China holds anti-hijacking¹ exercise for Olympics

近日中国国家处置劫机事件领导小组办公室在海滨城市大连举行代号为“猎鹰－０７”的国家反劫机专项演习。这次演习是对北京奥运会期间威胁民航安全事件处置行动的一次预演。民航、军队、武警、公安、安全、卫生、消防等部门的共６００多名工作人员参与了这次演习。

China holds anti-hijacking exercise for Olympics

China has conducted an anti-hijacking drill in Dalian, a coastal² city in the country's northeastern province of Liaoning, in preparation for next year's Olympic Games.

"Falcon³ 07", carried out on Sunday, consisted of a raid on hijackers and rescue operations for passengers held hostage as well as a fire-fighting operation for a plane that had burst into flames upon landing.

More than 600 people from civil aviation, public security, safety, health, fire fighting and armed police departments joined the drill.

Chinese Vice⁴ Premier⁵ Zeng Peiyan observed the exercise and urged more efforts to adopt precautionary measures and relevant international cooperation to ensure aviation safety.

"It is an important task to counter terrorism and maintain social stability," he said.

"Next year's Olympics will put hijacking to the test as politicians, athletes, journalists and tourists worldwide will swarm⁶ into China and aviation capacity is estimated to increase about 50 percent," said Wang Changshun, deputy director of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China.

Zhang Xinfeng, vice minister of public security, said that some international terrorist groups are infiltrating⁷ China, posing new challenges to anti-hijacking efforts.

Vocabulary：

anti-hijacking drill：反劫机演习

precautionary measures：（这里指）预警预报