Chinese students often try to make themselves invisible to the teacher who throws out a difficult question and looks around patiently for answers. Usually it is accomplished by making the teacher invisible to the students themselves by lowing their faces or hiding their blank eyes behind the students in the front rows. But in this scenario, the tricks become impossible, since the only two students in the class sit abreast .
(From infzm.com)Liang Qing Tun (良庆屯) is a small village nested in Yantan Town of the Yao Autonomous County in Dahua, Guangxi Province. With only a handful of households, the village doesn’t have enough student supply to start a school. So the central primary school in Yantan Town sets up a teaching point there a few years ago to educate pupils under Grade 2 who cannot travel the long distance to the central school in town like older students. However, the number of the students attending to the teaching point is decreasing year after year as more and more children are leaving the village along with their parents who work outside.
And eventually, there is only one girl left in Grade 2.Tang Lei as the one student in her class has no one to discuss homework with except for her only teacher Wei Fengmei who takes up the teaching of Chinese language, mathematics, English, music, art and PE class etc. Now she’s got someone to turn to when questioned by Miss Wei in the class. A girl named Tang Yisi comes and lives with her aunt in the village, she attends to the same grade as Tang Lei. The two become inseparable friends in no time.
After a lonely semester, Tang Lei (left) has a classmate as well as close friend now.
The two are about to have arithmetic class with bamboo sticks.
PE class.
After school activities can definitely use some more participants.
by Chengdu Business News reporter:
1. May 19, under my plan, Liu Zhu went back to her hometown.
That night, I received reliable information, The State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) secretly instructed Hunan Satellite TV station: Do not air any information on Liu Zhu and also do not allow any interviews with other media. Obviously Liu Zhu had been banned, almost exactly the same situation as Tang Wei previously. SARFT is only the director of Television and Radio so paper media and web media continued the coverage of Liu Zhu. For this reason, Chengdu singing district’s report of “bring back ‘Show Model’ Liu Zhu” was forced to be released early. On May 20, the newspaper, Liu Zhu’s face was full of sunshine; he is still a young kid. Only 3 days away from the Chengdu Singing district finals.
2. The public opinion at the time focused on Liu Zhu’s staying or leaving. Everyone hoped for a miracle, especially the netizens, including me hoped for miracle to happen.
I still continued presenting the best of Liu Zhu.
On the paper on the 21st, Zhu’s mother said she hopes him to marry someone, bring back a wife and have children, just like every other mother. The more one-sided positive media about Liu Zhu the more anxiety they build up. I told reporters to ask Liu Zhu in person, “What are you going to do, if the ‘banning’ is real.”
3. On 22nd, everything is clear, I know that people are like knives and Zhu is like beef on the cutting board. Hunan satellite TV will never shake my bottom-line of survival. So the report on the newspaper on the 21st wrote with the voice of truth, maybe this was the last chance to express public sentiment in depth. I gave it a very tongue-twisting title “Liu Zhu has no problems, whether if we can keep Liu Zhu is the real problem.” Same day, Liu Zhu responded on “the ban” on his blog. At this time, he is still a child that knows nothing.
4. 22nd evening, I received the exact message: Liu is to be eliminated tonight, otherwise, expect no end of trouble in the future. One hour later Chengdu Singing District final competition started. When Liu Zhu was up on stage I basically did not listen to him singing, just looking to see how he would be eliminated. When the completion was over, the reporter at the scene sent a text message: Liu Zhu was successfully eliminated. In front of survival, the best effort of Hunan Satellite TV was to figure out how to eliminate Liu Zhu.
5. In the heartless Internet era, people who are called “Brother” of “Sister” all never end well. Sister Zhu – Liu Zhu was no exception. What I want to say is, Liu Zhu is different from all the other “Brothers” and “Sisters”. But, no one recognized this. They are just so used to the way they are being entertained. That night, I wrote a review essay, but it was deleted by our great leader on duty. Truly speechless.
