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News (1), (7) to (9) / Reports by : Gan Yung Chyan
News (1)
Jet Airways to relaunch operations in 2022
Jalan Kalrock Consortium, that won the bid for Jet Airways, is relaunching the defunct airline in the first quarter of 2022. According to The Financial Times, the new Jet Airways is headquartered in Delhi and it will relaunch its first domestic flight from Delhi to Mumbai.
Jet Airways plans to resume international flight operations by the third or fourth quarter of 2022. Planned flights will reach Kathmandu, Dhaka, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Suvarnabhumi from Delhi and Mumbai.
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in June 2021 had approved the Jalan Kalrock Consortium’s resolution plan for Jet Airways, two years after the full-service airline went into insolvency proceedings.
Jet Airways plans to own a future fleet of up to more than 100 aircraft within five years. Its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) is under process for revalidation.
News (2) to (6) / Reporter : Liming / Editor: Hu Long / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/09/14/a103216284.html
Image : The assets of HNA Aviation include Hainan Airlines, GX Airlines, West Air, Urumqi Air, seen here at the HNA booth of NATAS Travel Fair 2019. Liaoning Fangda won the bid for HNA.
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HNA's bankruptcy and reorganization, Liaoning Fangda, the takeover of aviation's main business, is bottomed
Image : Hainan Airlines at Nanjing Lukou International Airport
A few months after HNA Group entered the bankruptcy and reorganization process, strategic investors in the main business of HNA Aviation and the airport sector, which are the most concerned by the outside world, have finally surfaced recently. Among them, the Liaoning Fangda Group Industrial Co., Ltd., which took over the main business of HNA Aviation, was raised by mainland Chinese media. Its actual controller Fang Wei was exposed to the acquisition of scrap steel. However, it has rapidly grown and grown with multiple successful acquisitions of state-owned enterprises on the verge of bankruptcy.
In the evening of 12 September, local time, the two listed companies under the HNA Group that have entered bankruptcy and reorganization *ST HNA and *ST Foundation successively issued announcements, announcing the results of their bankruptcy and reorganization of strategic investor recruitment and the holding of the second creditor meeting time.
According to the announcement, the strategic investor in the main aviation industry of HNA Group has been identified as Liaoning Fangda Group Industrial Co., Ltd. (Liaoning Fangda), and the strategic investor in the airport sector of HNA Group is Hainan Development Holding Co., Ltd. It is expected that these two strategic investors will become the controlling shareholders of the company after the related investment is completed.
At the same time, *ST HNA and *ST Foundation also announced that the second meeting of creditors will be held at the end of this month.
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Liaoning Fangda, the "dark horse" bidding for the main business of HNA Aviation, was exposed
According to reports, Fosun Group, Juneyao Group and Liaoning Fangda participated in the bid for HNA’s main business assets, and Liaoning Fangda, with the “least knowledge of aviation” won. The result surprised the outside world, and Liaoning Fangda was exposed by Chinese media.
According to a report by China Business News, Liaoning Fangda has newly registered a company called “Hainan Grand Aviation Development Co., Ltd.” to participate in the bidding of HNA’s aviation assets. Its registered place is Haikou, Hainan with registered capital 30 billion RMB (the same below), and its business scope includes public air transportation, asset management services for self-owned capital investment, etc.
Hainan Grand Aviation Development Co., Ltd. was jointly funded and established by Jiangxi West Iron and Steel Group, Jiujiang Pinggang, Anyuan Iron and Steel and Sichuan Dazhou Iron and Steel. The shareholding ratios of these companies are 30%, 30%, 18.3333%, and 16.67% respectively. And 5%, and these companies all belong to the steel sector under the Fangda Group.
Public information shows that Fangda Group is a private enterprise group. The core business of the group includes four major sectors: Carbon, steel, medicine, and commerce. It owns Fangda Carbon, Fangda Special Steel, Northeast Pharmaceutical, ZTE Commercial and other listed companies, Fangda People’s Hospital and other hospitals under the medical sector, with a total of more than 300 legal entities and more than 60,000 employees.
As of the end of June 2021, Fangda Group has total assets of 150.56 billion RMB, total liabilities of 84.45 billion RMB, owners' equity of 66.11 billion yuan, asset-liability ratio of 56.1%, and monetary funds of 50.8 billion yuan.
