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Thursday June 7, 2018

TWENTY days after opening for business, the Seventh Affi liated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen Uni-versity has carried out its fi rst operation using the DSA (digital subtraction angiography) tech-nique, sznews.com reported yesterday.

The operation was performed by Du Zhimin, a famous medical expert in interventional therapy. Conducting such an operation requires the hospital to have

qualifi cations and meet regula-tions for the use of radiologic technology, pass the evaluation of radiologic protection and employ professionals in the fi eld.

On May 10, the hospital was approved for a radiologic diag-nosis and radiotherapy license. Twenty days later, it successfully carried out its fi rst coronary angiography operation.

It is said that DSA is widely used in the diagnosis and treat-

ment of cardiovascular diseases, while coronary angiography is the gold standard for the diag-nosis of coronary heart disease, which can provide a precise basis for further medical treatment.

The operation also shows that the hospital is able to carry out a series of interventional therapies for coronary heart disease, struc-tural heart disease, pacemaker implantation, radiofrequency therapy and more. (Zhang Yu)

New hospital performs first DSA operation

HAINAN Airlines will open a direct fl ight between Shenzhen and Zurich, Switzerland, on Aug. 27, according to a report by the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily yesterday.

The Boeing 787-8 aircraft will operate this route twice a week. The airline previously oper-ated two to three weekly fl ights between Beijing and Zurich from May 2011 to January 2012.

It will be another interconti-nental route from Shenzhen to

Europe operated by Hainan Air-lines after the launching of fl ights from Shenzhen to Brussels and Madrid earlier this year.

China is the third-largest trade partner of Switzerland, following the European Union and United States, while Switzerland is an important European country for technology exports to China.

The opening of the Shenzhen-Zurich route will not only bring more business and trade oppor-tunities and tourism options for

Chinese travelers in the Pearl River Delta region, but also be helpful in enhancing high-level cooperation in trade and new energy between the two coun-tries, the report said.

Hainan Airlines is now oper-ating fi ve intercontinental routes from Shenzhen to Brisbane, Cairns, Auckland, Madrid and Brussels.

Zurich, located in north-cen-tral Switzerland, is the largest city in the country.

This is the latest intercontinen-tal air route from the Shenzhen airport following the opening of a twice-a-week direct fl ight to Darwin, Australia, on May 30. The opening of the Shenzhen-Zurich air route will bring the total number of international fl ights in Shenzhen to over 40.

In 2016 and 2017, the city opened 28 international routes including intercontinental routes to Europe, Australia and the United States. (Han Ximin)

Flight to Switzerland to open in Aug.

A WOMAN in Nanshan District and her daughter who was study-ing abroad were targeted by tele-com fraudsters and were nearly swindled out of a large sum of money for ransom, according to the Shenzhen Anti-telecom Fraud Center.

Xie Zhenzhu recently received a text message demanding an undisclosed amount of ransom to save her daughter who had allegedly been kidnapped, the Shenzhen Evening News reported Tuesday.

A photo of Xie’s daughter, identifi ed as Xiaobeike, tied up with a rope was attached in the text message to Xie. Xie panicked after failing to reach her daughter on her mobile phone, which had been switched off.

Xie started to believe that her daughter might have been kid-napped, so she called the police in Nanshan District. Since Xie’s daughter was still studying over-seas, the police handed the case over to the Shenzhen Anti-Tele-com Fraud Center.

After receiving the case, the center suspected it was telecom-munications fraud. They told Xie that it was crucial to locate Xiaobeike’s whereabouts to solve the kidnapping case.

Luckily, Xie received another credit-card message from her bank showing that Xiaobeike had checked in to a hotel in the country where she was studying. Following the information pro-vided by the Shenzhen center, police offi cers in that country found Xiaobeike.

The girl later called her par-ents. Xiaobeike told her parents that she had received a phone call one day after class and her phone showed that the call was from the embassy.

A man told Xiaobeike that he was a staffer with the Chinese Embassy on the phone and said that she was involved in a money laundering case. He told Xiaobeike that she would soon receive an arrest warrant.

