6 | Thursday, September 10, 2020 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY CHINA Free to fly Growth Largest private in Tibet rocket will be benefiting Nepalese launched in ’21 workers
ZQ 2’s methane engine to be more By PALDEN NYIMA environmentally friendly, reusable and DAQIONG in Lhasa Nepal shares a border with Chi By ZHAO LEI kilometers above the Earth — or a na’s Tibet autonomous region, and [email protected] 6ton satellite to a lowEarth orbit many Nepali people have benefited with an altitude of 200 km. from the region’s development over China’s largest and most power The rocket’s debut mission will the past decades thanks to the cen ful private carrier rocket is sched ferry several small satellites or tral Chinese government’s steady uled to make its maiden flight next payloads to a sunsynchronous support. year, according to its developer. orbit, LandSpace executives have Aawazman Gubaju, owner of The ZQ 2 liquidpropellant, said, noting some domestic and Third Eye, a Nepalese restaurant in mediumlift rocket is now under foreign firms have reached out to Lhasa, is one of them. development at LandSpace in Bei the company with interest in the The 52yearold has been living jing, one of the leading private vessel. and doing business in Tibet since rocket makers in China, and several To fund the ZQ 2 program, Animal volunteers release a purple heron, an animal under the second level of State protection, in 1994. Back then, there were few res parts to be used on the rocket have LandSpace raised 1.2 billion yuan Cangzhou, Hebei province, on Wednesday. Six recovered birds, including black stork, common kestrel taurants in the city, so he and his been manufactured and delivered, ($175 million) in its latest round of and purple heron, were set free by the city’s wildlife rescue center. FU XINCHUN / FOR CHINA DAILY local Tibetan partner opened Lhasa’s according to a statement from financing from more than 10 gov first Nepalese restaurant with local LandSpace. ernment and private equity funds, Tibetans as their main customers. By the end of August, two mod achieving the largestever fund Without Gubaju’s distinctive els of engines that will power the raising event in China’s private facial features, one can hardly tell rocket had finished several rounds space industry. he is not local by his way of talking. of ignition tests, the company said Within the past 12 months, the Honored doctor pushes belief He is fluent in Mandarin and the on Tuesday. company raised a total of 1.8 bil Tibetan dialect and also has a Tibet According to the company, the lion yuan from domestic investors, an name, Tenzin Norbu. 49.5meter ZQ 2 will have a diame said Zhang Changwu, founder and Nepal shares a 1,414kilometer ter of 3.35 meters — the same as CEO of LandSpace. of working closely with patients border with China, mainly with those of most of China’s Long “We will seize the opportunities Tibet, and exchanges between the Marchseries rockets, and a liftoff offered by the largescale deploy two areas are relatively easy with weight of 216 metric tons. It will be ment of satellites and invest more By WANG XIAOYU of oxygen flow had briefly in February to accelerate many border ports propelled by LandSpace’s TQ12 resources to improve our research [email protected] rendered treat the admission of patients when the along the line. methane rocket engine, the first of and development capability on ment ineffective, local testing capacity was over “In the past, traf its kind in China. methanepropelled rockets,” he Among all medical inventions in according to Tong. stretched. fic was not as good Compared with traditional said. the world, respiratory specialist “The whole Tong also advocated for tighten as it is today, and I types of rocket engines that can Zhang said mass production of Tong Zhaohui said his best weapon room was filled ing requirements for discharging had to buy some of function only once, a methane the ZQ 2 and its engines will begin is the stethoscope, the prototype of with monitors cured patients and ensuring imple the cooking materi engine is reusable and more envi in the near future at LandSpace’s which was created over two centu Tong beeping from mentation of uniform sample col als from Nepal or ronmentally friendly. Huzhou plant in Zhejiang prov ries ago. Zhaohui alerts, and nurses lection and storage standards. Aawazman from other regions Before LandSpace, only the ince, the first privately owned car Behind his penchant for this were at a loss,” he During his more than 30year Gubaju of China,” he said, United States’ SpaceX and Blue rier rocket factory in China and the unassuming tool is the belief that recalled. medical career, Tong has confronted recalling that his Origin had begun development largest of its kind in Asia. only by getting closer to patients To overcome the dilemma, Tong the virus that caused the severe first trip to Lhasa and testing of such a machine. The Huzhou facility will be able to can a doctor gain a full under and other frontline experts pro acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) took him more than two days by car The ZQ 2 will be capable of plac produce about 15 ZQ 2 rockets and standing of their condition and posed earlier and more aggressive