Chengdu Jinjiang Qu maternity hospital soon after the earthquake in the production of maternal transferred to the outdoors, the husband to his wife into an affectionate kiss, accompanied by his wife. (Source: New Express Network)

Zhongxinwang on April 15 Malaysia “the Chinese Newspaper” published the review article saying that the world food shortage, the price surged upward, the world was facing “the food crisis”! This is not says things just to frighten people, this is the warning which the expert sends out. ?
?The article extract is as follows: ?
?United Nations International Agricultural development Foundation assistant President a gram article on the 11th of the month, met with Arroyo president in Manila, the discussion price surges upward possibly after the Philippines the influence said: “now, at least some 33 countries, because lacks the grain, is falling into the turmoil.”Recently Haiti and Egypt were because food price surged upward, but has triggered the rebellion. ?
?On the 13th of the month, International Monetary Fund also issues the warning, refers to the grain price which surges upward to cause the more poor national people to fall into the hungry condition, the social unrest, possibly triggers the war finally! ??Some countries because of the climatic change, cause the agricultural product crop failure, this causes the world food shortage a factor; The global population increases, becomes to the grain demand more stern, this is also another reason; However, the people promoted “the biological fuel” warm-heartedly recently the production, creates the food shortage “big accomplice”.
??Undeniably, the automobilism “the biological fuel” discharges the carbon dioxide compared to use gasoline few, will have helped the world reduction waste gas emissions. For many countries must overtake the tidal current, is changing million hectare idea the agriculture place, with the aim of replanting the sugar cane, the oil palm and other can produce “the biological fuel” the crops.
??“the biological fuel” also becomes the new topic which the mass media media hypes. But they have as if neglected this advanced fuel the negative influence which produces to the human society and the environment; Because farmer to be being busy at the agricultural product which produces is profitable, but “ignores a proper occupation”, has neglected the daily agricultural product production, the daily agricultural product very natural appears short, the price also along with rises high. ?
?World Bank’s report showed that the wheat price surged upward 120% in 2007, the rice price also rose 75%. in 2007, the US also turns 25% corn crop the ethyl alcohol fuel. The US is promotes the ethyl alcohol fuel vigorously the country, other countries are Canadian and the European country. ??The manufacture “the biological fuel” also needs to use the massive water, if the bold intemperate production, some countries, specially China and India will face a more serious water source to be short.
??It seems like that “the biological fuel” brings the negative influence is the advantage which surmounts it to bring by far. No wonder a United Nations expert wants to obloquy: “the use food production fuel is item of `the counter-humanity’s crime ‘!” (Liao Lianchuan)

April 2, about 17:00, the Philippine National Investigation Department (NFA) of the police and officials from the Manila suburb of a four-storey warehouse go down. They received a tip-off, are here to the crime scene investigation. However, their goal is not to search for drugs or weapons, the things they are looking for rice. A similar investigation is being launched nationwide the Philippines, is the target of some unscrupulous traders, who use the most basic food - Asian rice prices high opportunity, the Government will subsidize the price of rice re-packaging and selling high-profit-making. Philippine National Investigation Department is responsible for issuing subsidies of rice, a spokesman for the department?????Tuopeileizi said that police officers made some success. “We found in a warehouse of the 27,000 bags of rice. In another warehouse, we find that many, many marked with the words of the NFA air Midai,”??????said: “Well, there are to where the rice has to be »”

“Where rice to the« “This is also the millions of Asians are puzzled questions. In the entire Asian region, food prices, from wheat to pork, in order to speed up the stunning. However, it is rice, the Asian diet is the cornerstone of their culture is a powerful symbol, its price increases triggered the deepest anxiety. Over the past year, in Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and other places, the price of rice has risen 100%, which caused an unprecedented surge of the injury, because Asian families are often a week in the life of the budget is often spent half Food, far higher than the proportion of the West family consumption. In an effort to curb the spiral of domestic prices, the major rice-producing countries, including India and Vietnam, have been substantially lower exports, making the global supply chain volatility, ignited a more serious inflation and lead to panic and hoarding of rice shortage. Asia is experiencing the ugly side of globalization: Because all the key materials in an increasing reliance on each other when they attempt to influence the world, themselves also become more vulnerable.

In the Asian market, if there is no pork sold is also a major event, not going to a big extent, you can also turn to buy chicken or fish. However, in many Asian recipes, rice no good alternatives. In Chinese, often synonymous with rice and food is in Thai, “eat” was translated as “eat rice.” “Rice and other commodities not the same,” at the Manila International Rice Research Institute in charge of Zege Le Robert said: “In Asia, rice has cultural, social role, in many places, and even played a religious role, so it than others Things are more important psychological significance and impact. “Indeed, although the rice shortage is only a possibility, the response of Asian countries has almost hysterical. The Government of the Philippines threatened to undermine the economic charged hoarding of rice, such offences can be sentenced to life imprisonment. Last week, in Manila, heavily armed soldiers will Yidai Dai rice subsidies from military trucks on the move, given to the scorching sun at noon under the queuing residents. In the world’s largest rice exporter Thailand, some stores put up a serious statement that limits each family to buy three bags of rice, so as not to be Bankong shelf.

“State hoarding”

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, the world supply of rice in fact not so tight, just last year’s output exceeded 420 million tonnes. However, the price of rice is soaring for several reasons: First, China, India and other countries due to the economic development and people appetite for bigger, better, leading to growing demand for long-term and the other is a rare cold weather and Vietnam (the world’s second largest rice M suppliers) pest lead to a short-term supply; In addition, the United States, Brazil and other places of local maize was part of the “diversion” to produce ethanol, the results of the other stimulating the demand for food, including rice.

However, when you use economics to study the dynamics of a country’s market, you will find the situation more complicated. For example, in India, where rice prices rose rapidly, so that the inflation rate last month reached a seven percent, setting the highest in more than three years. However, the torture of this country is not the traditional supply difficulties. India’s rice production this year should reach 94 million tonnes higher than last year, more than 200 million tonnes in 2003, higher than the output of more than 20 million tonnes - the year the monsoon cause great damage to agriculture. Rice to help feed the poor rice distribution plan has not been to combat the shortage, senior officials of the Government of India Mano Jie PAN Dai said that last year the plan purchased 20.6 million tonnes of rice this year is estimated to rise to 25 million tonnes . “This is not low production or import of the question.” He said.

So, where is the problem » Over the past 15 years, the implementation of economic reforms, the Indian government has gradually relaxed the restrictions on rice trade. India is now more open to the world, and therefore more vulnerable to global price fluctuations. Today the All India farmers and traders are willing to food sold to the highest bidder to customers, which means that, in the past in the domestic market to sell a large number of rice now sold to foreign buyers - which in turn further push up domestic prices. The Government of India do its best, to as many as possible of rice to stay in the country, to curb inflation. It issued regulations prohibiting the export of rice Basimadi and implemented a price control, impede the Basimadi aromatic rice exports. “In despair, the Government tried to isolate the domestic market.” Daugava Nehru University in New Delhi, an associate professor and economist BB Bata Ochoa said.