6. One person wakes up, you never existed. Liu Zhu finally could not stay. This was an outcome of being controlled, and also an outcome that can not be controlled. This outcome was neither gentle nor shocking.
But Liu Zhu will never be controlled, he grew out of this land.
7. The appearance of Liu Zhu took everyone by surprise. Liu was calm and quiet, but it was us that could not sit still. Like people sitting on needles, hurried and rashly chose to love and hate. After the hype spreading in the online world, Liu was also hugely magnified, and became countless viewers’ target. Every interview, my officemates always enthusiastically came up with weird and difficult questions, and also guessed Liu’s answers. However what reporter brought back were never the answers we have thought of. Obviously Liu Zhu’s answer were truly his own.
Of course, we also tried to put a label on Liu Zhu, like a habit of reaction when we see something different than us. This action was unless, even sociologist Li Yinhe could not give him an appropriate label. Liu’s life tells us, he is not to be categorized, he is one of a kind. He was not different, it is us that are apathetic and cure, and think we are all there is.
These embarrassments are because the distance between us and Liu Zhu. How far part is our thinking is how far away we are from Liu Zhu.
Liu Zhu came prepared, but we were not ready – this was the reason why Liu Zhu was eliminated. People who do not understand, please do not try to find the hand behind the scene, it is not SARFT, not Hunan TV station, it is us, unprepared and desperate.
Liu Zhu’s leaving was “Super Boy’s” correct choice; otherwise, “the consequences are disastrous”. After Liu left, the stage of “Super Boy” is finally healthy, sunny and calm again.
The moment Liu left “Super Boy”, Liu Zhu was still himself, still simple and natural. At this moment, many hands are waiting for him, no one can stop that. I am most concerned about Liu’s future. But not all questions have an answer, I can only said, Liu Zhu, your future is in your own hands. This might be too obvious, but it is not easy to do. Most of us have not done that.
Like Liu’s original song “Piao”, “One person wakes up, you never existed.” Only if he can still shout these words to the common and noisy world he still can live freely, and do his own things happily. Otherwise, his future will be controlled, hence losing control and endless trouble.
Recently a video of a car accident made “Brother Tricycle” popular on the Internet. On May 9, 2010, a traffic video camera captured a deadly car accident in Beijing. A fast moving black car hits a white car in front waiting on the red light in an intersection. One dead and two injured, but amazingly a man riding a tricycle through the tragic accident was able to escape without a scratch. So netizens called him “Brother Tricycle” (三轮哥).
Since then another equally or more amazing video showed up on the internet. Brother Running (奔跑哥) is this guy crossing the street, when suddenly a bus failed to stop at the red light . In the nick of time he was able to speed up by taking longer strides with his long legs and ran to safety, hence the name Brother Running.
Even crazier, Brother Train (火车哥) was racing against the train. A railway inspector was working on a train track, when suddenly the train roaring through the track. He leaped backwards onto the nearby track and was able to avoid the train. But he was not done yet, at the same time another train drove by from opposite direction on the track he landed on. He quickly got up and jumped again to safety. (editor’s note: I have seen the video of Brother Train on youtube before, not sure if this happened in China or even if is real.)
ChinaHush reported on April 3, 2010 that prosecutors charged 22 alleged swingers in east China for “group licentiousness,” a crime subject to a sentencing of a maximum five-year prison sentence.
Last Thursday, associate professor Ma Yaohai, 53, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, according to a Global Times article. The other 21 people were also sentenced for jail time.
Ma, who works at an unnamed university, organized a swingers club in Jiangsu Province, which hosted 35 parties from 2007 to 2009, and he “personally participated in 18 sessions.”
He told Phoenix Satellite Television before his April 7 trial, "I didn’t do anything wrong. And there was no forcing or organizing. Why is the whole country picking on me?”
“Group licentiousness” became a Chinese law in 1977, and makes sex with three or more people illegal. However, the charge is highly debated in China as societal views toward sex have changed since 30 years ago. A May 22 Time Magazine article says this incident “reflects larger uncertainties about sexuality in China. … Chinese society is stumbling toward a more liberal attitude about sexuality.”
