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China conducts anti-hijacking drill in Xinjiang
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-10-21 01:07 China conducted its 2004 anti- hijacking drill in
Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Wednesday morning.
The drill consists of blitz on hijackers and rescue operations for wrecked
planes. More than 600 people from departments of civil aviation, public
security, foreign affairs, safety, health and fire fighting, as well as the air
force and armed police, took part in the drill.
Wang Lequan, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China
Central Committee and secretary of the CPC regional committee, observed the
drill at the scene and urged great efforts must be made to beef up precautionary
measures and resolutely crack down on all hijacking of civilian aircraft.
The drill was jointly organized by the national leading group on handling
hijacking incidents and a corresponding leading group in Xinjiang.
Yang Yuanyuan, deputy head of the national leading group and director of
China's General Administration of Civil Aviation, said the drill, which served
as an overall examination of how hijacking is handled, would help improve the
mechanism of the country's anti- hijacking work so as to effectively cope with
all kinds of hijacking incidents, particularly those related to international
cooperation in fighting terrorism.
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