However, the man-made interference often bring unintended consequences. In theory, India eased restrictions on exports to the domestic price pressure, because the market will have more rice supply. However, due to the global market price of the benchmark is still a judge, the Indian Chamber of Commerce meters boycott, refusing to much lower than international market prices to sell their stock. This means that the Indian domestic market will reduce the supply of rice, and ordinary Indians to pay the price of rice remains high, even higher than before. Economists Swami that Sang S Anke Sali Ya Aiyar recently in “The Times of India” on the column, wrote that restrictions on exports is actually a “national hoarding,” “Government is usually that m Is harmful to hoarding, will have dire consequences, and the hoarding of it in the public interest. But the fact the two effects on prices is the same. When the Government began hoarding food, trying to rescue the people from fear Out, it will stimulate more panic and more inflationary tendencies. ”

At the bottom of the food chain

Of course, the high global prices on the poor the most serious injuries, the Mengjia Ge and a country like the Philippines is particularly profound impact, because they rely on imports to feed its huge population. In November of last year’s hurricanes in Bangladesh so that autumn grain by a large area, 800,000 tonnes of rice to loss, forcing the country’s imports from India additional 2.4 million tonnes of rice, to avoid famine. In Vietnam, bad weather and pest outbreaks affected the harvest. In the Philippines, there are 68 million people whose income is less than two U.S. dollars a day, the Government has recently called for restaurants to halve the amount of rice each. Credit Suisse estimates that in 2008 the shortage of rice to the Philippines will account for the losses caused by the GDP by one percentage point. Last week, in order to buy a bag of 50 kg of rice for the whole family of five human consumption, Manila residents?????a whole row of the team for an hour, she said he now felt the pain of hunger. “To feed my family has been very difficult, now we are worried that rice will Chiguang. I have already started to do more watery gruel, in order to use less point meters. Rice for us, very important: it is our fate. It does not , We will die. “At the same time, food assistance project is also facing challenges. United Nations World Food Programme (it is 1.1 million Filipinos to provide food) for the Philippines Valerie ancient Ani Li said that rising prices mean that the organization must be 19 million U.S. dollars in 60 percent of the budget spent on food, compared Last year, an increase of 45 percent. “This we will have a significant impact on the operation,” Valerie said.

It appears that the rice crisis in Asia will not have been alleviated in the short term and long-term view of the situation may even be worse. International Rice Research Institute of Zege Le said that rice production can not keep up with surging demand for the Asian population. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that the global rice consumption in the last year, an increase of 0.9 percent, reaching nearly 424 million tonnes, but the rice yield of less than 0.7 percent growth. “This situation has continued for several years,” said Ze Gele, he said Global rice reserves are in several decades to its lowest point. “We eat rice than we were out of rice and more. Continued growth in demand for rice, while the growth rate of output is very small, even marking time.”

Ze Gele in view, this situation is due to the lack of government investment in agriculture. In most of Asia, rice farming still remain in the small-scale and inefficient state. For example, the average yield of rice in Thailand, China or the United States less than half the output of paddy fields. At the same time, Asia’s rapid urbanization Tundiao the fertile farmland. From the urban area in Hanoi, Vietnam about 19 kilometers north of Nanjing Province (BacNinh), a four-lane highway will combine with the green rice fields Lian Yan cut in half. Not far away, rice farmers NguyenThiLan are no legs at a depth of the water weeding. He said that the Vietnamese joint venture with a Singapore company will soon be built here in 700 hectares of industrial parks and town, this film agricultural areas into satellite towns. Vietnam Agriculture and Rural Development Planning Department head TrangHieuDung said that due to urban construction, high-speed roads and industrial parks, Vietnam lost 40,000 hectares a year of rice fields. In Thailand, 1,995 to 2,005 years, the annual reduction in cultivated land area of 13% or even more.

Asian governments have make every effort to ensure that their own jobs, or full. Vietnam recently implemented export restrictions to ensure domestic supply, with the result that the international inventory reduction, the global rice prices rise. China has also introduced strict restrictions on exports to stabilize domestic grain prices. At the same time, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo personally come forward, and Vietnam signed a 1.5 million tonnes of rice contracts.

Similarly, the Asian influence on the rice crisis will not be limited to Asia. For some poor African countries, this is a devastating news. We should know that the current Asian rice shortage is most acute in the Philippines only 15 percent of rice imports, while many countries in sub-import ratio of 40%. Vietnam will be more rice to the Philippines, it will mean the loss of these African rice, to those The world’s population living in poverty to provide food of non-governmental organizations lose these rice. “A lot of people do not realize that, in Africa eat the rice-dependent Asia’s surplus.” Zege Le said. In other words, Asians now eat meals are part of the mouth is the loss of Africans, Asian countries Shoumangjiaoluan to protect their supply means a more hunger in the world will appear.

Q & A grain prices

Beginning last year, the global wheat, rice and corn prices rose almost doubled - in the international food market, the prices of food also is not just these. The situation has become increasingly worse, even the aid agencies have no choice but to reflect on its programme of work. Why is there such a situation » What can we do » Western journalists visiting experts, find answers to the following questions.

Question: What current world grain prices »

Answer: In the international market of agricultural products, many food prices rose sharply. The past six months, wheat prices rose doubled, other agricultural products such as maize soybeans also higher than the trading price in the 1990s, the average price. Rice and coffee trading price has reached a 10-year high point. In some countries, milk and pork prices rose by 2 times.

Q: Why do we only now found that these issues »

A: This is the world agricultural products can be called “golden era” - the end of this glorious period has been extended for more than 30 years, in the past 30 years, world grain prices are neither high nor low and maintained a relatively stable momentum. Moreover, in many cases, major agricultural products such as wheat, corn and soybean demand is still declining. In the stock market, due to the demand for agricultural products is not high, in many countries is not too much hoarding of food, food stocks are very low price. However, such a long period of price stability situation has come to an end. Many analysts said that we have entered a new turning point, high grain prices to continue for a long time.

Q: In today’s grain prices rose, who is the winner who is the loser »

A: The biggest loser in developing countries living in the city’s poor, they face the plight of low-income high grain prices. From Haiti to Indonesia, the food crisis led to riots triggered by the growing political instability. Sector bank official pointed out that high grain prices to enable developing countries to become major global poverty. The biggest winners are the farmers in rich countries major grain producing countries, such as the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Australia, they broke the record price of agricultural products.

Some poor farmers have benefited from higher grain prices.

Q: high prices triggered what is the main reason »

A: The primary reason is that the world’s population continue to grow. According to the forecast, to mid-century, the world’s population will reach 9 billion. There are so many crawling under the population, increased demand for food. Moreover, with improved living standards, many countries and regions on the demand for grain formation of a new consumption growth points, Roudan Nai fish and other animal protein food consumption growing rapidly, leading to more consumption of feed grain. The natural increase in population in the area of the Earth’s resources to create pressure. Land, water, oil and food, and other resources are very scarce. However, in addition to the primary factor in the population, there are more important factor in promoting the rise of grain prices, the economic miracle will often bring economic problems, such as India. The frankly, the people in rich countries eat more than the poor, the economic development of a new middle-class consumers, they bought the meat than the poor, to buy the processed food more than the poor. FAO statistics, at present, the global food and processed foods account for 80 percent of beverages.

