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Beijing approves plan for Greater Bay Area to rival San Francisco's Silicon Valley in the United States
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Beijing has given the greenlight to a blueprint for a technology-driven economic powerhouse in southern China to rival San Francisco's Silicon Valley amid doubts about the plan's feasibility.

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The Greater Bay Area has a population of 69 million and a GDP of $US1.5 trillion
Experts believe the plan is part of China's strategy to catch up to America
Details of the Greater Bay Area plan is set to be announced in February
The Greater Bay Area plan aims to link Hong Kong, Macau, and nine cities in the Guangdong Province — including the megacities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou — into a giant science and IT hub comparable to the combined size of San Francisco and Tokyo's bay areas by 2035.

China hopes to achieve this by integrating the cities' infrastructure and expertise in finance, manufacturing and technology by removing trade barriers, encouraging cross-border business, and eventually creating a single market.

Beijing's manufacturing blueprint
Beijing's manufacturing blueprint
Made in China 2025 is a 10-year industrial development plan, but businesses and governments around the world are concerned it will have a dramatic effect on global trade.
The initiative reflects China's deep innovation and technology ambitions and also aligns with the country's Made in China 2025 masterplan: a 10-year, transformative roadmap for the future of the country's manufacturing sector.

As a global trading hub, Guangdong Province alone exported more than $US640 billion ($887 billion) of goods last year — its cities of Donguan and Foshan are home to many of the region's factories, while neighbouring Shenzhen is already colloquially known as China's Silicon Valley.

The world's longest sea-crossing bridge, linking Hong Kong and Macau to the mainland, which officially opened last October, also binds the region together as a major driver of future economic growth.

'Combining Silicon Valley with New York City'

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China's Greater Bay Area includes nine municipalities plus Hong Kong and Macau.
Hong Kong chief executive, Carrie Lam, told the Asian Financial Forum on Monday that the Greater Bay Area — consisting of about 70 million people and a gross domestic product of $US1.5 trillion ($2.1 trillion) — was of national strategic importance.

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'Everyone is feeling more despair'
A look back at Hong Kong's handover to China 21 years later.
She said that over time, the Greater Bay Area would rival that of the bay areas of Tokyo and New York "in economic might".

"With the ambition to develop an international innovation and technology hub, our Bay Area has been described by some as combining Silicon Valley with New York City," she said.

According to the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, the national strategy initiated by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2015 also aims to creatively promote the "one country, two systems" principle which has allowed Hong Kong to retain a high degree of autonomy after its handover to China in 1997.

Zhang Xiaoming, director of the office, said in a statement published last week that the blueprint was completed after "significant process" was made last year.

However, there are still doubts about how well the administrations of Hong Kong, Macau, and Guangdong can integrate due to differing tax tariffs, currencies, and legal and political systems.

Alfred Wu, an associate professor from the National University of Singapore, told the ABC that on many levels, the Greater Bay Area plan looked "very superficial and symbolic".

But he said it appeared China was sending a signal to its biggest rival — the United States — that it was catching up in terms of economic clout.

'Beijing hopes Hong Kong can develop on a larger scale'
A chart comparing the size of each bay area's area and population.
Dr Wu added he "doubted" Beijing could execute the Greater Bay Area like San Francisco did because the three regions had different laws and tax systems.

He said the reason why Tokyo, San Francisco and New York bay areas were successful was because they were developed under the same legal system and had similar incentives to be connected.

He said it was also "hard to say" whether the Greater Bay Area would corrode or enhance the "one country, two systems" principle, given that Hong Kong residents were very "sensitive" about any changes related to the principle.

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A survey conducted by the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong from last June showed that respondents were uncertain about whether the plan would achieve its purpose and possible economic benefits or losses for Hong Kong.

The survey found that only 33.2 per cent of the respondents agreed the plan could achieve "complementary advantages" between the regions, while 16.4 per cent didn't think it could, while the rest were undecided

"Hong Kong only has 7 million people, so their thinking can be [much more small scale]," Dr Wu said.

"But Beijing hopes Hong Kong can develop on a larger scale."

And while the plan aims to create more employment opportunities for people in Hong Kong, it could also ultimately dilute the identities of the individual cities, he added.

More details of the Greater Bay Area plan are expected to be announced on February 21.

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Chow Ang Moh officially acknowledged and reported Chinese PLA ahead of USA in many ace weapons

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DIA’s China Military Power Report Details Leaders’ Strategy

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(AGENPARL) – Washington, mar 15 gennaio 2019

WASHINGTON — China’s military rise is well-planned, and Chinese leaders are following a strategy they believe will lead to greater power and influence both regionally and globally, according to an unclassified report released today by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

The 125-page report, “China Military Power — Modernizing a Force to Fight and Win,” details some of the efforts made by the world’s most populous nation to build a military force that will allow it to back up plans for “great rejuvenation.”
“As we look at China, we see a country whose leaders describe it as moving closer to center stage in the world, while they strive to achieve what they call the ‘great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,’” said Dan Taylor, a senior defense intelligence analyst with the DIA. “This ambition permeates China’s national security strategy and guides the development of the People’s Liberation Army.”
Taylor pointed out that the PLA is not actually a national institution in China, but rather the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party. About 3 million serve on active duty in the PLA, making it the largest military force in the world. Additionally, it’s thought the PLA receives about $200 billion a year in funding — about 1.4 percent of China’s gross domestic product — though lack of transparency means exact numbers can’t be determined.
Comprehensive National Power
Communist party leaders in China, Taylor said, are looking to build “comprehensive national power” over the first few decades of the 21st century, and a key component of that is enhanced military power.
“China is rapidly building a robust, lethal force, with capabilities spanning ground, air, maritime, space and information domains, designed to enable China to impose its will in the region, and beyond,” Taylor said.
Economic growth in China has enabled it to spend significantly to modernize the PLA, and continued development is expected, Taylor said.
“In the coming years, the PLA is likely to grow even more technologically advanced and proficient, with equipment comparable to that of other modern militaries,” Taylor said. “The PLA will acquire advanced fighter aircraft, modern naval vessels, missile systems, and space and cyberspace assets as it reorganizes and trains to address 21st century threats farther from China’s shores.”
According to the DIA report, Chinese efforts to advance the PLA have been informed, at least in part, by what it has observed of the U.S. military during past military operations — including both abilities and gaps in capability.
“The Gulf War provided the PLA stark lessons regarding the lethal effectiveness of information-enabled weapons and forces, particularly mobility and precision-strike capabilities, that had become the standard for effectively waging war in the modern era,” the report says.
The Chinese also have adapted their forces and doctrine to exploit perceived gaps in U.S. defenses.
Following the Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union, Chinese leaders perceived a period of strategic opportunity, the report says.” Convinced they would not see a major military conflict before 2020, China embarked on a period of economic and military development.
The Chinese increased the PLA budget by an average of 10 percent per year from 2000 to 2016, for instance. They additionally reformed the way the PLA bought weapons, and instituted several broad scientific and technical programs to improve the defense industrial base and decrease the PLA’s dependence on foreign weapon acquisitions.
Realistic Training
The PLA saw the capabilities U.S. and Western forces fielded. Those forces used realistic training scenarios, and the Chinese adapted that to their forces as well. Leaders also implemented personnel changes to professionalize the PLA.
“The PLA developed a noncommissioned officer corps and began programs to recruit more technically competent university graduates to operate its modern weapons,” the report says. “PLA political officers assigned to all levels of the military acquired broader personnel management responsibilities in addition to their focus on keeping the PLA ideologically pure and loyal to the CCP.”
Professionalization of the PLA, with an increased push to focus on an ability to “fight and win” — a goal that mirrors U.S. doctrine — has been a hallmark of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent military strategy, said one defense official speaking to reporters on background.
Key takeaways from the DIA report include the Chinese emphasis on cyber capabilities, the defense official added. “It’s clear to us it’s a very important area to the Chinese,” the official said. “But it’s hard to know exactly how effective a cyberattack capability is until it’s actually used.”
China’s focus on Taiwan also is a focus of the DIA report.
“Xi Jinping has made it clear that resolving or making progress, at least, on resolving … the Taiwan situation is a very top priority for him,” the defense official said.
(C. Todd Lopez of Defense.gov contributed to this report.)

