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He was invited by Wenhui Daily, Shanghai Daily’s sister newspaper, to attend a forum.

When we heard the news, the feeling of disappointment crept in – Why didn’t we wait downstairs to see him? Although he may have regarded us as hurdles and jumped right over us…

Finally, we heard about the event from our sports reporter, Martin Zhou. He said that 200 people attended to hear a speech about Olympic spirit and to learn more about Liu Xiang's experiences in and after the Olympics.

However, he left early because the crowd grew too large. The disappointment lasted for quite some time because he was so close to us, but we missed him. Particularly one of our female editors in this small online department. She wrote this post.
]]> http://www.shanghaidaily.com/editor/default.asp?id=69 online@shanghaidaily.com(admin) Fri,21 Oct 2005 19:41:11 +0800 http://www.shanghaidaily.com/editor/default.asp?id=69 Editor’s Note:
A couple of days ago, we had another visitor in the newsroom. A worker in his 50’s, wearing a typical Shanghai blue factory uniform, kept pitching our customer service representative Xiao Yu. He tried to persuade her to publish his story and picture in our newspaper. Well, maybe he was not talking to the right person. So Xiao Yu called our department to help. Umm, after some internal discussion, we thought it would not be very nice to turn down a senior’s small request. Plus that day was China’s Elderly People’s Day. So, please come and have a look.

The article has been edited for clarity and grammatical purpose.

China prepares for the Shenzhou-VI manned flight

A celebration in commemorative envelope by Xu Dazhou

China’s Shenzhou-VI spacecraft was launched into predetermined orbit from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Shenzhou-VI was expected to orbit for five days. This is another important flight test for china’s manned space program.

The Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) is one of the main development units involved in the development of Chinese manned space program. The manned spacecraft lies at the core of whole project.
To mark the event, four commemorative envelops are specially made by the Philatelic Association of the SAST.

The launching commemorative envelop -- Shenzhou-VI spacecraft lifting off at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.


The spaceflight commemorative envelop -- The first time an astronaut transfers to the spacecraft’s orbital module to conduct scientific experiments.


The Recovery commemorative envelope – After completing its mission, the return module of Shenzhou-VI manned spacecraft touches down in a predetermined area in Siziwang (Dorbod) County of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with both astronauts safely back on earth.


The TT&C commemorative envelop – The two astronauts aboard Shenzhou VI. The monitoring control and communication system guarantees connection between space and the Beijing Space Command Center and the Xi’an Satellite Control Center.


The SAST issued a special-use stamp, “Commemoration of Shenzhou VI manned spacecraft spaceflight” with a face value of 80 fen.


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About 12 pm, an English-speaking Caucasian woman approached us. (Since Shanghai Daily has a front desk without a recipient, first-time visitors are most likely to walk towards the wall with a giant Shanghai Daily logo on it and talk to the first people they see. Often they will be speaking with the online department.)

She said she’s just got a teaching job here, and she wanted to buy a roll of newspaper. Well, hold on. She wanted to buy a roll of blank newsprint.

“I’ve just got a teaching job at Jing’an Education College’s primary school,” she said. “I wanted to buy the blank newsprint for teaching my class because the blank white paper is just too expensive.”

Good idea! Shirley Pearson from Virginia, US, as she later identified herself, once got some damaged blank newsprints from her relative at Washington Post for her teaching in the United States.

However, the problem is that all Shanghai Daily newspapers are not printed at No. 755 Weihai Road, where our office is. We print our newspapers at the Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group’s printing shop, which is in the northern part of the city. Maybe 30 yuan taxi away.

We brought Shirley to our circulation director, Conney Wang, whom were caught when she was waiting for the elevator to have lunch. But Conney had only blank square newsprint, not a roll of them, as Shirley would prefer to have.

“Maybe you can give me the address of the printing shop and I’ll go and buy it myself there,” Shirley said.

But we reminded her that maybe there won’t be many people speaking in English in the printing shop. That’s a good point, she agreed. So Conney took down her contact numbers and promised to call Shanghai Daily representative at the shop to see how we can help Shirley out.

Good luck Shirley! Wish you have the chance to see most part of China during your one-year stay in Shanghai!

Another thing that aroused the interest of all online department staff, if not all Shanghai Daily staff, is that we received an email at web@shanghaidaily.com, asking for the contact of “China's best fly catcher,” Hu Xilin, whose http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2005/08/15/122413/Fly_catching_champ_ignored.htm">visit to the city Shanghai Daily reported on August 15.

It’s amazing that Mr Hu’s attempts were cold-shouledered by Shanghainese when he visited the city, but somebody in Vettwei?, Germany, notices his expertise and is trying to reach him across half of the planet. It’s truly a small world, isn’t it?

Our intern Xu Weixin, who wrote this story, is taking care of it. If there is any interesting development, we will keep you posted on this blog.


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