outbreak in 2003, different strains of from the border area. ing a 4ton satellite into a sun 200 TQ12 engines per year starting devise effective therapies. intervention measures that could bird flu and imported plague cases. With the development of trans synchronous orbit — about 500 in 2022, according to Zhang. “To be a good doctor, being prevent mild cases from worsen Past experiences with deadly portation, changes came. More peo grounded in the front line, the abil ing, thus alleviating burdens on the viruses have taught him to remain ple, especially Nepalese, chose Lhasa ity to work in a clinical setting is local healthcare system and reduc calm, undaunted and rigorous in as a promising place to fulfill their the basic qualification,” he said. ing mortality rates. his work. But his early experiences business dreams, and thereafter “With that in place, medical work This strategy entails wider adop in Wuhan gave him a feeling that more Nepalese restaurants opened Last Chinese participant ers can keep honing their compre tion of mechanical ventilation that he had never felt before: deep in the city. hensive skills.” involves putting tubes into frustration. In the 1990s, there was only one Dealing with the COVID19 epi patients’ airways to push air in. The “I felt like a loser as a doctor and or two flights a week between Lhasa of Tokyo Trials dies at 99 demic at its earliest stage, when the process is more intrusive for was helpless,” he said. “I was confi and Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. virus’ infectiousness and lethality patients and might pose higher dent when I treated SARS patients, Now there are daily flights, Gubaju By CAO CHEN in Shanghai finding decisive were unknown, did not discourage infection risks for surrounding but in Wuhan, I was not sure.” said. [email protected] evidence proving him from examining infected hospital staff. Knowing that fellow healthcare “Now I can purchase most of the that two Japanese patients at their bed sides and plac Tong sensed the reluctance of workers nationwide might fall prey cooking materials from the Indian Gao Wenbin, the last Chinese soldiers had ing his stethoscope on their chests. medical workers but believed evi to similar feelings of impotency Nepalese stores in Lhasa or from person to fully participate in the engaged in a con Tong, vicepresident of Beijing dencebased knowledge would and uncertainty, Tong began shar online stores. If I need something Tokyo Trials, the tribunal for test to see who Chaoyang Hospital, was among the prevail over irrational fears. ing his latest findings and dispel particular from Nepal, it’s no big accused AClass Japanese war crim would be the first first batch of medical experts sent He then rushed between hospi ling rumors on WeChat, often after deal anymore as I travel frequently inals in World War II, died at the Gao to kill 100 Chinese to Wuhan, Hubei province, the tals in Wuhan, explaining the safety coming off long shifts. between the two places,” he said. age of 99 in Shanghai on Monday. Wenbin people on the way region hit hardest by the COVID19 and rationale behind the use of “I wrote to professionals with the In addition, regional government He was an expert in law and his from Shanghai to epidemic in China. He arrived in intubation. hope that other doctors could learn policies put in place to support and tory, and a professor at the law Nanjing, Jiangsu, the city on Jan 18. “I spent about an hour and a half something new,” Tong said. “I also facilitate local tourism are another school of Shanghai Maritime Uni in November and December in He was one of the 1,499 individu on the subject, trying to assuage wrote for nonprofessionals, hoping engine driving the local catering versity for over 40 years. 1937 before the Nanjing Massacre. als honored as role models in fight unfounded panic about the disease that the public could view the dis industry. Born in Shanghai in 1922, Gao It was discovered that each of them ing the COVID19 epidemic at a and spread awareness about the ease in a rational way and avoid “In the past, we only had local cus grew up during the War of Resist had killed more than 100 people. meeting in Beijing on Tuesday. benefits of the technique,” he said. being swindled by misinformation.” tomers during the winter, but since ance against Japanese Aggression The Tokyo Trials lasted from “My first impression of hospital “Some experts have defended On April 26, the last COVID19 the regional government intro (193145). 1946 to 1948. All 28 defendants wards in Wuhan was that there less intrusive techniques in the ini patient in Wuhan was cleared of duced a series of measures to pro After graduating from a local were found guilty, and seven were were so many serious cases. A large tial stage. That’s probably because the infection. On the same day, mote winter tourism, my restaurant senior high school in 1941, Gao sentenced to death. number of them had low blood they had not worked on the front Tong left Wuhan for Harbin, Hei has been packed throughout the studied law at Soochow University Gao started teaching interna oxygen levels and had difficulty lines or in the wards and hadn’t longjiang province, to help battle a year,” he said. — now Suzhou University — in tional law and conducting breathing,” he said. seen firsthand the status of infected new cluster of infections. In addition to more restaurants, Jiangsu province. His studies were research at Shanghai Maritime Tong also noticed a severe short patients.” In the following months, he was there are vendors selling Nepali frequently disrupted by the Japa University’s law school as reform age of intensive care staff. Standard protocols on the use of assigned to guide the rescue of handicrafts and woolen carpets, nese invasion, and the university and openingup in China began in “In a standard intensive care intrusive ventilators were soon laid COVID19 patients in Jilin, Hubei while others have opened beauty had to be relocated several times. 