World Food Programme Executive Director of Qiao Sete Hiran said that the sharp decline in world grain reserve is one of the main reasons. Remove lead to reduction of natural disasters, there are also human factors, the world’s third-rice-exporting countries of India, neglect of agricultural development in recent years, the city as the center of economic policy, leading to reduced agricultural productivity year after year.

Q: There are other factors at work? »

A: There are so many of the population lives on Earth, and will have a pressure on the environment; climate change is one of the reasons for the increase of grain prices.

East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa increased the degree of desertification, an increasing number of floods, the rainfall reduced, these effects are an important factor in agricultural production. Global warming, rising grain prices is the main driving force.

Food will be converted into bio-fuels, food is one of the reasons for the reduction. By 2010, the United States for the production of ethanol corn crop is estimated to be 30 per cent of the country. According to the United States as the “energy bill” to the 2022 U.S. bio-energy use will reach 36 billion gallons. Some analysts said that perhaps the United States through the corn to ethanol refining capacity to save for the storage of gasoline was less than 1%, but the global grain prices rose nearly 40%.

The loan is also a major cause of the crisis. It makes a lot of money lost this important real estate into the market and lead to the U.S. economic slowdown. In order to prevent further deterioration of the situation and thus affect global economic growth, Governments injected large amounts of funds to the market. However, the real estate market prospects are still not optimistic, with the stock market as represented by the capital market turbulence, the large injection of “an impasse” can only be joined in commodity markets. As a commodity market, “important members”, food prices were also raised the inevitable.

Many data have showed that the international grain market supply and demand tension is not as serious as in the imagination. However, driven by interests, this is not serious tension in relations to attract a large number of floating capital, driving up prices and thus enlarge the “tension” effect, resulting in the international grain market supply and demand relationship is very tense illusion. In turn, this illusion has attracted more capital inflows, further driving up prices. So repeatedly in a vicious cycle, but also to higher food prices. In addition, high oil prices also promoted the rise in grain prices, the rise in international oil prices have more than 100 U.S. dollars a barrel price than the same period last year were up 58 percent. Food transport and refining of oil in the cost of fertilizers followed up. Of course, war, international capital speculation and hoarding of speculators who also inevitably raise the prices.

Q: What do we have to deal with these issues »

A: Many countries are working to limit grain prices, governments adopted a series of measures, including lowering import tariffs and increase food subsidies, guarantee the domestic food supply. The Government of the Philippines has increased hoarding food grain prices and the manipulation of the crackdown, the Government of India announced the new financial year budget, increasing the proportion of agricultural inputs, and promulgated a series of related support policies; Government of Egypt also under domestic market demand To develop cultivation of vegetables and fruits policies to promote the diversification of sources of food imports.

The World Bank also called on States to take measures to reduce prices to help the poor. FAO is actively raising funds for emergency relief projects. The long term, the international community is called on countries to donate more money to support developing countries improve food production.

So far, only a small part of foreign assistance funds to help farmers in developing countries, the World Bank said donors need to increase the intensity, the only African agriculture will need 800 million U.S. dollars of assistance. Some international organizations such as the British famine relief committee is to help farmers in developing countries, and expand markets for agricultural products to meet the demand for agricultural products in rich countries.

Q: restrictions on the export of food plan feasible? »

A: The face of rising grain prices, many countries have taken measures to limit grain exports to stabilize domestic prices. But this is only a captive, is an expedient measure, rather than fundamental strategy. Because of food price hikes is the root cause for human food, fuel demand continued to increase. Experts point out that in order to fundamentally solve the food problems of developing countries, but also depends on increasing food production. At the same time, the grain reserve is also an appropriate and stable grain price protection.

Q: The international community what has been done to »

A: The food crisis has become a world trade meeting of the important issues. April 14, the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization and other international financial and trade institutions jointly held a high-level meeting to discuss the food crisis. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to take urgent measures to resolve the current food crisis facing the world. In July this year, grain prices will be put on European issues the G-8 summit for discussion. The end of the year at the Doha meeting, the heads of state will also focus on agricultural issues.

Q: How long food crisis will continue »

Answer: It is predicted that the current round of the food crisis will continue until 2010. According to the United Nations Asia and the Pacific, the Economic and Social Commission has released the report, the Asia-Pacific countries in the region facing food prices rose sharply within the next few years will be the biggest challenge. A grain prices rose the most direct consequence of forcing ordinary people. Now many families in India will start three meals a day to two meals. United Nations humanitarian food aid programme is also facing a 500 million U.S. dollars deficit, had to consider reducing the scale of assistance, which means that more people will suffer hunger. Rising grain prices caused by the many countries and regions of inflation and social instability, but also to the world economy and brought about a new political uncertainties.

Hunger Riot hunger riots

March 24, Cairo, Egypt, the demonstrators chanted protest slogans, share a common bread.

January 25, 2008, Haiti Port-au-Prince, a woman is selling mud cake.

Began to surface from last year’s food crisis has finally reached its peak: because without Xiaguo, anger of the poor onto the streets. 13 countries in demonstrations or riots, 18 countries restrict or prohibit the export of grain. The World Bank pointed out that hunger will lead to at least 33 countries into turmoil, more bad things will come.

In the Philippines, the distribution of rice to the military police under control.

“People in our starved to death under the nose of, and the world is nothing.”


On April 7, in a Manila slum, a young boy is having the rice.

Haiti, Port-au-Prince, National Cemetery. Imports of granite dilapidated state, the grand turret fell on the side of the cemetery Francois Duwaliai become a ruin, just as he had the same rule this country.
However, in the National Cemetery of the Victor Pulanisi it has Duwaliai have a certain warmth of the memorial. On this day, of the “Road grams father” (In the past Haitians called for Duwaliai) next to the cemetery, he recalled the past Duwaliai and his son Claude administration for the “wonderful year” The father and son from 1957 to 1986 full?ruled Haiti 29.

“I would prefer Road grams father back, and do not want to see those guys on stage now.” Pulanisi said Chong Street side of the Presidential Office to indicate their wish: “If the father is, g, my life will be better than some . ”

53-year-old Pulanisi said that hunger has become a part of his body, and now even have him in the stomach Institute of silence and will not ask the Gugu. Like him to a few people, many Haitians filed Duwaliai rule of law and order, “then how can there be food Zheme Gui, the street has not so much garbage, there are scholarships to study overseas.”

“Now, even the garbage heap, that may not have turned things to eat.” Road Sinuo Di said. She and several other women are next to an open area Shaizhi a round, things look like biscuits. In fact they are Guanta Jiao “biscuits”, but its main ingredient is a yellow clay. This clay produced in Haiti and Central mountains, people used to truck it to all over the road to sell such a smart woman Sinuo Di. She joined in the mud and salt from the butter, Jiaocheng “dough” and then Niecheng one round cake, sharing in the scorching sun dried, to market the sale. Last year, this mud pie a sell 5 cents a share, now up to 6.5 cents. However, with bread, rice or corn flour compared, it is more “cost-effective.” For many Haitians, this mud pie is the only food. “It’s at least the children can fill the stomach,” Pulanisi said: “The rice will only appear in dreams.”