According to the information provided by the Chinese enterprise information quick query tool "Qixinbao", Liaoning Fangda was established in 2000 with a registered capital of 1 billion yuan. Its largest shareholder is Beijing Fangda International Industrial Investment Co., Ltd., with a shareholding ratio of 99.2%. . And this investment company has only one shareholder, Fang Wei, who is the actual controller of Liaoning Fangda.
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Fangda's founder Fang Wei started as a steel seller
According to public information, Fang Wei was born in 1973 and started his business by buying scrap steel and selling it to steel plants. However, this once-unknown man miraculously succeeded in acquiring a number of state-owned enterprises that were on the verge of bankruptcy due to poor management, and became the "richest man" in China's steel industry with a fortune of 45 billion RMB in 2018. In April 2021, Fang Wei ranked 680th in the "2021 Forbes Global Rich List" with a fortune of 4.2 billion US dollars. As for this miraculously wealthy investor, whether there is any powerful family behind it is unknown to the outside world.
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Trajectory of Fangda's business growth from 2002 to 2019
According to China Financial News "Time Finance", in 2002, Liaoning Fangda acquired and reorganized the state-owned Fushun Carbon Plant for the first time, and then successively acquired Fushun Laihe Mining, Shenyang Coking Gas, Chengdu Rongguang Carbon, Hefei Carbon, etc. Enterprise; In 2009, Liaoning Fangda successfully acquired the Changli shares of Nanchang Iron and Steel; in 2010, it acquired *ST Jinhua (later changed to Fangda Chemical), and later included Pingxiang Iron and Steel into its subordinates; since 2018, Liaoning Fang Dalu continued to buy shares and acquired the old state-owned enterprises Northeast Pharmaceutical, Jilin Chemical Fiber, ZTE Commercial and other enterprises. It is particularly worth noting that in April 2019, the state-owned enterprise Northern Heavy Industries completed its judicial reorganization, and Liaoning Fangda Iron and Steel Group became the largest shareholder of Northern Heavy Industries.
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Fangda's stake control in HNA needs to be determined by creditors voting
Liaoning Fangda, which has no aviation operation experience and no industrial synergy advantage, won the bid. Beijing Business Daily quoted analysis of industry insiders and pointed out that the victory of Liaoning Fangda may be related to HNA Group’s most urgent need to solve the debt problem. That is the crucial factor.
According to the report, at the first creditor meeting of *ST HNA, the company has received claims from thousands of creditors, amounting to nearly 350 billion RMB; at the first creditor meeting at the HNA group level, the company received A total of more than 60,000 claims have been filed, and the amount of claims involved has exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan. For HNA, which is already insolvent, what is needed most now is the capital supplement from the war investment. In the final round of bidding quotations for the reorganization of HNA’s aviation assets, Fangda’s offer was the highest.
However, whether Liaoning Fangda will eventually become the controlling shareholder of HNA Aviation Assets remains to be determined by voting at the second meeting of creditors.
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Lufthansa retires A380 service
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The last Lufthansa A380 (Registration Number D-AIMH) was tuned from Frankfurt and arrived at Teruel Airport in Spain for storage. So far, all 14 Lufthansa A380s have left the base and entered a state of storage (Teruel, Spain and Tarbes, France).
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said last month: “The A380 will obviously not return to Lufthansa.” As far as he is concerned, the A380’s career at Lufthansa has ended.
Lufthansa’s A380 fleet is very young, with aircraft age ranging from 6.9 to 11.39 years, with an average age of 9.95 years.
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Qantas: Restart international flights on 18 December 2021
Qantas plans to restart international flights from 18 December 2021. Qantas' booking website shows that it will accept flights from Sydney and Melbourne to London, Vancouver and Singapore on 18 December 2021 and will fly to Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hawaii and Nadi on 19 December. Currently, flights in mid-December mainly depart from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Qantas plans to fully resume all international flights by April 2022.
When international flights resume, the airline plans to first fly Airbus A330 and Boeing 787 on routes to North America and Europe, and then re-flight some Airbus A380s in July 2022.