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美國國防情報局15日發布一份新情報報告指出，中國致力取得尖端武器、打造自身成為全球軍事強權，日益威脅美軍優勢，尤其高超音速武器與中遠程飛彈，恐都已領先美國。

美國國防情報局發布新的中國軍力報告指出，中國日益威脅美軍優勢，尤其高超音速武器與中遠程飛彈，恐已領先美國。圖為中國2015年九三閱兵時的東風26（DF-26）彈道飛彈。(資料照)
「華盛頓郵報」報導，這是國防情報局（DIA）第一份就中國軍事能力提出的公開報告，反映美國政府內部對因應中國軍力急速崛起、或致力於主宰太平洋美國盟邦的態勢反應不夠快，感到越來越憂心。
國防情報局分析師泰勒（Dan Taylor）在五角大廈告訴媒體：「過去10年間，從執行亞丁灣打擊海盜任務，到在東海及南海擴大軍力展現，中國已表現出利用解放軍（PLA）做為國家力量工具的意願，遂行他們所謂的新世紀歷史任務。」
據DIA這份名為「中國軍力：部隊現代化以利作戰與戰勝」的報告指出，中共領導人大部分焦點仍放在確保國內穩定，但他們也越來越關注於主宰東亞，主要與北京政府要統一台灣的目標有關。
中國藉挑戰他國對東海與南海爭議島嶼主權的主張、建造第一艘國產航艦，展現區域龍頭地位。中國還研發新的長程轟炸機、在爭議地區興建軍事前哨，以利新方式投射軍力。亞洲以外，中國在非洲的吉布地（Djibouti）建立首座海外軍事基地，並以海軍艦船從葉門撤僑。
國防部官員表示，有2項領域中國可能已領先美國，一是高超音速滑翔載具，另一是中遠程及遠程飛彈。
根據DIA這份報告，中國2014年試射反衛星飛彈系統，另外發展能用於攻擊、癱瘓人造衛星的能力，北京也在研究、並可能已在研發反衛星雷射。
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China’s Military Is Getting Better at a Lot of Things at Once: Pentagon Intelligence

By Kevin Baron Executive Editor Read bio

January 15, 2019

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The DIA’s first public report cites rapid advances, extended reach, and increasing confidence.

China’s military power remains limited and its leaders want no war with the United States, but its desire for regional hegemony, global reach, and advanced technology means the U.S. military has much more to watch out for in the years ahead, according to a new unclassified assessment by the Pentagon’s intelligence agency.
This is the Defense Intelligence Agency’s first public and unclassified report on the People’s Liberation Army’s arsenal and intentions; the agency released a similar report on Russia’s military last year. It arrives five months after the Pentagon’s own annual report on Chinese military power — and two weeks after Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan reportedly instructed senior leaders to remain focused on one thing: “China, China, China.”
DIA’s findings and conclusions will be unsurprising to China watchers, but the assessment also publicly reveals the agency’s top concerns about Beijing’s military plans, leaders, and weapons — a list of concerns intended to guide the Trump administration and military leaders.
“In the coming years, the PLA is likely to grow even more technologically advanced and proficient with equipment comparable to that of other modern militaries,” said Dan Taylor, senior defense intelligence analyst at DIA, who read a statement to reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday. “The PLA will require advanced fighter aircraft, modern naval vessels, missile systems, and space and cyberspace assets as it reorganizes and trains to address 21st-century threats farther from China’s shores.”
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But Taylor and the DIA seem more focused on how the PLA is helping Beijing attain its grand strategy goals. The Communist Party’s long-stated plan is to seize what they see as a moment of strategic opportunity to help achieve “great power status” that is “designed to enable China to impose its will in the region and beyond,” he said.
DIA leaders do not believe that China is there yet. But President Xi Jinping has ordered the PLA to get better at using its rapidly modernizing arsenal, and a senior defense intelligence official who briefed reporters Tuesday said that the Pentagon is closely watching as Chinese leaders extend and gain confidence in their abilities — for example, to strike Taiwan or beyond.
“[Xi] thinks there are elements within the PLA that are still not focused on taking full advantage of all this modern equipment we’ve been talking about here and building their professional capabilities,” said the official. “We have to remember that the PLA two decades ago was still running hotels and businesses and not focused as much on capabilities and development, and he is very focused on that.”
DIA believes that China will look to expand from its new South China Sea islands and its new base in Djibouti.
“We now have to be able to look for a Chinese military that is active everywhere,” said the official. “We will have to interact with them, engage with them, deal with them, monitor them broadly more than we ever had to before, when they were very regionally focused near their own shores.”
China’s most likely conflict may still be with Taiwan, but DIA feels any such fight remains far off. The PLA continues to add missiles that can hit the breakaway island — and U.S. military assets on Guam — but DIA does not believe China’s leaders feel they have the other resources — helicopters, ground forces, etc. — that could win and hold the territory. But DIA worries those leaders may soon grow bolder.
“They are getting to a point where the PLA leadership may actually tell Xi Jinping that they are confident in their capabilities,” said the official. “The biggest concern is that as a lot of these technologies mature, as their reorganization of their military comes into effect, as they become more proficient with these capabilities, our concern is we’ll reach a point where internally, within their decision-making, they will decide that using military force for a regional conflict is something that is more eminent.”
Yet one factor will continue to rein in Beijing’s ambitions: experience. China has not fought a war in four decades; moreover, there is a generational gap between newer Chinese military officers, who are being trained for joint warfare across military service branches, and older officers whose have limited experience extends only to their own service branches and regional assignments inside China.
“I think the greatest vulnerability right now [is]… that this is a military that hasn’t fought a war in 40 years,” said the senior defense intelligence official. “This is a military that is very new at some of these concepts. They’ve been talking about joint operations for a long time, but some of is it just now sort of being implemented. And it will take a while for them to be able to work these services together, to be able to work these joint theaters and to be able to deal with a large, complex operation. When they’ve done things militarily at all, like counter-piracy, it’s been a few things tightly controlled. A few ships tightly controlled from the very top. Being able to manage a very large conflict, I think will be very challenging for them,”
Moreover, DIA believes that China’s leaders see their top threats as coming from internal challenges to the party rule, not outside conflict. “Beijing’s primary threat perceptions include sovereignty and domestic security issues that it believes could undermine the overriding strategic objective to perpetuate communist rule,” the official said.
To put a finer point on it, minority groups and terrorism are not uppermost on the mind of Xi’s government, despite the headlines about the oppressed Muslim population of Uighurs. Rather, they worry about the overall economy of the billion-plus people they rule.
“The real biggest threat that worries the Chinese leadership is instability among the majority Han population, because that will become the threat potentially to a regime’s instability,” the official said.
But if suppressing dissent is the top priority of China’s leaders, it is not the only one.
“We have to remember that the Chinese leadership is very focused on domestic stability concerns, but also that we are seeing a developing and a modernizing military that is able to do things much further from internal security that they had focused on in the past,” the official said.