In order to describe the intolerable sense of hunger, Haitians also invented a new word “Grangouklorox”, meaning “burn the stomach Acid Hydrolysis.” Over the years, benefited from international aid, Haiti has been at a low price to the national supply of maize, sugar, rice, but global scale roar of the rising grain prices make such subsidies unsustainable. The American continent’s poorest countries - 80 percent of the population whose income is less than two U.S. dollars a day, the annual import of 1 million kilograms old clothes - has finally Tingbu Zhu. President Préval to the anger of the people promised to launch a long-term plan for rice production, to take collective restaurant subsidies, to stimulate the production of Haiti. But too late. Last week, too hungry people in Port-au-Prince and the southern city of Lai Kaye was launched and then evolved into a riot. They threw stones at the Presidential Palace, bottles, burned tires and looted food warehouses, the impact of one’s residential. Incident caused several people were killed and dozens were injured. Trying to help stabilize the order of the United Nations peacekeeping force also attacked and vehicles were burned.

“grain disturbance” global spread
But this is the whole world is spreading “the grain disturbance” one.
If turns on the African map, you will see “the hungry rebellion” will draw the circle which in above will bleed. As early as at the end of last year, Senegal and Mauritania presented the demonstration. This year the first round disturbance unrest results from Burkina Faso’s abundant Boddy Ukraine back guy. On January 20, the demonstrator turns here “the dead city”, they burn down the construction, to rob the store, protested that the rice, the milk and the cooking oil rise in prices. After the police send out, injured and has arrested several hundred people.
Three days later, Cameroon is also in a tumult, the taxi driver evolves finally in view of an oil price hold’s protest to aim at the grain price the large-scale demonstration, because more than 30 city’s residents are unable to endure more and more expensive life cost, opposed that President Paulo · Biya, causes more than 40 dead finally, several hundred people are arrested. On March 30, in Senegal capital Dakar, although the government has implemented the prohibition rule, the consumer organized to start several thousand people to participate, finally also some people were naturally injured, some people were arrested. On March 31, Cote d’Ivoire’s capital Abidjan falls into the turbulence, the populace takes to the streets to shout own despair, the event causes the multi-people to be injured. On April 6, Egyptian northern Nile River delta area cities horse Hera has also had the strike and the demonstration. The local biggest textile mill’s worker to obtain the bread, the local resident joins along with it, finally aspect out of control, evolves the disturbance.
The discontented demonstrator in the store, the school sets on fire, hits pounds the bank, robs the goods, and the chart impact administration building, the event causes one dead, nearly hundred injured. Africa is in “the hungry rebellion” the forefront, but the similar confusion also appears in the majority emerging market. From Mexico to Pakistan, protested that becomes more and more violence. The Mexican first steps onto the street corner, the launch “the tortilla revolt”, protested that the maize meal price rises too quickly, that is the staple food maize meal pie primary data which they most like; In last October, India’s demonstrators have burnt down the Bangladesh nation several hundred stores, condemned that the shop owner transports the government subsidy’s grain to the black market high price resale; Indonesia and Bangladesh has had “the rice rebellion”, the Indonesian university students seal the mouth demonstration in the Jakarta street corner, the protest rise in price are too quick. In Bangladesh the capital Decca, several thousand clothing factory worker on April 15 holds strikes, protest price of rice dramatic rise. The local news organization said that the demonstrator will destroy the construction and the automobile, the government can not but transfer the army, police opens fire wants to scatter the worker, in the conflict nearly 20 injured. These clothing factory worker’s lowest base pay one day of less than one US dollar, the soaring food price means that many person three meals a day discontinue.
The experts said that in this country 150,000,000 populations, some 30,000,000 will possibly starve. India already agreed that ships 500,000 ton urgent rice reserves to give Bangladesh, but takes one month to be able to arrive. But in the Philippines, the rice provide must carry on under the police monitoring.
Starves to death under our eyelid
Is under such background, the International organization which is indifferent to the agricultural question starts to talk about the grain frequently for a long time. “this is a serious security problem.”(IFPRI) the person in charge approximately Arab League Jim · Feng · Bulaoen said located at Washington’s international grain policy research institute. Recently several weeks, the world innumerable officials carried on telephone bombing to him, asked is the identical question: How long the food crisis will continue? The cheap bread’s golden age just ended, means that the hungry time already started? This is “the economical Tsunami”? It will bring “the political Tsunami”? At a last week hold’s union press conference, the World Bank and the International Fund Organization announced honestly that the whole world is experiencing the food crisis. World bank President Robert · Zoellick warned that the detonation type rise’s grain price possibly created the social agitation at least in 33 countries, UN Food and Agriculture Organization general manager Yak · Yuefu is more pessimistic, he will not remove in the poorest country will have “the hungry war”, but this will affect even more agricultural production, will proliferate hungrily to the city. International Monetary Fund president Dominic · Strauss · Kann definitely believed that hundreds of thousands of people will starve to death. Yes, the food crisis looks like plague which in the Holy Bible said to suffer African, South Asian, the Middle East as well as the world poor person equally. Since rice, corn, wheat and so on basic commodity price many years relative stabilization, but actually likely rode the rocket in the past three years equally to rise dramatically 180%. rice, the bread these daily necessity becomes so expensive, many people already could not expend. “the world richest 200 are grasping the global 40% wealths personally, at the same time, actually some 850,000,000 people every night have an empty stomach go to bed.”GermanyMirror the weekly wrote: “this kind of crisis is so fearful, in front of it, our past for several years will vanish into thin air with disease and hungry resistance’s all endeavors.”United Nations former Secretary General Kofi Annan said that this is “to the human rights most serious infringement”. In Senegal, the rice, the sorghum already became very rare, moreover too expensive. Last year bag of 50 kilogram rice sold for 30 US dollars, now already rose to 42 US dollars. Is unable by native’s low income to withstand radically, therefore eats meal becomes extremely simple, one day of three meals a day alter to one day one meal, in the morning wipes mayonnaise with the bread, or the evening eats steams the thick wheat flour. This is the city peoples “enjoys”, in the village, in the bowl often only then one kind of food “Tours”, that is the dregs which one kind of peanut will press out will be left over from now on, in the past used for to feed the draft animal. They produce the vegetables - - - like hyacinth bean and the jack bean - - - use in exporting.
Egypt is in the world the bread consumption quantity biggest country, equally every day each person of 400 grams. In its official language Arabic, “the bread” by the translation is “the life”. But present, rises suddenly since the wheat price, in the Egyptian population’s bread had one kind of bitter and astringent flavor. In here 80,000,000 populations has 32,000,000 person of daily income is 1.58 US dollars equally, but also has 16,000,000 people not to receive this number. But the grain price and the cooking oil price’s rise let 50% Egyptian fall into impoverished. They push before the cakes and pastries shop, waits to purchase Aishbaladi. this is one kind of feeling in the mouth soft round bread urgently, is the Egyptian diet mainstay. In the past, the government has implemented the subsidy to this kind of bread, causes its price maintains at the relatively steady level. Now, along with food price rise, sell “subsidy bread” in front of the cakes and pastries shop’s queue is also getting more and more long. Several weeks ago, some bread skilled worker attains cheap “the subsidy bread flour” the black market to sell secretly the high price, arouses public discontent, evolves a disturbance, finally causes at least 11 dead. Saade · Yibolaxin who manages the fast-food restaurant in Cairo said that his shop position is very good, located at the famous love this Hall mosque behind, many people after Friday pray, can come in the shop to eat bowl of noodles while convenient, or a small dish tomato sauce pouring chick-pea. But the present old customers in a hurry, no longer have patronized. “eats meal every day the human are reducing,” Yibolaxin said reluctantly: “last fall, ton noodles entered the commodity price are 1500 Egyptian pounds (are approximately equal to 276 US dollars), now rose more than two times.”He condemned that the government flies upwards the accountability to the price. “takes an agricultural country, we may anything kind, but should not spend the high price from other national import.” In Algeria, the edible fat, the corn oil, the sugar and the bread flour price doubles in six months. Algiers Broadcasting station named “an attack which will live to us”.
The government has not taken any measure to deal with this attack, was only the official rose 15% wages for the government. Until now, the government has not used the oil gas income to subsidize the rise the grain cost. If because such, it very quick was possibly unable to pay the foreign loan promptly. Iraq and Sudan pass are been called the Arab world “the bread basket”, now must rely on the world grain plan life. Iraq has more than 100 ten thousand people to need food aid, Sudanese this digit is 2,000,000. Sudan western provinces have crossed very much difficultly. The Sahara has expanded in the past 40 years to the south, but the rainfall amount suddenly drops. This local staple crop Sudan sorghum decline of production 2/3. Sudan’s civil war enables 2,000,000 people to be destitute and homeless, evades resides in the refugee camp, the total dependence food aid, the local farmland already went out of cultivation many year nobody cultivations. The international assistance organization’s officials said that several million pasts can eat the poor person who reluctantly sated the appetite again also not to afford the local store sell now the grain, started to seek help to the International organization. “the new famine victim emerges unceasingly,” the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) general manager Qiao Sert · Shi An said: “does not start in the emergency aid table of contents’s person to enter now in the past requests reinforcements the ranks.” What however has one misfortune after another, grain price rise also serious influence to international assistance organization’s operation. The previous month, Qiao Sert · Shi An tells the West frankly the donation country, only if they can contribute 500,000,000 US dollars, otherwise WFP is unable to maintain the existing urgent food aid program the scale, at present this plan is 73,000,000 stricken peoples provides the grain. “because the wheat, the corn and the other principal grains’ price sharp advance, we need more money to be able to buy the enough grain.”At a where Qiao did Sert · execute Geneva press conference saying that “, if has not received more aid to this summer, we will be able not but to make the heartrending decision - - - or reduce the beneficiary number, or reduced grain provide quantity.”But the WFP biggest donor - - - United Nations international development bureau (AID) - - - in January already indicated that its will be compelled to reduce approximately 120,000,000 US dollars this year to WFP donation, fulfills own rescue pledge. “these money have not had, the price which rises has been eaten,” AID “food traded peace” project person in charge Jonathan · Devoe to be willing saying that “in the international development’s bureau disbursement six months rose 41%.” “the people starve to death under our eyelid, but the world actually stands by.”Germany aided organizes DeutscheWelthungerhilfe member Qiao Han· Fan · Decamp to say excitedly.
Ignores a more profound crisis
However, if “the grain rebellion” starts to threaten various countries’ government’s survival, this kind of situation will perhaps have a new look, particularly “the hungry disturbance” already affected to and the US-Europe various countries benefit close related area, for instance North Africa and South Asia. In the North Africa area, the radical Islamic militancy member is expanding own strength using the food crisis. But in South Asia, in the parliament election which holds in Pakistani in January, as soon as the voters gave the political party which President Musharraf led to be heavy strike, the partial reasons were because many people were unable the grain price which endured surges upward, and putting the blame on government. “we care about the terrorism and other matters, what but first we pay attention is the basic life need,” Islamabad 24 year-old Nurse Gattie said: “the people hoped that found can solve this question person.” The Middle East is another hot spot. In Jordan, the principal grains price also rose 60% during one year. “my vegetables could not sell nearly,” Hussein · Brady said that he managed a stall nearby the Jordanian capital big mosque, “how got down to be possible like the line?”Abdullah King worried that in 1996 presented “the grain rebellion” to stage a comeback, at that time the angry resident has kicked the Karagol police station. The Yemeni Government is more heavyhearted.
The Yemeni person’s average income only then daily 1.86 US dollars, the government must face the Somalian waves of refugees as well as the north clan and tribe conflict and the terrorism threat continuously. The grain price rise is similar to aggravates the situation. From February, the Yemeni wheat’s price doubles, rice and cooking oil rise in price 1/5. From the end of March, the bread price causes the conflict already caused several dead. Since past one quarter, Lebanon’s food rise in price 145%, Syria rose 20%. “was unworthy any money parsley including the past, the price also suddenly rises to original three times,” Damascus residents complained. Even if in looks like the Dubai such rich and populous place, the food crisis also has the major impact, there supermarket guaranteed that will not raise the price at least in one year to 20 kind of principal grains. Obviously, promises such promise is to prevent in local India and Pakistan “the construction regiment” initiates is discontented and is panic. These have not constructed the factory, Dubai are being busy at these imposing manner grand hotel which, the museum and the artistic island constructs will come to naught.
These alien labor wage is rich, but pays by local currency Dirham, with US dollar which depreciates is tying up in together. In the skyscraper and under shopping center’s shadow, the bay area globalization’s beneficiaries cannot deal with this “food rebellion” nearly. “compares with other places, discontented, anger the consequence which brings in the Mideast even more has the geopolitics significance, is more serious.”The United Nations World Food Program staff robin · Luo river said wonderfully.

