[b]Red revival[/b]

Red songs, along with other symbols of Mao\’s era, gradually faded in history after Mao\’s successor Deng Xiaoping unleashed the sweeping market reforms in the late 1970s, phrasing out the planned economy that drove China in its first two decades.

Today, few of the younger generation can hum the rhythms that their communist forefathers sang to win the revolution that resulted in the founding of the People\’s Republic in 1949.

While some were caught off-guard by the sudden revival of the red songs, the party said the red campaign was launched for specific reasons.

Wang Xiaohui, vice director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, said at a press conference last Thursday that the popular red song performances do not signal an ideological return to the past.

\”Today we have a very rich and diverse culture, and some like red songs, while others like pop songs,\” Wang said. \”But this year is a special occasion for citizens to get together and remember the revolutionary martyears who helped to create the nation as it is today.\”

But Yu Jianrong, head of the Center for Social Research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said a cultural campaign to arouse revolutionary enthusiasm in the public might face significant difficulties in today\’s China.

Already, some of the campaign propaganda that seems to have gone to the extreme were ridiculed by the public.

An online post that referenced a local newspaper\’s article that touted the \”medically curing effect\” of singing red songs was attacked by Internet users who felt the post distorted the article. According to the newspaper, a cancer patient in Chongqing endured the pains of the chemotherapy by singing red songs.

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At least 6,000 passengers were stranded Friday morning at the airport in Dalian, a major port city in northeast China\’s Liaoning Province, as heavy fog lasted into a third day.

The local weather bureau issued an orange alarm for heavy fog early Friday, the third consecutive foggy day in Dalian.

Airport authorities said the fog, which will last until after 10 a.m., will seriously disrupt air traffic.

The Zhoushuizi International Airport of Dalian expects an estimated 45,000 passengers Friday, but nearly all the early morning flights have been postponed.

An airport spokesman said the pressure was higher as many passengers who were laid over on Thursday were still on the waiting list.

More than 140 flights were disrupted by fog Thursday. All 23 flights of China Southern Airlines were canceled.

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Nine people were killed and 22 others were injured after a tourist bus fell into a ravine early Saturday in Taigu County, north China\’s Shanxi Province, rescuers said.

The coach lost control on the Taiyuan-Changzhi expressway and crashed into the roadside ravine, about 15 meters deep, at 3:50 a.m. Saturday morning, according to the rescuers from the Shanxi provincial traffic authorities.

All injured have been sent to hospitals in Taigu and the neighboring county of Yushe. The bus driver was killed and the co-driver was injured.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation. The rescuers said heavy rains in early Saturday morning had made the expressway wet and slippery.

The Henan-registered coach bound for Henan Province was from Dongsheng City in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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Twenty-one miners were trapped underground after a coal mine in Pingtang County, southwest China\’s Guizhou Province, was flooded on Saturday morning, said an official with the county government.

The accident occurred at about 9:30 a.m. when 29 miners were working at two shafts of Niupeng Mine. Eight workers have already been back to the ground safely, the official said.

The rescue work is under way.

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Foreigners in Changsha who can\’t speak Chinese should find it easier now getting help when in trouble as the city\’s police have launched a multilingual emergency call service.

The service was launched on Friday and, according to the Changsha Public Security Bureau, the city\’s 110 emergency center has eight volunteers offering translation services in English, German, Korean and Japanese.

According to the bureau, the emergency call center has received a growing number of calls from foreigners in recent years.

In 2010, the 110 center received 67 calls from foreigners, a third of whom could not speak Chinese.

For those who did speak in Chinese, quite a number of them were hardly able to make themselves understood, the bureau said.

The bureau said it will analyze calls by foreigners and adjust the number of volunteer translators accordingly.

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The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world\’s highest railroad that opened five years ago, has driven unprecedented economic growth on the Tibetan plateau.

Friday marks five years since the railway opened.

The 1,956-km rail link running from Golmud in the northwestern Qinghai Province to Tibet\’s regional capital Lhasa has transported more than 41 million passengers and 180 million tonnes of cargo since it opened on July 1, 2006.

The railway has proven effective in boosting economic development in both Qinghai Province and Tibet.

Official figures show Qinghai\’s GDP soared from 64.1 billion yuan (9.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2006 to 134.2 billion yuan last year.

Meanwhile, Tibet\’s GDP rose from 34.2 billion yuan to 50 billion yuan, an average annual growth of at least 10 percent.