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Australia's international travel ban ends on 17 December 2021
Currently, Australia's international travel ban has been extended to December 17. As Qantas CEO revealed in the August strategy report, whether Qantas international flights can be restarted depends on the government's border ban.
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Mandatory vaccination for passengers of Qantas
Last week, Qantas CEO stated that “Qantas will implement a policy that only allows vaccinated passengers to travel on international flights.” Qantas has been promoting vaccination throughout the pandemic. Qantas requires its 22,000 employees to be vaccinated compulsorily. The airline said in a statement that “front-line employees-including cabin crew, pilots and airport staff-will need to be fully vaccinated by November 15, 2021, and the remaining employees will need to be vaccinated by March 31, 2022. Vaccination before the day. Those who have documents proving that they are not suitable for vaccination are exempted, but this is expected to be rare."
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Baiyun Airport will introduce 6 high-speed rails, 2 intercity and 3 subways
On 14 September 2021, the Guangzhou Municipal Government held a press conference. Feng Zhijian, a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Guangzhou Airport Committee, introduced the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Guangzhou Airport Economic Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") led by the Airport Committee.The Plan has been reviewed and approved by the municipal government executive meeting, and will be issued and implemented in the near future.
The Plan proposes that by 2025, the Guangzhou National Airport Economic Demonstration Zone will be basically completed. The added value of airport economy exceeded 100 billion RMB, the import and export volume of the Baiyun Airport Comprehensive Bonded Zone exceeded 100 billion RMB, and the value of commodities in the airport's cross-border e-commerce hub port exceeded 300 billion RMB. The airport has an annual passenger throughput of 100 million passengers and an annual cargo and mail throughput of 3.5 million tons. At the same time, the positive role of "ports, industries, and cities" has become more obvious, and the economic development planning and construction of the integration of air and railway have begun to take shape.
In order to achieve the goal, the Plan has clarified a series of key tasks. Among them, it is mentioned that the route network of Baiyun Airport will be further expanded to form a four-hour air traffic circle in Southeast Asia and a 12-hour global air traffic circle, and build a three-dimensional comprehensive transportation system integrating airport, high-speed rail, intercity, subway, and highway. This is the core of the world-class airport cluster in the Greater Bay Area.
In terms of track construction, Baiyun Airport will introduce 6 high-speed railways (the main line will be introduced into Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macau and Guanghe high-speed railways, and the connecting lines will be introduced into the new high-speed railways of Guangzhou-Zhanjiang, Guangqing-Yong, Gui-Guang, and Guangzhou-Shenzhen), and 2 inter-city railways (Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macau and Guanghe high-speed railways), Dongguan-Shenzhen, Guangzhou-Foshan Intercity), 3 subway lines [Line 3, Line 18 (Guanghua Intercity), Line 22 (Fangbai Intercity).
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China Southern Airlines Group will deepen and broaden the "Road to Guangzhou" to build a world-class aviation hub
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On 14 September 2021, at the press conference of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Guangzhou Airport Economic Development" held by the Information Office of the Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government, relevant persons from the Guangzhou Development and Reform Commission and the Airport Committee gave comments on the construction of the Guangzhou International Hub and the Airport Economic Plan Made a comprehensive interpretation.
Yuan Jintao, General Manager of Strategic Planning and Investment Department of China Southern Airlines Group, said, “As a large state-owned backbone aviation company headquartered in Guangzhou, China Southern Airlines Group is a direct participant in Guangzhou’s international hub and airport economy. The announcement of the plan has made us very encouraged and deeply moved, excited, full of confidence, but also deeply aware of the great responsibility.
According to reports, in the future, China Southern Airlines Group will deepen and broaden the "Road to Guangzhou", drive the aviation economy with air transportation, and help promote the construction of the state's international aviation hub and airport economy.
Yuan Jintao said that as an important basic industry for economic and social development, the civil aviation industry has a long industrial chain and its strategic role in the high-quality development of the regional economy has become increasingly prominent. Especially in the context of economic globalization, air transportation is not only a mode of transportation, but also a fast channel for regional economy to integrate into the global economy.
