Note: The report cites:
China Travel Alert. Bureau of Consular Affairs, US Department of State, Sept. 25, 2009.
http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_4238.html
("[T]he nature of the selection process makes it almost impossible to predict when a traveler may be placed into quarantine.")
(3) Keith Bradsher, China’s Threat Reinvigorates Efforts to Mine Rare Minerals. New York Times, Sept. 26, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/business/energy-environment/26rare.html?_r=1&sq=rare%20earth&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1253986546-ENG4LcElMGVqyGSOyGCTaQ
(4) Andrew E. Kramer, Siemens Fills Russia’s Need for High-Speed Train. New York Times, Sept. 25, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/business/global/25train.html?scp=1&sq=siemens%20moscow&st=cse
Quote:
"[T]he closest Americans have come to high speed is the Acela, which rarely runs at what Europeans call high speed. * * * The United States 'is a developing country in terms of rail,' Ansgar Brockmeyer, head of public transit business for Siemens, said
"The 401-mile trip from downtown Moscow to downtown St. Petersburg will be 3 hours and 45 minutes. * * * The * * * service will trim 45 minutes from the fastest train service now.
My comment: The report mentions China once: "Russia has arrived in the high-speed club that includes Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Spain, Taiwan, Korea and China, which joined in 2007."
Shanghai MagLev started on Jan. 1, 2004 while Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway, Aug. 1, 2008. So it could only be China Railway High-speed 中国铁路高速 which began operation in 2007. See
保婷婷, “中国铁路高速”（CRH）春运首次亮相. 科学时报, Feb. 4, 2007.
http://www.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2007215113450875173262.html
("2007年1月28日，我国最新的高速动车组列车（CRH）在沪—宁—杭铁路线上首次载客营运 * * * 运行时速控制在160公里以内，但仍是高铁")
My comment:
(a) That (<160 km/hr) is NOT high-speed.
(b) It can not be Qingzang railway/Qinghai–Tibet railway 青藏铁路, which opened in 2006.
"The World's Highest Railway [:] The Beijing-Lhasa train will run at a speed of 160 km per hour on the plain, but will slow down at 120 km per hour when it reaches the Qinghai-Tibet section."
http://www.chinatibettrain.com/
(5) David Feith, Dancing With Fang Zheng; The sprinter's legs were crushed by a tank at Tiananmen. Wall Street Journal, Sept. 25, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574432953763357842.html
Note:
(a) FANG Zheng 方政
(b) ZHOU Fengsuo 周锋锁
(c) Ossur Corp. (whose web site is www.ossur.com)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossur
("Ossur was founded in Iceland in 1971 by Össur Kristinsson, a prosthetist")
My comment: This WSJ report is confusing with respect to naming sysytem in China. It puts Fang first but Zhou and Chai last (as in "Fengsuo Zhou" and "Ling Chai"), although all three are surnames.