CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Friday, July 20, 2018 CHINA 5 Human Advanced rights rescue ship progress hailed at planned seminar WUHAN — A seminar on Primary task will involve search China’s human rights progress in the course of reform and operations in the South China Sea opening­up was held in Wuhan, Hubei province, on By ZHAO LEI Wednesday. [email protected] More than 100 representa­ tives from the national human China State Shipbuilding rights education and training Corp is designing what it base, human rights research says is the world’s most institutes and related govern­ advanced rescue ship, and ment departments attended plans to commission it An artists’ rendering of the the seminar. around 2021. planned rescue ship. Jointly held by the China The State­owned ship­ PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Society for Human Rights builder’s Shanghai Mer­ Studies and the publicity chant Ship Design and department of the Hubei Com­ Research Institute said in a said. “It will have cutting­ mittee of the Communist Par­ statement that the ship, edge equipment such as ty of China, the seminar which has yet to be named, rescue submersibles that discussed topics including the will be tasked with conduct­ can dive 300 meters below Floodwaters inundate farms in Cuijia village in Gansu province’s Dongxiang autonomous county on Thursday. The flood, which was human rights development ing search­and­rescue oper­ the surface and remotely triggered by heavy rain, damaged houses and crops. Disaster relief work is underway. YANG YANMIN / CHINA NEWS SERVICE path, theoretical innovation, ations in the South China operated underwater vehi­ practice and achievements. Sea with the Transport Min­ cles or autonomous under­ Participants agreed that istry’s Nanhai Rescue water vehicles capable of China has built a relatively Bureau. reaching a depth of 6,000 complete human rights pro­ It will be powered by two meters.” Rains lash Gansu; at least 12 dead tection system, made remark­ 7,000­kilowatt engines and He added that it will also able achievements and have a displacement of have a landing pad to han­ embarked on a path of human more than 16,000 metric dle large helicopters. By HOU LIQIANG rights development that suits tons. It will be 133 meters A ship­mounted crane and MA JINGNA Chinese characteristics over long and 26 meters wide, will be able to salvage cap­ 12 people the past four decades of making it the heaviest and sized vessels or wrecks as Torrential rain in Gansu reform and opening­up. died and four others were largest of its kind in China. heavy as 350 metric tons, province’s Dongxiang auton­ missing after a flood on It will be capable of sail­ Shi said. Moreover, the ship omous county — which is XINHUA Wednesday night in ing nearly 30,000 kilome­ will be equipped with medi­ sparsely vegetated and has Dongxiang autonomous ters or operating 90 days in cal facilities, such as operat­ many poor residents — had county, Gansu province. a single operation without ing rooms. left at least 12 dead and needing to reach port or “Once the ship is put into another four missing as of Habitat receive supplies, the insti­ service, it will strongly Thursday, and the weather is tute said, adding that the improve our country’s mar­ continuing, local authorities ship’s cruising speed will be itime search­and­rescue said. aster relief authorities. for snow 17.5 knots, or 32 kilometers capability and offer better Thirty­nine people had On Thursday, in the Ning­ per hour. services to any party that been hospitalized as of 3:30 xia Hui autonomous region, The vessel will be able to uses the South China Sea pm Thursday, after precipita­ Gansu’s neighbor, local leopards conduct search, rescue and for peaceful, civilian pur­ tion of up to 11.4 centimeters A resident stands in ruins caused by flooding in Dongxiang observatories in Yinchuan salvage tasks for ships, air­ poses,” he said. within three hours on autonomous county, Gansu province, on Thursday. Thousands of and Shizuishan issued red craft and submarines in According to the 2017 Wednesday night brought a people were affected by the flood and rescue work was alerts for storms at 7:48 am expands very tough conditions, as it Report on Navigation in the mountain torrent that underway. YANG YANMIN / CHINA NEWS SERVICE and 5:28 am respectively, can withstand typhoons as South China Sea, which was destroyed their homes. The both forecasting precipita­ XINING — Chinese strong as 12 on the Beaufort published in June by the disaster resulted in direct tion of up to 50 millimeters researchers said on Thursday scale, the statement said. China Institute of Naviga­ economic losses of 320 mil­ tory predicted that rain will plies to the county. for the next three hours. that the habitat of rare snow In addition to rescue and tion and Shanghai