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“An instructor from the Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant Ltd. Co, smashes a bottle over a female recruit’s head during a training session for China’s first female bodyguards in Beijing January 13, 2012. According to the company, the training session consists of 20 women, mostly college graduates, who will undergo 8-10 months of training to develop sufficient skills to become security guards. The company will then offer the best trainee a chance to attend the International Security Academy in Israel.” (REUTERS/David Gray)
Universo chino en Forocoches (via @mrwinters)
And yet a few more pictures from China, or my inescapable obsession with Hong Kong alleys.
I’ve started uploading the pictures from my trip to China. 18 days in Beijing, Lhasa, the train in between, Yunnan, Hong Kong and an excessive amount of transfer time in the Sheremetyevo airport (Moscow).
Go have a look!
“The Qinghai–Tibet railway is a high-altitude railway that connects Xining, Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in People’s Republic of China.
The total length of Qingzang railway is 1956 km. This railway is the first to connect China proper with the Tibet Autonomous Region, which, due to its altitude and terrain, is the last province-level entity in mainland China to have a conventional railway. More than 960 km, or over 80% of the Golmud-Lhasa section, is at an altitude of more than 4,000 m. There are 675 bridges, totalling 159.88 km.
About 550 km of the railway is laid on permafrost. In the summer, the uppermost layer thaws, and the ground becomes muddy. Chinese engineers dealt with this problem by building elevated tracks with foundations sunk deep into the ground, building hollow concrete pipes beneath the tracks to keep the rail bed frozen, and using metal sun shades. Similar to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System portions of the track are also passively cooled with ammonia based heat exchangers.
The air in Tibet is much thinner, with a oxygen partial pressure being 35% to 40% below the partial pressure at sea level. Special passenger carriages are used, and several oxygen factories were built along the railway. At this altitude in these latitudes, water in toilets must be heated to prevent freezing. The Chinese government claimed that no construction worker died during the construction due to altitude sickness related diseases. The railway passes the Kunlun Mountains, an earthquake zone. A magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck in 2001.”
The line includes the Tanggula Pass, which, at 5,072 m above sea level, is the world’s highest rail track.
Source: Wikipedia. Next source: me :)
Pff… ¿En China? Estos ya son sopa de erizo.
Staff at Chuanzhehui Restaurant in Hangzhou, eastern China, discovered a mother hedgehog and her six newborn babies in a warehouse.
Picture: QUIRKY CHINA NEWS / REX FEATURES (via Pictures of the day: 18 May 2010 - Telegraph)
“Maybe Google had this planned all along. Maybe it went along with the China deal back in 2006 figuring that it would either (a) make loads of money in China, and if so, keep quiet about the censorship; or (b) fail to create a thriving business in China, but create an opportunity to generate some positive publicity by sparking a debate about the Internet and censorship. My guess: even the smarty-pants Google geniuses probably don’t think that far ahead. But anyway, the debate is one we need to have.”
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Actos conmemorativos de los 60 años de China roja, en The Big Picture. He subido la foto porque me fascina la mezcla de conceptos subyacente, pero con el vídeo del desfile te caes de la silla. Y quiero una Canon último modelo ya.
