{"id":10432,"date":"2011-07-26T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2011-07-26T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:06:17","slug":"chinese-government-announces-safety-review-after-high-speed-rail-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/chinese-government-announces-safety-review-after-high-speed-rail-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese government announces safety review after high speed rail crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the deadly collision between two high speed trains, China announced a safety review<\/a> of the high speed railway system:<\/p>\n

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Mr Sheng said railway officials would be deployed at frontline rail operations across the country to overhaul maintenance standards and checks on power connections to pre-empt outages.<\/p>\n

All local railway bureaux were to draw lessons from the accident, a statement on the railways department website said.<\/p>\n

Public fury and scepticism have been expressed in China’s blogosphere, both about the death toll of 39 people — suggesting it is too low — and the safety of China’s rail network.<\/p>\n

State newspapers have also expressed concern. The Global Times<\/em> ran a headline: Anger mounts at lack of answers.<\/p>\n

“As the world is experiencing globalisation and integration, why can’t China provide the same safety to its people?” an editorial read.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the deadly collision between two high speed trains, China announced a safety review of the high speed railway system: Mr Sheng said railway officials would be deployed at frontline rail operations across the country to overhaul maintenance standards and checks on power connections to pre-empt outages. All local railway bureaux were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,28,15],"tags":[204,363,590,185,213],"class_list":["post-10432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-china","category-media","category-technology","tag-blogging","tag-corruption","tag-engineering","tag-highspeedrail","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Ig","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10433,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions\/10433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}