The railway has brought a surge of tourists, giving a boost to the local tourism, hospitality and manufacturing industries.

[b]BREAKING BARRIERS[/b]

The landmark railway has linked Tibet more closely than ever before to the outside world, with sightseers and pilgrims flocking onto the \”roof of the world,\” and plateau products such as herb, yak meat and traditional artwork being sold throughout China and overseas.

Tibet has hosted 21.25 million tourists over the past five years, an annual increase of 30.6 percent. Meanwhile, its tourism revenue totaled 22.6 billion yuan over the same period, up 30 percent annually, according to the regional tourism administration.

Also, neighboring Qinghai Province received more than 50 million tourists and posted at least 26 billion yuan of tourism income from 2006 to 2010.

\”The railway has provided a fast and economical means of transportation,\” said Fu Lin, president of Tibet Glacier Mineral Water Ltd.

The company\’s mineral water, \”5100 Tibetan glacier,\” has become a name brand across China in recent years. Its name indicates the water is collected at 5,100 meters above sea level.

\”Since the railway opened, our annual output has soared from 700 to 300,000 tonnes,\” said Fu. \”Railway transportation cost is about 200 yuan per tonne, half the highway transportation cost.\”

Other Tibetan beverages, including beer brewed from highland barley and water from the Kunlun Mountain Range, have been sold to the interior provinces and even to Europe and America.

In 2009 alone, Tibet\’s production of canned and bottled beverages doubled that of the previous year, according to the latest figure available at the regional development and reform commission.

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More than 2,600 residents of a low-lying township in south China\’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have been left stranded by floods since Thursday, local authorities said Friday.

A flash flood triggered by days of heavy rainfall hit Beigeng Township, Xincheng County, at 4 p.m. Thursday, with water levels rising at a rate of 15 centimeters per hour, said a spokesman with the county\’s publicity department.

All roads leading to the township have been cut off and rescuers are using boats to try to get to the stranded people, he said.

One hundred and seventy-five people managed to escape before the flood hit the township. Twenty-one houses collapsed after the floodwaters hit the township. No casualties have been reported, according to the spokesman.

Beigeng is currently short on emergency relief supplies like rice, bottled water, instant noodles, tents and blankets, the spokesman said.

The township was previously flooded for five days in June of last year.

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[b]PROMOTING TRADE, COOPERATION[/b]

Analysts say the railway has integrated the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into China\’s overall economic development program and promoted interprovincial cooperation.

The railway runs through the resource-rich Qaidam Basin, known for its salt lake, petroleum, gas and other mineral resources.

A number of mining companies are seeking to explore resources in the area in a more rational and sustainable way.

Qinghai Province and Tibet are also working together on an industrial park for regional cooperation in developing plateau products, tourism and mineral industries.

The railway, plus its extension from Lhasa to Tibet\’s second largest city Xigaze — set to be completed by 2015, will also link Tibet closer with China\’s south Asian neighbors including India and Nepal.

\”Tibet will serve as a pivotal hub linking China\’s central and western regions with south Asia,\” said Wang Daiyuan, an economist with Tibet\’s regional academy of social sciences.

Wang said the railway has brought \”profound changes\” to Tibet, turning the formerly isolated and underdeveloped region into a trade center.

Tibet\’s foreign trade hit a record 836 million U.S. dollars last year, twice the 2009 figure, said Ma Xiangcun, the region\’s commerce chief.

Exports of Tibetan-made products, including herb, wool, cashmere, beverages and building materials, totaled 46.5 million U.S. dollars, 6 percent of its total exports.

Better infrastructure has created a sound investment environment, said Tian Fuli, chief of Tibet\’s merchants bureau. \”A number of Chinese and foreign companies have shifted from the rich eastern regions to the Tibetan plateau for investment purposes.\”

Over the past five years, Tibet received 19 billion yuan of investment from Chinese and international businesses, he said.
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Heavy rain will fall in most parts of China later Friday, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC).

Rain will hit the central and eastern parts in northwestern China, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, most parts of the northeast, Zhejiang Province, Hunan Province and the southwest, according to the NMC.

Rain will become heavier on Saturday in most parts of the north and the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the northern reaches of the Huaihe River, according to the NMC.

Meanwhile, rain in southern China will subside on Saturday, followed by high temperatures in eastern Sichuan basin, central Zhejiang Province and Chongqing Municipality.

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