From Hangzhou Daily:
May 14, 2010 Wuhan, an electronics repairman found a paper note inside of a TV. It read “Help! I am locked up underground for over a year”, and with the address of the location. After reporting to the police, they found 2 girls being locked up in the basement of a home. Two girls’ feet were locked with metal chains, wearing no clothes, and one of them had been missing for nearly a year. When the girls were rescued, the suspect has already been detained for over a week on suspicion of rape.
“Is your daughter missing?” on May 14, 2010, at noon, Mr. Zhou of Qingshan District in Wuhan received a phone call. The caller claimed his surname was Du. Mr. Zhou was surprised by the phone call because his daughter went missing since July of last year.
“She had a boyfriend. We thought she stayed over at her boyfriends. But when we asked him, the boyfriend said he never saw her.” Mr. Zhou’s brother recalled, after his niece went missing, family members looked for her everywhere but she never turned up, so they reported it to the police. Since then, she was never found.
May 18, Mr. Du told the reporter, on May 14, when his friend opened up a television set at a local electronic repair shop, they found a written note inside of it.
The note was folded many times, and it read “Help! I have been locked up underground for over a year”. Mr. du said the note also had a hand drawing of a map, marked the victim’s location. In addition, the note had victim’s father’s phone number and address and the name of the suspect who locked her up.
Mr. Du said his friend didn’t think of anything, thought it was prank set up by the repairman and was going to throw away the paper. The note had names and a map, Mr. Du though the information might be true, so he kept the note.
“Opened up the paper, it was the size of a palm, looked like it was ripped off from a notebook. The letters were very small, only the two characters “Help” were slightly bigger.” Mr. Du said.
After he went home, when Mr. Du was debating whether he should call the number or not, his son got home from school and complained about being bullied on his way back and no one helped him on the street , he was angry.
“I was discussing this with my son, should we help? The Child said we should.” Convinced by his son, Mr. Du called Zhou family and then they called the police.
Mr. Zhou’s brother said, his niece wrote on the note, she was locked up in a home 200 meters away from her house. The person locked her up is named Zhen Xiangbao. Based on the information on the note, Mr. Zhou and police officers found Zhen’s house. However Zhen Xiangbao was already arrested a week ago as a rape suspect.
Police searched the 2 story house but did not find the girl. Mr. Zhou’s brother said when Zhen built his house they dug a pit under the foundation, but police could not find the basement entrance after searching repeatedly.
“The Police asked my brother to get a shovel to get ready to dig. When he brought over the shovel, the police had already found the entrance.” Mr. Zhou’s brother said, the basement was under Zhen’s room, covered by a wooden board, the wooden board was covered by dirt and some foam, must take a ladder to get to the bottom, before entering the basement, he heard one police officer shouted from below “There is another person.” Two girls, wearing no clothes and their feet locked up with steel chains.
The police cut the metal chains off their feet and rescued the two girls. Other than Mr. Zhou’s daughter, the other girl was only 16 years old, and her home was a few kilometers away.
Suspect Zhen Xiangbao left some instant noodles, a hot water pot and an electric boiler for boiling water in the basement. After Zhen was arrested for over a week, two girls stayed alive by eating instant noodles.
Mr. Zhou’s brother said he helped Zhen’s brother building his house, but the two families are not close, “we only nod and say hello when we bump into each other.”
According to reports, Zhen Xiangbao, 39 years old, since the divorce last year had become very quiet, and worked in a nearby kiln factory. His house was built two years ago and he used to live with 70 year old mother.
“If wasn’t for Mr. Du’s phone call, these two girls would have been starved to death.” Mr. Zhou’s brother said, his niece had tried many times to sneak notes out for help in the empty bags of instant noodles or bread but they were always found by Zhen.
Mr. Zhou said he only saw his daughter two or three times since the rescue, first time was in the hospital, then couple times in the police car. His daughter did not look thin but was very pale.