1978. unit, each nurse will be assigned out in detail in the fifth version of the and Shandong provinces, as well as salons and worked as gold and sil The tough study environment The manuscripts of his teaching one patient to focus on. In Wuhan, diagnosis and treatment guidelines those in Beijing Ditan Hospital. versmiths, said Jimson Rumdali stimulated Gao’s love for his moth plans over the past decades have one nurse was responsible for two published by the National Health It was not until Sept 1 that Tong Rai, acting consul general of Nepal erland and motivated him to study been preserved and are being to three wards containing infected Commission in early February. returned to his office in Beijing in Lhasa. harder, according to the university. exhibited in the gallery of the cases at the beginning,” Tong Tong had defied conventions Chaoyang Hospital. According to him, there are about He went on to master the English school’s history. explained. more than once during the fight He has fulfilled what he declared 130 migrant workers and 160 long language and developed a solid Gao retired in 1988 but contin As a result, even though strug against the novel coronavirus. in a WeChat post near the eve of term residents from Nepal in Lhasa knowledge of law. ued to contribute to the legal gling patients were given masks He put forward the new diagnos this year’s Spring Festival on Jan now, and there are about 100 Nepali On Aug 15, 1945, the day China industry. that helped pump oxygen into tic method of classifying clinical 24: “I am an old soldier. I have rich people living in Tibet’s Shigatse city. won the war, Gao also celebrated Together with other legal their lungs or were put on noninva diagnosis cases as confirmed cases experiences in fighting the war, He added that since ancient times, his graduation. experts, Gao participated in the sive ventilators, the lack of con based on their symptoms and scan and I will make sure to accomplish Nepali people have been traveling to He told local media Shanghai editing of the Compact English stant monitoring and adjustment imaging. The approach was used the tasks.” Gyirong, Shigatse and Lhasa for Observer in 2015 that he heard Chinese Dictionary of Anglo trade and business. cheering on campus that day, and American Law published in 2005, “Some of them settled down in local stores and restaurants which remains an authoritative these cities in Tibet, so a number of offered discounts to celebrate the reference in the industry. Job fair for Nepali people were born and raised victory. As the only surviving Chinese the disabled here,” he said, adding that they, to It was the happiest and most person in the past decade to have an extent, assimilated with the cul thrilling time of his life, Gao said. participated in the Tokyo Trials, A man on crutches ture and language of their fellow In May 1946, Gao was elected as Gao had always been active in col picks up a company’s Tibetans, while also preserving one of the translators assisting lecting historical materials as well. recruitment paper at a job some typical Nepali customs and Chinese prosecutors in the trial of Cheng Zhaoqi, director of fair for the disabled in cultures. Japanese war criminals at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Xi’an, Shaanxi province, In 2019, the total value of imports International Military Tribunal for Center for the Tokyo Trials Studies, on Tuesday. The event and exports between Tibet and the Far East, known as the Tokyo told China News Service that Gao drew more than 50 com Nepal reached nearly 3.17 billion Trials. had attended many activities held panies providing about yuan ($462 million), an increase of He was later promoted to assist by the center and was very con 850 jobs, including 26.7 percent yearonyear, China ant prosecutor and secretary to cerned about related research. In positions for program News Service reported. Chinese prosecutor Xiang Zhejun. 2016, then 95yearold Gao initiat mers, accountants and With tourism and traffic boom He was in charge of translating ed the idea of establishing a massage practitioners. ing, Gubaju said he has been reno court hearing records, communi memorial hall. YUAN JINGZHI / FOR CHINA DAILY vating one of his restaurants to cater cating between international and History should never be forgot to more people. Chinese procuratorates and han ten and facts should never be dis dling documents. torted, Gao told Xinhua News Contact the writers at Among Gao’s achievements was Agency in 2017. [email protected]