Tag: Qinghai Province (China)

China Earthquake: In Bitter Cold, a Struggle to Help Survivors

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Rescue workers strained to plow through eight-foot piles of frozen sludge, which blocked the entrances to destroyed villages. Emergency vehicles struggled to navigate icy, damaged mountain roads. Victims with serious injuries were rushed to hospitals in cities, as demand for medical care overwhelmed the villages’ limited capacities. In the wake of China’s deadliest earthquake in nearly a decade, emergency workers raced to find survivors and distribute aid in Jishishan County in China’s northwest. They were running up against the challenges of rescue work in bitter cold in a remote part…

China Earthquake Kills More Than 100 in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces

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An earthquake in northwestern China has killed at least 111 people and injured more than 200 others in two provinces, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. Rescuers were searching for survivors after the quake, which jolted Jishishan County in Gansu Province late on Monday night. The province reported that 100 people had died, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. Eleven people in the city of Haidong in neighboring Qinghai Province were also killed, the news agency said. The quake, which struck at 11:59 p.m., had a magnitude of 5.9,…

Student Contest Winner: Halal Noodles in Shanghai

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This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Stephanie Chen, the author, is 16 and goes to Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus, in Shanghai. Running a Halal Noodle Shop in Shanghai By Stephanie Chen It’s lunchtime on Sunday. Sifang Beef Noodles, a little store tucked away in a gentrified corner of Pudong New Area, Shanghai, is full of hungry customers. Opened as a halal noodle store by an Indigenous Hui family, Sifang Beef Noodles has become a neighborhood staple. Haronnae Wang,…

How China’s CATL Became the Top Electric Car Battery Maker

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CATL’s initial public offering in 2018 made Mr. Zeng and two CATL vice chairmen, who together own a 40 percent stake, rich. Other early investors, some with deep political connections, did well, too. The company’s success was never assured, but China had let the world know that it planned to dominate the electric vehicle industry. It said in a sweeping announcement in 2016 that a “third industrial revolution” focusing on digitization and “new energy” would allow China to take the lead in autos. CATL invited a few outside investors to…