4 Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Our race overlaps with the economic forum, which provides a golden opportunity to boost peopletopeople exchanges between the two cities and two countries.” CHINA Gao Jun, founder of the Fareast Cup International Regatta CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Emotional farewell Sailboats Submersible boosting sets ocean China, Russia depth record exchanges
By XIE CHUANJIAO Progress continues on craft that can in Qingdao, Shandong and explore the most remote parts of sea SUN XIAOCHEN in Beijing The Fareast Cup Inter By ZHAO LEI national Regatta, which [email protected] sails between China and 11,000 Russia, highlights growing China’s unmanned sub sports exchanges between mersible Hailong 11000 — meters the countries. also known as Sea Dragon As the fourth Eastern 11000 — recently set a Maximum depth at Economic Forum opens on national depth record for a which Hailong 11000 Tuesday in Russia’s Vladi Chinese robotic submersible, is designed to work vostok, six racing yachts according to the Ministry of joined various local boats Natural Resources. for closetoshore sailing The ministry, which and demonstrations. merged with the former and location systems. On The event serves as a State Oceanic Administra April 1, it dived to 2,605 midcourse break for the tion in March, said in a state meters. regatta, which set sail from ment on Monday that the According to the China A newly enlisted soldier bids goodbye to his mother and sister at Beijing South Railway Station before heading to his military camp on Qingdao, Shandong prov record was set during a test Ocean Mineral Resources Monday. More than 3,000 youths in the capital, of whom over 80 percent are university students, were enlisted. WU YIBIN / FOR CHINA DAILY ince, on Sept 1 and will dive in the northwestern Research and Development return from Vladivostok on Pacific Ocean on Sept 1 when Association, which uses the Friday to finish the 2,000 the submersible reached a Hailong, the vehicle is sched nauticalmile round trip. depth of 5,630 meters. uled to perform an 11,000 A halfway award ceremo Hailong 11000 is a remote meter test dive in three years. ny for the QingdaoVladi ly operated underwater vehi The craft’s mother ship, Chinese, African media to cooperate vostok voyage will take cle designed by a team Dayang 1, is a 5,600metric place on Wednesday as part headed by Ge Tong at Shang ton scientific research ship of the forum’s cultural hai Jiao Tong University’s based in Qingdao, Shandong By LIU XUAN the media represent one of media should use the internet exchange activities before Institute of Underwater province. It was built in the [email protected] the ways to “strengthen the and produce more new media competing fleets participate Engineering. It is designed to former Soviet Union in 1984 bonds between the people of content. in a warmup inshore race work at a maximum depth of and was purchased by the Media have the responsibili China and Africa”. Dweh suggested a training on Thursday to prepare for 11,000 meters and is mainly China Ocean Mineral Resour ty to tell authentic ChinaAfrica Nimley Nicolas Dweh, edi We are working to program for African journal the second long voyage. tasked with deepsea scientif ces Research and Develop stories, promote cooperation tor of Liberia’s NEWS newspa ists to more effectively com The regatta, which was ic observation. ment Association in 1994. The and strengthen ties, journalists per, said that only through the introduce Chinese municate information related launched in 2016 as part of The record was previously vessel has received several agreed on Monday during a participation of the media can to FOCAC and ChinaAfrica China’s effort to promote held by Haixing 6000, which upgrades in China and has discussion about the role of the the Chinese and African peo stories to Africa, cooperation that will be bene the Belt and Road Initia reached a depth of 5,611 been used for many oceano media. ple understand FOCAC and ficial for both sides. tive, visited Vladivostok for meters during a test dive in graphic survey missions. More than 50 media repre promote the development of and more African Ahmed Hazem Samir Sayed the first time in its third the western Pacific in Sep China has been focusing sentatives from China and Afri ChinaAfrica relations. from Egypt’s Al Gomhouria edition with the aim of tember 2017. Haixing 6000 on deepsea exploration and ca gathered in Beijing to discuss He said the media need to stories should be newspaper said that strength enhancing cultural and was developed by the Chi has allocated considerable the media’s role in building a produce more indepth stories ening media capacity and cul sports exchanges between nese Academy of Sciences resources in the research and ChinaAfrica community with a related to the achievements of brought to China.” tivating more talent is the next the cities, said Gao Jun, and is the first remotely development of advanced shared future, following last the forum, such as in the fields Ma Xiaoning from People’s Daily step in cooperation. founder of the race. operated underwater vehicle submersibles. week’s 2018 Beijing Summit of of medical treatment, educa Ma Xiaoning from People’s “Our race overlaps with built by China that was capa So far, the nation has had the Forum on ChinaAfrica tion and infrastructure con Daily said exchanging report the economic forum, which ble of diving to 6,000 m. two manned deepsea sub Cooperation, or FOCAC. struction. “Currently, there is a big gap ers can assist with mutual provides a golden opportu In the operation on Sept 1, mersibles, Jiaolong and Shen President Xi Jinping said Guo Lin from Beijing’s in reporting between the two understanding. nity to boost peopletopeo Hailong 11000 stayed under hai Yongshi, and several during the opening ceremony Guangming Daily said the sides, so we should work clos “We are working to introduce ple exchanges between the water for 13 hours and con robotic models, including the of the summit that a ChinaAf media have an irreplaceable er to make our voice heard by Chinese stories to Africa, and two cities and two coun ducted four hours of high Qianlong and Hailong series. rica media cooperation net role in providing authentic and the world,” he said, adding more African stories should be tries,” he said. definition observation of the Currently, researchers at work will be established, as informative news products. that the Chinese and African brought to China,” she said. To make the race a bigger sea floor. The