | ”          总理：不参与决定，加薪将捐赠          总理Christopher Luxon的办公室已经明确表示总理“不想也不需要”加薪，“他会把收到的加薪都捐给慈善机构”。         上个月，Luxon曾表示加薪的决定不在他的掌握之中，“这是独立的薪酬机构的决定，总理和国会议员不参与制定薪酬。”          相关阅读：          政府机构被要求节支，但公务员的工资增长仍创历史新高          政府节支路漫漫：38个公共服务部门又增加了数千名新员工          为完成节支目标，政府这一部门将裁员384人          政府今年将节省开支大举减税，有多少公务员会被裁？          政府开始削减经费，这个部门率先裁撤40个职位          在国家党政府上台之前，知道会裁公务员，很多合同工已转为永久员工……          如果国家党上台，这一政府部门开支可能会被削减30%          机构越来越臃肿？工党执政下，这些部门的公关人员增加了50%          注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。使用授权请联系[email protected]。         chineseherald.co.nz All Rights Reserved 版权所有          (责编：丹妮)          来源 -          相关内容                新西兰外长引发国际争端，前总理友情提醒：中国不是威胁           奥克兰一男子通过Facebook找到了窃贼，但警方为何迟迟没有行动？           新西兰外长阐述奥库斯立场被抗议打断：“如果你想找麻烦，那么你来对地方了”           公务员大削减：新西兰统计局所有员工自愿裁员           绿党议员被投诉恐吓同僚，副总理斥其“失去理智”，应“承担后果”           13岁女孩在公交站被20个孩子殴打，竟然没有一个人伸出援手           入冬了？新西兰今晚迎来初雪           为何新西兰不禁TikTok？因为我们的总理是“TikTok之王”。

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