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Monkeying Floodrelated around A snubnosed monkey interacts with a villager in Yangxian county of Han zhong, Shaanxi province, on Sunday. Located at the fatalities fall southern foot of the Qin ling Mountains, the coun ty is home to four precious local species — the panda, the crested ibis, the snub amid efforts nosed monkey and the takin. TAO MING / XINHUA Evacuations, work teams help reduce number of dead, missing in the south
By HOU LIQIANG people threatened by floods, he [email protected] said. “This has effectively reduced Despite southern China being the number of people left missing soaked in the past two months by or dead,” he continued. the secondhighest amount of According to the ministry, as of precipitation since 1961, the July 31, national rescue teams country has experienced a vast have participated in flood control decrease in the number of fatali and rescue efforts 11,242 times. ties in floods so far this rainy sea The more than 140,000 rescu son thanks to the government’s ers who have been mobilized efforts in ramping up flood miti have saved 38,077 people in dan gation, an emergency official ger and evacuated another Policy: said. 109,000. Beidou satellite system provides From July 1, the start of the Yang said the decrease in the country’s primary rainy season, to number of rooms demolished by July 28, over 54.8 million people floods show that the antidisaster Rules aim suffered floods, up by 23.4 per capability of people’s houses has services for business and public cent from the average of the same been greatly enhanced as govern to downsize periods in the past five years, ments of different levels pay according to the Ministry of increasingly greater attention to By ZHAO LEI plant seedlings in paddies 50 per Emergency Management. infrastructure construction. [email protected] cent faster than three farmers sector’s risk The number of people evacuat The declines of fatalities and 1,200 could. ed during the period reached demolished rooms occurred as The domestically developed Bei Chinese characters In the transportation industry, almost 3.8 million, an increase of the secondhighest amount of dou Navigation Satellite System The maximum number of Beidou functions have been From page 1 characters per message that 36.7 percent from the average precipitation in nearly six decades has proved to be useful in a wide applied in nearly 6.6 million taxis, can be sent by Beidou’s unique between 2015 and 2019, it added. fell in southern parts of the coun variety of public and business fields messaging system buses and trucks around China. The rules aim to eradicate Meanwhile, the number of try from June 1 to July 28. in China, said the China Satellite More than 3,200 navigation facili principalprotected wealth fatalities and the rooms demol During that period, southern Navigation Office. ties along rivers and over 2,900 management products — which ished fell sharply from the past parts of the country on average Amid the ongoing fight against In addition, water management maritime navigation instruments at times have proved risky five years’ average. While the received 436 millimeters of pre severe floods ravaging regions officials in Zhejiang and Anhui employ Beidou services. despite their name — as well as number of people left dead or cipitation, 18 percent more than along the Yangtze River, Beidou has provinces are using Beidou’s trans Moreover, over 70,000 fishing to reduce investment in non missing dropped by 53.9 percent normal and the second highest enabled local authorities in provin mission channels to guarantee that boats across the country have been standardized assets and contain to 158, only 41,000 rooms were since 1961, according to the ces including Hunan, Shaanxi and flood data communication will not equipped with Beidou terminals financial risks. demolished by floods, down 68.4 National Climate Center. Sichuan to undertake realtime be interrupted by extreme weather and at least 10,000 fishermen were Due to the COVID19 pandem percent, the ministry said. “After entering plum rain sea monitoring of flood conditions. or damaged infrastructure, the rescued or received assistance over ic, however, the revamping task, The numbers show that the son, the southern regions were Equipped with Beidoubased office said. the past several years after they which entails debt repayment, government’s efforts to enhance frequented by rainstorms. … geological sensors, officials in dis In the agricultural sector, Bei used a Beidou device to ask for has faced mounting difficulties flood control is paying off as the Many areas experienced record asterprone regions can detect and douenabled functions are also help. partly because some businesses country continues to battle high precipitation,” the center forecast landslides or other abnor used in at