一 | CANBERRA, Australia -- A Chinese Australian journalist who was convicted on murky espionage charges and detained in China for three years has returned to Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday.Cheng Lei, 48, worked for the international department of China's state broadcaster CCTV. She has reunited with her two children in Melbourne, Albanese said.Her return comes ahead of Albanese’s planned visit to Beijing this year on a date yet to be announced. He will become the first Australian prime minister to visit the Chinese capital in seven years.Albanese said Australia had traded nothing with China for Cheng's release.“Her release follows the completion of judicial processes in China,” he said.China’s Ministry of State Security said that Cheng had been approached by a foreign organization in May 2020 and provided them with state secrets she had obtained on the job in violation of a confidentiality clause signed with her employer. A police statement did not name the organization or say what the secrets were.A court in Beijing convicted her of illegally providing state secrets abroad and she was sentenced to two years and 11 months, the statement said. She was deported Wednesday after serving her sentence, presumably because she had already been detained for that long .“Her return brings an end to a very difficult few years for Ms. Cheng and her family," Albanese said. "The government has been seeking this for a long period of time and her return will be warmly welcomed not just by her family and friends but by all Australians.”The FreeChengLei account on X, formerly known as Twitter, posted a photo of Cheng with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Australia's ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher.The post included a quote, apparently from Cheng, that read: “Tight hugs, teary screams, holding my kids in the spring sunshine. Trees shimmy from the breeze. I can see the entirety of the sky now! Thank you Aussies.”Albanese’s government has been lobbying for the release of Cheng and another Chinese Australian held in China since 2019, Yang Hengjun.Bilateral relations have improved since Albanese's center-left Labor Party was elected after nine years of conservative rule. Beijing has lifted several official and unofficial trade barriers on Australian exports.Albanese's reference to China's judicial system suggested that Cheng had recently been sentenced after she was convicted in a closed-court trial last year on national security charges.Questioned by a reporter, Albanese said China was not acknowledging through Cheng's release that she posed no threat or had been wrongfully detained.“No, China would have not have said that that's the position. China would say that the judicial processes have been completed in China,” Albanese said.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the Chinese judicial system tried the case “in accordance with the law, fully safeguarding the rights enjoyed by the person concerned in accordance with the law.”Albanese said he spoke to Cheng in Melbourne, where her children have been living with her mother, and that they discussed a letter she had written to the Australian public in August to mark the third anniversary of her detention. The Chinese-born journalist spoke in her letter about her love for her adopted country.In the letter, she also described her living conditions in detention in China, saying she was allowed to stand in sunlight for just 10 hours a year.“She is a very strong and resilient person ... and when I spoke with her she was delighted to be back in Melbourne,” Albanese said.Albanese did not say whether Yang was also likely to be released.“We continue to advocate for Dr. Yang’s interests, rights and wellbeing with the Chinese authorities at all levels,” Albanese said.Yang, a 58-year-old writer and democracy blogger, told his family in August he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment.Yang has been detained in China since January 2019, when he arrived in Guangzhou from New York with his wife and teenage stepdaughter.Yang received a closed-door trial on an espionage charge in Beijing in May 2021 and is still awaiting a verdict.Yang's friend, University of Technology Sydney academic Feng Chongyi, said on Wednesday a verdict had been postponed for three months 11 times and the next possible ruling was January.He said Cheng’s release was good news for Yang. “I do hope Yang is treated in the same way. Given Yang’s poor health, his release is actually more urgent,” Feng said.___Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Beijing contributed to this report.___This story corrects the name of the Chinese security agency.。 今年春节，刘强东为他江苏宿迁光明村老家村民准备了总价值超3千万的年货。其中，1500户村民每户可领取30多件年货，包括电冰箱、剃须刀、零食等。此外，村里60岁以上的老人每人可领一万元现金，小学母校所有老师每人可领十万元现金。1月8日，在光明村年货领取现场，九派新闻看到领取礼品的人群有序地排起长队。多位村民表示，自己已经不是第一次领取，对刘强东这种回馈家乡人的行为表示感谢。今年72岁的光明村村民周先生身穿红色志愿者马甲，在排队人群中维护队伍秩序。他告诉九派新闻，由于自己已经超过60岁，不仅可以领年货，还可以领一万块钱现金。1月8日，江苏宿迁，曾资助过刘强东的光明村村民周先生接受九派新闻采访。
二 | 图/九派新闻 黄家樑周先生还介绍，刘强东考上大学那一年，村里人都很震惊，也很骄傲，“大家都很喜欢大强子，都说他有出息。”考虑到刘强东当时家里经济条件不好，村民便自发为他捐款，全村人凑了500元和76个鸡蛋送给他，“并非他本人或亲属要求，就是村民们看着他，想帮帮他。”周先生表示，当时他家里人也捐过5毛钱，和1个鸡蛋。“那会自己二十多岁，自家条件也一般，拿不出更多的东西。
三 | ”他感慨，当年自己也没有想到，那时候拿出的5毛钱，会变成今天的1万元，“没有图过他会回报这些。
四 | ”九派新闻注意到，此前，刘强东也曾公开对当年帮助过他的村民们表示感谢，表示乡亲们的帮助是他走向世界的本钱。九派新闻记者 杨臻 黄家樑 江苏宿迁报道编辑 万璇 付珊【爆料】请联系记者微信：linghaojizhe【来源：九派新闻】声明：此文版权归原作者所有，若有来源错误或者侵犯您的合法权益，您可通过邮箱与我们取得联系，我们将及时进行处理。邮箱地址：[email protected]。
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