Kevin Baron is the founding executive editor of Defense One. Baron has lived in Washington for 20 years, covering international affairs, the military, the Pentagon, Congress, and politics for Foreign Policy, National Journal, Stars and Stripes, and the Boston Globe, where he ran investigative ... Full bio

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China's advances pose increasing threat to American military dominance, report says

By Missy Ryan and Paul Sonne The Washington Post
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WASHINGTON — China’s drive to acquire cutting-edge weaponry and establish itself as a global military power poses an increasing threat to American defense superiority, a new intelligence report said Tuesday.
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s first public report on Chinese military capability reflects mounting concern within the U.S. government that the United States is not moving quickly enough to respond to Beijing’s rapid military rise or its efforts to dominate American allies in the Pacific.
“During the past decade alone, from counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, to an expanded military presence in the East and South China Seas, China has demonstrated a willingness to use the (People’s Liberation Army) as an instrument of national power in the execution of what they call their historic mission in the new century,” Dan Taylor, a senior DIA analyst, told reporters at the Pentagon.

The assessment by the Pentagon’s intelligence agency comes as the U.S. military begins reshaping itself to counter powers such as China and Russia after nearly two decades of focusing on counterinsurgency and anti-terrorism operations. Though then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis released a new national defense strategy in January 2018 outlining the goals, the Pentagon is still working on implementing them, with officials promising that proof of the transformation will be visible in the department’s 2020 budget request, which is due out next month.

Acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan has made the effort to outpace China a central aim of his tenure since joining the Pentagon as the deputy defense secretary in 2017. A former Boeing executive, Shanahan oversaw the 2020 budget request, which he has called a “masterpiece” designed to show how the U.S. military is reorienting itself toward China and Russia.
The DIA report places a new emphasis on the impact of China’s emerging status as a global military player, following Beijing’s establishment of permanent external facilities in the Horn of Africa and the South China Sea.

According to the report, China’s Communist Party leaders are increasingly concerned with dominance across East Asia, driven in large part by Beijing’s goal of reunification with Taiwan.
China has sought to demonstrate regional primacy by challenging other nations’ claims to disputed islands in the South China and East China seas, and building its first aircraft carrier that is locally designed and produced. It has also developed new long-range bomber capabilities and constructed military outposts in disputed areas, allowing it to project military power in new ways.

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By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times - Tuesday, January 15, 2019

China’s rapidly modernizing military is quickly closing the gap with the U.S. and its allies and may soon be tempted to test the status quo with Taiwan, a stark report from the Defense Department’s intelligence directorate concluded.

The 50-page report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, released Tuesday, contends that with its advances in military capabilities and an increasingly internationally focused defense strategy, China is rapidly entering “a period of strategic opportunity … [toward] building comprehensive national power,” said senior DIA intelligence analyst Dan Taylor.

The goal of China’s relentless military buildup is to “impose its will in the region and beyond,” Mr. Taylor told reporters at the Pentagon. Beijing “has demonstrated a willingness to use the [military] as an instrument of national power in the execution of … their historic mission in the new century.”

While Chinese advances in hypersonic weaponry, cyberwarfare and sea power are increasingly challenging longtime U.S. military supremacy, U.S. analysts say, China’s chief security priority may be much closer to home: reclaiming control of Taiwan, which Beijing has long considered a breakaway territory. The U.S. security umbrella has long restrained the mainland in its pressure campaign against Taipei.

“Our concern is we’ll reach a point where internally, within [China‘s] decision-making, they will decide that using military force for a regional conflict is something that is more imminent,” a senior U.S. defense intelligence official said.

Asked whether a military offensive to reclaim Taiwan into the Chinese mainland could be in the offing, the official replied, “Specifically, that would be the most concerning to me.”

The report was made public while Adm. John Richardson, U.S. chief of naval operations, was in Beijing with his Chinese counterparts in talks about American warship passages through the Taiwan Strait. In China’s official account of the talks, Chinese Gen. Li Zuocheng, chief of China’s Central Military Commission Joint Staff Department, reportedly told Adm. Richardson that China would allow “no external interference.”

“If someone tries to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese military will do whatever it takes to safeguard national reunification, national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Gen. Li said, according to the Chinese English-language transcript, the Reuters news agency reported.

More generally, the People’s Liberation Army is proving an increasingly formidable adversary for the U.S. and its allies, with a technological, manpower and economic base to fund further advances.

China possesses medium- and intermediate-range missile technology that has achieved near parity with American-made systems. It would be those types of missiles that would likely be the first salvo in any Chinese effort to retake Taiwan, the intelligence official said.

“If they wanted to fire missiles at Taiwan, they could do it right now,” the official said, noting that “there’s been no indication they’re planning to do that, but there’s very little warning that could be provided for that kind of thing.”

For now, however, after that initial missile strike, it is highly unlikely that Chinese forces could mount the necessary ground invasion to overtake the island, the U.S. official said.

“There’s a lot of work that I think that they’re still doing to try to work on those [invasion] capabilities, and we don’t have a real strong grasp on when they will think that they are confident in that capability,” the official said.

“In the coming years, [China] is likely to grow even more technologically advanced and proficient with equipment comparable to that of other modern militaries,” Mr. Taylor said. Leveraging “advanced fighter aircraft, modern naval vessels, missile systems, and space and cyberspace assets,” Beijing will continue to press its interests in the Pacific and beyond.

Alarm bells

While Chinese advances in areas such as space, cyberwarfare and next-generation aircraft have been well-documented over the years, it is Beijing’s rapid progress “across all different domains, simultaneously” that has raised alarm bells across the Pentagon.

Last year, Beijing announced its latest intermediate-range missile in the Chinese arsenal, the Dong Feng-26, now had a nuclear capability. Once fully operational, the DF-26 “would give China its first nuclear precision-strike capability” against targets in the Asia-Pacific region, the DIA report states.

In the field of hypersonics, Beijing is “on the leading edge of technology” nearly surpassing the Pentagon’s latest efforts, with China on the cusp of fielding a non-nuclear weapon capable of hitting any target around the world in an hour.

