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Cities step YUNNAN Elephants up efforts to heading home after contain virus 17 months of Testing should be better organized to avoid infections, Jiangsu governor says wandering By Yang Wanli in Beijing By CANG WEI in Nanjing worker, who is being treated in and LI YINGQING in Kunming and Zhao Ruixue in Jinan hospital, defied instructions to government employees not to visit A herd of wild Asian elephants After 20 days of strict epidemic gambling houses. that has wandered Southwest containment measures, Nanjing, In Nanjing, a 2-year-old boy was China’s Yunnan province for more Jiangsu province, reported no new infected by his parents, who talked than 17 months appears to be COVID-19 cases on Sunday, city to contacts of infected people at a heading home to its traditional officials said. sample collection center in late July. Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor (center), chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, habitat in Xishuangbanna Many of Nanjing’s medium-risk Many officials in Yangzhou have takes a group photo with other officials at the launch ceremony for the screening of shows produced by the National Nature Reserve. areas for the virus have been down- been punished for failing to properly China Media Group. From left are Zheng Guoyue, deputy commander of the Chinese People’s Liberation At 8 pm on Sunday, the herd was graded to low risk, said Bao Yunhai, organize the taking of swab samples. Army Hong Kong Garrison; Zheng Yanxiong, head of the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the guided across a bridge over the an official at the Nanjing Informa- Lyu Xiuqin, 66, from Nanjing’s Central People’s Government in the HKSAR; Lam; Wang Songmiao, secretary-general of the Liaison Office Yuanjiang River, said Wan Yong, tion Office. “But many residents Nanyuan community, said she of the Central People’s Government in the HKSAR; and Pan Yundong, deputy commissioner of the Office head of the Yunnan Forestry and are still under quarantine and the lined up for more than four hours of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the HKSAR. provided to china daily Grassland Administration and city still faces great pressure to con- to take a nucleic acid test at a sam- also director of the management tain the virus,” he said at a news ple collection site when the city and control headquarters in conference on Monday. “We should began the first round of testing. charge of protecting the roaming continue to follow health protocols “There was no way to do social HK lines up TV shows on CPC history elephants. to protect ourselves,” he added. distancing in such a crowded place,” The elephants were on Monday Inside In Nanjing’s she said. “Thousands of people, approximately 26 kilometers from Lukou subdistrict, many not wearing masks, talked to By Chloe Xu in Hong Kong At a launch ceremony on Mon- Chief Shen Haixiong said in a vid- Mojiang county, Pu’er city, one of Editorial, health and social each other at the crowded collection and li bingcun in Shenzhen day, Hong Kong Chief Executive eo speech that, besides Hong their major habitats in Yunnan page 9 workers, along with site. Though the situation improved Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said Kong, the CMG productions will along with Xishuangbanna­ Dai police officers, were greatly in the second, third and More historical dramas about the screening campaign is a per- also be broadcast overseas in 44 autonomous prefecture. on Monday busy disinfecting areas fourth rounds, I just feel lucky that the Communist Party of China fect opportunity for Hong Kong languages. “The elephants are monitored where patients and asymptomatic no infected people showed up at the will greet Hong Kong viewers as people to learn more about the Shen, also a vice-minister of the and kept away from residential carriers have been. Police obtained site in the first round.” local broadcasters line up several CPC’s history and to nurture their CPC Central Committee’s Publici- areas. The herd’s condition is sta- the keys to buildings and let in the Bao, from the information office, Chinese mainland productions in affection for the country. ty Department, said the CMG will ble and we will continue to guide workers, who took four hours on urged residents to keep a one-meter a citywide screening campaign, As a co-organizer, the Hong also deepen ties with Hong Kong them back to their habitat and average to disinfect each apartment. social distance, wash their hands which started on Monday. Kong Special Administrative society to better promote Hong guarantee both the safety of the Since July 20, Nanjing has frequently, wear masks in public Topping the list are a TV show Region government will provide Kong stories in the new era, and elephants and local residents,” reported 231 locally transmitted and avoid going to populated areas about troops of the Chinese Peo- strong support for the campaign, help bolster and elevate the city’s Wan said. cases, while neighboring Yang- or places with poor ventilation. ple’s Volunteers Army, who Lam said. global standing. Before the herd arrived at the zhou has registered 346. Yangzhou The Chinese mainland on Sun- entered Korea in October 1950 at The programs will be broadcast Wang Songmiao, secretary-gen- Yuan­jiang River, forestry experts reported 38 new locally transmit- day reported 94 locally transmitted the request of the Democratic in Mandarin and Cantonese on eral of the Liaison Office of the spent days scoping 80 km of the ted cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. COVID-19 cases, including 41 in People’s Republic of Korea to TVB Hong Kong, Hong Kong Central People’s Government in riverbank before they chose a Yangzhou still has weaknesses Henan province, 38 in Jiangsu, 12 in resist US-led military forces on Cable Television, and the televi- the HKSAR, said the CMG has bridge on the 213 national highway in prevention measures, such as Hunan province and three in Hubei the peninsula, and a historical sion channel of Radio Television promoted various high-quality for the elephants to cross. some residents not wearing province, the National Health Com- drama about the decisive period Hong Kong. programs to Hong Kong residents The herd of 14 elephants, ranging masks and workers failing to mission said in its daily briefing on leading up to the defeat of the RTHK, Hong Kong’s only public over the years. in age and size, has traveled more check all QR health codes in pub- Monday. The 41 cases in Henan Kuomintang and the founding of broadcaster, will also launch Since the CPC marked its 100th than 500 km. lic places, officials from the city’s include 40 asymptomatic carriers. the People’s Republic of China in more programs covering major anniversary and the HKSAR its Sixteen elephants departed epidemic prevention and control Lou Yangsheng, Party secretary 1949. A 24-episode documentary topics such as national security, 24th anniversary on July 1, the Xishuang­banna, but three of them headquarters said on Monday. of Henan, called for the province to on the CPC’s journey over the past the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Ma- address by President Xi Jinping at dropped out of the trek and two Wu Zhenglong, Jiangsu’s gover- swiftly contain the latest outbreak. century is also among the head- cao Greater Bay Area, and the the centennial celebration has calves were born en route. In July, nor, said stricter measures must “The coming two weeks, and espe- liners. nation’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021- resonated in Hong Kong, he said. a bull elephant that had broken be taken to curb the spread of the cially the coming week, are the cru- The campaign opened as the 25), she said. The screening event will boost away from the herd was sedated virus in Yangzhou. cial time to cope with this round of popular show The Age of Awaken- This is to better help residents Hong Kong residents’ national and returned to the nature When visiting a designated hos- the epidemic,” Lou said at the third ing, another historical production know more about the country’s identity and national pride, Wang reserve. pital for COVID-19 patients in Yang- special epidemic control meeting by the China Media Group cele- development and integrate the said. Heading north, the herd passed zhou on Sunday, he said that nucleic held on Sunday by the Party Com- brating the CPC’s centenary, won city into the country’s overall through Pu’er, Honghe and Yuxi. In acid testing procedures should be mittee of Henan. “The whole prov- wide acclaim since its debut in development, Lam said. Contact the writers at June, they reached the outskirts of better organized to prevent people ince needs to unite with confidence Hong Kong on July 12. CMG President and Editor-in- [email protected] Kunming, the provincial capital, from getting infected while swab and use the strictest standards and which has 8 million residents. samples are being taken. the most resolute measures to Local authorities deployed trucks, A government worker has been enclose, seal and extinguish the epi- workers and drones to monitor the suspended and is under investiga- demic by the end of this month.” Games: Beijing stresses anti-COVID measures elephants 24 hours a day, evacuated tion for infecting 23 people at a site roads for them to pass safely and where samples were being collect- Contact the writers at lured them away from populated ed for nucleic acid testing. The [email protected] From page 1 Color-coded areas of hotels to Other key issues that need to be areas with food. separate athletes and Games staff finalized include whether, and to More than 180 metric tons of China has developed effective who had finished their mandatory what scale, the Beijing Games will food, including pineapples and COVID-19 containment and con- quarantine from those who hadn’t, allow international spectators, the corn, has been fed to the herd, Wan tact-tracing measures of its own. as well as the issuing of COVID-19 ticketing program and the length said. Even as they encroached on However, the visiting Beijing 2022 self-testing kits at the athletes’ vil- of the pre-Games quarantine peri- communities, none of the elephants organizers drew lessons from lage were also useful measures, od. The details are being negotiat- or people were injured. Tokyo’s approach, especially health Wang added. ed between the Beijing Organising In recent months, real-time mon- protocols at competition venues With only six months to go before Committee, the International itoring has provided researchers and media facilities. These will the Winter Games open in Beijing Olympic Committee and interna- with rare opportunities to study serve as key additions to Beijing’s and co-host Zhangjiakou, Hebei tional winter sports federations. the herd. own development of pandemic province, all 12 competition venues “As the Tokyo Games drew to a “They can identify the direction countermeasures during the Win- have been completed and tested. close, we kind of got emotional bid- of food and water resources very ter Games, the organizers said. The remainder of the facilities