China Southern Airlines has always been committed to building the Guangzhou hub into a model international aviation hub co-constructed with provinces and cities. In the future, it will continue to consolidate Guangzhou's core hub position, continue to enrich the layout of domestic and international route networks, and continue to increase the thickness and breadth of the Guangzhou hub network. After the epidemic has resumed, the connotation of the “Guangzhou Road” will be further enriched, and the “Air Silk Road” will be built with Guangzhou as the starting point. Air Traffic Circle".
Vigorously develop domestic and international transfers and sixth freedom rights transfers, continuously optimize the "five-in and five-out" flight wave, strengthen the Guangzhou hub transfer guarantee, build Sino-foreign economic and trade exchanges and international logistics air channels, and continuously enhance the international influence of the Guangzhou hub. Provide a wide channel guarantee for Guangzhou's airport economy and even the economic development of the Greater Bay Area.
With Baiyun Airport as the core, China Southern Airlines has deployed many fields including cargo logistics, aircraft maintenance, aviation food, aviation training, aircraft leasing, etc., forming a relatively mature industrial layout of coexistence and symbiosis with the main business, coordinated development. In the future, China Southern Airlines will give full play to the agglomeration, attraction, radiation and driving effects of the headquarters economy, promote the linkage between the main aviation industry and aviation economy-related industries, and gradually build competitive industries with strong competitiveness.
For example, strengthen the construction of aviation logistics hub, increase investment in the airport economic zone, and build a modern integrated logistics system with multiple formats such as air cargo, smart warehousing, bonded parks, and cross-border e-commerce; leverage the overall technical advantages and brand advantages of China Southern Airlines aircraft maintenance , Expand the “medium and high” end business chain of domestic and foreign aviation maintenance, develop more high-tech and high-industrial value “double high” new projects with more partners; Business scale of supply, R&D, and distribution. China Southern Airlines is willing to give full play to its scale advantages in the aviation industry chain to fully serve the needs of passengers and customers in the Greater Bay Area, and contribute to the development of Guangzhou's international hub and aviation industry.
Yuan Jintao said that China Southern Airlines Group firmly believes that with the joint efforts of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, the Management Committee, and all sectors of society, Guangzhou Airport Economic Zone will become a new source of power and growth pole for Guangzhou's high-quality development, helping to serve the "double cycle". The new development pattern, the "One Belt One Road" and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and other national strategic development overall situations.
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China Southern Airlines Engineering Technology Branch established
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On China Southern Airlines’ maintenance reform, China Southern Airlines Engineering Technology Branch is formally established on 15 September 2021. It is an integrated operation and management entity of China Southern Airlines Group’s aviation maintenance business, dedicated to providing a world of global customers with first-class high-quality aviation maintenance services. This is an important measure of China Southern Airlines to implement the series of deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on the reform of state-owned enterprises, and respond to the national development strategy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and Xiongan New Area. The establishement of the branch company facilitates the new development of China as a powerful country in transportation and civil aviation. It will also play an important role in promoting Guangzhou's construction of a national airport economic demonstration zone, building a world-class airport, and promoting the development of Guangdong's local economy.
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Air Travel obtains the IATA NDC highest level certification
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Recently, Hunan Airlines (known also as Air Travel) successfully obtained the (New Distribution Capability (NDC) highest level Level 4 certification issued by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), becoming the world's first airline to complete the highest agreement version 21.1 certification. It marks that Air Travel has made major breakthroughs in the application of NDC standards and the construction of related business ecosystems, and has become one of the leading airlines in the NDC field. This is also another important achievement that Air Travel uses information technology to help the company's business innovation and development.
NDC is a retail transformation project of the air travel industry promoted by the IATA for the airlines' control over the distribution channels. The purpose of IATA NDC certification is to test the ability of airlines, agents, and IT suppliers to receive and transmit NDC messages. The Level 4 level of Air Travel's certification is the highest level of NDC certification launched by IATA in 2021. NDC Level 4 certification is a complete offer (product) and order (order) management. In addition to query, reservation, payment and ticketing, it also includes the application of NDC in business links such as automatic refunds and changes, notification of abnormal flights, and so on. Air Travel has industry-leading NDC implementation capabilities.