“From the Chinese perspective, they would hope that it would cause a great threat to U.S. warships,” in the Pacific and elsewhere, the intelligence official said regarding China’s advances in missile and hypersonics technologies. “It’s very concerning to see all the different areas they’re making progress.”

Adm. Bill Moran, vice chief of naval operations, declined to comment specifically on the DIA report’s findings, but the four-star admiral did note that Beijing’s burgeoning arsenal would force Navy leaders to adjust their overarching strategy in the Pacific.

“It changes some of the calculus in how you employ the force,” Adm. Moran told reporters after a speech at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference in Arlington, Virginia.

‘Great rejuvenation’

China’s growing military prowess is part of the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” being pursued by Beijing, the DIA’s Mr. Taylor said Tuesday.

“This ambition permeates China national security strategy and guides the development of the People’s Liberation Army, the PLA,” he said, calling the PLA “the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party.”

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan made clear shortly after succeeding James Mattis at the beginning of the month that the Pentagon’s focus would be squarely on China under his watch.

“While we’re focused on ongoing operations, acting Secretary Shanahan told the team to remember China, China, China,” a Defense Department official told reporters ahead of Mr. Shanahan’s first official appearance at the White House Cabinet meeting.

Despite China’s growing military prowess, Beijing has a long way to go before it can be considered a head-to-head threat to the U.S., the intelligence official said.

“This is a military that has not fought a war in 40 years,” the official said. “When you talk parity, there is more than just technology involved.”

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tanwahtiu · Jan 16, 2019

Fuck you...

Hypocrite-The said:
Boss Sam would say prostitutes...ah tiong land biggest export n contribution..he also one of the best customers.

syed putra · Jan 16, 2019

Malays will send a rocket to the moon and plant palm oil. Not just potatoes.

Hypocrite-The · Jan 17, 2019

CHINA POWER
China's 40 years of economic reform that opened the country up and turned it into a superpower
BY CHRISTINA ZHOU AND BANG XIAOUPDATED SUN 2 DEC 2018, 8:30 AM AEDT
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China's 40 years of economic reform and opening up.
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When Hua Dong first heard punk rock in the early 90s, he was listening to a damaged CD he bought cheaply from a Chinese black market — likely salvaged from a pile of foreign plastic trash.
Key points:

Deng Xiaoping introduced the concept of the socialist market economy in 1978
Chinese people living in poverty dropped from 88 per cent in 1981 to 6 per cent in 2017
The reform opened the country to foreign investment and lowered other trade barriers

China began importing recyclable materials after the start of its economic reforms some 40 years ago, but foreign music had been strictly controlled so cassette tapes and CDs were deliberately sawed or cut at customs to make them unplayable.
The pivotal exam of 1977

From factory worker to professor — the incredible story of Shuang Liu, whose life was changed forever by a 1977 exam in China.
The so-called "saw gash" CDs — many of them actually still fairly listenable — would go on to subtly shape the music taste of hundreds of millions of people across the country.

"Those [chipped] CDs formed my youth music kingdom," said Mr Hua, the lead vocalist of post-punk band, Rebuilding the Rights of Statues.

"Nowadays, it is so much easier to find the music online, I could download dozens of records to my laptop or smart phone in a few minutes."
Forty years ago, in December 1978, following a decade of the Cultural Revolution led by Mao Zedong that left the communist country in ruins, a series of transformative economic reforms opened China up to the international community and foreign investment.
Increased access to foreign music was just one tiny part of China's opening up process that transformed the country from one of the world's poorest nations to the second-biggest economy on earth.

PHOTO The "saw gash" CDs would go on to subtly shape the music taste of hundreds of millions people across the country.
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The reforms also paved the way for things like China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — an ambitious infrastructural push aimed at expanding China's political and economic influence internationally — and set the stage for the emergence of e-commerce and technology giants like Alibaba and Huawei.
'Let some people get rich first'

PHOTO Food coupons — a product of China's planned economy — were the only way people could redeem food and groceries.
WEIBO: SINA SHANDONG
It's hard to imagine that almost 40 years ago, more than 88 per cent of China's population lived on less than $US2 ($2.70) a day.
While the figure has dropped to less than 6 per cent in 2017, Jane Golley, acting director at Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University (ANU), said the difference between the poor and rich is "dire".
"China's high-tech industries, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, robotics, space and aviation … are becoming globally competitive and highly innovative enterprises that you just couldn't conceived of two decades ago — obviously not four decades ago," Dr Golley told the ABC.
Beijing's manufacturing blueprint

Made in China 2025 is a 10-year industrial development plan, but businesses and governments around the world are concerned it will have a dramatic effect on global trade.

"China is far from alone on inequality, but it is dire when you've got [so many] billionaires and you're talking robotics, artificial intelligence and world's largest companies and then you've got 84 million people living on under $US2 a day."

However, experts widely agree that a key decision in 1978, to reform and open up the country, has steered China onto the path to prosperity.

PHOTO Former US president Gerald Ford and his wife met former Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping in Beijing in 1975.
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS: COURTESY GERALD R. FORD LIBRARY
On December 18, 1978, the Communist Party's top decision-making body, the Central Committee, held its third plenum to lift the country out of the ruins left by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, where intellectuals and capitalists were publicly humiliated and shunned.
Mao Zedong died in 1976, opening up the opportunity for the Communist Party to reflect on the effects of communism and the Cultural Revolution.
Late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping was the chief engineer of the 1978 reforms and introduced the concept of the socialist market economy.
China's move towards dictatorship

At this congress, delegates will rubber stamp critical changes to the constitution that will give the party more control than ever and give one man, President Xi Jinping the potential to rule for life, Matthew Carney writes.
"Deng Xiaoping explicitly said that some people should be allowed to get rich first — very much not a Maoist line," Martin Chorzempa, research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told the ABC.

"[He was] essentially giving a political cover to say people should not feel it's bad to become financially successful."

Deng, who was officially the vice-premier of China, also developed the "one country, two systems" policy to reunify China during the early 1980s.
He said there would only be one China, but distinct Chinese regions, such as Hong Kong and Macau, could retain their own legal and economic systems, including trade relations with foreign countries.
'Experimentation' was critical

PHOTO The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre resulted after a clash that pitted many students' democratic ideology against the country's one-party dictatorship.
REUTERS: SHUNSUKE AKATSUKA, FILE
Mr Chorzempa said the way China's reforms were carried out was, to a great extent, the source of its current prosperity.
"One of the critical elements of that has been experimentation — so they start with something small, learned from that pilot program, and might have multiple iterations of the same pilot program all throughout the country," he said.

"They take the stuff that works and scale it up. And the stuff that doesn't work, they stop doing.

"That really sets China apart from other countries which often don't do this kind of evaluation of policies. China has continued to do this, and it's been enormously successful."
The experimentations started with the contracting of collectively owned land to households — a practice known as the household responsibility system — and was seen as the first break in the planned economy.

