US position on ZTE

China appreciates the U.S. position on Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said on Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday on Twitter that he and President Xi Jinping are working together to give ZTE “a way to get back into business, fast,” and the U.S. Commerce Department has been instructed to work on the issue. In response, Lu said China is keeping close communication with the United States on specific details and issues that the U.S. side is concerned about.

Qomolangma climber

Xia Boyu, 70, scaled the world’s highest peak Qomolangma on Monday as the first double amputee* climber from the Nepali side, government officials confirmed.

To date, the only double amputee to summit Qomolangma is Mark Inglis from New Zealand, who had scaled the peak from China’s Tibet side in 2006. Xia’s successful summit comes a day after eight rope-fixing team members reached the summit, opening the climbing route for all other climbers for the 2018 spring season.

Aircraft carrier

China’s first domestically designed aircraft carrier set sail on its maiden sea trial on Sunday morning, which means it will not take long before it is commissioned to the People’s Liberation Army Navy.

It is the country’s second aircraft carrier. The colossal* 50,000-metric ton vessel left a shipyard of Dalian Shipbuilding Industry in Liaoning Province around 7 a.m. against thick fog and with assistance from several tugboats*, before navigating into the sea using its own propulsion*.

Didi passenger killing

DNA tests have confirmed a body retrieved* from a river in Zhengzhou City, capital of Henan Province, is the suspect in the killing of a female flight assistant, local police said on Saturday.

The 21-year-old woman surnamed Li was killed on May 6 after hailing a car from China’s car-hailing company Didi Chuxing in Zhengzhou. According to Li’s father, his daughter suffered multiple knife wounds on the body, and her lower body was naked when her corpse was discovered on May 8.

(SD-Agencies)