Since the establishment of the digital system in 2019, Air Travel has fully referenced the various requirements of NDC@Scale, absorbed the new concepts conveyed by NDC, and established a set of data standardization, product diversification, personalized service, and refined marketing sales platform system. It aims to enhance the sales and service capabilities of Air Travel in an all-round way, and lay a solid foundation for the company's Internet + boutique aviation strategy. At present, the sales platform independently developed by Air Travel is based on NDC 21.1, which standardizes and upgrades functions such as ticket inquiry, reservation, refund, change, and payment, and provides a unified, standard, and open standard API for Air Travel’s partners. , Which improves the access efficiency by about 60%, and empowers Hunan Airlines' efficient and agile retail ecology. At the same time, Air Travel NDC has added auxiliary products, tourism products, and aircraft +X product functions, combined with Air Travel user portraits and big data reserves, to achieve accurate product placement and differentiated management of appointments.
During the implementation of NDC, Air Travel has worked closely with the International Air Transport Association to actively participate in the construction of global aviation and travel product retail standards, and work together for the cause of global aviation and travel product retailing. In the future, Air Travel will increase investment in sales platform research and development, consolidate existing NDC research results, explore more comprehensive and in-depth aviation digital applications, strengthen its own retail capabilities, and provide passengers with differentiated and personalized products and services to enhance the brand value of Air Travel.
News (15) to (18) / Reporter :i Jinfeng / Editor : Li Quan / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/09/15/a103216579.html
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30 children under 10 years of age in Putian have positive nucleic acid
Putian and Xiamen in Fujian Province have severe epidemics, and all employees in the two cities are tested for nucleic acid. According to official reports, 30 children under the age of 10 have been positive for nucleic acid in Putian, with the youngest being only 2 years old. The epidemic situation is severe and complicated.
According to the latest official report from Fujian, as of 12 am of 15 September, there are 50 newly confirmed cases in Fujian Province, including 12 in Xiamen, 5 in Quanzhou, and 33 in Putian.
Since 10 September, Fujian Province has accumulated 152 local confirmed cases and 152 are currently hospitalized, including 45 in Xiamen, 16 in Quanzhou, and 91 in Putian; 13 cases of asymptomatic local infection are currently in Xiamen 1 case and 12 cases in Putian City.
Since the CCP has always concealed the truth, the outside world generally questioned the authenticity of the figures.
According to the Putian City Epidemic Press Conference on the 14th, as of 12 am on 14 September, 85 cases of nucleic acid were positive in Xianyou County of the city, of which 36 were students and 30 were under 10 years old. These students include 8 kindergarten children and 28 elementary school students.
On the 15th, the Chinese Communist Party’s CCTV stated that the youngest child infected in Putian is only 2 years old. Currently, the isolation of young children in Putian is one of the difficulties in the prevention and control of the epidemic.
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Nucleic acid testing for all employees in Putian and Xiamen
On the afternoon of the 14th, Putian city started nucleic acid testing for all employees. In the morning of the same day, the whole city of Xiamen initiated nucleic acid testing for all employees.
At present, all communities in Putian have implemented strict access control.
Xiamen requires citizens not to leave the building unless it is necessary. Starting at midnight on the 14th, those who really need to leave the building must present the green code of the health code and hold a certificate of negative nucleic acid test within 48 hours. The people in the closed area "do not leave their homes", and the people in the controlled area "do not leave the area." From 12 am of 14 September, all passenger shuttle buses from various long-distance bus stations to various places in and outside the province have suspended services. Starting from 14 September, Xiamen Sixth District has issued notice to district school students to temporarily postpone their admission to the school and start online teaching.
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Official: Putian epidemic is severe and complicated
The Putian Municipal Party Committee’s newspaper "Meizhou Daily" published a report on 15 September saying that on the night of the 14th and the morning of the 15th, Liu Jianyang, secretary of the municipal party committee, stated at the municipal party committee's (expanded) meeting that epidemic prevention and control is the city’s current top priority. The epidemic situation remains severe and complex.
On the 14th, Li Bin, Deputy Director of the National Health Commission of the Communist Party of China, personally went to Xianyou County, Putian City. He emphasized that the current situation of Xianyou epidemic prevention and control is severe and complicated, and the work tasks are very arduous.
