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The night sky on fire: 2,000 firefighters battle inferno that blazed for 15 hours in China after TWO oil pipelines explode
Structured Settlement Investments Firefighters today extinguished a fire that raged for more than 15 hours after two oil pipeline exploded at a Chinese Structured Settlement Investments port.
An explosion at a pipe transporting crude oil from a ship loan rates to a storage tank blew up yesterday evening, causing a blast at a second, nearby duct.
More than 2,000 firefighters and 338 mesothelioma layers engines from 14 different cities worked loan rates through the night in the north-eastern port of Dalian to put out the blaze which illuminated the sky in a strange orange glow.
Inferno: Firefighters walk along a stretch of pipelines towards the blast site in Dalian, northeast China
Sky transformed: A strange orange glow can be seen for miles around as 2,000 firefighters battled flames
China’s Air Force also sent two Y8 aircraft to the rescue operation, carrying nearly 18 tonnes of extinguishing agent to deal with flames that leaped into the sky.
Luckily, no one was hurt by the massive inferno that produced a glow that could be seen for miles around.
The first of the two pipelines, both owned by state-owned giant China National Petroleum Corporation, exploded at 6pm.
The blaze at the first, larger duct was put out around midnight, but at least five subsequent explosions worsened the fire on the smaller duct.
More than 300 fire engines line up to deal with the blaze which sent flames bursting into the sky.
Smoke poured into the sky as a switch error meant that one of the oil pipes could not be turned off.
By the morning the fire was under control. By 9am – 15 hours after it started – it was extinguished.
At the smaller pipeline, the problem was exacerbated because workers were unable to remotely switch off the oil pump because of mechanical failures caused by the fire.
Firefighters had to switch it off by hand before the blaze was eventually extinguished this morning. Eventually, at 9am, 15 hours after the first explosion, the inferno had been quenched. The ship, a Very Large Crude Carrier, left the port undamaged.
Here are some pictures:
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Man lives in telephone box
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A man has been living in a telephone box for the last two years in China.
Man in phone booth
The man, who refuses to give his name or even talk to anyone, lives in a phone booth in Dalian city, Liaoning province.
He sleeps during the day then comes out at night to beg for food, reports the Bandao Morning Post.
The man sleeps by curling up into a ball on top of cushions – but he has tried to add a few home comforts to the booth.
By his side are a neatly stacked pile of food boxes and mineral water bottles while his spare clothes hang from the roof.
The janitor of the neighbouring building said the man had good personal hygiene and washed in public facilities.
“He wears old and patched clothes, but he looks very clean. Quite often he checks his appearance in a mirror to tidy his moustache,” said the janitor.
“He talks to himself in the mirror, but he never speaks to anyone else. Sometimes we offer him some food but he won’t accept, and he won’t speak a word.”
The phone booth is in busy Zhongshan Square in the heart of downtown Dalian city but the man has got used to ignoring curious passers-by.
A community worker said: “We want to find his family and send him home. But he never talks to anybody. It’s hard for us to know how to help him.”
Chinezii care se sinucid pentru telefonul dumneavoastră
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13 muncitori chinezi s-au sinucis în ultimele luni din cauza muncii epuizante. Pe benzile de lucru care produc milioane de celulare şi laptopuri, aceeaşi operaţiune este repetată la 7 secunde.
factory worker
Mai multe megacompanii din China au anunţat măriri de salarii, presate de grevele muncitorilor şi de opinia publică internaţională. Dar dacă milioanele de roboţei cu ochii oblici vor primi salarii mai mari, cât de competitive vor mai fi liniile de ansamblare chinezeşti? Nu vorbim, deocamdată, despre o revoluţie în domeniu.
Povestea sinuciderilor în lanţ de la fabrica Foxconn Technology din Shenzhen, în sud-estul Chinei, pare să fie fitilul care a detonat emanciparea muncitorului chinez.
Tragedia muncitorului sinucigaş:
Ma Xiangqian, un tânăr de 19 ani, lucrase câteva luni consecutiv la o bandă de asamblare de componente electronice în ritmul următor: minimum 11 ore pe zi, şapte zile pe săptămână.
Din luna ianuarie, când Ma s-a aruncat de pe o clădire a complexului Foxconn, alţi 12 muncitori din fabrică şi-au luat viaţa până luna trecută. Oficial, compania spune că sinuciderile nu sunt legate direct de salarii sau de alte chestiuni “de serviciu”, ci mai degrabă de “probleme personale, exacerbate de dificultăţi financiare”. Ba chiar, comunicatul Hon Hai Precision Industry, holdingul taiwanez care deţine Foxconn, arată că sinuciderile ar fi putut fi motivate de compensaţiile pe care compania le oferă familiilor sinucigaşilor.
“Am văzut mai multe rapoarte din cazurile de la Foxconn şi aproape toate spun acelaşi lucru: angajaţii simţeau că sunt nişte maşini”, contrazice teoriile de mai sus Ji Shao, expert în probleme de muncă la Universitatea economică din Beijing, citat de agenţia Inter Press Service.
Fabrică-gigant cu 300.000 de muncitori
Este foarte probabil ca şi dumneavoastră, cei care citiţi acest material, să folosiţi unul dintre produsele care au trecut prin mâna muncitorilor de la Foxconn. Dacă folosiţi un iPhone, iPad, iPod, un laptop Dell, HP sau Acer, PlayStation, ori smartphone-uri Nokia sau Motorola, trebuie să ştiţi că acestea sunt produse în fabrica Foxconn din cartierul Longhua, al metropolei industriale Shenzhen.
De fapt, “fabrică” este un cuvânt nepotrivit, pentru că este vorba despre cea mai mare uzină din lume, întinsă pe 5 kilometri pătraţi şi cu peste 300.000 (trei sute de mii, aţi citit bine) de muncitori, o parte dintre cei 800.000 de angajaţi ai Foxconn din întreaga Chină.
Imaginaţi-vă absolut toţi locuitorii din sectorul 4 al Bucureştiului, înghesuiţi pe o suprafaţă mai mică decât Parcul Tineretului. Fabrica este în realitate un oraş cu circuit închis. Compania le oferă angajaţilor cazare şi masă gratuite. Există cămine, cu câte 10 paturi în cameră, cantine, bibliotecă, bancă, market, cinema, terenuri sportive şi o piscină olimpică. Biblioteca este însă ultimul loc în care s-ar duce un muncitor la finalul schimbului.