PHOTO KFC and McDonald's were considered authentic western restaurants in the decades after opening up.
WEIBO: BJSHI
Another critical reform policy was the establishment of Special Economic Zones in a series of coastal areas such as Shenzhen and Xiamen, where foreign and domestic companies can trade and invest without the same red tape applied to other regions.
However, the reform had already been underway for almost two decades before Shanghai — now a global financial hub — began its dramatic transformation.
Shanghai department stores

Few visitors to Shanghai's famous Nanjing Road would know that four of its early 20th-century department stores were started by Chinese-Australian merchants.
Professor Richard Rigby, Australia's former consul-general in Shanghai, said the city had been "kept under very tight control" until the early 1990s.
"I think Shanghai was never really trusted by the Chinese Communist Party because of its murky past and all its international connections and the association with the development of capitalism in China," said Professor Rigby, now the executive director of ANU's China Institute.
"It was after they had the experience of having a number of places being allowed to develop … they got some confidence with the economic zones [and] the opening up.

"Then I think they reached a certain point where they decided the place with probably the greatest potential is going to be Shanghai, and so let her rip, and that's what happened, and it really began."

'A rush to quickly build and quickly get rich'

PHOTO Even after almost two decades of reforms, Shanghai was still very different from what it looks like today.
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The Pudong district of Shanghai, which was mainly farmland and industrial waterfront before the 1990s, was transformed by supertall skyscrapers and waves of new infrastructure including bridges, freeways and expanded subway systems.

"The place was utterly transformed," Professor Rigby said.

"When I arrived at the beginning of 1994, the traffic was almost like Bangkok, you could scarcely move.
"When I left in 1998, although the amount of motorised traffic had increased three- or four-fold, it was actually flowing pretty well."
PHOTO The East Bond of Shanghai was one of the pilot economic development zones during the reform and opening up.
WEIBO: ZHENGKUN WANG
However, the rapid development across the country has led to pollution issues, which increased with the development of manufacturing.
"The rush to build factories and construct new cities has led to a degraded environment, both from polluted soil that might mean the crops are no longer edible, to the now well-known pollution issues in cities like Beijing," Mr Chorzempa said.

"Many of these centre cities with a lot of history have just been bulldozed to make room for faceless apartment towers because there was a rush to quickly build and quickly get rich."

Cities with no people

Fancy villas, high-rise apartment blocks, lakes, parks and sprawling road networks: ghost cities in China have everything — except people.
The state-owned enterprise reform — where inefficient companies were shut down en masse, and the remaining companies were restructured — triggered massive unemployment for millions of workers, devastating entire families.
According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, about 60 million people lost their jobs across the country from public-owned companies and businesses from 1995 to 2002.
"Some of them went off and became billionaires, a lot of them never found employment again — women suffered disproportionately through that time," Dr Golley said.
Many of the laid-off employees were also re-trained and re-employed by private domestic and international companies.
The economic reform also opened the country to foreign investment and lowered other trade barriers.
China's admission to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 signalled its formal integration into the international market economy.
'An incredible transformation'
PHOTO Beijing's National Museum of China rolled out a new exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up.
WEIBO: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CHINA
Fast forward to 2018, China is now the biggest trading nation in the world.
Citing data from Australian Bureau of Statistics, James Laurenceson, deputy director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney, said China was now buying more than $120 billion worth of Australian goods and services every year.
That equates to about 6 per cent of Australia's GDP, he said, adding that the "basket of goods" has expanded from iron to agriculture and services.
There is now also strong Chinese interest in Australian wine, beef, education and tourism.
PHOTO The reforms set the stage for the emergence of e-commerce and technology giants like Alibaba and Huawei.
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Professor Laurenceson said it was "an incredible transformation" from 1978 when China was a closed economy.
In response to the trade war with the US, Chinese President Xi Jinping has recently vowed to "step up" moves to further open the economy through its BRI.
Leave no dark corner

China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens. For some, "social credit" will bring privileges, for others, punishment, as Matthew Carney reports.
Qiang Wu, a former lecturer from Tsinghua University and an independent political commentator, said the country's reform and opening up process could not continue without the BRI.

"[China] uses globalisation to strengthen the one-party dictatorship and authoritarianism with Chinese characteristics, which also reflects its international movement at the end of reform and opening up," Dr Wu said.

He added that it was precisely the country's adherence to the one-party system that helped the country avoid insurgency during the reform period.
Dr Golley added that China's growth story has "brought the CCP legitimacy, but it won't be sustainable if the worst off in society are not brought along for the ride".
PHOTO China's Premier Li Keqiang delivers a government work report at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2017.
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tanwahtiu · Jan 17, 2019

China see Jap pattern and follows produced 100 engineers: 4 lawyers a year.... up up and away today becum super power...

Engineers win...

KuanTi01 · Jan 17, 2019

During conflicts and war, engineers are especially important and much needed. Lawyers can talkcock and sing song but the bullets are not interested. One needs engineering solutions to fight a war; not legal arguments. :biggrin:

Leongsam · Jan 18, 2019

China's greatest achievement.... the hairiest pussies ever destined for the export market.

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The Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse of 2019: A Red Lunar View!

By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | January 21, 2019 01:44am ET

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Update for 3 a.m. EST, Jan. 21: The total lunar eclipse of 2019 has ended. See our full story here! See more photos here!

Go outside and look up — the "Super Blood Wolf Moon" total lunar eclipse is underway!
The moon began edging into Earth's shadow tonight (Jan. 20) at 10:34 p.m. EST (0334 GMT on Monday, Jan. 21) and became completely darkened at 11:41 p.m. EST (0441 GMT). You can watch it live online, including this view from the Griffith Observatory, which contributed this video.
The total-eclipse phase lasted a little over an hour; with the moon starting to see the light again at about 12:43 a.m. EST (0543 GMT) Monday morning. The celestial show will wrap up at 1:51 a.m. EST (0651 GMT). [Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse of 2019: Complete Guide]

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The moon turns a blood-red color during the total lunar eclipse of Jan. 20, 2019 in this image taken by a telescope at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California.
Credit: Griffith Observatory
(Technically, the eclipse starts about an hour earlier, and ends roughly an hour later, than the above bookend times, as the moon enters and exits Earth's faint outer shadow, known as the penumbra. But these penumbral passings won't change the moon's appearance for most skywatchers, so we're not going to worry about them.)
Folks in North and South America are best positioned to see tonight's eclipse, though observers in Europe and western Africa are also getting an eyeful. And you really should take advantage of tonight's opportunity: There won't be another total lunar eclipseuntil May 2021.
The moon's path around Earth is slightly out of plane with our planet's orbit around the sun, which explains why total lunar eclipses are relatively uncommon; things have to line up just right. If the sun, moon and Earth all lay in exactly in the same plane, we'd have total lunar eclipses every month.

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The moon looks like a lemon slice in this view of the partial lunar eclipse on Jan. 20, 2019 at 11:16 p.m. EST (0416 GMT on Jan. 21).
Credit: Griffith Observatory
If cloudy skies or bright city lights are foiling your eclipse-viewing plans, you can always watch the event online: Space.com is hosting eclipse webcasts, as are other sites such as TimeandDate.com.

