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2011-07-27
Rail crash is a human tragedy and a disaster for Beijing


The crash of two Chinese bullet trains is, first and foremost, a human tragedy. The ordeal of Xiang Weiyi, a two-year-old girl who lay for 21 hours in the twisted wreckage near the corpses of her parents, has transfixed China’s public.

So has the story of Yang Feng, who lost his seven-month pregnant wife and three other relatives in the collision and has questioned the accuracy of the official death toll, at least 39, according to state media reports.

As families grieve and demand answers beyond the official explanation that lightning caused the crash, there are many in the railway industry who are quietly shaking their heads and whispering that they saw this coming.

Many rail experts have warned that China’s rush to build the world’s longest and fastest high speed rail network in record time was a recipe for disaster. As well as proving them tragically right, this crash ends Beijing’s ambitions to sell its nascent high-speed rail technology to the world, at least for the foreseeable future.
The crash came barely four years after China’s first high-speed trains began operating.

Compare that to Japan, where the bullet train network has not had any big accidents involving injuries or deaths since it started running in 1964, say Japanese officials. They were the ones who spoke out the loudest about safety concerns in China and the Chinese rail industry’s industrial scale copying of rail technology bought over the past decade from foreign companies such as Japan’s Kawasaki, Germany’s Siemens, France’s Alstom and Canada’s Bombardier.

The Chinese railway ministry and state-owned rail companies have repeatedly said China owns nearly all the intellectual property for its high-speed train technology, which it acquired through a process they describe as “technology importation, digestive absorption, independent reinnovation and localisation”.

But executives at foreign rail companies have long complained that trains meant to run at up to 200kph (124mph) have been copied, modified and then made to run at speeds for which they were never designed, potentially compromising their safety. Some of these executives told the Financial Times they refused to ride on China’s high-speed trains because of safety concerns.

Given the serious questions that hang over the provenance of China’s high-speed rail technology, it seems unlikely that any other country will risk the lives of its citizens on imported Chinese bullet trains, no matter how cheap they are.

The crash and the way it has been handled by Beijing have also raised wider questions about governance in China.

China’s railways minister was fired in February for “disciplinary violations” that apparently involved taking huge bribes but nobody expects that his dismissal has solved the problem of corruption at the ministry.

After Saturday’s crash, the authorities sacked three senior railway officials from the Shanghai Railway Bureau, including its head. But the Chinese public was outraged when the government named as his replacement An Lusheng, the railway ministry’s general chief of command and control.

It turns out that Mr An was demoted in connection with China’s last large train disaster, when two trains collided in April 2008 in Shandong province, killing 71 people. He was moved to a regional post, shuffled around different jobs and then restored to his old position within two years.

Further outrages include the sight of wrecked carriages being buried next to the track less than 24 hours after Saturday’s crash and a video online of what appear to be bodies falling out of those carriages.

Coming after scandals involving tainted Chinese products, the crash will tarnish the image of China Inc in the global marketplace.

But probably the bigger damage to perceptions will be done in China, where on Monday one citizen microblogger summed up the sentiment in a widely circulated posting: “Today’s China is a bullet train racing through a thunderstorm – and we are all passengers on board.”


             7.23动车事故已经过去了5天,人民对在事故中伤亡者的悲痛之情,以及对事故后续处理不当的愤慨远没有离去,人民需要一个真相,需要一个交代。在事故原因还没公布之前,像出事车头埋掉,提前达成赔偿协议的受难者家属有奖励,这样的做法是不应该的,让人民寒心的。