operation also the China Ship Scientific platform, the regatta will verified the vehicle’s capabil Research Center in Wuxi, open to more sailing disci ities and reliability, the state Jiangsu province, are devel plines and formats, such as ment said. oping a manned submersible monohull and catamaran Hailong 11000 made its capable of reaching the bot New rules laid down for kindergartens boats, and increase the first dive on March 30 in the tom of the Mariana Trench in number of participants western Pacific, reaching a the western Pacific, the starting in 2020, Gao said. depth of 410 m, while testing world’s deepest known By XIN WEN Chu Zhaohui, a senior education, said in a news con only as Liu from Hebei prov After a challenging voy its control, power, propulsion trench. [email protected] researcher at the National ference in March that China ince. age set out from the Qing Institute of Education Scien has a shortage of 710,000 kin The suspect was detained dao Olympic Sailing Center, Kindergartens in Beijing ces, said the rules set a good dergarten teachers and on Dec 29 and accused of the defending champion are now required to have a standard for kindergartens 760,000 caregivers, based on using needles to “discipline” fleet from Russia — Seven minimum of two people at all that could be expanded the standard of one teacher her students. Feet — finished first in the times looking after the chil nationwide in the future. for every 15 children and one The allegations prompted first half by arriving in dren, local authorities said on However, he warned that caregiver for every 30. a citywide inspection of kin Vladivostok in six days and Friday. the qualifications of kinder Under the new regulation, a dergartens in November, and 20 hours, followed by the The rule is intended to mini garten faculty members need much stricter admission stan the Beijing Education Com South Korean team Code mize risks in the capital’s kin greater scrutiny, as many pre dard will also be applied to mission ordered all institu Zero Gyeonggido. dergartens in the wake of a schools lack qualified, respon establish a punishment mech tions to take immediate The Qingdaobased team child abuse case at Beijing RYB sible teachers, especially in anism. Inappropriate behav steps to reduce potential Shanghai Cooperation kindergarten in the Xintiandi rural areas. He once proposed ior by teachers — including risks. Organization Youth, the community of Chaoyang dis to the Ministry of Education any abuse, discrimination, Surveillance cameras will Russian fleet Decision and trict in November, according that 200,000 kindergarten physical punishment or also cover all public areas in Team Qingdao China to a statement released by the teachers should be trained humiliation of children — will the capital’s kindergartens, as rounded out the top five. General Office of the Beijing every year to fill the faculty be treated severely. required by the new regula Team Tsinghua University, Municipal Government. gap. The alleged child abuse at tions. Safety education cours a champion favorite with At least one trained security “But it didn’t get enough the Xintiandi branch of RYB es and emergency evacuation several members from the staff member should also be attention, and a huge gap still kindergarten resulted in for drills will also be carried out new Volvo Ocean Race Hailong 11000, a Chinese robotic submersible aboard the Dayang 1 present at every kindergarten exists in kindergarten teacher mal charges in May against regularly to improve the chil champion crew, was forced scientific research vessel, is about to dive in the northwest Pacific to ensure the children’s safety, resources,” Chu said. the suspect, a Beijing pre dren’s ability to protect them to withdraw from the race Ocean on Sept 1. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY the statement said. Chen Baosheng, minister of school teacher identified selves. due to an equipment mal function caused by a storm. The regatta is the latest example of the close ties Rail passenger sickened, food supplier probed Icebreaker launched between Russian cities and Qingdao, the host of 2008 Beijing Olympics’ sailing By LI HONGYANG had diarrhea. Zhu did not eat deputy director of the media way Travel Service Co, said competition. [email protected] the meal. department of Guangzhou that food transported in Russia’s 108meter sail They complained immedi Railway, which oversees the nitrogen packages could be ing ship, the Pallada, China Railway Guangzhou ately and had the 80 yuan line. kept for 90 days at room tem owned by Far Eastern State Group has suspended coop ($11.70) cost of the meals “It is still under investiga perature. The food could go Technical Fisheries Univer eration with a catering com refunded and received two tion, and when that is com bad because of a broken sity, has visited Qingdao pany after a passenger new boxed meals as compen plete we will hold a news package, she was quoted as during the summer in four became sick from eating sation, Hubei Daily reported. conference,” he said. saying by Wuhan Evening consecutive years, engaging moldy food. The railway company said In November 2013, there News. more Chinese with Russian Two passengers, surnamed it has suspended cooperation was a similar case on the train Xu Xinghui, a teacher marine culture. Zhu and Xia, bought boxes of with Shanghai Xincheng, the from Guangzhou, Guang from Changchun, Jilin prov beef and chicken wing rice on company that provided the dong province, to Wuhan, ince, who loves to travel, Contact the writers at their way from Beijing to meals, and has established a Hubei province, after a pas said: “I seldom eat boxed sunxiaochen@ Wuhan, Hubei province, on group to investigate the food senger surnamed Hu lost his meals on the train. Each China’s first domestically made icebreaker, Xuelong 2 (or Snow Dragon 2) chinadaily.com.cn Saturday. Xia, who didn’t supply chain. appetite when he saw mold meal sells for 40 yuan and is launched from a shipyard in Shanghai on Monday. The vessel — 122.5 notice that the food was The reason for the bad food on his rice. the quality isn’t worth it. I’d meters long and 22.3 meters wide — can break ice with both its bow and Inside moldy until he had eaten half remains unknown for the Liu Qihong, who was a rather take a bowl of instant stern in an environment with 1.5meterthick ice below a layer of snow, his dinner, later threw up and moment, said He Zhiwen, staff member at Wuhan Rail noodles.” according to its builder. LAI XINLIN/ FOR CHINA DAILY Comment > p10