A man who had drifted for six days at sea after his dinghy capsized was rescued in waters in Sanya City of south China's island province of Hainan on Tuesday.
At around 14:00 on Tuesday, the maritime police in Sanya received a report from the crew of a fishing boat, indicating that they had spotted a rubber dinghy drifting in waters near Sanya Cape, with a man on board who appeared to be in distress. They requested the maritime police to provide assistance.
At the time, the sea was rough and the man looked very weak. Local fishermen managed to bring him aboard their fishing vessel to await rescue from the maritime police.
At 15:12, the maritime police's law-enforcement boat successfully docked alongside the fishing boat, and the man was transferred to a local hospital.
It was reported that the man set out on Aug 13 from Hainan's Lingshui Li Autonomous County in his own rubber dinghy for a leisure trip. Unfortunately, he encountered severe weather at sea, and the dinghy capsized. He lost all his supplies and personal belongings and could only drift with the waves until he was rescued on Aug 19.
At present, the man's vital signs are stable, and he is receiving further treatment in hospital.
Man rescued after drifting for six days at sea in China's Hainan Province
Man rescued after drifting for six days at sea in China's Hainan Province
China's development has never been a "threat" to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Friday.
Some Western media and think tanks are peddling so-called "China Shock 2.0," saying that "China is achieving fast development in high-tech sectors such as renewable energy and AI and relies on foreign markets to absorb its overcapacity, thus reducing the market share of developed countries and sending more serious shock waves to the global economy compared with the era of traditional manufacture industry," while there are foreign commentators saying that the "China Shock 2.0" argument ignores the genuine innovation occurring within the Chinese industrial ecosystem and that Chinese export is the exact booster of the global economy that is needed in the turbulent period and more indispensable than ever.
Commenting on that, Lin said: "From the world's factory to the world's market and innovation powerhouse, China's development is achieved through strong performance driven by innovation and brings tangible cooperation opportunities and space to the world. High-quality Chinese products represented by the 'old three' of textiles, furniture and home appliances have stabilized the global industrial and supply chain, lowered the living cost of global consumers and eased the inflationary pressure worldwide. China's green production capacity represented by the 'new three' of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels has bridged the gap between supply and demand in global green development and bolstered the global energy transition and low-carbon development. Moreover, China's high-tech products represented by the 'new new three' of robots, AI and innovative drugs have broken high-tech barriers and monopoly and enabled people in more countries to access affordable new technologies," said the spokesman.
"Openness and cooperation bring about progress and win-win result. China's development has never been a 'threat' to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries. What really creates 'shocks' to the world has never been the innovation of Chinese companies and efficiency of Chinese industrial capacity, but protectionist moves of setting up barriers, decoupling and severing industrial and supply chains. China will stay committed to high-standard opening up, defend the multilateral trading system and provide more certainty and new impetus to the world economy with its own steady development," said Lin.
China's development never a threat: FM spokesman
