CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Monday, September 9, 2019 | 5 CHINA Polar observation satellite will debut soon Network will improve country’s ability visible­light camera; and an auto­ tries, especially developing ones like and former minister of science and bility of many areas, experts said. matic identification system receiver, China, Li said. technology, was quoted in a state­ Zhang Di, the satellite’s chief to monitor Arctic and Antarctic regions a device for ship identification. It BNU­1 and other satellites in the ment previously published by Aero­ designer at Aerospace Dongfang­ will work in a sun­synchronous network will enable China to put an space Dongfanghong Development hong Development, told Daily Sun­ By ZHAO LEI in Shanxi province before the end of orbit more than 730 kilometers end to its heavy reliance on Western as saying that the BNU­1 mission shine, a Shenzhen newspaper, that [email protected] this month, said Li Chun, BNU­1’s above the Earth for up to two years. companies’ satellites for images and will be a milestone in China’s polar the BNU­1 mission will also be use­ project manager at Aerospace Dong­ Once put into service, it will be data from polar regions, he said. research because it will extensively ful to shipping companies as it will China will soon launch the first fanghong Development in Shenzhen, operated by the Joint Center for Polar Research and development of boost the country’s investigations of be capable of monitoring and satellite in its space­based polar Guangdong province. The company, Research of Chinese Universities and BNU­1 was initiated in February last polar regions and global environ­ reporting ice movement in sailing observation network in an attempt which designed and built the space­ will mainly be tasked with observing year by researchers at Beijing Nor­ mental changes. routes and autonomously preparing to improve the nation’s polar craft, is part of the China Academy of the environmental changes of the mal University’s College of Global In the past, polar regions’ data navigation routes for ships. research capability, according to Space Technology in Beijing. Antarctic and Arctic, detecting and Change and Earth System Science, available to Chinese scientists were Orbiting the Earth 14 times a day, project insiders. The small satellite weighs about providing early warnings of ice shelf who called for space­based assets mainly acquired by Chinese ships the satellite would support China’s The BNU­1 will be lifted atop a 20 kilograms and will carry three collapses and tracking the sources of for their work. and polar stations, but those means endeavors to develop Arctic sea Long March 4B carrier rocket from experimental payloads — a multi­ smog — a hazardous atmospheric Xu Guanhua, an academician of have long been restricted by tough lanes for the Chinese shipping the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center spectral camera; a high­resolution phenomenon haunting many coun­ the Chinese Academy of Sciences natural conditions or the inaccessi­ industry, he said. Rescue Cooperation is key by rope Contestants compete in to beating frozen the 2019 International LifeLine Rope Rescue Competition in Chong­ qing on Saturday. Thir­ meat smugglers teen teams from China, Germany, Belgium, By ZHANG YANGFEI Japan, South Korea and [email protected] other countries and regions participated in China’s customs authorities When we opened the competition. have busted several gangs smug­ HUANG WEI / XINHUA gling frozen meat recently, with the refrigerator, a investigators urging reinforce­ very unpleasant ment of comprehensive border controls to tackle the problem. smell came out, The cases show that smuggling which was very methods have become better hid­ den and the gangs and their dens disgusting.” become more dispersed, making Hu Xuelun, anti­smuggling the anti­smuggling campaign more officer in Nanning, Guangxi difficult, Xinhua News Agency Zhuang autonomous region reported. Huang Wei, an anti­smuggling containing 1,500 tons of smuggled officer from Nanning customs in meat worth 50 million yuan. the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous Xinhua said frozen meat was region, told Xinhua that sea and generally smuggled from coun­ land forces should cooperate and tries such as the United States, Bra­ inspection work should be zil, Australia and India and sold to strengthened in areas including restaurants and barbecue stalls. private access to the border, ille­ Li Yunwen, deputy director of gally modified vehicles, local mar­ the market supervision bureau of kets and storage warehouses. Qingxiu district in Nanning, told Last Monday, customs authori­ Xinhua that some frozen products Earthquake leaves 1 dead, 63 injured in Sichuan ties in Nanning busted a ware­ that bypassed inspection and house in a village where piles of quarantine might come from dis­ By HUANG ZHILING Ma Bo, Party chief of