You may be wondering about the eclipse's rather florid name. Let's start with the "super" part. The eclipse coincides with a supermoon— a full moon that occurs when the natural satellite is at or near its closest point to Earth during its elliptical orbit. Supermoons appear slightly bigger and brighter in the sky than "normal" full moons.
The "blood" part refers to the ruddy color fully eclipsed moons often assume, the result of Earth's atmosphere bending some sunlight onto the mostly dark lunar surface. Red light preferentially makes it through, because it has long wavelengths; shorter-wavelength light such as yellow and blue gets blocked and scattered by our planet's air.

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The moon begins passing into Earth's shadow during a total lunar eclipse on Jan. 20, 2019 in this view from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California.
Credit: Griffith Observatory
And January's full moon is traditionally known as the Wolf Moon. Every month's full moon has such a folkloric moniker; for example, March's is called the Worm Moon. January's full moon may have gotten its name because Native Americans and/or early European colonists associated the month with increased wolf activity, especially howling.
Editor's note: If you capture an amazing photo of the Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse and would like to share it with Space.com for a story or gallery, send images and comments to managing editor Tariq Malik at [email protected].
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us @Spacedotcomor Facebook. Originally published on Space.com.

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Super blood wolf moon - It sounds ominous. What is it? It's a total lunar eclipse!

Sunday, January 20, 2019 11:20AM
This weekend the sky is putting on a howlingly good show: a super blood wolf moon.

Here's everything you need to know about the phenomenon.

When is the super blood wolf moon?

The moon will be big and bright throughout the night on Sunday into Monday morning, but the true show -- the total lunar eclipse -- will begin around midnight ET and last for about an hour.

The partial eclipse will begin about 90 minutes before the total eclipse begins, according to AccuWeather.

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Never heard of a super blood wolf moon? Here's what the name means.
What is the super blood wolf moon?

The term is being used because there are several lunar events happening at once. Let's break it down:

"Super moon"
A super moon occurs when the full moon is at its closest point to Earth. This means it appears bigger and brighter than usual.

"Blood moon"
The term "blood moon" refers to the most exciting part of Sunday's show, the total lunar eclipse. It's called a "blood moon" because, from Earth, the moon appears blood red as it passes into Earth's shadow. It's not an astronomy term but has become a popular term because it's so dramatic, according to AccuWeather and the Old Farmer's Almanac.

"Wolf moon"
Every month has special names to describe the full moon. The names originate from Native American folklore, according to AccuWeather. The most widely used name for January's moon is the "wolf moon."

RELATED: The story behind full moon names

How to see the super blood wolf moon

Much of the U.S. is expected to have fair to good viewing conditions.

Total lunar eclipses are one of the best astronomical events to view without equipment, so it should be easy to catch. All you need to do is go outside around midnight ET (or anytime for about the next hour) and look up. You can also watch the partial eclipse before and after totality.

What else you should know

This will be the last total lunar eclipse of the decade. If you're more of a super moon enthusiast, though, you're in luck. Next month's moon will be even closer and brighter, according to EarthSky.

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Long March 11 launches with three satellites
written by Rui C. Barbosa January 21, 2019

China conducted its second orbital launch of 2019 using a Long March 11 rocket – this time carrying three satellites into orbit. The launch took place from a mobile launch platform at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 05:42 UTC on Monday, per one of the payload customers.

Onboard the LM-11 (Y6) rocket were two Jilin commercial remote sensing satellites for hyperspectral observation. The two satellites arrived at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center later on January 3 ahead of Monday’s launch.
The Jilin-1 constellation was developed in China’s Jilin Province and is the country’s first self-developed remote sensing satellite for commercial use. It consists of several satellites that will provide data to commercial clients to help them forecast and mitigate geological disasters, as well as shorten the timescale for the exploration of natural resources.
Jilin, one of the country’s oldest industrial bases, is developing its satellite industry in a new economic drive. The province plans to launch 60 satellites by 2020 and 138 by 2030.
The first phase of the constellation saw the launch of the first three Jilin-1 satellites (that are also known as Lingqiao-1). Jilin 1-01 and Jilin 1-02 were launched on October 7, 2015, by a Long March-2D launch vehicle out of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, while Jilin 1-03 was launched on January 9, 2017, using a Kuaizhou-1A solid launch vehicle.

Jilin 1-04 to Jilin 1-06 were launched on November 21, 2017, by a Long March-6 rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.
Jilin 1-07 and -08 were launched on January 19, 2018.
Between 2018 and 2019 there are plans to have 16 satellites in orbit, completing a remote sensing network that will cover the entire globe and will be capable of a three to four hours update in the data provided. From 2020, the plans point to a 60 satellites orbital constellation capable of a 30 minutes update in the data provided.
From 2030, the Jilin constellation will have 138 satellites in orbit, forming an all-day, all-weather, full spectrum acquisition segment data and a capability of observing any global arbitrary point with 10 minutes revisit capability, providing the world’s highest spatial resolution and time resolution space information products.
The Jilin-1 remote sensing satellites are designed to capture videos with a ground resolution better than 1.0 meters and with a swath of 11 km × 4.5 km. The operational lifespan of the satellites is 3 years. The launch mass is 95 kg.
Also called ‘Jilin Lincao-1’ (Jilin-1 Hyperspectral-01) and ‘Wenchang Chaosun-1’ (Jilin-1 Hyperspectral-02), the two new satellites are hyperspectral satellites independently developed by Changguang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd.
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The satellite ‘Jilin Lincao-1 fully inherits the mature stand-alone and technical basis of the “Jilin-1” satellite, and is equipped with multi-spectral imager, short-wave, medium-wave and long-wave infrared camera, Shuiyuan-1 system for water management and other payloads.
The onboard intelligent processing system can obtain 5 meter resolution, 110 km width images with 26 imaging channels of remote sensing data. ‘Jilin Lincao-1 will provide remote sensing data and product services to users of forestry, grassland, shipping, oceanographic, resources and environment in the same way as the ten “Jilin No. 1” satellites launched previously.
Wenchang Chaosun-1 is the first commercial remote sensing satellite to be dedicated to Hainan Island and the South China Sea and will be operational at the end of March.
The satellite was jointly developed by Hainan Modern Science and Technology Group – a subsidiary of Wenchang Aerospace Supercomputing Big Data Industry Cluster Project, Qingdao Wanguo Yunshang Internet Industry Co., Ltd. and Changguang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd.

The satellite has three main functions: optical remote sensing, ship AIS message reception, and on-orbit AI processing. It can realize large-area fast coverage, global ship AIS message data rapid update and on-orbit intelligent information processing function for oceanographic monitoring, ecological monitoring, port monitoring, ship monitoring, etc.
The satellite will also be used for agriculture, forestry, environment, water transport management and other fields, and will greatly improve the information acquisition capabilities of Hainan Island, South China Sea and Southeast Asia.
Some sources point to the presence of a small 6U CubeSat on board this launch, but there is no information available about its nature or purpose.
The Long March-11 (Chang Zheng-11) is a small solid-fueled quick-reaction launch vehicle developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) with the goal to provide an easy to operate quick-reaction launch vehicle, that can remain in storage for long period and to provide a reliable launch on short notice.
LM-11 is a four stage solid-fueled launch vehicle equipped with a reaction control system on the fourth stage.