are ding farewell to the athletes,” said precisely. And they also showed “We’ve paid attention to the scheduled to be finished by October. Yang Yang, a retired short-track great performances in solidarity details, such as the use of sanitizer Beijing 2022 organizers are now speed skating Olympic champion and group decision-making. Their sprays with a pedal that you can press busy finalizing details of the open- and the current vice-president of division of work is impressive, with your foot, rather than using your ing ceremony and training volun- the World Anti-Doping Agency. too,” said Chen Fei, director of the A health worker takes a sample from a child at a COVID-19 testing hands, to minimize the chances of teers. They are also preparing for “Yet, knowing that the Beijing 2022 Asian Elephant Research Center center in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, on Monday, when the city getting infected,” said Wang Tongguo, 10 final test events from September Winter Olympics are just around under the National Forestry and started its fifth round of nucleic acid testing for the virus. a member of the Beijing 2022 Games to December, which could see for- the corner has made us excited Grassland Administration. MENG DELONG / FOR CHINA DAILY service department. eign athletes take part. again.” The Asian elephant, which is included on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red A collector called Zhang to offer List of Threatened Species as Gold medalists’ iconic headgear in spotlight a high price for helmets with the “endangered”, enjoys the top level of same designs, but he declined. protection in China. Yunnan is its “This time we finalized the sole habitat in China. By Li Wenfang in Guangzhou like we have won together and shown wall of Luoyang, her hometown in design in a week, and finished At a news conference on Monday [email protected] the world some traditional Chinese Henan province. painting them in another week. It night, Shen Qingzhong, a senior culture,” said Zhang, who majored in On the helmets of the other wom- was not only some ordinary work, official from the Xishuangbanna The eye-catching red-and-gold industrial design at Guangdong Uni- en cyclists, the city wall was replaced but a mission for us to provide reserve, said it’s likely that the ele- helmets featuring a flying phoenix versity of Technology. by auspicious clouds, which were Zhang Dongliang holds a impressive equipment conveying phants will head north again. worn by Chinese women track The studio’s design integrated also used in the design of the torch for helmet bearing the Feng Ming, our best wishes and presenting “Historically, Asian elephants cyclists came into the spotlight at traditional Chinese cultural ele- the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. or “call of the phoenix” design. traditional Chinese culture,” used to live in many parts of the the Tokyo Olympics. ments into the equipment for the The design of the helmets worn ZHENG ERQI / CHINA DAILY Zhang said. country. Migration is in their Cyclists Zhong Tianshi and Bao national team. “The phoenix is the by their male counterpart also Zhang, who is also an amateur nature. It helps the species expand Shanju were wearing the helmets king of birds in ancient Chinese leg- referred to elements in traditional cyclist, founded his studio in 2012 its territory and have more chan- named Feng Ming, literally the “call ends and has an important place in Chinese opera. These helmets were China’s first track cycling gold in the in Guangzhou’s Panyu district. ces to improve their gene pool by of the phoenix”, when they won the Chinese culture,” he added. known as Jue Chen, a wish that the event with partner Gong Jinjie, The studio works with interna- mating with different groups,” gold medal in the women’s team On the helmet, the phoenix flies cyclists will take the lead in the wearing a helmet designed by tional and domestic bike brands on Shen said. sprint on the night of Aug 2. with the national flag. The underly- same way as ancient brave generals. Zhang’s studio featuring the Peking the design of bike frames. The forestry department and Watching the competition on TV, ing patterns include a female role in Zhang said the helmets were made Opera face makeup of Hua Mulan, In cooperation with a bike manu- the provincial government plan to Zhang Dongliang, the 35-year-old traditional Chinese operas and on free of charge to help boost the team’s an ancient heroic female role. facturer, Zhang’s studio also develop a national park, which founder of the studio in Guang- the back is the peony, regarded as morale and wish them success. After the Rio Olympics, Zhong’s designed the patterns on some of aims to provide habitat protection zhou, Guangdong province, which an auspicious flower in China. His designs first made a splash at helmet and that of Gong Jinjie, the bicycles used by Chinese for the elephants and a balanced designed and painted the helmets, Notably, a personal touch was the 2016 Rio Olympics, when he which features Mu Guiying, anoth- cyclists at the Tokyo Olympics. relationship with residents. waved to celebrate their victory. incorporated on Bao Shanju’s hel- produced customized helmets fea- er ancient woman warrior, were “I am excited to see them winning met, which, as she wished, had a turing Peking Opera. collected by The Olympic Museum Lin Hanxue and Feng Xiaojie Contact the writers at with the helmets we designed. It feels pattern depicting the ancient city That year, Zhong Tianshi won in Lausanne, Switzerland. contributed to this story. [email protected]