least 50,000 farm In the public security field, more that have struggled to survive the severe, wideranging floods this said. mal geological movements and machines and have improved oper than 400,000 portable terminals contagion may need to defer year, said Yang Xiaodong, deputy The season refers to a long deliver early warnings to residents. ational efficiency. used by police across the country repayment, the PBOC said. directorgeneral of the ministry’s period of continuous rainy or Ran Chengqi, head of the office, Cotton growers in the Xinjiang have Beidouenabled positioning “Extending the transitional disaster relief and material logis cloudy weather that often occurs said that highaccuracy function is Uygur autonomous region have functions. period as appropriate will alle tics department. in June and July as plums ripen possible thanks to collaboration found it more efficient and cost More than 70 percent of mobile viate the blow of the epidemic While holding daily consulta in regions around the middle between Beidou satellites and the effective to deploy Beidounavigat phones registered in China are on the asset management sector tions to coordinate flood mitiga and lower reaches of the Yangtze vast groundbased network of near ed unmanned aircraft to spray farm compatible with Beidou signals. and the pressure on financial tion efforts in different regions, River. ly 3,000 augmentation stations. chemicals rather than doing so In China, the overall value of sat institutions from the revamp the ministry has dispatched doz The two reaches of the Yangtze, With the Beidouenabled capa manually, thus saving manpower, elliteenabled navigation and posi ing task,” said a PBOC state ens of work teams to guide local for example, were battered by an bility, even abnormal movements money and time. tioning services in 2019 was 345 ment, adding that the move will governments in their work, he alltime high precipitation of 617 at the centimeter level can be Thanks to the highaccuracy billion yuan ($48.5 billion), up 14.4 also facilitate financing for the noted. millimeters from June 1 to July 28, detected in realtime, he noted. positioning provided by Beidou, percent yearonyear. real economy. Adhering to the notion that 65 percent more than usual, it Disaster relief workers can also some grain and vegetable farmers More than 500,000 Chinese peo “If financial institutions dras “people’s interests should be put said. use Beidou’s unique messaging in Heilongjiang province can now ple work at about 14,000 domestic tically downscaled noncompli first, and nothing is more pre It said the largest daily precipi capacity, which allows users to use computers or even mobile institutes and companies doing ant wealth management cious than people’s lives”, the tation so far this rainy season send out messages of up to 1,200 phones to control driverless farm business related to Beidou and products this year, financial risks national comprehensive rescue occurred in Yangshuo county, Chinese characters each from pla machinery to carry out highpreci other satellite navigation and could surge and hit the real teams with the ministry, together Guangxi Zhuang autonomous ces with poor signal strength or sion farming tasks. positioning services, according to economy businesses relying on with grassroots officials, soldiers region, with 327 millimeters, or when fixed or mobile phone servi In Guangdong province, a Bei the China Satellite Navigation those products to obtain financ and militia members, saved and about 60 percent of the annual ces are damaged by floods. douguided rice planter is able to Office. ing,” said Dong Ximiao, chief transferred a large number of average precipitation in Beijing. analyst at XWBank, an online only bank based in Sichuan province. Upgrading: Innovation widely employed As the deferral eases the pres sure faced by the real economy Zhejiang, Fujian brace and financial institutions, it From page 1 Technology, said that to ensure the network was launched by a Long will help safeguard financial nonstop, smooth operation of Bei March 3B carrier rocket at the stability and spur healthy for Typhoon Hagupit Usually, a satellite will employ no dou, engineers devised a number of Xichang Satellite Launch Center in development of the capital more than 30 percent of such new emergency plans and put major parts Sichuan province and was placed market, said Kang Chongli, By MA ZHENHUAN in Hangzhou to ports or sail to safe zones. technologies to guarantee low techni through rigorous tests before mount into a geostationary orbit about deputy dean at the research [email protected] As of noon Monday, a total of cal risks, but in some Beidou satellites, ing them on satellites. They also 36,000 kilometers above Earth. institute of Yuekai Securities in 4,481 tourists in these areas had as much as 70 percent of their technol