China's largest winter auto testing base kicks off extreme cold weather testing season

China's largest winter automobile testing base in Yakeshi City of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region officially started a extreme cold weather testing season on Sunday.

Carried out on the frozen surface covering an area of over 300 hectares in the Miandu River National Wetland Park at a temperature of over 30 degrees below zero, the testing comprises braking performance, chassis control and low-temperature range durability of cars.

"Through a large amount of testing and debugging during winter, we enable the vehicle's 'brain' to learn how to precisely control its 'limbs,' namely the precise control over the four wheels of a car. This provides drivers with accurate feedback, confidence and a comfortable driving experience," said Dong Xiaofei, a senior engineer of the extreme testing center at the CATARC Automotive Test Center Hulunbuir.

One of the testing subjects is the antilock braking system (ABS) test on icy surfaces. During the test, engineers monitor whether the system can prevent wheel lockup, and maintain steering ability and vehicle stability during emergency braking, while minimizing the braking distance.

"This year, we have launched a project to build an all-season ice and snow testing base for intelligent connected new energy vehicles (NEVs), in striving to make technological breakthroughs in crucial parts of the industrial chain, such as NEV sensors, drive-by-wire chassis and power batteries. This will strengthen China's voice in the field of extreme environment verification. Once the project is completed, it will be the world's largest first-ever indoor ice and snow testing field with the most comprehensive operating conditions, including the snowing scenario," said Liu Dongjian, deputy general manager of the CATARC Automotive Test Center Hulunbuir.

In winter, the weather in Hulunbuir is extremely cold and dry, with temperatures dropping to minus 25 degrees Celsius to minus 33 degrees Celsius.

China's largest winter auto testing base kicks off extreme cold weather testing season

Nicaragua's co-foreign minister Valdrack Jaentschke has warned that militarism must never be allowed to rise again, as Japan's recent moves to lift its arms export ban and revise the pacifist Constitution continue to draw international concern.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials, where Japan's Class-A war criminals from World War II were brought to justice.

In an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN), Valdrack Jaentschke voiced his concern that today's world order is being undermined by interventionism and other challenges.

"It is necessary for us to remember that after the end of World War II, countries worked hard to build a new international order based on international law. However, regrettably, more than 80 years later, we are seeing that this once explored and attempted order is being challenged by interventionism, a confrontational mindset, and tendencies like 'might makes right.' These are precisely the conditions that gave rise to fascism and militarism in the past, which ultimately led to the tragedy of World War II," he said.

He said the international community has a responsibility to pursue a new international order -- one fundamentally grounded in peace.

"Looking back at the history more than eight decades ago and comparing it with today's reality, it is our responsibility to recognize that the world should, and must, build a new international order that is more just, fairer, rooted in international law, based on a logic of mutual benefit and shared success, and fundamentally grounded in peace," said the minister.

"Today, as we revisit the Tokyo Trials, it is meant to remind the world that such a tragedy must never be repeated -- and that we must do everything in our power to prevent it from happening again. We must stop that dark world -- born from militarism, interventionism, and fascism -- from ever returning," he said.

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