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The source of the Fujian epidemic is questioned
Reuters reported that the outbreak of the epidemic in Fujian coincided with the eve of the "Eleventh" long holiday in the peak tourist season. After the last outbreak of the epidemic in Nanjing from mid-to-late July to August, travel was severely affected and the tourism, transportation, and hotel and catering industries were hit hard.
It is reported that the official report on the 10th said that the virus in current round of the epidemic in Fujian was a Delta mutant strain/variant (Covi72) , and the suspected source was a man surnamed Lin who entered Xiamen from Singapore on 4 August. After 14 days of centralized isolation in Xiamen, the man was transferred to Xianyou County to continue centralized isolation for 7 days.
CNN stated that the Chinese authorities did not disclose when, where, and how the man surnamed Lin was infected with Covi72 but the incubation period of more than 21 days is very unlikely.
According to the report, researchers from the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that the average incubation period of Covi72 is 4 days. The initial incubation period of the covi strain averages 6 days. Many people questioned on social platforms that Lin was probably infected with Covi72 after returning to Putian Xianyou.
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Yunnan eases covid restrictions
On 15 September 2021, Yunnan's medium- and high-risk areas were cleared, and the Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism issued a notice on the resumption of inter-provincial tourism, with the following notice:
According to the announcement of the Ruili Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Work Headquarters on 15 September 2021 on adjusting the risk level of the epidemic, in accordance with the "Notice on Actively Responding to the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic and Further Strengthening Trans-provincial Tourism Management" by the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism ( In the spirit of Wenlu Power [2021] No. 214), in view of the fact that there are no medium- and high-risk areas for epidemic prevention and control in our province, our province’s travel agencies and online tourism companies will resume the operation of cross-provincial team travel and "air ticket + hotel" business with immediate effect. All localities should invigorate their spirits, seize opportunities, and launch a variety of new cultural and tourism products, and increase the promotion of online and offline products with high density and multiple channels, so as to promote the rapid recovery of the cultural and tourism market in our province. At the same time, it attaches great importance to the restoration of the prevention and control of the epidemic situation in inter-provincial tourism, and strictly implements the following epidemic prevention and control requirements.
1. After our province’s travel agencies and online travel companies resume operating cross-provincial team tours and "air ticket + hotel" business, continue to suspend the organization of travel teams to provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) with medium and high risk areas, and continue to suspend the reception of medium and high risk areas. Provincial (regional, municipal) tourist teams.
2. Travel agencies and online travel companies in our province must strictly follow the requirements of the "Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemics in Travel Agencies (Third Edition)", strengthen management of key links, and do a strict, meticulous and practical approach to attracting, organizing, and receiving tourists. Epidemic prevention and control work in other links.
3. The province’s tourist attractions must strictly implement the requirements of “limits, appointments, and staggered peaks” in accordance with the requirements of the “Guidelines for the Reopening of Epidemic Prevention and Control of Tourist Attractions (Revised in March 2021)” to control the upper limit of tourist reception; strictly implement ticket reservations, Check the health code and itinerary card and other requirements to ensure that tourist information can be queried and traced; strictly implement the requirements for nucleic acid testing, temperature measurement, and wearing masks to ensure that problems are detected and dealt with early. Other cultural and tourism enterprises and institutions across the province must earnestly implement the "Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia in Theaters and Other Performance Places (Fifth Edition)", "Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia in Internet Service Business Places (Fourth Edition)", and "Entertainment" The latest epidemic prevention and control requirements such as the “Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic in Places (Fourth Edition)” and “Guidelines for the Reopening of Epidemic Prevention and Control Measures for Public Libraries and Cultural Centers (Stations) (Second Edition)”.
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The ugly tomatoes of Spain
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On 12 September 2021, local time, Spain’s annual "Ugliest Tomato Award" competition was launched in the northern city of Tudela. Local farmers rushed to deliver their ugly tomatoes to the competition venue. In addition to observing the appearance of the tomatoes in this competition, the judges will also taste the taste of tomatoes, and in the end the person who grows the ugliest tomato wins an Iberian ham. It is understood that this kind of tomato is a local characteristic variety of Tudela, known for its weird appearance, and is mainly grown in the Navarre region.