Suppresses the grain price to take at least for ten years
Now looks like, the people are understanding this food crisis’s gravity gradually. After WFP Qiao Sert · executes sends out peacefully “please do donate money” the appeal, on April 14 the evening, American President Bush announced that provides 200,000,000 US dollar urgent international food aids. The White House publishes at the same day a statement said that this emergency aid will carry out specifically through the American Agency for international development, mainly will use in counter-balancing the international grain price rise to the American existing some grain aid to foreign countries project influence, mainly aids the object is Africa and other countries. On April 15, Germany develops Minister Weiqiaoleike · to handle Il to indicate that Germany will provide 158,000,000 US dollars aid. British Prime Minister Brown writes a letter for G8 summit President Yasuo Fukuda, suggested that the international society unites efforts copes with spread the food crisis. Each “the disaster-affected countries” also respectively wards off the trail.
Several African countries already started to plant the high protein, the disease-resistant insect pest’s paddy rice, aids the organization to start to hire the native to develop the new project, helps them to make more money to support the family. In Asian and the African poorest corner, the officials hoped that reaches as high as the horizon the grain price to be possible to help to eliminate farmer’s poverty, the grain price too because was in the past low, these farmers had no benefits to be gained nearly - - -, if the wealthy country in the newest round trade dialog agreed that reduced agricultural subsidy, enhanced the income taking advantage of the high grain price to hope that was but actually somewhat realistic. In Bangladesh some places, in peasant laborer’s wage one year doubles. Philippine president the Arroyo coordinates personally takes the series action, forbids to hoard and the price is congenial, prevents to present the rice to be short. The state-operated grain transaction company already signed the contract, purchases 1,200,000 tons rice, makes up the domestic insufficiency. She expressed that the government will continue by a higher price to buy the rice from the farmer hand, and instructed that the Local authority senior officials will use place storing grain and so on public the stadium, and pledged that will attack “any way harassment rice supply behavior” severely. She guaranteed to the national that in “future which may foresee”, the Philippines has the enough rice supply, but she simultaneously also tells the cabinet member, the rice and fuel unprecedented rising in prices have created the huge pressure to the Philippine finance. Mexican President Feilipei · Kaerdelong decided that increases the government to corn’s subsidy, although this subsidy already was very in fact high. The Egyptian Administration for industry and commerce issues the order, stipulated that forbids the rice, the cement and the steel products export April 1 to October 1, simultaneously and forbids the existing Manufacturer to suspend production, to restrict production and sells off the enterprise, hopes the guarantee domestic market supply, stable internal price. The Egyptian Government also increased 2,500,000,000 US dollar bread subsidies in the budget. But, cheap “the subsidy bread” has also brought the strange consequence: Some farmers start with the surface to provide feed for animals the domestic animal, because of animal fodder’s rise in price, is too expensive.
Various modernized agriculture company also in thinks the idea, the research and development department’s leaders believed that the present is starts second time “the green revolution” the time. Must know, before a generation of person, the developing country once was facing the similar challenge, finally has initiated first round “the green revolution”. Through the use fertilizer, the pesticide and the hybrid seed, the developing country crops crop enhances largely. They believed that the genetic engineering solves the world grain question best answer. But the question is, that will require the long time? Any solution requires the time. The short-term, to most people, the grain rise in price speed can surpass the income rise the speed.
The grain analyzes the experts to believe that wants to press the grain price, possibly needs at least for ten years. In the so gloomy prospect, various countries’ government faces is challenging for a long time. They may try to let the demonstration temporarily subside, but, when Pakistani, Burkina Faso, Senegalese and on other place’s store shelf is piling the grain which the populace do not afford, the people will once again possibly choose burn down the government to construct, attack the store. At least, that is free.

