CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Friday, July 5, 2019 | 5 CHINA Explaining the erhu Rescue effort ongoing after deadly tornado

Emergency workers free 210 trapped underway, and authorities were urged on Thursday to carry out residents, set up shelter for over 1,000 reconstruction work soon to ensure transportation and water By XIN WEN and power supplies remain in [email protected] 83 operation. The State Grid Tieling Electric The rescue operation was still km/h Power Supply Company had set up underway on Thursday after a Speed of winds in the tornado 12 emergency repair teams to powerful tornado rampaged that struck Kaiyuan in Liao­ recover the electricity supply in through Kaiyuan, Liaoning prov­ ning province on Wednesday affected areas. ince, on Wednesday afternoon, It was expected that all civilian leaving six people dead and 190 electricity would return to normal injured. 9, 900 on Thursday, and enterprise elec­ Rescuers were seen clearing residents tricity will be restored within three debris from residential buildings days. were affected by the tornado in and restoring electric power sys­ Kaiyuan. The disaster also damaged more A student from the United States learns to play erhu (a two­stringed bowed musical instrument) under tems as the rare tornado suddenly than 4,300 houses and flats, with the instruction of a resident in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, on Thursday. Nine US teachers and students struck Kaiyuan, which is under many windows shattered and out­ came to the city to experience traditional Chinese culture. HANG XINGWEI / FOR CHINA DAILY the jurisdiction of Tieling city in Kaiyuan er walls wrecked. In addition, the northern part of Liaoning about 100 hectares of crops were province, around 5:15 pm in Jin­ destroyed. gouzi town. Many buses were toppled during The tornado, packing winds of the tornado, and the storm caused Shenyang up to 83 kilometers per hour, swept Liaoning road collapses and interrupted Guangzhou schools will start through an industrial park and public transport. churned south, lasting about 15 The Tieling Meteorological Ser­ minutes. vice issued a yellow alert — the sec­ More than 9,900 residents were ond­lowest level in a four­tier pilot AI courses in September affected. The city began rescue warning system — for strong winds efforts immediately and launched CHINA DAILY and rainfall at 4:42 pm on Wednes­ By ZHENG CAIXIONG The Guangzhou city government tion Research Institute, said AI a level two emergency response day. in Guangzhou has decided to give priority to the courses should only be taught at plan, the local emergency manage­ Video footage from the industri­ [email protected] development of AI, information and schools after education and other ment authorities said. cal care medicine, orthopedics, al park in Kaiyuan city showed the biopharmaceutical industries in relevant departments and teachers’ By Thursday, 10 rescue teams of neurosurgery, maxillofacial sur­ some houses reduced to piles of Guangzhou in Guangdong prov­ the coming years, the statement committees have completed feasi­ over 800 people, including police gery and psychology began treat­ rubble, felled trees, and debris ince will begin offering courses in said. bility studies and teaching assess­ officers and firefighters, had saved ment in local medical institutions from buildings scattered across artificial intelligence to primary Peng Peng, a researcher with the ments. more than 210 trapped residents shortly after they arrived. roads. and middle school students in Sep­ Guangzhou Academy of Social Sci­ “AI courses should not be rushed and arranged for more than 1,000 As of Thursday afternoon, 63 A shaken business owner of a tember, education officials said on ences, said AI is now the main global among primary and middle schools people to take shelter in four tem­ injured residents were still being company in Kaiyuan industrial Monday. development trend in science and without seriously considering the porary settlement sites. treated at six local hospitals. park, recalling the terrifying inci­ The provincial capital’s bureau of technology and represents the needs of society for AI and the The National Health Commis­ The Tieling Emergency Manage­ dent, said he clutched his wife and education is now selecting about future. schools’ teaching conditions,” he sion sent an emergency medical ment Bureau said 30 plants and son as they crouched under a table 100 schools to feature the pilot AI “Piloting AI courses among pri­ said. “The AI courses would lack of expert team to the devastated city facilities were damaged in Kaiyuan when the tornado came roaring in. courses and further promote intelli­ mary and middle schools demon­ quality and if they are blindly early Thursday to help treat the industrial park, with 4,365 house­ His son was injured by a piece of gent education, it said in a state­ strates the strategic and long­term opened in the primary and middle injured. holds affected. metal that hit his legs. ment on its website. foresight of the city government, as schools.” An expert team of nine doctors Sui Xianli, acting mayor of Tie­ By 2022, all primary