Tuesday, 13 November 2018

A typical local breaking news and its writing style in China

It is hard to tell, especially to foreigners, what China is like currently. Different conclusions can be brought up through different point of view. No doubt about it that China is growing as a power and among biggest economies around the world and will lead in its Belt and Road program.
On the other hand, China in fact is still suffering under the one-party rule and is at the growing risk of dictation and personal worship. Besides, there shows no signs of improvement of that.
In some word, China is still an unknown complex to foreigners, although deeply in the discussion and dispute of the international society. That complex is brilliant and promising, meanwhile  is decaying and full of crisis.
Therefore, it is worthy of more understanding all aspects of China, before judgeing its state behavior and foretelling its future.


Today, an official news on local traffic accident will be listed and discussed. The news is as following


The news is about traffic accident occurred in the evening of Nov. 13th 2018. A cement tanker vehicel clashed with a van in the suburban area of Baqiao District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province.
The accident resulted in 9 victims and 3 injured. The injured have been transferred to the hospital.
That was the outline of the first paragraph of the news, and looks so-so as a breaking news.
However, the following paragraphs are somehow inappropriate.
The places marked by red box are so-called leaders and their subordinates and bureaucracys. It is quite worthy of the translation. (From 2nd paragraph)
After the accident, Mr. Hu Heping, who is Shaanxi Provincial Party Secretary made an order, that the provincial and city staff who are in charge should come on site and deal ASAP; and that provincial and city health planning committee(God know what the hell is that) should do their very best to cure the injured; and that the police should investigate the reason for the accident ASAP and complete aftercare work.
Mr. Liu Guozhong, who is the governor of Shaanxi Province made an order, that medical experts should be organized rapidly to cure the injured and staff should be arranged for aftercare work.
Liang Gui, who is the executive deputy governor of Shaanxi Province and Provincial Party Committee member , and Mr. Wang Yongkang, who is the Xi'an City Party Secretary, and Provincial Party Committee member, and other provincial and city people who are in charge came to the site immediately and unite a leadership group and start the work..


Well.
In Chinese the news is 338 words, and among them, the useful news is around 117 words.
The other 221 words is disgusting introducing the leaders's name, title-which shall never be mistaken, their order and how they have paid attention to this "valuable" accident.
However, are they really paying attention to the accident? And are they really wanting to avoid tragedies like this? Surrounding residents do not think so. According to the following posts, the incident area is very narrow with few traffic signals, and in every evening a number of residual soil vehicles and cement tankers driving through this road recklessly. What was worse, that van was seriously overloaded with 12 migrant workers.



Then, tragedy "of course" happened. Thanks to no management, no regulation, no safety consciousness, and thanks to all you guys the Leaders.


This writing style is quite typical and such a news happens everywhere and every moment in China.
Leaders play vital role in every event in the daily, no matter it is good or bad.




 

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