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The chemical blasts that ripped through the port city of Tianjin one year ago killed 173 people, the vast majority of them firefighters.
The BBC met survivor Zhang Mengfan, who lost many of his colleagues on that day.
He said the public should know what happened.
A Chinese court has handed a suspended death sentence to the head of a chemical factory for his role in blasts that killed 173 people last year. Ruihai Logistics chairman Yu Xuewei was also fined more than 700,000 yuan (about $100,000) over the disaster in the eastern port city of Tianjin. He is among 49 staff and government officials jailed for their role in the firm’s illegal operations. Most of the dead were firefighters and police. Eight bodies were never found. Tianjin blast August 2015 173 People dead or missing 304 buildings damaged 12,428 cars destroyed $1.1bn in economic losses State Council AFP The explosion was one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Chinese history and caused more than $1bn in estimated economic losses. The Ruihai Logistics chairman was found guilty of paying bribes allowing his company to sidestep safety regulations when storing sodium cyanide and other dangerous chemicals. Deadly disaster marked one year on Media caption Zhang Mengfan says the public deserves to know what happened in the Tianjin blasts Others sentenced were found guilty on charges ranging from abuse of power to storing dangerous substances illegally. An investigation found that stocks of flammable nitrocellulose – a chemical used in nail polish – had caught fire and spread to illegal stores of the fertilizer ammonium nitrate. The blasts that were triggered ripped through an industrial port area in the city, destroying buildings, shipping containers and thousands of new cars.
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Kristel Smentek: Chinoseries for Beijing: An Eighteenth-Century French Gift to the Emperor of China
Kristel Smentek, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks about how in 1766 a set of chinoiserie tapestries designed by François Boucher was presented to the Qianlong Emperor on behalf of the French administration.
This lecture examines the circumstances of the gift and the remarkable Sino-French exchange of art objects it initiated.
Kristel Smentek is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Architecture at MIT.
Her research interests include rococo art and design, the history of collecting and display, the history of the art market, and the impact of Asian-European exchange on eighteenth-century European art and aesthetic theory. She curated the exhibition Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelains and the Allure of the East for The Frick Collection in 2007 and is the author of articles on the eighteenth-century print market, on the painter Jean-Étienne Liotard, and on the display of Chinese porcelain in eighteenth-century French interiors. She recently published a book about the French collector Pierre-Jean Mariette, Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2014), and is currently working on a new book project, tentatively titled Objects of Encounter: China in Eighteenth-Century France.
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China - Father Christmas arrives in China
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Santa is beginning to make more and more tentative appearances in Beijing. But a crowd of onlookers were in for a surprise at Double Peace Market in Beijing on Tuesday (17/12) because a unique Santa had come to town. He was fitter and taller than usual. Professional basketball player Tyrone Doleman took on the new role.
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SOT Tyrone Doleman, basketballer You know, across the world Santa loves kids... and Tyrone Doleman loves kids. If I can bring joy and happiness to kids, that's all good.;
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Gas Cylinders Explosion Damaged Home in South China City, Trapping Two People
A residential home with many gas cylinders in storage was exploded on Saturday morning in a village of Yulin City, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, trapping two people.
Video footage showed the owner of the home, surnamed Chen, carried a gas cylinder back home, then ten minutes later, the home suddenly exploded at 08:25, with the door blown up and glasses shattered. Chen, catching fire on body, rushed out of the home.
When firefighters arrived at site at 08:35, thick smoke billowed from the building. The blast site was littered with debris and the fire flamed intensely. There were two people trapped on the roof of the three-story building.
Firefighters took immediate actions to put out the fire with high-pressure water gun, and carried 42 cylinders in the home to the open ground outside. Then firefighters entered the building and successfully brought the two trapped people to the safety.
At 08:55, the fire was totally extinguished.
According to a preliminary investigation, the fire was triggered by the leak of liquid gas. The blast site is suspected to be an illegal workshop of filling liquid gas without permission. The gas was provided for neighboring residents and small restaurants. In the illegal workshop, most of gas cylinders were scrapped, and there was no safety protection during the process of filling gas, said Huang Zhe, office director, headquarters of Yulin city fire brigade.
Further investigation of the cause of the accident is underway.
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Korean Ammunition Dump Explosion (1952)
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American newsreel titles read: 'BIGGEST KOREA AMMO DUMP EXPLODES!'
Pusan, Korea.
Aerial view of the ammunition dump exploding. Several shots of large pall of white smoke over the dump.
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Fertilizer Plant Explosion In West, Texas
Dozens of people are feared dead tonight and well over 100 are injured after this massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas about 35 miles north of Waco. Eyewitnesses likened the event to a nuclear bomb blast and it sent a massive fireball into the sky. The explosion registered a 2.1 on the richter scale, instantly leveled dozens of houses in the area and shook others as far away as 50 miles. Officials are evacuating parts of the town as the plant contained 54,000 pounds of the chemical anhydrous ammonia, a pungent gas with suffocating fumes. When exposed to humans, it can cause severe burns if it combines with water in the body. And exposure to high concentrations can lead to death. This tragic event casts a massive spotlight on concerns over the lack of funding for inspection agencies like OSHA - the Occupational Health and Safety Administration. OSHA understaffing means they can only inspect plants like this one once every 129 years. Just 6 fertilizer plants in the entire state of Texas were inspected by OSHA over the last five years and, naturally, the West, Texas fertilizer plant was not one of them. Another regulatory body that would have overseen the plant, the Chemical Safety Board, was coincidentally criticized today in a piece by the Center for Public Integrity which highlighted the dwindling productivity of the agency. When the West, Texas fertilizer plant was cited for OSHA violations way back in 1985, the fine was a mere $30.
