Members of a voluntary rescue team in Shanghai's Zhujiajiao town patrol its waterways on charge boats. [CHINA DAILY] Pedestrians and cyclists in a busy riverside town outside of Shanghai can move about with more peace of mind thanks to the efforts of a highly trained rescue team. For over a decade, the team's patrols have helped prevent accidents, especially along the Dianpu River in Zhujiajiao - a town with a history of more than 1,700 years in suburban Qingpu district. Members perform various tasks, including fighting fires, emergency water rescues, and flood prevention and typhoon preparedness, according to Chen Chunhao, director of the Zhujiajiao's conscription office, which oversees the team. The team has several dozen members, he said. Half are ex-military and the rest are college graduates under 25. All are unpaid but receive free training, and were selected through exams and stamina tests. The group is officially classed as a militia, which still operate nationwide under guidance from local authorities. They play a part in protecting national security and respond to emergencies that threaten social stability. However, such groups are only armed during training with the military. We undertake more diversified duties - mainly covering the propagation of national defense knowledge and performing daily guard duty along the river - in addition to our basic security work, said Li Linjie, the team leader. For example, we rescued a 22-year-old woman who attempted to drown herself in the river in September. In January, the team also cleared heavy snow from the streets and laid skid-resistant straw mats to protect vehicles and pedestrians. On an average day, Zhujiajiao receives more than 40,000 tourists keen to take in the town's history and watery vistas, and accidents sometimes occur with children and the elderly trying to negotiate the river's slippery banks. We're ready for every mission, Li said. Every member also speaks a second language, to help foreign tourists in town. According to its members, the team's track record of success is due to its disciplined military-style management. A full set of equipment is available to us, including rescue and patrol boats, inflatable rafts, motorcycles and firefighting tools, said Yuan Heqiang, another team leader. Members undergo regular military training and physical conditioning, as well as study water-rescue and firefighting techniques. We even began using drones last year to quicken our emergency response time, Yuan said. Experts from the Qingpu Lifesaving Association and the Qingpu Red Cross Association are regularly invited to teach the team the latest techniques in water rescue and first aid. The emergency response team has become a key guardian of peace and security in Zhujiajiao, said Colonel Li Huilin of the Qingpu district's conscription office. Over the past 11 years, the unit has coped with more than 30 major disasters and 500 crises, helping prevent property losses of more than 8 million yuan ($1.21 million), especially before and during weather emergencies. [email protected]design rubber braceletsrainbow wristbandfidget spinner bracelet24 hour wristbands
MADRID, July 4 -- China's progress in its national organ transplant program was presented on Wednesday in the framework of the 27th International Congress of the Transplantation Society (TTS 2018).Chinese delegation led by Huang Jiefu, director of the Commission of Donation and Transplantation of Organs of China, held a press conference to present the advances of the Asian country in the field at the Cultural Center of China, located in the Spanish capital.According to Huang, China currently has 178 medical institutions for organ transplantation, with increasing number of donations and transplants year after year.He said China has ranked second in the world in this area since 2017, when 5,146 cases of organ donations were completed.China sent a delegation of 150 specialists to the TTS 2018 between June 30 and July in Spain.With 5,259 transplants completed last year, the first time exceeding 5,000, Spain is also a world leader in donation and transplants.Spain and China have good cooperation in this field including complementary training of experts.Every year we have a group of professionals coming from China to Barcelona for training and visiting clinics in the city and in Madrid, thus sharing practices at a hospital level, said Spanish expert Marti Manyalich.He also highlighted the great future that the Asian country has in this field.With the continuous improvement of the system of donation and transplantation of human organs in China, the Asian country has participated more extensively and deeply in the construction of an international system of governance of transplants, gradually moving from participant to legislator.
