4 | Tuesday, August 20, 2019 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY CHINA Building shaped like Acrobatic art Briefly SICHUAN 12 bodies retrieved a dragon in Beijing is after rock collapse Twelve bodies have been retrieved from Wednesday’s rock up for auction online collapse site on the Chengdu­ Kunming Railway, a major rail By CAO YIN line in Southwest China, the [email protected] 1 emergency rescue headquarters billion yuan said on Monday. The rock col­ The auction of a prominent lapse took place at around 12:44 The sum of security deposit pm on Wednesday on the Cheng­ dragon­shaped building in Pangu every participant should pay Plaza in Beijing began with a start­ du­Kunming Railway section in ing price of more than 5.18 billion Ganluo county, Sichuan prov­ yuan ($734 million) on Monday. square­meter building on the plat­ ince, where 17 workers were The auction, organized by the form and also left phone numbers to repairing the railway damaged in Beijing No 3 Intermediate People’s answer people’s related questions. an earlier landslide, causing dis­ Court, is for the 44­story No 5 The court launched the auction ruption of the major railway building of the plaza near the because the building was named line’s operation again. The dead National Stadium — also known as a mortgaged property of a civil bodies were presumably those of as the Bird’s Nest — on the capi­ dispute, in which Beijing Zenith the railway repair workers who tal’s north­south axis in Chaoyang Holdings Co and Beijing Pangu were unaccounted for after the district. It will end at 10 am on Investment failed to pay debts accident. Tuesday. owed to the Beijing branch of the Since the court put the building­ Bank of Shanghai. BEIJING related information on e­com­ It was not the first auction relat­ 109 cities take lead merce platform Taobao in July, the ed to the plaza, but the previous Visitors look at pictures at an exhibition featuring China’s achievements in acrobatics over the past 70 in fight against drugs auction has been viewed about ones failed with no bidder. years in Beijing on Monday. The show was sponsored by the China Acrobats Association as part of cele­ 120,000 times. Beijing Pangu Investment and brations for the country’s 70th anniversary. CAI YANG / XINHUA Progress has been made by 109 But as of press time, just two Beijing Zenith Holdings were con­ Chinese cities in spearheading people have registered to partici­ trolled by Guo Wengui, a Chinese the country’s anti­drug war, said pate in the bidding. billionaire who fled China in the China National Narcotics According to the auction rules August 2014 after being accused of 70 YEARS ON | JIANGXI Control Commission. In January disclosed by the court, every par­ multiple crimes, including corrup­ last year, 109 cities nationwide, ticipant should pay 1 billion yuan tion. He is subject to an Interpol including the city of Zhongshan as a security deposit, and the price red notice, an international arrest in Guangdong province and the will increase by 5 million yuan warrant. city of Kunming in Yunnan prov­ each time another participant To prevent judicial corruption ince, were designated to take the joins. and improve judicial transparen­ Historic sites focus lead in the fight against drugs. In The court will announce the cy, Chinese courts began holding 2018, police in the 109 cities deal if at least one registered par­ online auctions in 2012. As of June seized 38.8 metric tons of narcot­ ticipant offers a higher bid than 30 last year, more than 168,400 ics — accounting for 50 percent the starting price, the rule added. items, including houses and cars, of the total seizures across the To help the public understand had been sold via the judicial auc­ country — solved 3,500 drug­re­ of new development lated cases and detained about the auction target, the court posted tion platform, amounting to about several pictures of the 140,000 378 billion yuan. 45,000 suspects, said the com­ mission. Effort follows Xi’s proposal to help erase Jiangxi province is well known for some of the earliest bases for rev­ TIBET poverty, stimulate economic growth olutionary movements. Jinggang More observatories Mountain is renowned as the “cra­ to help curb disasters By ZHANG YANGFEI copter­related research and dle of the Chinese revolution” as the [email protected] production in Jingdezhen. The two foundation of the first revolution­ Southwest China’s Tibet autono­ cities have also been listed as the ary base of the Communist Party of mous region will build 490 auto­ Old revolutionary areas in Jiangxi first batch of demonstration zones China, while Ruijin is the starting matic meteorological province are on a high­quality devel­ for the general aviation industry. point of the Long March (1934­36) observatories for improving the opment track driven by emerging An academic workstation has also — the famous military trek by the region’s weather