and middle it will help train and nurture more Xiong said he hoped AI school from Beijing who specialize in criti­ ling, said various rescue efforts are Xinhua contributed to this story. schools in the city will have AI AI talent for the development of the courses would not become vanity or courses in their regular curriculum AI industry in Guangzhou,” said self­promotion projects. He added to help train and nurture AI talent Peng who is also director of that it may be challenging to start a for the city, traditionally a commer­ Guangzhou PhDs’ Research Associ­ course that is not part of the core cial hub. ation for Scientific and Technical curriculum. Twisters difficult to predict, experts say “Guangzhou was chosen in May Innovation. “It is difficult to open a new course as a pilot AI education demonstra­ He urged education and other among primary and middle schools By LI HONGYANG Kaiyuan that was expected to last wide and open spaces. However, tion zone in the country for 2019, departments to attach importance when the course hasn’t yet been [email protected] one to three hours. the investigation is still ongoing and promoting AI education among to promoting AI education among included in gaokao, national college These warning signals were about exactly where and how it the city’s primary and middle local primary and middle schools, entrance examinations, and zhong­ Experts say that the tornado that released to the public through happened on Wednesday. schools has become an important adding it may bring new impetus to kao, entrance examinations for sen­ hit Kaiyuan city, Liaoning prov­ mobile phone messages, Weibo According to the China Meteoro­ task for education departments in educational reform. ior middle schools,” he added. ince, on Wednesday, was hard to and WeChat official accounts and logical Administration, China the months ahead,” the statement However, Xiong Bingqi, deputy forecast with current detection the meteorological emergency doesn’t have a warning system said. director of the 21st Century Educa­ Xie Jiamin contributed to this story. equipment. broadcast system. exclusively for tornadoes. Tornado The tornado was formed by Zhang Bingchuan, chief forecast­ warnings are sorted as strong con­ fierce convective currents brought er of the provincial meteorological vection weather. by a cold vortex that originated in observatory, said that in extremely It is also a technical difficulty for Anti­poverty efforts encourage herdsmen Northeast China and a cyclone that unstable thunderstorm weather, other countries to detect tornadoes originated in Mongolia. the atmosphere is more likely to be accurately. In 2010, the error rate of At 4:42 pm on Wednesday, Liao­ strongly convective. tornado warnings was 70 percent URUMQI — It is approaching 11 ning provincial early warning cen­ He said that tornadoes belong to in the United States. pm in the hinterland of the Pamir ter issued a yellow warning signal this kind of small­scale, strong and The administration said that Plateau, Xinjiang Uygur autono­ of thunder and lightning in Kai­ sudden convective disaster weath­ from 1991 to 2014, China had 43 mous region, but the last trace of yuan city. It also forecast that in the er, which occurs and dissipates in a tornadoes a year on average with sunset glimmers before the dark­ next two to three hours, strong con­ short time. Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces ness that is about to shroud the area vective weather such as short­term The areas where tornadoes experiencing most, 5.5 and 4.8 arrives. heavy rainfall, strong winds and occur are so small that current times on average a year. After closing a sheepfold, Ezibek hail would occur. detection instruments cannot Spring and summer are tornado Yusupbek, a 70­year­old herdsman, Later at 5:25 pm, the meteoro­ accurately observe them. seasons. The number of tornadoes returns to his yurt. Standing on tip­ logical observatory in Tieling city, Lu Zhongyan, head of the Liao­ from April to August accounts for toe outside the yurt, Yusupbek which oversees Kaiyuan, issued an ning meteorological observatory, 92 percent of the entire year on hangs a lamp to keep wolves from orange warning signal for hail in said that tornadoes tend to occur in average. getting too close. This is Yusupbek’s daily routine in the summer on the Laybulaq pasture where he grazes his flock of 50 sheep and 40 yaks. Every summer, he and 60 airlines ready for Daxing opening his livestock travel 60 kilometers from his village in Tashikurgan Tajik Ezibek Yusupbek helps his wife Anarhan Sarfik as she milks sheep By WANG KEJU commander of China Eastern’s airport, said 13 routes and 28 autonomous county to the pasture. on the Laybulaq pasture in Tashikurgan Tajik autonomous county, [email protected] Beijing bureau. flights will be transferred to the Along with Yusupbek, there are Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in June. HU HUHU / XINHUA As for China Eastern, it will new airport in late October. only four other herding families More than 60 domestic and transfer 10 percent of flights serv­ The airline will deploy more grazing on the pasture. The pasture overseas