China Chronicles June 24, 2012

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  • Shenzhou-9 spacecraft 140 m away from Tiangong-1

    SHENZHOU-9 spacecraft stopped 140 meters away from the orbiting space lab module Tiangong-1 this noon.

    Astronauts are expected to put the spacecraft under manual control from the previous auto-control mode, and use control handles to operate Shenzhou-9 for the final docking.

  • Chinese submersible refreshes national dive record by surpassing 7,000 meters

    CHINESE oceanauts refreshed the country's dive record in a manned submersible by going deeper than 7,000 meters beneath the sea after a successful test dive in the Pacific Ocean this morning.

    The Jiaolong, China's manned submersible named after a mythical sea dragon, succeeded in diving 7,015 meters below sea level at around 11am local time during its fourth dive into the Mariana Trench.

    The dive started at 7am local time today in heavy rain.

    The three oceanauts, namely Ye Cong, Liu Kaizhou and Yang Bo, sent greetings from the bottom of the blue sea to the three astronauts who are expected to conduct a manual docking of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft with the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module.

    "We wish for a great success of the manual docking and brilliant achievements in China's manned space and manned deep-sea dive causes," said the oceanauts.

    The oceanauts had succeeded in reaching the depths of 6,671, 6,965 and 6,963 meters in their previous three dives from June 15 to 22, well surpassing the record of 5,188 meters last July.

    "It has been proved during the four times of dive that the submersible is stable in function and the capabilities of the team performing the test dives are rising gradually," said on-scene commander Liu Feng.

  • Making a splash across the country for the Dragon Boat Festival

    People across the country celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival yesterday in various ways. The festival, falling on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, is the day to race dragon boats, eat sticky rice zongzi, take a sip of arsenic-laced wine, and hang herbs around the door to ward off pests, illness and evil. From left to right: Competitors in southeast Shishi City, Fujian Province, splash water over each other as boats race on the Hanjiang River; 30 dragon boat teams race on Luyi Lake in Zhengzhou City, in central Henan Province; the winning team in a dragon boat race in Baise City, south Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, jump into the river to chase ducks; a jet ski rider shows off her skill on Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, after 33 dragon boat teams from both home and abroad raced in the rain. Nine teams, including entries from France, Hungary and Macau, competed in the final races on a 500-meter stretch between Gubei Road Bridge and Luding Road Bridge in Putuo District. Defending champions Hungary were victorious. Shanghai's first dragon boat race on Suzhou Creek was held in 2003.

  • China and US enterprises sign US$3.4b deals

    INVESTMENT contracts worth US$3.4 billion were signed by enterprises from both China and the United States during a forum held in eastern China's Jiangsu Province.

    Eighty-five enterprises from 21 Chinese cities and 20 US cities gathered for the second US-China Cities Forum on Economic Cooperation and Investment on Friday and yesterday.

    A total of 42 investment projects were involved, covering 21 sectors - including manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection, electronic information, chemical and pharmaceutical.

    China's Finance Minister Xie Xuren said at the opening ceremony that China and the US share different resource advantages, and strongly complement each other in economic development.

    The two economies should expand cooperation in more sectors, especially in energy and environmental protection, biomedicine and infrastructure, so as to turn opportunities into tangible results, Xie said.

    The forum, jointly sponsored by Chinese and US finance ministries, this year seeks to form contracts on the basis of spoken agreements reached between China and US top officials over the past year, including President Hu Jintao's visit to the United States in January 2011.The forum was first held in Seattle last year.

    China and the United States are each's second-largest trading partner, with bilateral trade currently totalling US$446.6 billion.

  • 8 missing from ship

    EIGHT people are missing after a sand mining ship capsized Friday afternoon in the Bohai Sea, local authorities said yesterday. The incident happened at 5pm when a ship registered in Anhui Province capsized off the coast of Huludao City, Liaoning Province, an official of the city said. Maritime authorities received the report at 11:30am yesterday and launched a rescue. Four of the crew were found and taken to hospital, where they were in a stable condition, but eight were still missing, an official said.

  • 5 killed in collision

    FIVE people died and 36 were left injured after a truck and bus collided in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region yesterday, police said. The accident happened at 7:20am when a bus carrying factory workers collided with a truck in Qingshan Industrial Park in Bayannur City, said an official from the city's public security bureau.

  • 400m yuan earmarked for tourism in Tibet

    MORE than 400 million yuan (US$63.5 million) has been earmarked to develop tourism in southeastern Tibet, by south China's Guangdong provincial government as partner assistance.

    Nyingchi prefecture in southeastern Tibet, with virgin forest, snow-capped mountains, rivers and pastures, has "potential golden tourism resources," a partner assistance official in Tibet said yesterday. Guangdong provincial government has designated four counties in Nyingchi prefecture to develop.

  • Vice raid rescues 11 Vietnamese

    ELEVEN Vietnamese who were abducted and forced into prostitution in the adjoining Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China have been rescued, police in Dongxing City, Guangxi, said yesterday.

    Two rescued women and the ringleader surnamed Wei, a native of Vietnam, were transferred back to Vietnam on Friday. Nine women are awaiting return. Police in Mong Cai in northern Vietnam asked their counterpart in Dongxing to assist investigating a cross-border prostitution ring on May 29, after being tipped-off by an abducted woman, China News Service reported.

    Vietnamese women, including one surnamed Ruan, a relative of a police official, were kidnapped and sold to Guangxi's capital city, Nanning, in April, police said.

    They were held in a beauty parlor and forced to work as prostitutes. Wei supervised their moves and phone calls to prevent them from escaping, Chinese officers said. But Ruan still managed to call her family on May 29 and alert them to her plight.

    After receiving a report from Dongxing police, Nanning police raided the parlor on June 12.

    Despite crackdowns, there remains a thriving market for foreign prostitutes in China, especially in border areas.

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    A father carrying his son jogs in Beijing's Olympic Forest Park yesterday during a health run event to commemorate International Olympic Day and cheer for Chinese athletes in the forthcoming London Olympics. Employees from 15 companies and residents took part in the 5-kilometer run.

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