monitoring and industrial clusters including avia­ been set up in Jiangxi to strengthen Party’s Red Army in the 1930s. forecasting abilities, according to tion and information technology, the research and development of gen­ These old revolutionary bases local authorities. The stations the province’s top official said on eral aviation, technical equipment for have profited from abundant histor­ will log data including wind Monday. emergency rescue, composite materi­ ical sites in boosting local tourism as direction, wind speed, rainfall, During a visit to the province in als as well as other key technologies a way of emerging from poverty. But temperature and humidity, May, President Xi Jinping proposed in producing large aircraft. Liu said that technological innova­ which will improve Tibet’s capac­ the goal of speeding up high­quality “The province’s aviation industry tion, supply­side structural reform ity to forecast disastrous weather, development in old revolutionary has been developing at a rate of 20 and regional coordination are now according to the regional meteor­ areas as a way of lifting people out of percent for several consecutive serving as new drivers for the prov­ ological bureau. The bureau has poverty and stimulating economic years. It is expected to reach 100 bil­ ince’s high­quality development. developed a plan to improve its growth in nearby regions, Liu Qi, lion yuan ($14.2 billion) this year,” Yi Lianhong, Jiangxi’s governor, ability to prevent climate disas­ Party secretary of Jiangxi, said at a Liu added. said they are accelerating the con­ ters in the primary­level govern­ news conference in Beijing. struction of innovative platforms for ment by 2022. To achieve the goal, Liu said the virtual reality technology thanks to No 5 building of Pangu Plaza (left) in Beijing on Monday. province is taking advantage of the rapid development of the local INNER MONGOLIA LIU HONGSHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY some of its emerging industries to IT industry. Voice recognition foster a modern industrial system The inaugural World Conference project launched and promote the development of on VR Industry was held in Nan­ industrial clusters in the fields of chang last year. A cloud­based voiceprint recog­ aviation, IT, equipment manufac­ Yi said the province has integrat­ nition project has been launched Tongzhou district will turing, traditional Chinese medi­ ed the virtual reality industry into in the city of Ulanqab in North cine, new energy and new materials. an agenda of high­quality develop­ China’s Inner Mongolia autono­ Aviation is one of the leading ment. Nanchang has also launched mous region. The project aims to improve cycling lanes industries in Jiangxi. As the birth­ a specific plan to build some major provide reliable logon authenti­ place of China’s first domestically centers and platforms to attract cation for internet users via developed aircraft, Jiangxi has a good startup companies. voiceprint recognition technolo­ By DU JUAN traffic congestion between Hui­ foundation and advantageous condi­ Journalist Olena Protchenko “Next up we will promote more gies. The services will be made [email protected] longguan, a densely populated tions to propel relevant research and admires lacquerware on Mon­ cooperation in the VR industry and available to users in neighboring community in the capital’s north­ expand the market, Liu said. day at an exhibition in Beijing introduce more leading enterprises Ningxia Hui autonomous region Beijing’s Tongzhou district, ern Changping district, and The province has established an where senior Jiangxi officials and high­end talent in a bid to make and the provinces of Gansu, where the capital’s sub­city center Shangdi, where a large number of aviation production base in the cap­ discussed development in the it one of our leading industries by Qinghai and Shanxi in the next is located, plans to upgrade 40 high­tech companies are located. ital, Nanchang, and a center for heli­ province. ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY 2023,” he added. two to three years. “In developing roads to build a better non­motor­ An average of 11,600 people the big data industry, personal ized traffic system in the next three commute to work daily in the area. information protection at its years, according to the local The road has a maximum speed source is a top priority,” said Li authority. of no more than 15 kilometers per Weather services boost farming efficiency Xinyou, a chief engineer of the The district government said hour, and entry is forbidden to State Information Center. recently that pedestrians and pedestrians, electric bicycles and HARBIN — Precision weather However, the agricultural prov­ “After spraying pesticide, I don’t cyclists will both have exclusive other vehicles, said Hou Xiaoming, services have greatly enhanced the ince saw a population decrease in expect it to rain.