“If food prices continue to rise, even if that triggered food riots, I would not be surprised.” FAO Director-General Diouf recently on the global grain and food prices rise relentlessly then released. He said that in the past few weeks, global food prices rising steadily, has evolved into a “more serious problem,” because consumers have begun to recovery. ( “Oriental Morning Post,” October 31)

Since the 1970s, global food
Since the shortage, food security of many countries now once again become the heart disease, the United Kingdom
Chairman of the Group of commercial agriculture Henglifeier said: “The world situation is, we have an abundant supply of food from one era into the very short time.” If you believe that the above conclusion, I believe that a food shortage in the coming years, Then the attendant is we might be facing a terrible dilemma: rising house prices will double to enlarge food shortages brought about by the harm.

In recent years, housing prices in the real estate developers, banks, government land sales, and so contribute to the speculators, not to curb the rapid rise of a strong driving force, which is the prosperity for the real estate industry has made great contributions, but the consequences are at the same time Have a large number of vulnerable the slaves, their expected lifetime income for the future purchase of real estate mortgage lending, carrying a total household income needed to repay 10 to 30 years of debt, the event of a sharp rise in food prices, the first crisis They will surely be.

British house prices in the last two years, the fastest rate of decline, or even face the possibility of collapse, blasting fuse Brown is the new cabinet launched a massive public housing programme, and this program stems from the introduction of such a concept: “can not allow Britons used nine times the annual income buy a house, because risks are too high. “Nine times the annual income housing prices let the British Government exclaimed as too risky, then we look at the prices of the status quo, is almost blind riding a blind Ma temporary abyss of darkness, the risks may occur at any time, just do not know it.

On the economic laws, food shortages will trigger a global scope of the increase in food prices and, as the upper reaches of the means of subsistence, food price increases will inevitably lead to some extent inflation.

This year in the past few months, pork, edible oil price increases have been suffering for ordinary people who, if this suffering continue and intensify, the most difficult days in addition to low-income groups, is the excessive expenditure of the slaves. Low-income groups in food prices will rise when the government subsidies, but the slaves, no one Qubang them out of difficulties, some people will be rigid because of the daily expenditure was worn down, the verge of collapse. It is also said British revenue in the nine times the risk of purchases, but this risk we were to ignore the subjective and ignored.

Some people think that the central bank, China Banking Regulatory Commission jointly promulgated the second suite down payment to 40% of the mortgage is blocking the New Deal housing prices rose a blow, but many people take exception to the industry, many banks have over-spent this year Lending limit, no money to loan-to-be, affected little. From this point can be judged, in the past we have always thought it was a huge tiger cage in resident deposits, with a high proportion of entering the real estate industry, most of which is the form of mortgage loans, resulting from the Slavery One can imagine the number of it. In view of the prevailing conditions of the banking sector lending too broad of the status quo, the use of false proof of income to obtain bank loans of the people is by no means minorities, which are the economic situation itself is not very good from bank loans to 30 to 50 times the annual income to buy High-priced property, their ability to resist economic fluctuations is very fragile. On one side is a shortage of food era, while housing prices are high times, their financial risk will be extremely enlarged and in trouble.

Diouf’s tough words, “to see if the food problems caused by the riots, I would not be surprised” is not against us and the hair, but its significance to our warning applies equally, we should at least promptly recognize that a high housing prices The age is not, nor should the shortage of food at the same time and coexist, effective regulation and control prices to cope with the impending food shortages, the emphasis should be for policy makers. (Fan large and medium-sized)

Times comprehensive report with the U.S. The show “American Idol” star’s young pop singers popular image of health Kelaiyiken with thousands of fans, but the recent Aiken’s “Comrade Life” may launch a performing arts circle public relations industry disaster . It was on the 5th of the British “Daily Telegraph” reported that the recent newspaper said Aiken is illustrated Yanzhizaozao “comrades”, the wrath of his female fans complaints “cargo wrong board”, the deliberate shelling of record companies hide the fact that homosexuality is idols So that they themselves also like to spend money on buying music idol. Heartbreaking female fans ready to mass appeal record companies deceive consumers, for compensation.

The health of women favor big boys capture

He has a warm smile, big boys atmosphere, beautiful voice and a firm belief, by virtue of the U.S. The show “American Idol” (American Idol) star of young idols Kelaiaiken quickly seized the U.S. women’s favor, launched The album sold more number 1000000.

According to the 5th of the British “Daily Telegraph” reported that the self-styled “Klein” Friends of female fans because of Aiken was revealed for the tabloid homosexuals to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint, claiming that they were against the record companies deceive consumers , For compensation. Nine female fans angry complaints Aiken belong to the record company RCA and its parent company, Sony-BMG, accusing them of the publicity the way fans fooled, the purchase of Aiken’s album and other commodities.

This unprecedented in the U.S. entertainment business disputes arising from a number of singers, celebrities and artists who, the great concern of all “Biaolibuyi” Idol fans were worried that once the formal proceedings, and was successful, it will create entertainment business A heavy blow, in addition to stars may have to cope with the overwhelming from the claims, a number of related sectors including the public relations will be finished.