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Tianjin 2010 - Sustainability and Corporate Competitiveness
Tuesday September 14, 2010
A study revealed that nearly 80% of business executives believe sustainability is a source of value in the long term, but only 30% integrate sustainability principles into their business practices. How can companies build and maintain a sustainable competitive edge?
Speakers
* Eckhard Cordes, Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer, METRO GROUP, Germany; Mentor of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2010
* Mark Foster, Group Chief Executive, Global Markets and Management Consulting, Accenture, United Kingdom
* Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alcoa, USA; Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business * Dov Seidman, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, LRN, USA
* Zhang Xiaogan, President, Anshan Iron and Steel Group Corporation, People's Republic of China Chaired by
* Yoko Ishikura, Professor, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Japan; Global Agenda Council on Skills & Talent Mobility
Chaired by * Yoko Ishikura, Professor, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Japan; Global Agenda Council on Skills & Talent Mobility
Inside a Huge PCB Factory - in China
Today we're visiting JLCPCB ( one of the largest prototype PCB manufacturers in China. We're getting an exclusive factory tour of one of their newest printed circuit board factories in Huizhou, just outside of Shenzhen, to see the PCB manufacturing process step-by-step. Are you an electronics geek or a DIY enthusiast that loves soldering projects that's always wondered how to make that PCB? Today we're going to see how it's made!
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Davos 2012 - Putting China's Trillions to work
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With the global community turning increasingly to China as the lender of last resort, how can China best deploy its massive current account surplus and private capital without triggering a backlash at home or abroad?
In partnership with the World Economic Forum, CCTV hosts this debate on the role of China's capital abroad.
• Robert Greifeld, Chief Executive Officer, The NASDAQ OMX Group, USA
• Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
• Richard C. Levin, President, Yale University, USA
• John Zhao, Chief Executive Officer, Hony Capital, People's Republic of China
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Embracing Sovereignty: China, the U.S., and the Future of the World Order | 2017 Neuhauser Lecture
James Steinberg, former Deputy U.S. Secretary of State, presents Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies' 2017 Neuhauser Lecture.
In the past year, the leaders of China and the United States laid out their respective visions for future peace and prosperity in widely noted speeches at Davos (President Xi) and the UN (President Trump). What do those speeches tell us about the emerging grand strategies of the world’s two leading powers and the implications for East Asia and beyond?
Mr. Steinberg was dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University from 2011 to June 2016. He was previously principal deputy secretary of state for Hillary Clinton, dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, vice president and foreign policy studies director at Brookings Institution, President Clinton’s deputy national security advisor, director of the State Department’s policy planning staff, and deputy assistant secretary for analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He co-authored Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century and Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power.
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Heavy plumes of smoke billowing from the chemical plant on fire in Yichang City
A fire broke out at a chemical plant in Yichang City, China’s central Hubei Province, on Tuesday afternoon. No blast has been heard, and no casualties have been reported so far. Firefighters are working on bringing the blaze under control. The cause is still being investigated.
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Pharmaceutical industry in China | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:25 1 Future growth
00:03:32 2 Overview
00:05:46 3 Quality
00:08:42 4 Structure and trends
00:13:33 4.1 Historic foreign involvement
00:14:20 4.2 Production levels
00:15:39 4.2.1 Regional distribution
00:22:08 4.3 Research and development
00:24:46 4.4 Comparison of Chinese and Western pharmaceutical companies
00:26:18 4.5 Domestic companies
00:32:20 4.6 Domestic companies doing R&D
00:41:27 4.7 Foreign expansion
00:43:08 4.8 Foreign companies
00:44:13 4.9 Foreign production
01:03:24 4.10 Foreign companies doing R&D in China
01:07:04 5 Governmental policies
01:08:20 6 Regulation
01:09:33 6.1 Regulatory agencies
01:14:48 6.2 Regulatory requirements
01:17:29 6.3 Government drug pricing policy
01:18:14 6.4 Centralized tendering drug procurement program
01:19:41 6.5 GMP compliance certification
01:21:08 6.6 Comparison of regulatory requirements with other countries
01:23:17 6.7 Patents
01:25:36 6.8 United States and China
01:27:17 6.9 Articles 18 and 19
01:28:41 7 Distribution
01:30:08 8 Pharmaceutical Logistics
01:32:31 9 End users
01:33:17 10 Retail operations
01:34:19 11 Dietary supplements
01:35:35 12 Education and research
01:35:56 13 Intellectual property rights
01:36:06 14 See also
01:37:21 15 Notes and references
01:37:31 16 Bibliography
01:39:38 17 External links
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The pharmaceutical industry is one of the leading industries in the People's Republic of China, covering synthetic chemicals and drugs, prepared Chinese medicines, medical devices, apparatus and instruments, hygiene materials, packing materials, and pharmaceutical machinery.