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Official announcement! Yangzhou resumes flights on 16 September 2021
According to Yangzhou's announcement, in order to meet the travel needs of the majority of passengers, after research, it has been decided to resume passenger flights at Yangzhou Taizhou International Airport on 16 September 2021.
Flight status is subject to the actual implementation of the airline, and passengers can inquire about information through the airline's official platform. Passengers entering and leaving the airport must take temperature measurements, show Su-Kang codes, itinerary cards, and wear masks throughout the journey. Passengers in low-risk areas where medium- and high-risk areas are located (municipalities are counties and districts) should provide a 48-hour nucleic acid negative test certificate.
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Joy Air celebrates 14th National Games with passengers
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The opening ceremony of the 14th National Games of the People's Republic of China is held at the Xi'an Olympic Sports Center Stadium at 8 pm on 15 September 2021. As a local airline in Xi’an, Joy Air actively contributes to “host a wonderful and successful sports event”.
To mark the opening day of the 14th National Games, a special event was held on the JR1511 Xi’an-Alxa Left Banner flight operated by the domestic MA-60 aircraft. Celebrating the opening of the 14th National Games" theme cabin activity, this MA-60 aircraft is also one of the "14th National Games" painted aircraft jointly launched by Joy Air and the 14th National Games Organizing Committee.
The cabin of the MA-60 aircraft is decorated with posters depicting the events of the 14th National Games and the headrest of the 14th National Games mascot, which is full of the atmosphere of the 14th National Games. The flight attendants presented the Joy Air MA-60 aircraft model to the lucky passengers whose boarding order was the first, sixth, ninth, and fourteenth on the same day. The numbers "nine and six" represent the official Joy Air on 6 September. The "14th National Games" theme painted aircraft was released. "14th" represents the 14th National Games of the People's Republic of China, and "first" represents Joy Air's best wishes to all athletes.
After the plane flew in level, the cabin crew broadcast the relevant introduction of the 14th National Games to the passengers, and then the prize-winning question and answer session was launched. The passengers actively participated and answered enthusiastically. The passengers who answered correctly received the "14th National Games" key chains from the cabin crew. Towards the end of the event, the cabin crew selected a lucky passenger to be given a big prize-Joy Air Free Air Ticket and Joy Air VIP Card. The "Celebrate the Opening of the Fourteenth National Games" themed cabin event came to an end with laughter.
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NUG: Sales of embassies by Junta would be illegal
Amid reports that the Myanmar Junta seeks to sell the land housing Myanmar Embassy in Japan, the shadow National Unity Government (NUG) has warned that any sale, in part or in whole, of a Myanmar diplomatic mission by the “illegal” military regime would be unlawful.
NUG Minister of Planning, Finance and Investment U Tin Tun Naing told The Irrawaddy that the warning was issued after the shadow government received credible reports of the regime’s proposed sale of the site of the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo.
A part of the Myanmar Embassy’s land in Tokyo was sold off under the former military regime. According to press reports at the time, the then regime sold 60 percent of the embassy grounds, netting it about US$234 million.
While details of the proposed sale are not yet known, the plan shows that the regime is increasingly desperate for hard currency. The country’s economy has been in freefall since the coup with new investment drying up, the withdrawal of existing investment and the halting of key international-backed infrastructure projects, as Western countries sanction the military regime amid its forces’ brutal killing of more than 1,000 peaceful protesters, activists and youths.
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Pacific Airlines aborted relief flight to Van Don from Singapore
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According to Vietnam Airlines, its subsidiary Pacific Airlines planned to operate its first relief flight from Singapore to Van Don on 3 August 2021. However as of that day, there was no incoming flight to carry out flight BL6854 to Van Don. Previously, Pacific Airlines operated charter relief flights from Singapore to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on behalf of Vietnam Airlines.
Vietnam Airlines only operates chartered cargo flights to Singapore.
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Vaccination halted urgently due to the soaring epidemic in Xiamen, people are worried
Reporter : Gao Jing / Editor : Luo Ya / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/9/15/n121/3236075.htm
Image : Adverse event after inactivated covi vaccination in a CCP city. Video Screenshot.