carriers including China ing Beijing Capital International than 200 aircraft with over 900 may be quiet today, but it was once phone even though there’s no signal. them to be cooks, electricians or Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airport during the winter and flights per day at the airport by prosperous. Unlike his son, Ezibek Yusupbek construction workers. Airlines and Beijing Capital Air­ spring and 80 percent of the 2025, he said. “Over 20 herding families used to has a strong emotional attachment Furthermore, the government lines plan to operate out of Beijing flights starting from March next According to the Civil Aviation bring their animals to graze here,” to his flock and the pasture. gives various subsidies to herdsmen Daxing International Airport, year, except for 46 daily flights Administration of China, China Yusupbek says, with a bitter smile. “Without the sheep and yaks, I who stay. With these subsidies, which is preparing to begin opera­ between Beijing and Shanghai, Southern will have 40 percent of “Now, I can’t even find someone to feel like something is missing,” he herdsmen can downsize their flock. tions, according to the airport Wang said. total airport slots at Daxing air­ chat with.” says. It helps to tackle overgrazing and authority. By then, China Eastern will port, followed by China Eastern Many herdsmen in Xinjiang live Like his sons, he has a key to a generally better preserve the natu­ The construction of the infra­ operate over 334 flights from the with 30 percent and other airlines in poverty due to the inaccessibility new apartment in downtown Tashi­ ral environment. structure for the new airport, new airport on a daily basis, which sharing the remainder. of their homes. Their income comes kurgan. But for now, Yusupbek is To take Ezibek Yusupbek as an which started in 2014, was com­ will serve a network of 150 routes Among the other airlines, Air solely from herding. content with his yurt and his herd. example, he and his wife receive pleted on Sunday. and 115 domestic and foreign des­ China will have routes to domestic Thanks to anti­poverty and relo­ Fortunately for herdsmen who subsidies worth nearly 8,000 yuan It is now getting facilities and tinations, Wang said. cities including Shanghai, Kun­ cation policies by the local govern­ decide to stick with herding, the ($1,160) each year. This is on top of equipment ready and is expected Shanghai Airlines, another ming, Chongqing, Shenzhen and ment, many from Yusupbek’s village local government has implemented their monthly pensions of 310 yuan. to begin operations by the end of wholly­owned subsidiary of China Changsha, according to the com­ have moved downtown. Three of multiple policies to increase their All of this makes life on the pas­ September, the airport said in a Eastern, is also scheduled to finish pany. Yusupbek’s sons are married and incomes. ture easier, but Ezibek Yusupbek news release. transferring all its flights and Helsinki­based Finnair will have already relocated. His young­ Individual herdsmen can put knows that one day he will have to China United Airlines, a wholly­ employees before next summer to grow its operations in the country est, who also has an apartment their livestock in a local cooperative leave as his health deteriorates. owned subsidiary of China East­ the new airport, according to the by operating three weekly flights there, has come back to the pasture which herds and breeds the animals “I won’t be here grazing two years ern, is expected to become the first company. to Daxing airport as of Nov 3, the after furnishing his new home. collectively. This frees herdsmen from now,” he says. airline to transfer its operations to China Southern, the country’s company announced in a Twitter “I am worried about leaving my from the landlocked pasture so they It’s unclear whether the other Daxing airport from its current largest airline in terms of fleet size, post. old man herding on the pasture have time for other more lucrative four households will remain here. headquarters at Beijing Nanyuan has built Asia’s largest hangar, With four runways, 268 airplane alone,” said Murgul Yusupbek. work. In the meantime, individual But what is clear is that, whether Airport. operational control center and avi­ parking bays and a vast terminal However, just like other young herdsmen get dividends from the they stay or go, the herdsmen of the “China United will move its 60 ation food production base at Da­ building covering 700,000 square herdsmen, Murgul finds it hard to cooperative. Laybulaq Pasture are going to have airplanes to the new airport … as xing airport to better facilitate air meters, the new airport is expect­ bear the tedium of simple work on To help young herdsmen find better lives in the future. well as more than 4,000 employ­ traffic demands. ed to handle 45 million passengers the pasture. jobs, the local government also pro­ ees before the airport starts opera­ Wang Jianjun, head of the air­ a year by 2021 and 72 million by He can’t help glancing at his vides vocational programs to train XINHUA tion,” said Wang Guangbin, deputy line’s construction work at Daxing 2025.