华为竞标伦敦地铁项目

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. confirmed Monday that the company had participated in a phone network installation bid for the London Underground, Xinhua reported.

据新华社报道，华为技术有限公司周一证实，该公司已参与竞标伦敦地铁的电话网络安装项目。一名不愿透露姓名的高级管理人员向新华社表示，该竞标项目价值约5千万英镑。他说: “英国是华为一个重要市场，我们一直以来致力于为英国提供安全、高科技的通信服务。”华为是中国最大的网络和电信设备供应商，也是世界第二大移动通信基础设备供应商。

过度开发 海岛遭殃

据新华社报道，由中国国家海洋局主持历时五年的调查发现，无序粗放式开发正使中国海岛消失。该调查表示，海岛消失是由人为破坏性活动带来的，如围填海、挖沙、甚至炸岛。这个关于中国海岸、海岛和潮间带的调查还发现，随着城镇开发和港口建设加速，天然的海岸线正被迅速地改造成人工构造。海洋局表示，近期还会发布一个全面的中国海岛名录。

西藏航空7月启航

据新华社报道，西藏航空公司周一宣布，将于7月实现首飞。该公司的第一架飞机将于7月7日在德国汉堡交付，7月20日将从拉萨首飞北京。第二、三架飞机将在8月3日、9日交付。西藏航空计划在5年内将飞机数增至20架。

Huawei bids for London subway project

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. confirmed Monday that the company had participated in a phone network installation bid for the London Underground, Xinhua reported. A senior executive, who requested anonymity, told Xinhua that the bid was worth some 50 million pounds. "The UK is an important market for Huawei, and we have been engaged in providing safe and hi-tech telecommunication services to the country," he said. Huawei is the largest networking and telecommunications equipment supplier in China and the second-largest supplier of mobile telecommunications infrastructure equipment in the world.

China's islands 'are disappearing'

Islands off China's coast are disappearing due to unplanned and crude exploitation, according to a five-year survey by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), Xinhua reported. Land reclamation, dredging, and even bombing of islands are some of the destructive human activities causing them to disappear, the survey says. The survey of China's coast, islands and tidal regions, also found that natural coastlines are being rapidly converted into man-made structures as urban development and port construction speed up. The SOA said a comprehensive directory of China's islands would be published in the near future.

Tibet Airlines to fly in July

Tibet Airlines Company said Monday that it will inaugurate its first flight in July, Xinhua reported. As the company's first aircraft will be delivered in Hamburg, Germany on Jul. 7, the company will then offer its first flight from Lhasa to Beijing on July 20. The second and third aircraft will be delivered by Aug. 3 and 9. Tibet Airlines plans to increase its number of aircrafts to 20 within five years.

(China.org.cn February 23, 2011)