“Not in a good mood, I drank in the afternoon, kind of drunk.” Mr. Zhou said, his daughter still hasn’t return home yet.
On May 18, Wuhan Gangcheng Public Security Bureau confirmed the case is currently under investigation but was not willing to disclose details of the case. Police station officer on duty also declined the interview. The rescued girls are now under the police’s protection.
From MOP:
May 19, 2010 at noon, an amazing scene on the pedestrian bridge walkway in front of the south entrance to Foxconn Corporation, Shenzhen captured people’s eyes. From Shandong province, an optimistic man with no arms used his feet and wrote down some inspirational words in Chinese calligraphy for the Foxconn employees, to advice them not to do any more foolish things – jumping off buildings and committing suicide.
On May 12, I wrote about Foxconn employees’ “8 consecutive suicides” since the beginning of this year. And it has been only a week, two more Foxconn employees leaped to their death! On May 14, 21 year old male employee Liang committed suicide by jumping from the 7th floor of his dormitory, and the 10th incident happened in the morning of May 21, a 21 year old male Foxconn employee jumped off a building and died in the hospital at 4:50 am.
The armless man wrote, “To brothers and sisters of Foxconn, life is priceless, ought to fulfill filial duty, there is always a way out, harmony relies on oneself”. This man’s action soon attracted a number of Foxconn employees who were passing by on their way home from work. Many expressed support and appreciation, some stepped forward asking for the inspirational pieces.
The armless man claimed a few years ago when he was a chef in Beijing, a gas explosion made him severely disabled. After several surgical procedures, luckily he was able to live. But his parents raised him in many difficulties, in order to fulfill his filial duty and to carry the load for his parents he practiced hard at writing using his feet. His actions not only motivated many people across the county, but also fully paid for his huge medical bills. Recently he was heartbroken when he heard the news on Foxconn employees’ nine suicides (now 10). He thought these able young bodies should think about the filial responsibility and social responsibility. He hopes they will not do any more foolish things, heaven never seals off all the exits (天无绝人之路) – there is always a way out.
From Tianya: by Li Nuoyan (李诺言)
Chinese people like to kneel, this was well-known in the 19th century. After the 21st century New Culture Movement, the dignity-trampling kneeling culture disappeared, however after last month thousands kneeling incident in Liaoning Zhuanghe, kneeling to the government phenomenon happened in Guangdong Huazhou again. It’s just it wasn’t as spectacular as last time’s thousands kneeling, only dozens of people this time. As if the repeat kneeling phenomenon became an alternative fashion, are these people’s knees so despicable? Must rely on kneeling to win the sympathy of the world in order to satisfy themselves? I really do not now, when I heard people continued to kneel, first I was shocked, and second I am still shocked. In a country where kneeling culture spread, couple of people kneel down is nothing, but continue to kneel down like this makes us worry, is it the kneeling culture rekindled, or are people falling in love with the kneeling culture from the Spring Festival Gala?
In the end of Qing Dynasty, the Qing government selected and sent a group of youth to study in the United States. Whenever the imperial government sent decrees, there students would kneel at the local pier to listen to the announcement. At that time, the foreigners felt really strange, why do Chinese people kneel down in front of a piece of paper? The students also were sensitive about losing face, so they reported this back to the imperial government and the imperial government responded immediately. So no more kneeling right? No, they continued to kneel inside of the embassy when taking the decrees. This was the deepest impression of Chinese culture left on other countries in the 19th century.
Chinese people like to kneel, no matter in which dynasty, kneeling according to the Chinese Confucius ideology is a kind of surrender. When standing on stage and everyone is kneeling below the stage, this represented power, this power in these books represented “in service” to this person, but Guangdong Huazhou villagers’ kneeling represented “helpless”, they did not kneel down to power, but for their unfair treatments. In the modern mind, there should be no such kneeling act, whether if it is to the parents or to government officials. Kneeling culture should not exist in the country that claims to have five thousand years of civilization, let alone the five thousand years of culture is still in development.