The man told Xiaobeike to cooperate with the “embassy” in the investigation of the money laundering case and to keep silent.

Believing what the swindler said, Xiaobeike followed his instructions, tying herself up with a rope and sending a selfi e to her mother. Later, Xie received the photo and the kid-napping message.

According to the Shenzhen center, fraudulent gangs now use technology to get their phone numbers to show up as the num-bers of key public government departments like an embassy, police station and others. Also, the swindlers might be well-trained and able to deceive their victims easily.

(Zhang Qian, Cui Chenxin)

Family nearly swindled by ‘call from embassy’

At a Glance

Symposium heldTHE Hoffmann research center of advanced materials, named after the Nobel laure-ate Roald Hoffman, hosted a symposium on advanced materials for new and clean energy applications at Shenzhen Polytechnic’s Liuxi-andong campus yesterday.

Renowned experts from universities and research institutions in China, Ger-many and the United States were invited to share the their perspectives and research updates on new materials and their applications in the new and clean energy industries.

The Hoffmann research center of advanced materi-als was set up in Shenzhen Polytechnic January to boost the city’s development in new energy and new materials industries.Fraudsters seizedPOLICE busted a scam ring and arrested 41 fraudsters who cheated by using vari-ous excuses about personal emergencies like having a wallet stolen, needing to borrow money or a mobile phone and by pretending to be Metro riders.

In March, police received a clue that two men had cheated people out of 500 yuan (US$77.52) at a Metro station. After a three-month investigation, police found that the suspects would pre-tend to be spouses, cousins, and sometimes even dressed decently or casually to cheat using different excuses at Metro stations or on trains.

In an action May 29, police arrested 41 suspects in Shenzhen, Anhui and Chongqing. The investigation showed that more than 100 people had been cheated.

At present, fi ve have been criminally detained.Meals on trainsRIDERS taking trains from Shenzhen North Railway Sta-tion can preorder their meals for the train starting Tuesday, the railway operator said.

Shenzhen North Railway Station is among the 11 latest stations to start offering online meal ordering services. So far, a total of 38 stations offer online meal ordering services.

A SHENZHEN woman set a new record to become the fi rst Chinese woman to reach the top of two mountains of over 8,000 meters within 24 hours. She is also the youngest Shenzhen mountaineer to have conquered Mount Qomolangma, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.

On the morning of May 20, Qu Jiaojiao, 28, successfully set foot on the peak of Lhotse, the fourth-highest peak in the world at 8,516 meters. She spent seven hours and 10 minutes conquer-ing this summit.

The next day, 21 hours after her success at Lhotse, Qu reached the peak of Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest, within seven hours and 50 min-utes. She returned to C4 base of

Qomolangma in only two and a half hours.

Qu heard offi cial statements of her records from the Himalayan Database and Guinness World Records after she came down from the mountain.

Qu started dreaming of reach-ing the top of Qomolangma when she was only 12 years old. She saw a report about Shenzhen entrepreneur Wang Shi conquer-ing Qomolangma and had been deeply intrigued by the idea of reaching the peak ever since.

Qu joined a group of moun-taineers to scale the 6,206-meter Mount Qizi in Tibet during the National Day holiday in 2013.

Although she managed to get to the peak, Qu said the jour-ney was full of tears and pain. “It was not just climbing up a

mountain, for me it was almost like suicide.”

Qu realized that she had to do more exercise if she wanted to be able to fulfi ll her dream. Qu started doing regular physical exercise. One of her daily rou-tines is to jog 12 kilometers.

Qu said her next goal is to study in the United States and she is working on it. (Zhang Qian)

Woman conquers two 8,000-m summits

Qu Jiaojiao

Children listen to a docent telling the history and stories of Fenghuang Village in a community museum in Fuyong Subdistrict, Bao’an District, on Tuesday. A series of games were held to help them better understand the historical development of Wenchang Pagoda and other cultural relics in the community. Chen Ximing

History lesson in museum