Neijiang, celed, China Railway Chengdu Weiyuan packaged frozen meat were hid­ ease affected areas. in Weiyuan, Sichuan said the city had sent 4,781 people to Group said. den, Guangxi Radio and Televi­ They tended to be transported [email protected] assist in rescue operations, includ­ Some residents of Neijiang sion Station reported. without using professional freez­ ing militiamen, policemen, fire­ received an early warning through A staff member from the local ers and were prone to becoming One person was killed and 63 oth­ fighters and medical workers. smartphones, television broadcasts anti­smuggling bureau said the rotten and carrying bacteria, ers injured after a 5.4 magnitude The provincial Department of Sichuan and special receiving terminals 2 packages of frozen meat, includ­ which posed a big threat to peo­ earthquake jolted Weiyuan county, Emergency Management had sent seconds before seismic waves from ing chicken feet, pigs feet and pork ple’s health, Li said. Neijiang, Sichuan province, at 6:42 4,000 cotton quilts, and the Neijiang the quake reached the city. tripe, were all labeled in foreign Although China customs has am on Sunday, the Neijiang govern­ municipal bureau of emergency “Thirty­six seconds before the languages and the total weight stepped up efforts to crack down ment information office said. management had dispatched 200 waves reached Chengdu, residents was about a dozen metric tons. on frozen meat smuggling over the Of the wounded, three were in tents for the quake victims, he said. there received the early warning,” The customs authorities did not past year, smugglers have become critical condition as of 6 pm, the The epicenter of the earthquake CHINA DAILY said Wu Liangyan, an information find the warehouse owner at the better hidden and have developed office said. was 12 kilometers from Weiyuan, 26 officer with Chengdu’s Institute of scene, but they sealed the ware­ sales network and groups of cus­ Sixty­three townships and 10,883 km from Neijiang and 141 km from Care­Life, which was founded after house and seized all the meat, the tomers on digital platforms. people were affected by the earth­ Sichuan’s provincial capital, Cheng­ the devastating Wenchuan earth­ report said, adding that the case is Xinhua said smuggled frozen quake. One hundred and thirty­two du. 10,883 quake in 2008 with the aim of under further investigation. goods crossing the border were houses collapsed, 161 houses were A female student at Neijiang Nor­ people reducing casualties from quakes. In July, customs and police now loaded separately onto small severely damaged and another mal University was awaked by the A real­time system providing were affected when a seized over 100 tons of frozen vans in different batches and 4,880 were slightly damaged, it said. quake. As she fled her dormitory on 5.4 magnitude earthquake warnings seconds after a quake can meat in Nanning worth about 10 transported to inland areas before Soon after the temblor, Huang the fifth floor, she fell and injured an jolted Weiyuan county, save lives because the warnings are million yuan ($1.4 million). being loaded onto bigger trucks in Ming, Party chief of the Ministry of ankle. Sichuan province. transmitted via radio waves travel­ “When we opened the refrigera­ remote places such as sugar­cane Emergency Management, and vice­ “A roommate spent several min­ ing faster than seismic waves. tor, a very unpleasant smell came or banana fields. ministers Fu Jianhua and Zheng utes carrying me to the first floor, Radio waves travel at 300,000 km out, which was very disgusting,” The meat would then be proc­ Guoguang held a video conference and I was greatly moved,” she said. per second, while seismic waves anti­smuggling officer Hu Xuelun essed into jerky or canned meat with leading officials of Sichuan’s A young woman in Weiyuan who to wake up and take it out right travel at 3 to 6 km/s. Therefore, peo­ told Xinhua, adding that the con­ and repackaged before entering Department of Emergency Manage­ said she usually took her cat outside then,” she said. ple in nearby areas may escape dan­ ditions the meat was stored in the market. ment, the Sichuan Provincial Fire­ at 7 am recalled it behaving abnor­ Trains leaving Chengdu for ger before seismic waves arrive, said were very dirty, with blood all over The key to combating smug­ fighters’ Brigade and Weiyuan mally just before the earthquake. Chongqing, the provinces of Guang­ Chen Huizhong, a senior research the floor and many flies buzzing gling was effective control over the County Firefighters’ Brigade, who “About one hour before the quake, dong, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang fellow with the China Earthquake around. source and intercepting frozen were on the scene to direct quake it jumped onto my bed and kept and Liaoning, and some parts of Administration’s Institute of Geo­ In June, customs authorities goods before they entered the relief efforts.