In personal opinion these people do not really crave to kneel down, the old saying goes “there are gold underneath man’s knees”, a man can kneel to heaven and earth, but cannot just kneel down to anybody for any reason, not only it loses the a man’s basic dignity, but also resurges the kneeling culture. This phenomenon is difficult for sociologists and social elites to watch. This phenomenon sets us back to the kneeling culture thousand years ago, and will virtually impact our currently culture development.
When seeing Guangdong Huazhou villagers kneeling down dressed in white with “Injustice” written on them, in the rain, the scene was exceptionally tragic, when these numbing words appeared in the news, made me thought of those ancient practices. But this phenomenon should never happen in this civilized country. What makes me most angry was the government staff who was recording the scene with a DV, I am not sure what kind of backward thinking they have, how difficult must be for modern Chinese people to kneel down, how sad is it to see these people kneeling because of injustice.
Chinese people’s kneeling can be said to have a long and profound history. Chinese people’s kneeling culture can be classified into the following two categories: willingly and forcibly. This time the Huazhou villagers willingly kneeled down. Willing to kneel also has the following, kneel to bow, kneel to thank and kneel to beg. Kneel to bow is an etiquette when lowly beings perform to the noble beings, it has the meaning of respect; kneel to thank is the highest body language for expressing appreciation, it has a commendatory sense; Kneel to beg is a kind of helplessness and surrendering, with derogatory meaning. I am going to mainly talk about the kneeling that has commendatory meanings. Chinese people like to see others kneeling down, especially the government officials love to see others kneeling down to them. They are to be carried very high, they rather fall down from it and die but still accept the kneeling. Only when there are people kneeling to them, they will secretly laugh, and it will be the same when people kneel to you too. When they kneel, it only means they must beg you, at that time you are not the “grandson” anymore, but the “uncle”. Only when you become the “uncle”, you will feel how honest and kind the kneeling is.
The reason kneeling culture is able to be revived has to do with this country’s culture. Under the influence of Chinese culture, the kneeling culture is a sub-culture. Now we observed a couple of “willingly kneeling incidents” maybe this phenomena will continue to increase, this does not mean we are moving backwards in time, it can only mean kneeling culture is surging in the modern culture. Keep laughing, in the end according to the traditional scholars’ point of view “Older the ginger, more spicy it is”, but this “spiciness” can turn this civilized country into slums.
News background:
In Guangdong Huazhou, Meizikang village’s farmland was seized and occupied by the neighbor Sizilin village, so they could no longer farm. Local government repeatedly informed the villagers to farm their land and promised protection, but conflict broke out between the two villages. Later, I am guessing Sizilin village had the “police connections”, the police brought 10 “society youth” and arrested 6 Meizikang villagers including the village chief. Subsequently, on April 22, dozens of villagers kneeled down in front of the Huazhou city Government building telling their injustice, for over one hour and no one came out, and the government said “It is useless to kneel here.”
Before this…
On April 13, thousands of people kneeled down in front of the Zhanghe People’s Government building. From 2 local villages, they came to the city government to report corruptions of the village officials. They requested the mayor to come out, but were rejected.
After the media heavily featured this news, Zhanghe city mayor Sun Ming was later fired.
Hello, everybody. It’s the second time I am in Xiamen, the air’s clean, no wonder everybody likes to walk.
Just now, when Mr. Deng mentioned something about patriotism, two lines came in my mind, not from me though, from others. The first one is “patriotism is the last sanctuary for scumbags”, and the second one is “the real patriotism is to protect the country from any kinds of persecutions by the government”.
Today I’ve prepared for the speech, I brought a script, to restrain myself in case you guys get persecuted because of my irresponsible speech.
Here we go.
Leaders, teachers, and students: Hi. Do you know why China couldn’t become a cultural power? Because in most of our speeches, “leaders” always come first, and our leaders are all illiterate. Moreover, they are scared of culture (or knowledge), but their job is to censor culture, so they can control culture. How can a country (controlled by these people) become a cultural power? What do you say, leaders?