Creating numerous successful star of the British public relations industry boss Max Clifford are very frustrated, he said: “If the fans win, finished on the public relations industry. The entertainment industry and the public image of the real situation is not always the same , Is all the landscaping lights. ”

Aiken is gay tabloid reports

The incident triggered from two tabloid reported that the number of Internet users claimed that male comrades in the online chat room encounter Aiken. Another report quoted a former army assault team, said the end of last year and the hotel Yi Yeqing Aiken, and Aiken is active in undefended sexual relations, and called for continued close relationship between the paragraph. Prior to this, have long circulated Aiken is gay, but Aiken has denied this.

Dissatisfied with the fans of Aiken’s “Comrade Life” has its own conclusions, in a statement, they said: “As consumers, we feel deceived. It is obvious that the real Aiken and record companies shaping packaging And promotion of Aiken quite different. This product is equivalent to the deliberate concealment of a defect, such behavior is consumer deception, not fair. ”

But there are also many hardcore fans continue to support the idol, Aiken’s personal website, and the official website of the Jijizhazha packed with fans, they do not believe that the tabloids reported the story, insisted that those photos is the synthesis.

Federal Trade Commission declined to express their views on the dispute, the Commission said that every person has the right to complaints. The record company Sony / BMG have refused to talk about the private life of Aiken and his fans complaints.

Hollywood stars have been a smokescreen landscaping

British public relations industry Clifford said his boss talking about Aiken’s inconvenient, but he said: “the impact of the events will be enormous. In fact, each star is surrounded by around a huge smoke screen, smoke is the role of landscaping Star Let them even more mysterious, from the early Hollywood This is the beginning. “Clifford to the famous Hollywood actor Rock Hudson as an example, if the American audience vote for their choice of the best male actor, Hudson Definitely in the top 10 within. In fact, Hudson and the film company had been hiding with his homosexual identity, HIV infection has been hiding after the illness until death. The results, Hudson died of AIDS so that the news shocked Hollywood.

However, times have been different. Europe and the United States have many male singers first female to male charm adores his fans, the only openly as comrades, for example, the British singer Elton John and David-Qiaozhimaike. British version of “British Idol” (PopIdol) 2002 in Bougainville champion Yang said after winning in their own homosexuals.
The experts a new form captivates with a whisper

By Tu Baozi to Linjiananhai

Aiken three years ago, All-American Idol contest show “American Idol” jumped the red, with a wonderful voice their blockbuster, won the runner-up the throne, the smooth accession to music, the U.S. women captured the hearts of fans.

27-year-old from North Carolina, Aiken, his mother heard him singing in, encouraged him to participate in the “American Idol.” Aiken has just participate in the competition at the very Laotu, the bridge of the nose with a thick layer of shelves glasses, a chaotic head of red hair. But Aiken a mouth, beautiful singing immediately knocked down by the judges, including the players is critical?????. Simon Although impressed by his singing, but still relentlessly criticized: “You really do not look like a pop singer.”

After signing with the record companies, Aiken was a new form, from hair to dress up all of the experts. Aiken is now a trend of clothing, coupled with the look of Linjiananhai the warm smile and pleasant voice, thousands of female fans adores. According to media surveys, Aiken is probably the “American Idol” launched the largest supporters of the star.

Aiken grew up a child in the Christian family, after the star also did not forget to show people the Christian image. Aiken perennial wearing a bracelet, engraved above WWJD four letters, from “Jesus will be how to do (What Would Jesus Do)” in the first four-letter word. And Aiken often speak publicly about his faith, his songs are often the message of Christ.

Comrade??triggered off back Life

One of the two tabloids are well-known U.S. “National Enquirer”, newspapers and homosexuals out Aiken’s video shots, images from a 22-year-old school teachers, saying it is in December 2005 of what happened . Aiken said to be in the picture of the personal style of conversation is quite provocative, but also print their own bodies. »

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Fans: let Aiken

Tianna, let Aiken bar. Who am sure he is gay. Like or not like he is everyone’s right, why he insisted Gaochou! — Dikehazi

3.3.2006 4:28 pm

In the view of God on. So that the men he had a good day! My wife and my sister to have heard of Aiken sing, too beautiful! Who cares what he is. He has a good voice, he provided us with entertainment, please, do not destroy his career. — Patrick

3.5.2006 8:12 pm

Why do we all believe this rumor, it is clear this is a speculation. Like Britney Spears has advertised himself as a virgin, her fans and people hate her for life-and-death controversy, and Britney itself day by day into a “slut”, but her music still??. Aiken’s like some people are “old woman”, they were used. — Hade

3.6.2006 1:11 am

After Zhongxin News Agency Blacksburg on April 16 (by Qiu Jiangbo) the American Virginia University of Science and Technology has the gun fire, rushes to the locality from Washington D.C. main office reporter in this school campus saw that although the event occurs has surpassed for ten hours, but in the campus was still pausing the massive police vehicles, the numerous media converge the campus interview to witness the scene student. Because just had held two press conferences after before this, at present still did not have further official source. ?
?Releases the statement according to Virginia University of Science and Technology principal, at that time the time on 16th 7:15 am, some people dialed 911 telephone calls. Forces · Johnston in the Xi’an uncle the dormitory, several people become armed assault case’s victim. Police to this armed assault case’s investigation also in advance, two hours later, hears the sound of gunfire from the Norris building. The police respond immediately. The Norris building’s ringer already died. Except him outside, but also had many people also to die, the casualty had not confirmed finally. The wounded is escorted to the nearby hospital to accept the emergency treatment. This school same day’s all curricula already cancelled, the university also already closed. ?
?Learns the armed assault case to occur, main office reporter goes by car immediately the approximately 400 kilometers, rushes to the spot, located at the Virginia north west small town Blacksburg’s Virginia University of Science and Technology from Washington D.C. ??Reporter saw that the Blacksburg street corner has many police. In the Virginia University of Science and Technology campus, each street intersection stops has the police vehicle. Disperses in large numbers from American various media’s reporter in the campus interviews the student on the armed assault case, had the female student on the one hand to burst into tears on the other hand describes to the television media is happening situation then.
??This school has established the media center in its administrative main building, before reporter rushed had already held two press conferences in this, has notified the happening process to the journalistic circles and the newest progress. However, several hundred reporters still kept in the media center, Lou Waiting three, 40 television cars. ?
?Because massive reporters come to cover the armed assault case, administrative main building nearby Virginia V.P.Ins. (was located in school district wineshop) already completely sold out. The weather gradually is now late, main office reporter expects must spend the night in the automobile. Also according to the related report, this armed assault case has caused 33 dead. And, dies completely except murderer’s outside 30 people in Norris’s Engineering college building. (origin: Chinese news net)

Beijing Capital International Airport Co., Ltd. General Manager of Dong Zhiyi said that the Beijing Capital International Airport in 2007 for the port flight punctuality rate of 86.28 percent, the global capital flight delays penultimate reports not true.

Dong Zhiyi said to reporters on the 23rd, before the Forbes website said information released last year, the airport’s flight punctuality rate of the world rankings last year, took off only 33 percent of flights depart on time is, it does not fit the facts. 2007 statistics show that: the Capital Airport for flights leaving for punctuality rate of 86.28 percent.