China accounts for 20% of the world's population but only 1.5% of the global drug market. China's changing health-care environment is designed to extend basic health insurance to a larger portion of the population and give individuals greater access to products and services. Following the period of change, the pharmaceutical industry is expected to continue its expansion.China, as of 2007, has around 3,000 to 6,000 domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers and around 14,000 domestic pharmaceutical distributors. The most often-cited adverse factors in the marketplace include a lack of protection of intellectual property rights, a lack of visibility for drug approval procedures, a lack of effective governmental oversight, poor corporate support for drug research, and differences in the treatment in China that are accorded to local and foreign firms. Nevertheless, China is reportedly expected to become the third-largest pharmaceuticals market in the world by 2021.Research and development are increasing, with Shanghai becoming one of the most important global drug research centers. Most notably, Novartis is expected to establish a large Research and development base in Shanghai that will be a pillar of its drug development.China's thousands of domestic companies account for 70% of the market, the top 10 companies about 20%, according to Business China. In contrast, the top 10 companies in most developed countries control about half the market. Since June 30, 2004, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has been closing down manufacturers that do not meet the new GMP standards. Foreign players account for 10% to 20% of overall sales, depending on the types of medicines and ventures included in the count. However, sales at the top-tier Chinese companies are growing faster than at Western ones.
Ex-Im Bank Annual Conference 2011: The Shifting Global Economy and Implications for Trade
A conversation with the Chairman of one of India's most successful corporations, a leading business journalist, and international economist regarding the intersection of U.S. economic policies, emerging world markets, and the strategies for American companies doing business abroad.
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Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Adriana Proser: Foundations of an East Asian Canon in Postwar America...
March 16, 2012, Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Curator of Traditional Asian Art, Asia Society Museum, New York gives her lecture Foundations of an East Asian Canon in Postwar America: Sherman Lee, John D. Rockefeller III, and Japan, 1946--53 for the symposium 'The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America' organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.
Office Hours: China's Increasing Role in the Global Community
Professor Edward Friedman, expert on Asian-US Relations, talks with Ken Goldstein about China's economic situation in the region and the world, as well as the future of U.S.-China relations.
MEDIA FACADE LTD Jan, 2016 Collection
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Longfu Temple – China
Longfu Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty, dating back a thousand years of history.
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It makes the whole building more brilliant, Powerful and majestic.
At night, People can see the building from far away. Which attracted a lot of tourists come to visit.
Chimney Thermometer - China
On January 15, 2016, from Benxi City, Liaoning Province, 100 meters chimney converted into a
“Benxi Hoaxing meteorological signal tower” eye-catching. The design concept of this project comes from the “Thermometer”.
Benxi Hoaxing thermal power plant heating for the whole city, the thermometer became a landmark building in Benxi.
The linear curtain product with MF-D6-P50mm, part of the thermometer is 50 meters. The top is also equipped with a LED display of
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This thermometer is the largest in the word at present. It can carry out real-time temperature sensing for the cold north to provide
24h of play temperature. Add different colors to the cold winter.
Baolong City Mall – China
Baolong city mall as a dual-track landmarks area. Including shopping, leisure, entertainment, food, business and office,
baolong city mall will improve regional economy and overall business levels of the east area of shanghai. At the same time,
unprecedented business experience for consumers, also became the east Shanghai urban business card.
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Hotel Equatorial Shanghai - China
Hotel Equatorial Shanghai is located in the heart of the city at the busy junction of HuaShan Road and Yanan Road West.
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Climate for Innovation: Technology and Intellectual Property in Global Climate Solutions
Climate for Innovation: Technology and Intellectual Property in Global Climate Solutions - Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming - 2009-07-29 - The key to solving climate change and developing clean energy is technology, and at the center of technology are intellectual property rights. In the Space Race, America had a singular competitor. In the Clean Energy Race to stop global warming, America is competing with the Chinese, Germans, Koreans, and countless others. How these countries and the world deal with intellectual property rights will have a huge impact on whether technology is available and deployed to solve our global problems. On Wednesday July 29th, 2009 the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing entitled, Climate for Innovation: Technology and Intellectual Property in Global Climate Solutions. This hearing examined the impact of intellectual property rights on global warming solutions and how to encourage American innovation while spreading climate related technologies globally. Technology transfer and cooperation are part of the international climate regime and have become an important issue regarding negotiations on the future international climate agreement, and in the debate heading into the UN Climate Change Conference this December in Copenhagen. WITNESS LIST: Mr. Govi Rao, Chairman, Lighting Science Group Corporation; Mr. Robert T. Nelsen, Co-founder and Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners; Ms. Jennifer Haverkamp, Managing Director for International Policy and Negotiations, Environmental Defense Fund; Dr. Mark Esper, Executive Vice President Global Intellectual Property Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Video provided by the U.S. House of Representatives.