Actually China has the potential to become a big cultural figure, let me tell you a story. I served as a chief editor for a magazine that couldn’t manage to publish until now. The constitution bestows us with the freedom of the press, on the other hand our laws bestow our leaders with the freedom of preventing you from exercising the freedom of the press. Something in the magazine couldn’t pass the censorship — there is a cartoon, about a man, who doesn’t wear any clothes—of course this is unbearable, because relevant laws and regulations specify that we can not put the private parts on public magazines, I understand this, so I cover the illegitimate part with a super big logo of the magazine. Suddenly publisher and people from the censoring team say it’s not okay either, they say “now you covered the middle part of the person, it is a parade to our party central committee (挡中央=covering the middle, 党中央=party central committee, both pronounce the same). My reaction was just like you guys – hit by thunder. I thought to myself, my friend, it would be so much better if you invest such brilliant imagination into literary and artistic creation instead of censoring.
The story tells us that people are full of imagination. Of course lots of things can only stay in our mind, we cannot carry them out, we cannot write about them, most of the time we cannot even talk about them. We bear too many restrains, this is a rated country (like rated movie), how can it be possible for a rated country to foster abundant culture? I am a comrade with rather few self-restrain, however when I write I still cannot help but keep in mind avoiding writing this policeman, this leader, this policy, this regulation, and this legislation; skipping many histories, Tibet, Xinjiang, demonstrations; not touching fads, pornography, boycotting, arts, but elegancy is what I am incapable of. I am really incapable of that field, I am not Yu Qiuyu (also writer).
The pieces I put on the net is rather free. Many screen writers I know, like Ning Caishen who writes play and some script writers for drama, they suffer a lot. I am thinking how a country with cultural environment like this can ever manage to become a cultural primacy. Unless there is only China, North Korea and Afghanistan left on the earth. North Korea is a cultural prohibited land, no question about that. Afghanistan cannot spare to manage culture when they are not clear about their own situation. Even so, there is writer who publish “The Kite Runner” , but regretfully the book isn’t published in Afghanistan either. I think it is not impossible for Afghanistan to exceed China once they clear their domestic mess.
We should not stick to the Four Classic Novels or those Confucius stuffs during our so-called international communication, we all know that, it’s like the girl ask about your wealth in a blind date, and you say your ancestors are rich. It is useless. The making of the tragedy has nothing to do with you guys. Though saying has it that the route to North Korea is built by everybody’s silence. But on the one hand we are much stronger than North Korea, because we all know what it looks like; on the other hand, I believe most of you guys are not silent, you are just harmonized, that is all. In the history of China’s pornography extermination, I think most of you know – you are college students after all, though these contents are gone in nowadays textbooks—that Teresa Teng (邓丽君) and Liu Wen Cheng (刘文正) are pornographic, low and obscene, just because the number of people who listen to their music increase, later when the whole country are listening to them, they are immediately not low nor obscene. Only when we fight against cultural censorship, free phrases and words from the “blocked words base” except those of anti-humanity, could it be possible to make our country a cultural power. Even if your names and my name go into the base, I believe there is a ceiling in the shield words base and every time a new word goes in, it pushes closer to the ceiling and crashing the whole thing down.
So I hope our workers in the press, our students and teachers, every one who loves and engages in culture including every webmaster can make an effort to decrease the amount of censorship and relieve words and webs that are blocked. I also hope that our leaders – mind that these leaders are different from you guys – and our government can be confident enough to let go the culture. I know that our leaders like to export our culture, this is a sign of a powerful country, but the thing is, the available cultures are too humble to go outside. When our writers write, they are self-censoring every second, how can any presentable works be possible when they are born under such environment? In the whole world, you castrate all of the works like news reports and present them to the foreigners, hoping it would sell, are foreigners aliens to you?
Whether China is a economic strong player I don’t know, no conclusion can be drawn until the our real estates crashes; but if a country grows big in culture, then it is a powerful country in real sense, and I see no risk of crashing ever for a country like this.
