 | CCTV-9: Zhou inspects collapsed tunnel in Gansu Pro Zhou Yongkang inspects collapsed tunnel in Gansu Province WATCH VIDEO Source: CCTV.com | 05-16-2008 12:01 Special Report: Strong quake jolts SW China A senior CPC official has urged the repair of a quake-damaged railway section as soon as possible. Member of the Poliburo Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee, Zhou Yongkang, made the call while inspecting a collapsed tunnel in Gansu Province. Zhou Yongkang arrived in Shaanxi Province on Thursday afternoon. He then headed to Huixian County in neighboring Gansu Province where the collapsed tunnel along the Baoji-Chengdu Railway is located. En route, Shaanxi provincial officials updated Zhou Yongkang about their disaster relief work. The senior official called on the party committees and governments at various levels in Shaanxi to make the earthquake disaster relief work as their most important and urgent tasks. He also urged them to do their best to rescue the injured, relocate the victims and guarantee their basic standards of living. Zhou Yongkang stressed that Shaanxi -- which borders Sichuan -- should continue making the most of its geographic advantage to help Sichuan with the disaster relief work. The senior official also carefully studied the tunnel rescue work with accompanying experts. The Baoji-Chengdu Railway is the lifeline linking northwestern China to its southwestern provinces. During Monday's devastating earthquake that rocked Sichuan Province -- a freight train derailed -- paralyzing the railway linking Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, and Baoji City in Shaanxi Province. The train with five hundred tons of gasoline on board caught fire. It burned for about 40 hours before more than 1,500 rescuers put out the fire on Wednesday. Zhou Yongkang urged workers to safeguard against any gasoline explosion and possible quake-induced landslides. But to make every effort to dislodge the damaged train from the tunnel and repair the railway and tunnel so that the line can resume operations as soon as possible. Zhou Yongkang said, "The Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee's Political Bureau has held two meetings especially for the disaster relief work. And the general-secretary has called on rescuers to make all-out efforts to overcome difficulties and achieve the success of disaster relief efforts. Especially right now, we are rescuing victims in the worst-hit province of Sichuan. And the next step is rebuilding their homes. The recovery of the railway is connected to the lifeline of west and southwestern China." Zhou Yongkang also met with Gansu provincial officials and related experts to further study the railway rescue work on Thursday night. |
 | President Hu calls for scientific innovation Among developing countries, China had now taken the lead regarding the general level of science and technological development, said Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. He attributed the achievements to the full support of the Party, the nation and the hard work by Chinese scientists and technicians. Hu made the remarks at Monday's inaugural ceremony for both the 14th Congress of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ninth Congress of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Science. He began his speech by giving a brief summary of the country's strenuous anti-earthquake efforts after a powerful 8.0-quake struck Wenchuan County in the southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12. Members of the two academies had made full use of their collective wisdom and power to play an important role in the quake relief, he said. In his speech, Hu mentioned two major historic events -- the National Science Congress in March 1978, and the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee in December that same year. The science conference has been called a "Spring" for the country's science circles following the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The latter ushered in the Reform and Opening-up Drive in the country. Hu recalled it was Deng Xiaoping who talked about major issues regarding the political status. At the meeting, the late leader proposed that science and technology were a productive force, intellectuals were part of the working class, and the key of the country's modernization drive lay with the modernization of science and technology. He reiterated science and technology were the No.1 productive force; human resources were the No. 1 resource; and it was a must to persistently increase the capabilities in independent innovation; it was a must to adhere to the political advantage of socialism, which enabled the government to gather powers to do big things; it was a must that science and technology served economic and social development as well as the people; and it was a must to display the scientific spirit. |
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