HQ-9 air-defense missile is one of the air-defense missiles developed by researchers at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp's Second Academy. FAN SONG/FOR CHINA DAILY China has become a world leader in air-defense technologies thanks to the hard work and dedication of researchers at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp's Second Academy, the country's major developer of air-defense weapons systems. Researchers from the academy's Zhang Yiqun Laboratory have been playing a vital role in the development of China's new air-defense missile system by designing its control systems - the brain of any missile. Compared with previous generations of air-defense missiles, the new-generation missile system will have a wider range of targets and be much more technologically sophisticated, taking China into the ranks of just a handful of nations capable of designing and producing such a system. The cutting-edge missile's control systems need to be extremely efficient and accurate, said Wang Mengyi, deputy head of the Second Academy's General Design Department and former leader of the laboratory. Metaphorically put, the mission of these control systems is to guide a needle to fly 1,000 kilometers to pierce the eye of another needle, he said. For researchers from Zhang Yiqun Laboratory, their mission is to turn this seemingly impossible task into reality. Wang said control systems are mainly tasked with working out a missile's best trajectory and making sure it can hit its target. The successful development of China's new air-defense missile system would be unachievable if researchers at the laboratory had failed to design world-class control systems, he said, noting that they adopted new design methods that have reduced design time tremendously and improved missile performance. Wang Xiaodong, a laboratory researcher, said members of the laboratory spent numerous days and nights improving the accuracy of control systems and optimizing the algorithms that are central to them. For example, we worked 10 consecutive days and slept little each day to detect and resolve one extremely rare abnormality because all of us are aware that our nation's air-defense networks can only be reliable if we are meticulous and responsible toward our work, he said. The laboratory, named after Zhang Yiqun, a top researcher at the academy and former head of the laboratory, has been granted 11 National Science and Technology Advancement Awards and 28 National Defense Science and Technology Progress Awards due to its extensive contribution to China's air-defense networks. It has also registered more than 130 defense technology patents. In the laboratory, members of the Communist Party of China play a vanguard, exemplary role, leaders of the laboratory said. They always take the lead in innovating, carry out their assignments carefully, with scrupulous attention to detail, and also display an inspirational level of diligence and devotion toward their work. rubber wristbands custom cheapwide rubber bandsrubber bracelets ukprinted wristbands
BEIJING - Since the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress in 2012, Party discipline inspections have purified the Party and improved the CPC's internal governance. Since the congress, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee have held 23 meetings on inspections. The central leading group for inspection has held 115 meetings. While listening to reports on inspections, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed for more than once that the Party is fighting a pitched battle against corruption, where regional corruption is intertwined with sectoral corruption, corruption in official selection is intertwined with corruption in uses of power, and corruption in economic realms is intertwined with corruption in political realms. Over the past five years, new ways of inspections were invented, such as "precise strike," or "surprise re-visit." During 12 rounds of inspection by central inspection authorities, 277 Party organizations have been examined, 16 provincial-level regions have been re-examined and flexible inspections of four institutions under central control have been carried out. The 18th CPC Central Committee is the first in Party history to inspect all CPC organizations in provincial-level regions, central CPC and government organs, major state-owned enterprises, central financial institutions and centrally-administered universities in one term. More than 60 percent of investigations into centrally-administered officials were a result of information found by discipline inspectors. Inspection teams discovered the misconduct of senior officials such as Sun Zhengcai, Su Rong and Huang Xingguo. Clues found by inspectors also led to the investigation of systemic corruption in Shanxi Province, as well as electoral frauds in Liaoning, Hunan and Sichuan provinces. Inspection teams sent by provincial-level authorities discovered 58,000 clues of corruption, resulting in the investigation of 1,225 city-level officials and 8,684 county-level officials. A total of 3,133 CPC officials have been held accountable for undesirable work styles. Inspectors checked conduct in selection and promotion of officials and found 1,600 major violations. Inspectors also found problems of weak Party leadership. Central inspectors have received nearly 1.6 million visits and letters from the public and talked with over 53,000 CPC members or members of the public for violation tip-offs. Since the congress, the central inspection teams have made 59 reports to leading officials of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. The inspectors also transferred more than 9,400 cases of violations or clues to the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the CPC Central Committee's organization department or other authorities.