Let me come back to the blocked words base, the more entries it has, the weak the country’s culture becomes. But our government can justify themselves, they tell you it is to protect our teenagers, to maintain society stableness. Culture is boundless, so they have the right to block any information and culture that harm our teens and sabotage society stableness. If you nod to this, then someday sooner or later when you are accusing about your mistreatment, you will find yourself blocked with the charge of sabotaging society stableness. In the end, whoever poses threats to the administrating party or their benefits will be condemned with the charges of harming teenagers and sabotaging society stableness.
If we become supporters of the Green Dam Project at that time, we will find culture is not the only thing dying. So guys, we can not let this day come, otherwise we will all become jokes on the e-history-book our grand children receive from satellites.
Thank you all.
About Han Han:
High school drop-out; writer; hottest blogger on Sina; car racer; recently he was nominated for the 2010 TIME top 100 most influential leaders, artists, innovators and icons and poll has him ranked at #12!
I translated one of Han Han’s post, Han Feng is a good cadre in China, and 97% surveyed agree.
From Xinmin:
While the theme of the Shanghai World Expo is “better city better life”, this woman is definitely not making the city better. Recently a forum post about a woman taking her pants off and relieving herself in the street of a busy commercial area (Xujiahui) in Shanghai triggered netizens’ heated discussions. So called “Xujiahui pants-off gate”, this post contained 6 photos and captured the scene.
In the photo, you can see there are luggages next to the woman; some netiznes speculated that it was her first time arriving to Shanghai, and couldn’t find a public restroom. Xinmin reporter then when to the site and interviewed nearby security guards, but none of them knew about it, only a traffic assistant said he has heard of this but did not know the details.
“Is it that difficult to find a restroom in Shanghai?” reporter interviewed some people on the street. Out of the 6 people, 4 said there are more and more public restrooms in Shanghai in the recent years, and the signs are getting more noticeable, but 2 said “it is indeed difficult.”
She takes off her pants and relieves herself.
She is done…
Some people actually went up to her to stop her.
(photos from kaixin001.com)
From Xinhua:
Lagos, May 18, (Xinhua reporter Cao Kai) “An Ze Jiang” cargo ship belongs to China COSCO shipping Co. Ltd. (China Ocean Shipping Company) was attacked by pirates on May 16 evening when waiting to unloading its cargos outside of the port in Lagos. The entire crew spared no effort in fighting back and successfully repulsed the pirates. Including the captain, 4 crew members were injured, currently in good condition and being treated in the hospital.
On May 18, reporter met with the injured crew members at Lagos Lagoon hospital. Captain Liu Xinjun said, 8:28 pm local time on May 16, the stern security officer found two unidentified small boats quickly approaching “An Ze Jiang”. Then the cargo ship was under fire by eight pirates’ shotguns and automatic rifles. Small boats approached. With the cover of heavy fire, pirates used aluminum alloy ladders with hooks latching onto the side of the ship, attempted to board the ship. The entire 28 crew members of “An Ze Jiang” used lots of beer bottles, bricks of wood and fire hoses to fight back, and successfully removed the pirates’ hooks, prevented them from getting onto the ship.
Liu Xinjun said the two pirate boats launched the second round of the attacks, with the cover of the assault rifles the boats got close to the side of the ship. In order to avoid casualties, crew members who were fighting on deck retried back to the living area of the ship, and used its good position to continue resist. During the fight, the bridge windshields were broken by shotgun bullets, and the cross bar above the cables at the stern of the ship were shot down. Liu Xinjun, political commissar Liu Zhengfang and two other crew members were injured.
Because of crew member’s strong resistance, the pirates retreated at around 10 pm.
Chinese consul General in Lagos, Guo Kun went to the hospital to visit the injured members on May 18, and also paid condolences to the rest of the crew on “An Ze Jiang” docked at the Apapa Port. Guo Kun talked with the head of the Nigeria maritime security at Apapa Port, urged them to take more precautions, and to try harder in improving security around the port to avoid similar incidents from happening again.
