MISSING SAILOR.doc

MISSING SAILOR.docMISSING SAILOR
Guo Chuan, a renowned sailor, is believed to have been knocked into the sea by high winds during his trans-Pacific voyage, Guo’s support team said on October 27.
Guo set sail from San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge on October 18, for Shanghai in an attempt to break the world record for a solo crossing of the Pacific Ocean. The approximately 7,000-nautical-mile voyage was scheduled to take about 20 days.
Both Chinese and . vessels were engaged in a search and rescue mission after Guo went missing. Guo, who was born in 1965 in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, is the nation’s first professional sailor. He holds two sailing world records: a nonstop, solo circumnavigation world record set in 2013; and a nonstop Arctic Ocean Northeast Passage world record set last year.
Noise Takes a Toll on Urban Dwellers
Nanfang Daily November 1
The sound environment of a city is an important gauge by which to judge its livability. As urbanization accelerates in China, however, the sound environments of the nation’s cities remain less than desirable. According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, one fourth of cities failed to meet nocturnal sound environment standards in 2015, with one third of plaints related to noise, and plaints in east China far outnumbered those in other areas.
Noise pollution has serious side health effects. It not