      选文揭示了中国公共治理问题,在表达对遇难者沉重哀悼的同时,我们不仅要沉思,怎样才能避免此类事件的发生。作为ZF机构,在公信力已经透支的情况下,该反省怎么做,怎样挽回人民对你的信任。中国经济在高速的发展,跑的快,可也要跑的稳。正如纽约时报引博客的话,China, please stop your flying pace, wait for your people, wait for your soul, wait for your conscience! Don't let the train out off track, don't let the briges collapse, don't let the roads become traps, don't let houses become ruins. Walk slowly,allowing every life to have freedom and dignity. No one should be left behind by our era.
     我知道大家都在关注事故后续处理的进展,为受伤者祈福,遇难者祈祷。在这里,除了文章内容的英文评论外,您可以从各个角度,比如人文,经济发展,以及公共治理改革等方面发表自己的观点,关于铁老大过激的言论就不要了,我们知道论坛是学术性交流,鼓励百家争鸣。
         

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2011-7-27 22:34:45
祈福ing^ ^
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2011-7-27 23:35:02
china is a bullet train racing through a thunderstorm – and we are all passengers on board.china, when you can awake, your people live in such a terrible situation . only there has a horrible disaster and casualties, you can temporarily slow your flying pace ., then go on your great movement, regardless of your people's criticism, regardless of the dignity of the deathy people. you have became such a huge monster . you don't care what your people think, what your people want, what you people pursue . because you think you are the king of people, you can decide everything.if there is a disaster, you can be very willing to sacrifice your own company because there has 80 million fellows who are "follow" you . at this time, your behavior is so apparent in the sunshine that you don't take sufficient arrangement, leading your stupid behavior exposure . at this time, your honesty media brother from its instinct conscience can not bear to look at it, even though what they can do, to the summit, they make some complains . you, the full of ownerships government, time is changing, your people are becoming wisdom to realize your stupid and carp behaviors . you use such actions: fire your fellow, take officials who made the same disaster,  (sometimes i really doubt how could you committed such a low-level mistakes, but this is seeking truth ) prevent media report on the site, courage death relatives to sign the clause early. whenever you can low down your honourable  posture, to give the victims a really apologise, to give a really respect to the death, if the death can't gain respect, what about our living people . to stop your flying pace waiting for your people . at this time, all of us anger up, we not only struggle for the victims' right, but also struggle for ourselves, we are afraid maybe one day the victims are ourselves .china, you need to rethink what is your basis of existence . who give your authority, the farmer, the working people, but now you have abandoned them,  farms and workers are through the 60 years of the pinching pennies, dead tired of the credit work created you today's brilliant . they now live a serious condition, you really care of them, you use a great deal of money to do such stupid image works, leading your people live in a that is not safe for the security of the society . you must repay your debts. if you are not self-conscious . you will lose your basis . china, now has no believes . the value of the society has been distorted . the accident is just a fuse of china's long-term problems . people are awaking, it's the time to over your stupid behavior and give people a detail explanations for the victims .china,  your are too old to revolution . for the consideration of your people, you should make lots of revolution if you want to keep your ruling position .  otherwise, the parallel things such as crash of bullet trains will happen again .my motherland, china, you must have changes . for your people, for your offsprings, for the 5000 years Chinese civilization .看看这个视频:http://www.tudou.com/playlist/p/l12744004.html  估计马上就要被删了!
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2011-7-28 03:21:12
Praying...
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2011-7-28 07:02:53
It is good, but not enough!!
After Saturday’s crash, the authorities sacked three senior railway officials from the Shanghai Railway Bureau, including its head. But the Chinese public was outraged when the government named as his replacement An Lusheng, the railway ministry’s general chief of command and control.
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2011-7-28 07:29:56
ordeal:苦难经历;折磨
transfix:戳穿,刺穿

Many rail experts have warned that China’s rush to build the world’s longest and fastest high speed rail network in record time was a recipe for disaster. As well as proving them tragically right, this crash ends Beijing’s ambitions to sell its nascent high-speed rail technology to the world, at least for the foreseeable future.
The crash came barely four years after China’s first high-speed trains began operating.
Compare that to Japan, where the bullet train network has not had any big accidents involving injuries or deaths since it started running in 1964, say Japanese officials.
国外早就掌握了高铁技术,为什么没有应用于长距离,值得思考。
ps:看到小伊伊的笑脸,感到些许欣慰。
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