Long March 11 on a previous mission
The vehicle has a length of 20.8 meters, 2.0 meters in diameter and a liftoff mass of 58,000 kg. At launch it develops 120.000 kg/f, launching a 350 kg cargo into a 700 km SSO. The CZ-11 can use two types of fairing with 1.6 meters or 2.0 meters.
LM-11’s first launch took place on September 25, 2015, when successfully orbited the Pujiang-1 and the three Tianwang small sats from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in Ejin-Banner – a county in Alashan League of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region – was the first Chinese satellite launch center and is also known as the Shuang Cheng Tze launch center.
The site includes a Technical Centre, two Launch Complexes, Mission Command and Control Centre, Launch Control Centre, propellant fuelling systems, tracking and communication systems, gas supply systems, weather forecast systems, and logistic support systems.

The launch center
Jiuquan was originally used to launch scientific and recoverable satellites into medium or low earth orbits at high inclinations. It is also the place from where all the Chinese manned missions are launched.
Area 43 is the overall designation for the South Launch Area that is equipped with two launch pads: 91 and 94 (sometimes also designated 603). Launch Pad 91 is used for the manned program for the launch of the Chang Zheng-2F launch vehicle (Shenzhou and Tiangong).
The 94 launch pad is used for unmanned orbital launches by the Chang Zheng-2C, Chang Zheng-2D and Chang Zheng-4C launch vehicles. The 95 launch pad is being used for launching the Kuaizhou and the CZ-11 Chang Zheng-11 solid propellant launch vehicles.
The first orbital launch took place on April 24, 1970 when the CZ-1 Chang Zheng-1 rocket launched the first Chinese satellite, the Dongfanghong-1 (04382 1970-

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一箭四星中国成功发射“吉林一号”光谱01/02星及两颗小卫星

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中新社酒泉1月21日电 (李潇帆)北京时间1月21日13时42分，中国在酒泉卫星发射中心用长征十一号运载火箭，以一箭四星方式，成功将“吉林一号”光谱01/02星和搭载的“灵鹊-1A”星、“潇湘一号”03星发射升空，卫星均进入预定轨道。

北京时间1月21日13时42分，中国在酒泉卫星发射中心用长征十一号运载火箭，以一箭四星方式，成功将“吉林一号”光谱01/02星和搭载的“灵鹊-1A”星、“潇湘一号”03星发射升空，卫星均进入预定轨道。石立群摄
据介绍，“吉林一号”光谱01/02星是长光卫星技术有限公司自主研发的新型多光谱卫星，搭载多光谱成像仪、红外相机等载荷，可与此前发射的10颗“吉林一号”卫星组网，为林业、草原、航运、海洋、资源、环境等行业用户提供遥感数据和产品服务。
“灵鹊-1A”星是北京零重空间技术有限公司“灵鹊”星座规划的首发验证星，具备对地拍照、视频成像、高速数传、星间通信等功能。“潇湘一号”03星是长沙天仪空间科技研究院有限公司研制的技术试验卫星，主要用于验证无线电通信及小型遥感试验。

北京时间1月21日13时42分，中国在酒泉卫星发射中心用长征十一号运载火箭，以一箭四星方式，成功将“吉林一号”光谱01/02星和搭载的“灵鹊-1A”星、“潇湘一号”03星发射升空，卫星均进入预定轨道。朗文海摄
承担本次一箭四星发射任务的长征十一号运载火箭由中国航天科技集团有限公司研制生产，发射、测控任务由中国卫星发射测控系统部负责。这次卫星发射，也是中国长征系列运载火箭第299次航天飞行。(完)

【编辑:张楷欣】

One arrow and four stars China successfully launched the "Jilin No. 1" spectrum 01/02 stars and two small satellites
January 21, 2019 17:32 Source: China News Network Participation

Video: One Arrow and Four Stars China successfully launched the "Jilin No. 1" spectrum 01/02 stars and two small satellites
Source: China News Network

China News Service Jiuquan January 21st (Li Yifan) At 13:42 on January 21st, Beijing time, China used the Long March 11 carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to successfully "Jilin No.1" in a four-star manner. "Spectrum 01/02 star and the "Lingyi-1A" star and "Xiaoxiang No.1" 03 star launched into the air, and the satellites all entered the orbit.
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At 13:42 on January 21st, Beijing time, China used the Long March 11 carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to successfully launch the "Jilin No. 1" spectrum 01/02 star and the "Lingling" with one arrow and four stars. -1A" star, "Xiaoxiang No.1" 03 star launched into the air, the satellites all entered the orbit. Shi Liqun

According to reports, "Jilin No. 1" spectrum 01/02 star is a new multi-spectral satellite independently developed by Changguang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd., equipped with multi-spectral imager, infrared camera and other loads, and can be used with 10 "Jilin No. 1" previously launched. "Satellite networking provides remote sensing data and product services to users in forestry, grassland, shipping, marine, resources, and environmental industries.

"Lingyi-1A" star is the first verification star of Beijing Lingwei Space Technology Co., Ltd. "Lingyi" constellation planning, with functions such as photo taking, video imaging, high-speed data transmission, and inter-satellite communication. "Xiaoxiang No.1" 03 star is a technical test satellite developed by Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., which is mainly used to verify radio communication and small remote sensing test.
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At 13:42 on January 21st, Beijing time, China used the Long March 11 carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to successfully launch the "Jilin No. 1" spectrum 01/02 star and the "Lingling" with one arrow and four stars. -1A" star, "Xiaoxiang No.1" 03 star launched into the air, the satellites all entered the orbit. Longman Sea

The Long March 11 carrier rocket, which undertakes the one-shot and four-star launch mission, is developed and produced by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Co., Ltd., and the launch, measurement and control tasks are under the responsibility of the China Satellite Launch Measurement and Control System Department. This satellite launch is also the 299th space flight of the China Long March series of launch vehicles. (Finish)

[Editor: Zhang Yixin]

winnipegjets · Jan 22, 2019

It is time Americans are made to realize that they are not respected or desired.

Leongsam · Jan 22, 2019

winnipegjets said:
It is time Americans are made to realize that they are not respected or desired.

America is the greatest nation on earth and is being led by the world's best president.

tanwahtiu · Jan 22, 2019

Talk thru yr arse...

Leongsam said:
America is the greatest nation on earth and is being led by the world's best president.

KuanTi01 · Jan 22, 2019

tanwahtiu said:
Talk thru yr arse...