Mari­ lion yuan ($47.2 million), the continue over the next three The Gannan Tibetan China has a four­tier color­ leopards has been expanding salvage operations, the ship time University, the South local government said. days, and 12 townships in the autonomous prefecture and coded weather warning sys­ in recent years, and the big can also be used to tow disa­ China Sea is one of the busi­ It added that 2,444 people county will be at risk of land­ Dingxi city in Gansu were tem for storms, with red cats have been sighted in more bled ships, monitor oil est waterways in the world had been evacuated. slides and moving debris. also hit by downpours. Gan­ representing the most severe, areas of China. spills, perform deep­water and is crucial to the global Twenty­eight houses col­ The floods also caused su’s flood control authority followed by orange, yellow During a forum on snow scanning and surveys, shipping industry. Nearly lapsed and more than 1,500 direct economic losses of 36.6 launched a Level IV emergen­ and blue. leopard protection in Qinghai extinguish fires or ferry 8,000 large ships passed others were damaged. Power, million yuan in neighboring cy response plan, the lowest Meanwhile, the brief but province, researchers from supplies to vessels in emer­ through the sea every water and communication in Guanghe county, where 1,875 of a four­tier disaster strong rains that have hit Bei­ Qinghai and the Xinjiang gencies. month in 2017. some areas were temporarily people were affected and response mechanism, before jing intermittently since Sun­ Uygur and Tibet autonomous Shi Gongqian, the ship’s China has been an active cut off, as floods destroyed 211 about 11 hectares of farmland dawn on Thursday. day continued on Thursday. regions shared their recent project manager, said the contributor when it comes sections of road and triggered were flooded. Lin Duo, Party chief of Gan­ The downpours resulted in findings. craft is designed to carry 30 to search missions and sav­ landslides. Although neighboring He­ su, arrived in the disaster area roadbed collapses in 36 pla­ The population of snow crew members and up to 90 ing lives at sea. Figures Almost 1,600 domestic ani­ zheng county, located on Wednesday night, leading ces. The city’s transport leopards in the Sanjiangyuan search­and­rescue person­ from the Nanhai Rescue mals were killed and about upstream, saw as much as a relief team. authority was continuing to area, the headwaters of Chi­ nel, and it will be capable of Bureau show that from 435 hectares of farmland 16.6 centimeters of rainfall in The Ministry of Finance make repairs on three sec­ na’s major rivers, is estimated accommodating as many as June 2003, when the were flooded, it said. places on Wednesday night, it and the Ministry of Emergen­ tions on Thursday. to have exceeded 1,000, and 200 people rescued from bureau was founded, until All the injured were taken bore the least losses. Seven­ cy Management sent 170 mil­ The authorities have the area has become a major disasters. January this year, it carried to local hospitals; those with teen houses were damaged in lion yuan to Sichuan and warned of an escalating risk habitat, according to Lyu Zhi, “The ship will be able to out 4,136 rescue operations severe injuries were trans­ the county and all 50 families Gansu provinces on Wednes­ of landslides, mountain tor­ deputy director of Peking Uni­ operate independently in in which 1,136 ships and ferred to hospitals in Lan­ were evacuated. day to facilitate disaster relief rents and debris flow in rural versity’s Center for Nature and any ocean worldwide,” he 17,322 people were saved. zhou, it said. With sparse All three counties are locat­ work, the emergency minis­ areas and reminded people to Society. vegetation, water accumu­ ed in the Linxia Hui autono­ try announced on Thursday. be cautious if they travel to Xing Rui, head of the envi­ lates easily on the surface of mous prefecture. The Flooding in Sichuan had these areas. ronmental organization Wild the yellow soil in the county prefecture’s disaster relief left three people dead and Xinjiang, said more than 60 First pipeline­checking vessel delivered and quickly forms mountain authorities sent 50 tents, 100 caused direct economic losses Contact the writers at snow leopards have been torrents. folding beds, 120 blankets of 2.4 billion yuan as of July houliqiang@ sighted in areas surrounding The local weather observa­ and other disaster relief sup­ 12, according to Sichuan dis­ chinadaily.com.cn Urumqi from 2014 to 2018. China’s first ship designed nance, including an acoustic The Wildlife Conservation to check marine pipelines has Doppler current profiler, sub­ Society has cooperated with entered service, and will help bottom profiler and a magne­ Tibet to set up 260 cameras in to safeguard the operations of tometer.