About 1,000 Chinese people will enjoy "red" road trips to Russia from June to September, the China National Tourism Administration announced at a news conference on Tuesday. The trips will kick off simultaneously in Hunan and Shaanxi provinces on June 28, with participants first driving to Beijing for an opening ceremony on July 1. From there, participants will drive to Manzhouli, a city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region that borders Russia. They will enter Russia on July 5 to attend a welcoming ceremony in Moscow. After that, the Chinese participants will be divided into three groups for road trips along three routes in Russia: Moscow to Ulyanovsk, a city about 900 kilometers east of the Russian capital; Moscow to Kazan, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia; and Moscow to St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city. During the trips, the tourists will visit a series of red tourism destinations, including the former residence and tomb of Vladimir Lenin, the Russian communist revolutionary and politician; Kazan Federal University, which Lenin attended; and a villa near suburban Moscow, where the sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in 1928. It's now a museum. According to a memorandum of understanding signed in June 2015 by China and Russia, the two countries will boost exchanges and cooperation in red tourism by attracting more tourists from each other's countries. Data from the Federal Agency for Tourism of Russia showed that China was the biggest source of tourists for Russia, with more than 1.07 million visits by Chinese tourists last year, a 15 percent year-on-year increase. Russians made 1.18 million visits to China last year, up 31 percent from the year before. Xue Yaping, a senior official of the China National Tourism Administration, said at the news conference that Chinese tourists on the road in Russia will "not only contribute to red tourism but also deepen the friendship between the people of the two countries". He said the event was supported by the tourism authorities and associations in Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Hunan and Shaanxi, as well as some travel agencies and auto rental companies in Beijing. silicone wristbandspersonalized rubber braceletscustom rubber wristbandswristbands online
HQ-9 air-defense missile is one of the air-defense missiles developed by researchers at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp's Second Academy. FAN SONG/FOR CHINA DAILY China has become a world leader in air-defense technologies thanks to the hard work and dedication of researchers at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp's Second Academy, the country's major developer of air-defense weapons systems. Researchers from the academy's Zhang Yiqun Laboratory have been playing a vital role in the development of China's new air-defense missile system by designing its control systems - the brain of any missile. Compared with previous generations of air-defense missiles, the new-generation missile system will have a wider range of targets and be much more technologically sophisticated, taking China into the ranks of just a handful of nations capable of designing and producing such a system. The cutting-edge missile's control systems need to be extremely efficient and accurate, said Wang Mengyi, deputy head of the Second Academy's General Design Department and former leader of the laboratory. Metaphorically put, the mission of these control systems is to guide a needle to fly 1,000 kilometers to pierce the eye of another needle, he said. For researchers from Zhang Yiqun Laboratory, their mission is to turn this seemingly impossible task into reality. Wang said control systems are mainly tasked with working out a missile's best trajectory and making sure it can hit its target. The successful development of China's new air-defense missile system would be unachievable if researchers at the laboratory had failed to design world-class control systems, he said, noting that they adopted new design methods that have reduced design time tremendously and improved missile performance. Wang Xiaodong, a laboratory researcher, said members of the laboratory spent numerous days and nights improving the accuracy of control systems and optimizing the algorithms that are central to them. For example, we worked 10 consecutive days and slept little each day to detect and resolve one extremely rare abnormality because all of us are aware that our nation's air-defense networks can only be reliable if we are meticulous and responsible toward our work, he said. The laboratory, named after Zhang Yiqun, a top researcher at the academy and former head of the laboratory, has been granted 11 National Science and Technology Advancement Awards and 28 National Defense Science and Technology Progress Awards due to its extensive contribution to China's air-defense networks. It has also registered more than 130 defense technology patents. In the laboratory, members of the Communist Party of China play a vanguard, exemplary role, leaders of the laboratory said. They always take the lead in innovating, carry out their assignments carefully, with scrupulous attention to detail, and also display an inspirational level of diligence and devotion toward their work.