Unfortunately your favourite and world's best President cannot hold office for life! All hail Presidents Xi and Putin! :biggrin:

Tony Tan · Jan 22, 2019

http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2019-01/22/c_1124025007.htm

北京新机场迎来“第一飞”
2019-01-22 来源： 新华网

1月22日10时10分，一架“奖状680”校验飞机平稳降落在北京大兴国际机场西一跑道上，留下了第一道飞机轮胎印迹，意味着北京新机场第一场校验任务圆满完成，机场工程建设即将进入验收移交阶段。新华社发（汪洋摄）
新华社北京1月22日电（记者齐中熙、张樊）22日10时10分，一架“奖状680”校验飞机平稳降落在北京大兴国际机场西一跑道上，留下了第一道飞机轮胎印迹，意味着北京新机场第一场校验任务圆满完成，机场工程建设即将进入验收移交阶段。
飞行校验是每一座新建机场通航的先决条件，也是对机场前期建设情况的检验。在大兴国际机场飞行校验前，华北空管局已组织完成了对该机场导航工程西区（西一、西二跑道）和东一跑道共6套仪表着陆系统的现场验收，为西区和东一跑道校验飞行做好准备。
执行首场飞行校验任务领队、中国民航飞行校验中心主任熊杰介绍，世界上极少有像大兴国际机场这样4条高等级跑道同时建成、投入校验和使用的机场。特别值得一提的是，此次飞行校验使用的是我国拥有自主知识产权的校验台，功能强大、性能可靠。该校验台既能完成传统校验项目，也能完成ADS-B（广播式自动相关监视系统）、HUD（平视显示器）等新型航行技术飞行校验任务。它的研制和成功使用使我国成为世界上第六个能独立研制飞行校验系统的国家。
此次飞行校验工作从1月22日开始，计划于3月15日结束，持续时间近2个月。整个校验内容包括4条跑道，6套仪表着陆系统，7套灯光，1套全向信标及测距仪和飞行程序。飞行校验完成后，意味着大兴国际机场飞行程序和导航设备具备投产通航条件。
据悉，为确保大兴国际机场6月30日竣工、9月30日前如期通航，大兴国际机场正在按照建设 “精品工程、样板工程、平安工程、廉洁工程”的标准和打造“平安机场、绿色机场、智慧机场、人文机场”的目标，积极推进各项工作。目前，“三纵一横”四条跑道已全面贯通，正在进行助航灯光调试；航站楼屋顶装饰板铺装完成，成功点火热源工程，顺利保障航站楼冬施供暖；停车楼“亮灯计划”圆满完成，工作区进出场高架桥全线通车；综合交通体系建设稳步推进，“五纵两横”主干路网也逐步成形。

Beijing New Airport welcomes "first flight"

2019-01-22 Source: Xinhuanet

At 10:10 on January 22, a "Certificate 680" calibration aircraft landed smoothly on the West First Runway of Beijing Daxing International Airport, leaving the first aircraft tire footprint, which means the first calibration of Beijing New Airport The mission was successfully completed and the construction of the airport project is about to enter the acceptance and handover phase. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Wang Yang)

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 22 (Reporter Qi Zhongxi, Zhang Fan) At 10:10 on the 22nd, a "Certificate 680" calibration aircraft landed smoothly on the West First Runway of Beijing Daxing International Airport, leaving the first aircraft The tire imprint means that the first verification task of Beijing New Airport has been successfully completed, and the construction of the airport project is about to enter the acceptance handover stage.

Flight calibration is a prerequisite for the opening of each new airport and a test of the pre-construction of the airport. Before the flight check at Daxing International Airport, the North China Air Traffic Control Administration has completed the on-site acceptance of a total of 6 instrument landing systems for the West (West 1 and West 2 runways) and Dongyi Runway of the airport navigation project, for the West and Dongyi The runway calibration flight is ready.

Xiong Jie, the leader of the first flight verification task and director of the Civil Aviation Flight Calibration Center of China, said that there are very few airports in the world with four high-grade runways like Daxing International Airport built and put into use for verification and use. It is particularly worth mentioning that this flight calibration uses a calibration platform with independent intellectual property rights in China, which is powerful and reliable. The calibration station can complete the traditional calibration project as well as the new navigation technology flight verification tasks such as ADS-B (broadcast automatic correlation monitoring system) and HUD (head-up display). Its development and successful use make China the sixth country in the world to independently develop a flight check system.

The flight verification work began on January 22 and is scheduled to end on March 15 and lasts for nearly 2 months. The entire calibration includes 4 runways, 6 instrument landing systems, 7 sets of lights, 1 set of omnidirectional beacons and range finder and flight procedures. After the flight calibration is completed, it means that the flight procedures and navigation equipment of Daxing International Airport have the conditions for commissioning.

It is reported that in order to ensure the completion of Daxing International Airport on June 30 and the scheduled opening before September 30, Daxing International Airport is building the “Safe Airport, Green Airport, and the standards of “Quality Project, Model Project, Ping An Project, Clean Project”. The goal of smart airport and humanistic airport is to actively promote various tasks. At present, the four runways of “three vertical and one horizontal” have been fully integrated, and the navigation lighting commissioning is underway; the roof decorative panel pavement of the terminal building is completed, the successful ignition heat source project is successfully ensured, and the winter heating of the terminal building is smoothly guaranteed; the parking building “lights up” The plan was successfully completed, and the viaducts in the work area were opened to traffic. The construction of the comprehensive transportation system was steadily advanced, and the “five vertical and two horizontal” main road networks were gradually formed.

Tony Tan · Jan 22, 2019

Super Day Kee!

syed putra · Jan 22, 2019

The architect for this airport is a iraqi woman. Zaha Hadid.

Tony Tan · Jan 23, 2019

https://mil.news.sina.com.cn/china/2019-01-22/doc-ihqfskcn9267580.shtml

中国“雪龙”船在南极撞到冰山船艏桅杆及舷墙受损

2019年01月22日 07:05 央视

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原标题：“雪龙”船在南极碰撞冰山目前人船安全
记者从自然资源部获悉，“雪龙”船在执行中国第35次南极考察任务期间，于北京时间1月19日上午10时47分，在阿蒙森海密集冰区航行中，因受浓雾影响，在南纬69°59.9‘，西经94°04.2’位置与冰山碰撞，碰撞时船速3节（约5.56千米/小时），船艏桅杆及部分舷墙受损，无人员受伤，压载水舱、油舱、主机及其他船舶动力设备、通讯导航设备运行正常。
情况发生后，自然资源部高度重视，立即研究部署并开展应对工作，把人员安全放在首位，及时对船舶安全状态进行监测，精心组织对受损部位进行检修，在确保安全前提下，制定后续科考作业方案。
目前，“雪龙”船运行正常。

China's "Snow Dragon" ship hits an iceberg in the South Pole. Ship mast and bulwark are damaged.
January 22, 2019 07:05 CCTV
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Original title: "Snow Dragon" ship hits the iceberg in the Antarctic

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Natural Resources that during the implementation of China’s 35th Antarctic expedition, the “Snow Dragon” ship was immersed in the dense ice area of the Amundsen Sea at 10:47 am on January 19, Beijing time. The fog affected the collision with the iceberg at a distance of 69°59.9' in the south latitude and 94°04.2' in the west. The speed of the ship was 3 knots (about 5.56 km/h), and the mast and part of the bulwark were damaged. No injuries were observed. The ballast tanks, oil tanks, main engines and other ship power equipment and communication navigation equipment are operating normally.

After the situation occurs, the Ministry of Natural Resources attaches great importance to it, immediately researches and deploys and carries out response work, puts personnel safety first, monitors the ship's safety status in a timely manner, carefully organizes the repair of damaged parts, and develops follow-up under the premise of ensuring safety. Scientific research work plan.

At present, the "Snow Dragon" ship is operating normally.

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