On 14 September 2021, when the epidemic in Xiamen was soaring, the city's vaccination was urgently stopped. The official did not disclose the reason. This move has sparked public speculation that some citizens are worried about the quality of inactivated vaccines.
On 14 September, it was officially announced that the whole city of Xiamen would stop vaccinating but did not give any reason. Since the official announcement of 1 confirmed case of the Xiamen epidemic on 12 September, the number of confirmed cases in the afternoon of 14 September has accumulated to 35.
Weibo netizens expressed dissatisfaction with this, "Never tell the reason." "This kind of news never tells the reason!"
Some netizens also questioned and said, "Didn't it mean that serious illness can be prevented? It has changed again?"
There is also said, "The vaccine has no immune effect, so what is the use of it?"
Some netizens even think that vaccination affects the accuracy of nucleic acid testing.
Ms. Shen, a local citizen, told The Epoch Times that she did not believe in vaccines and refused to be vaccinated. If she had high blood pressure and high blood sugar, the local government would not dare to force it. "The local community also put up a banner of 'not leaking vaccination.' In fact, I was the one that was missed."
She also said that the Xiamen epidemic is very serious and all covi vaccines of producers such as Sinopharm, Sinovac and CanSino have now been stopped for administering. They should know what the problem is. "We have seen a lot of videos on the Internet these days, because the people who suddenly fell to the ground after being vaccinated were cerebral infarctions, myocardial infarctions, strokes, etc. These are all problems with blood clots."
In this wave of Xiamen’s epidemic, more than 30 cases of adverse events and side effects have surged in more than two days. She suspects that they are related to vaccination. If they are not completely inactivated, "the body will become infected with the virus after the covi vaccine is being injected into the body, and thus transmit covi along the process to other people."
She emphasized, “In the face of a cruel epidemic, we must not take it lightly. In addition to letting everyone know the ins and outs of this epidemic, we must also let everyone understand science and refuse such absurdly compulsory vaccination. We must also learn to save ourselves and protect ourselves. If we maintain our righteousness such as if you don’t go to a crowded place, you won’t be so easily infected with the epidemic."
The Epoch Times reporter called the local CDC to inquire about the reason for stopping the vaccination. The other party only emphasized that it would stop temporarily and that the epidemic will continue after the end of the epidemic. The reporter asked what is the relationship between the vaccination and the outbreak, and everyone discussed whether the accuracy of nucleic acid testing was affected by the vaccination. The other party did not respond, but asked the reporter to call the epidemic prevention and control consultation hotline.
The reporter called the special line and found that the phone has been busy and could not be connected.
When the epidemic situation in Shenzhen and Guangzhou rose successively on 8 June 2021, the Longhua District of Shenzhen also suddenly announced the suspension of vaccination. When the vaccination will be resumed, another notice will be given, which also aroused public debate at that time.
On 5 June 2021, mainland Chinese media reported that Qianjiang, Hubei Province recently discovered that the nucleic acid test results of 4 people returning from key areas of the epidemic were weakly positive. Experts concluded that it was caused by "spillage" when medical staff vaccinated the client and is contagious.
The notification also stated that the so-called "spillover" means "spilling out." The mainland currently provides inactivated vaccines. The vaccine itself contains viruses, but after special treatment, the toxicity is greatly reduced and there is no replication capacity or infectivity.
As for the "inactivated vaccine" itself, Dr. Lin Xiaoxu, a former virology researcher at the U.S. Army Research Institute, previously introduced to The Epoch Times that it is also a big challenge to detect whether there are still live virus residues in the vaccine. If it does not reach 100% inactivation, some of the viruses remaining in the body will reproduce. Therefore, the process itself is very demanding and requires multiple procedures. If the process is not guaranteed, the harm caused by this vaccine will be relatively large.
Earlier, Taiwanese epidemic prevention expert Dr. He Meixiang also said that the development process based on the "whole virus inactivated vaccine" has the phenomenon of Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE), that is, after some people are vaccinated, their own immune response will make the disease worse. Therefore, such vaccines will not be developed in Taiwan, and such vaccines will not be used at the same time.
On 4 September 2021, according to the mainland's National Health Commission website, the mainland has reported a total of more than 2.1 billion doses of covi vaccine. The implication is that 1 billion people have completed 2 doses of vaccination.
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