The Bayi Aerobatics Team of the PLA Air Force performs at the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, in November.DENG HUA/XINHUA Request takeoff. Approved. And with that radio exchange, three J-10 fighter jets accelerated down the runway and left the ground. This was my first chance to see the Chinese Bayi Aerobatics Team of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, and as first impressions go, the huge sound wave produced by the new domestically developed J-10s is something to remember. It is hard not to be impressed by the team overall, but I was interested in getting to know individual members, beyond just the badge, and to hear their stories and dreams. The first person I got to know was Jing Fei, chief of the No 1 Brigade. You speak very good English, I told him. It's noticeable how they use aviation English in daily training, which isn't common in the Chinese Air Force. I have read professional aviation English for many years, he laughed. Now the Bayi aerobatics team's daily training is bilingual, but aviation English remains important to us because of our many international performances since 2013. Can we do this interview in English, then? I joked with him. But one detail I noticed in the pilots' dormitory was interesting and shows how they practice aviation English. On the right side of the door is a small white board where, every day, the pilots write an aviation English sentence, so that as they go in and out they are reminded. China's Bayi Aerobatics Team is now a well-regarded part of the international aerobatics industry. In 2013, the pilots and aircraft made their first appearance in Russia at the Moscow Air Show, and two years later they participated in the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition in Malaysia. In 2017, they performed at the Dubai Air Show, before another appearance in Russia a year later. Their most recent international engagement was in Islamabad for Pakistan's National Day parade. Everyone on the team was excited to share memories of performances abroad and to talk about the maneuvers they performed, but to be honest I was not the greatest audience for highly technical descriptions. What did strike me, however, was when Jing Fei showed me a social media post made during their visit to Dubai. A local Chinese resident posted a picture showing the Chinese national flag in the foreground and planes flying overhead in the background. He said the performance paid off, and the team's breathtaking performance really boosted Chinese peoples' patriotism. Actually, I do have one question: Why do we need an aerobatics team in the Chinese Air Force at all? The answer was revealed on my second night at the base. At eight o'clock, pilots were preparing for a night flight. Aerobatics performances never take place at night, but they were practicing to maintain their skill as a combat force. When preparing for their daytime performances, the pilots are easygoing and lighthearted, but for the night flights, the atmosphere had changed a lot. Everybody knows how serious combat flight is. Their job is to oppose enemies and safeguard our skies. parkrun wristband uk
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A Chinese sturgeon is prepared for release into the wild in Yichang, Hubei province, last year. [Photo/Xinhua] The construction of a bridge in Jingzhou, Hubei province, which allegedly caused the death of about 6,000 critically endangered Chinese sturgeon at a breeding facility, has been halted, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. An investigative team, assembled by the ministry's Yangtze River Fisheries Administration and the Hubei agricultural bureau, arrived in Jingzhou to investigate the deaths said to be caused by the construction of the Miyue Bridge in the city's Jinan ecocultural tourism zone, an official from the administration said. Part of the construction was allegedly carried out in national nature reserves, which is illegal, he said. The result of the investigation was not available as of Thursday night. The Jingzhou city government ordered the halt to the construction, and the investigative team will continue to watch the site to make sure that the construction does not resume, the official said. Any individual and organization involved in the death of Chinese sturgeon or illegal construction in a national nature reserve will be held accountable under the fisheries law, the law on the protection of wildlife and the environmental protection law, he said. Since the start of this year, 36 mature fish more than 20 years old, and about 6,000 younger ones up to 2 years old, have died at the Hengsheng aquafarm, which is near the construction site, ThePaper.cn reported on Sunday. The deaths were directly linked to the shocks, noises and changes of water sources caused by the construction, it said. Native to the Yangtze River, the Chinese sturgeon is almost extinct in the wild due to pollution, overfishing and the construction of massive dams. It now depends on artificial breeding for its survival. China launched its breeding program in the 1970s when scientists noticed a steep decline in the numbers of sturgeon, a species that can be traced back about 140 million years. According to earlier media reports, China is home to fewer than 1,000 adult Chinese sturgeon artificially bred from wild parents. Of those, more than half came from the Hengsheng aquafarm. Authorities ordered the operators of the construction project to move but they refused because there was no agreement on compensation. The team responsible for the project went ahead with construction, and it was this that led to the deaths of the extremely precious fish, according to The-Paper.cn. Over the past year, more than 10 official inspection teams have visited the construction site and ordered a halt, but each time their instructions went unheeded, the report said. An executive from the breeding facility was quoted as saying that as the construction work moved closer to the aquafarm, the fish became increasingly distressed and they sometimes leaped out of the water. Wei Qiwei, a principal scientist at the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, was quoted as saying that the 36 mature fish that died were among the first generation to have been artificially bred. As their parents were taken from the wild, the adults were extremely precious as they had a richer genetic diversity than their own offspring, he said. Zhou Lihua in Wuhan contributed to this story.
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