Fellow police officers pay their final respects to Gao Guangxi, former chief of the Chengnan police station, at his funeral in Haian, Jiangsu province, on July 4. Gao died at work on July 1.Gu Huaxia / For China Daily The sudden death of a police officer after he worked 36 straight hours, saddened tens of thousands of people in Jiangsu province's Haian county. On July 4, thousands of residents attended the funeral of the 48-year-old officer, Gao Guangxi. He was the director of the Chengnan police station in downtown Haian and had worked in law enforcement for 24 years. Gao was found unconscious in front of his desk by Zhang Jianhua, a colleague who received a phone call from Gao's wife, Yang Mei, asking him to check on Gao around 6:30 pm on July 1 after failing to reach him many times. Gao was on a 24-hour shift on June 30. Instead of going home for rest the next day, he attended an early meeting and then visited 20 branches of the station, which has jurisdiction over 30 square kilometers and about 120,000 people. It's not unusual for him to work 24 hours straight, said Lu Xuqing, deputy director of the station. We work at one of the busiest stations in the downtown area, and sometimes cases flood the station. The station handles about 15,000 cases every year, according to Ge Naijing, an officer at the Haian public security bureau. In cases that could be mediated, Gao often negotiated patiently. About 99 percent of such cases are settled this way, Ge said. Gao was a good police officer and a loving father as well, Ge said. The only person he forgot to take care of was himself. Gao's family members wept throughout his funeral. Yang, his wife, was seriously burned during a gas explosion in 1995. Their only child, a daughter, attends college in neighboring Xuzhou. Ge said he and Gao visited police departments in some cities together in April. Gao made time during the busy trip to be with his daughter and said he must keep his promise to be a good father. As the breadwinner of the family, Gao supported not only his relatives but also 19 poor children, seniors and laid-off workers under the station's jurisdiction. He had donated nearly 50,000 yuan ($7,350) personally and raised more than 500,000 yuan for 800 people in need since 2007. Also in 2007, he founded a volunteer group, Love Harbor, which attracted 23 police officers to help the children of criminals, poor families and seniors who had nobody to rely on. It's hard to accept that a person you are familiar with has gone forever, Ge said. May he rest in peace. silicone wristbandsprinted wristbands24 hour braceletswristbands onlinecustom made rubber bracelets24 hour wristbands coupon
The Long March 2C carrier rocket blasts off at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province on Sept 29, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua] China used a Long March 2C carrier rocket on Friday to lift three satellites, indicating the nation has resumed its space launches after a major failure in July. The rocket blasted off in the afternoon at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, successfully placing three Yaogan 30-1 satellites into orbit, according to a news release from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the major contractor of the country's space programs. Developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the satellites will be used to carry out technological experiments on electromagnetic environments, the release said. The success of Friday's launch has shown the company's efforts to rectify problems and improve its rockets' quality have achieved their goals and will bring confidence to its workers, the company noted. This was the 251st flight of the Long March rocket family and the first in nearly three months since July 2, when the second mission of China's newest and strongest rocket, Long March 5, failed due to malfunctions. The failure has affected the country's space programs, as it has had to postpone several key missions. One such mission was the Chang'e 5 lunar expedition, set to send a rover to take samples from the moon's surface and bring them back to the Earth. China's mightiest and most technologically advanced launch vehicle, the Long March 5 has a liftoff weight of 869 metric tons, a maximum payload of 25 tons to low-Earth orbit and a max payload of 14 tons to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The Long March 5's payload capacity is about 2.5 times bigger than any other Chinese rocket. The rocket's first flight was carried out in November at the Wenchang center. Chinese scientists wish to use the rocket to send large probes to the moon, Mars as well as Jupiter. They also plan to use it to transport parts for a manned space station that will start construction around 2019.