established a technical support team After inorbit tests over the past Guangdong province. The coastal province of Zhejiang been evacuated, and all coastal ogies were new to such spacecraft. to help ground controllers monitor month, the satellite, the 30th in the The extension will also avoid a in East China — one of the regions passenger ships have been sus Innovation has also been widely and analyze Beidou satellites’ opera thirdgeneration series, has recently bump in the disposal of noncom expected to be hit headon by pended. Some railway trains trav applied to Beidou, Lin said, adding tional conditions, he added. started its formal operations. pliant products from selling off a Typhoon Hagupit, the fourth eling between Taizhou, Lishui, that the phased array intersatel Pang Zhihao, a renowned writer Since 2000, a total of 59 Beidou large amount of equity assets and typhoon of the year — on Monday Wenzhou and Fujian’s Ningde will lite link is a good example of about space technology, said that satellites, including the first four putting pressure on the stock launched a Level II emergency be temporarily stopped as well. researchers’ creativity as they inorbit upgrades and maintenance experimental models, have been market, Kang said, adding that response to thwart possible dama In addition, 16 flights coming to invented the technology to solve are important to satellites as they can launched from Xichang on 44 Long the move is “realistic” and in line ges brought by the storm, which or leaving Wenzhou Longwan major difficulties in tracking and extensively boost the capabilities of March 3series rockets, with some with market expectations. was expected to hit the mainland International Airport had been controlling Beidou satellites. spacecraft and prolong their life span. of them having retired. Most of cur The PBOC statement added Monday night. canceled as of 9 am Monday. Xie Jun, another chief designer In late June, the final satellite to rently operational Beidou satellites that the asset management The coastal city of Wenzhou, Fujian issued an orange alert for from the China Academy of Space complete Beidou’s thirdgeneration are of the thirdgeneration series. industry has become healthier, where the typhoon was predicted Hagupit on Monday afternoon. with risks substantially con to make landfall, raised its alert Big sea waves were expected to tained since the new rules were from orange to red, the strongest emerge on the coast of Ningde city released in 2018. The extension in the country’s fourtier color when the typhoon lands. All the does not involve any adjust coded warning system, for Hagu boats on the sea have been called Picking ments of regulation standards of pit on Monday afternoon. Taizhou, to return and port facilities are their way the rules, nor does it indicate a another city lying on the coastline being reinforced to ward off the shift in direction of assetman of Zhejiang, issued an orange alert. rain and wind caused by the out of agement business reform, it said. With an average speed of 22 typhoon. poverty Financial regulators will kilometers per hour moving Further, all indoor and outdoor supervise progress of financial northwest, the typhoon was mass gatherings in the coastal are Villagers pick white institutions’ reform tasks on a expected to bring downpours and as of Fujian have been canceled, lotus seed pods in a vil quarterly basis, the central bank gales to the cities in south Zhe according to the local authority on lage in Fuzhou, Jiangxi said. As for institutions that can jiang, especially Wenzhou, Tai Monday. province, on Monday. not complete the task by the end zhou and Lishui, as well as areas in Nationwide, the Ministry of The Dongxiang district of 2021, regulators will adopt a Fujian province. Agriculture and Rural Affairs on government in Fuzhou casebycase approach to ensure Top officials in the province — Sunday issued a notice to urge is helping lift poor vil implementation of their reform Che Jun, Party chief of Zhejiang, local governments to batten down lagers out of poverty by plans. and provincial Governor Yuan Jia the hatches in preparation of Hag promoting the produc Data compiled by Zheshang jun — have urged all Party and gov upit and ensure the safety of farm tion of local farm prod Securities indicates that 43 per ernment authorities to take ing and fishing activities in ucts and fostering local cent of the outstanding value of measures to lower the risks and regions that would be affected by industries. bankoffered wealth manage protect marine and fishery popu the strong gusts and heavy down HE JIANGHUA / FOR CHINA DAILY ment products was not princi lations along coastal areas. pours. palprotected by the end of The provincial government has 2019, up from 27 percent by the required all fishing boats to return Qin Jirong contributed to this story. end of 2018.