Civil Aviation Administration of China in North China Authority official said that last year the North China every 10 days to conduct a normal flight statistics, the flight punctuality rate of 20 ranking after the flight punctuality rate and less than 50 percent of the flights for communications; on aggregate Two were informed of flights, cancellation of the flight time.

Dong Zhiyi said that these control measures last year, the Capital Airport flight punctuality rate of increase in the fundamental protection last year, thunderstorm-day flight punctuality rate rose 9.56 percent.

Dong Zhiyi said that with the February 29 on the 3rd of the terminal in use, the airport’s ground operation capability will increase about 50 percent, the Capital Airport have enough confidence to ensure punctuality of flights during the Olympics. (Lin Hongmei)

Source: Xinhua

The market found in one yuan air tickets, zero tickets

International oil prices approaching 100 U.S. dollars mark, the domestic airline passenger fuel surcharge it began two days all up, however, in many tourists worried, with rising crude oil prices, ticket prices will also follow the rising Time, there all kinds of low-priced tickets are more and more the contrary, they are low to what extent, you may not want to think.

Travel by plane spent only a money »

Chen Zhifei: “1 yuan from the plane, nobody believes that now nobody believes.”

One day last year, Chen Zhifei stroll on the Internet when suddenly discovered that Spring Airlines was in the Jinan-Shanghai route launched only sell one yuan on the plane, holding him try the psychological, on-line payment of one yuan, Not even think of is to buy the.

Chen Zhifei: “I want to stay on a money do to commemorate China’s history because no one money here, so this is commemorative tickets, I take this to mean that to the Jinan.”

Zhetang flight, Chen Zhifei very happy, because the money people spend one dollar aircraft can do, this is his wish not to think of the past.

Chen Zhifei: “(China’s) should have a history of aviation reform, more people can take on low-cost aircraft, able to understand what aircraft.”

Came back from Jinan, Chen Zhifei met each other, will be proud to say that they use the cheapest of the Chinese aircraft, but he did not expect that one yuan of the Spring and Autumn Airlines tickets only sold 400, The bid farewell to this rapid market.

Chen Zhifei: “Now there are many people do not believe that, on this piece of money that are false, bragging that the media did this (phenomenon), I put it this is preserved, may be the history of China The first time. ”

Jinan bid farewell to one yuan tickets, it is because the Jinan City Wu Jiaju out of this 150,000 tickets, tickets not only for this Jinan members of the public to bid farewell to a low of 1 yuan cheap tickets, but also led to the Spring and Autumn Airlines from Shanghai to Jinan The route. On low-cost domestic airline was fined after the sale of air tickets, more people can not think of is that the foreign capital into the domestic airlines have also introduced a lower fare, no one punished.

Reporter: “Xiamen to Bangkok, the lowest fare is how much money» ”

Asian Xiamen Airlines ticket point Mr. Lin: “zero fare.”

Reporter: “zero fare» ”

Asian Xiamen Airlines ticket point Mr. Lin: “.”

Mr. Lin told reporters that Air Asia as a foreign airline, while in January this year and launched during the National Day activities, the fare has ended, but now they launched the lowest fares are still surprised to reporters.

“Now the Internet is such activities should be 143 yuan, one-way excluding tax.”

Spent only 143 yuan, or even no cost, you can take the flights to Bangkok to Xiamen, then this is not a good thing the airlines in order to attract attention, Zhina a very small number of tickets to the gimmicks? »

“We have launched a 1 million location of the Free admission, 1 million of the location of all routes, AirAsia all the routes in Southeast Asia, not just confined to Xiamen routes, all flights have launched such a price.”

In an interview with reporters learned that not only launched the Asian aviation 0 yuan, 99 yuan, 168 yuan and other cheap ticket prices, the same as the foreign airline Cebu Pacific is also this year’s October 9 to 15, Xiamen to the Philippines launched a price of one yuan of money discounted air tickets, while the Singapore Tiger Airways also introduced a minimum of 57 yuan in Xiamen to Singapore on, these ticket prices far lower than domestic airlines. In view of promotional activities, the reporter in the November 8 random selection of the November 19 Singapore-Xiamen routes and found that the price of a domestic airline to 1,830 yuan, while the Singapore Tiger Airways is 772 yuan, the only domestic airline Fares 42 percent.

Spend a money, money can not even take a plane, which seems to many people, simply unthinkable, whether it is not commercial gimmicks, at least this ultra-low-cost tickets, let us recognize a new face of cheap air ? ? . Just like the one yuan tickets to introduce the Spring Airlines, China is the first made under the banner of the low-cost airlines. Opened more than two years, its ticket prices lower than the market average of 36 percent. The private airlines What am cheaper than others on so many? » To look at the reporter’s first flight experience.

Ultra-low-fare air service under the Spring and Autumn and security How »??reporter decided to fly to Xiamen, Shanghai Spring Airlines flights, the airport’s first passenger found a large quantity of clothing is not Guangxian, many passengers boarded the aircraft, began busily taking pictures, the passengers told reporters that they are a three The first time by air.

“You are a tourist, right three out» ”

“.”

“That amount of money spent» ”

“The (Shanghai - Guangzhou) 1,000 one-way around.”

Although the reporters found that the passenger plane bought by the different fares, but some passengers booking in advance, we will buy very cheap tickets.

“How much of your money to buy the tickets ah» ”

“199.”

Then the cost of tickets is how to reduce the » A survey found that Spring Airlines is not the same as the traditional airlines to provide free air catering, they provided free of charge is only a vial of mineral water, people can not think that the End of mineral water, even as flight attendants on the train attendants, like Marketing has played a variety of snacks.

“How much money a pack» ”

“This is a 10 yuan money.”

“Aircraft on other airlines have a free room.”

“Because in our fares there is the cost of free meals, the meal costs deducted from the inside out, so the fares on relatively cheap?200 yuan in this way.”

Not only that, they are also efforts to promote the company’s various souvenirs, as these items are everywhere on the Internet Yinzhuo Spring Airlines promotion address, passengers can buy tickets through those addresses.

“A good time to sell the number of« ”

“Good on the model of the aircraft may have sold better, and probably a 2000 money.”

Attendants told reporters that choice of food and souvenirs will not only allow those who do not need to lower fares for passengers, at the same time, sales of company profits can also reduce the cost, but after the plane landed, the reporters also found that flight attendants have started their own cleaning, and This in other airlines are generally spend money to employ professional cleaning company to do.

“This is not what the committee does not wronged, because our company is also the first domestic low-cost airlines, all of which can be cost savings, such as the cleaning crew we are able to get rid of all of these very Simple. ”

On the flight attendants cleaning time, the reporters found that their clothes are not like other airlines Net Guangxian, and in the last year, China Southern Airlines was the 6000 air hostesses to each customized to a set price of 7,000 yuan for clothing, Well, the Spring and Autumn Airlines flight attendants each garment is how much money »

“We probably increase shirt, and then vest, skirt, a coat, then a set of about 1,000 less than the money, I think Manhao viewed, scarves Manhao see.”

Chen Zhifei: “1 yuan from the plane, nobody believes that now nobody believes.”

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