Rogue Communist Party of China Sells Helicopter Gunships to UWSA

China having problems with all its neighbors. The world should supply Chinese democracy dissidents with weapons.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/33350

China has allegedly sold helicopter gunships to ethnic Wa rebels who occupy areas of Shan State in eastern Burma, intelligence monitor Jane’s Information Group reported on Monday.
The report claimed China “delivered several Mil Mi-17 ‘Hip’ medium- transport helicopters armed with TY-90 air-to-air missiles to the Wa in late February and early March, according to both Myanmar ethnic minority and Myanmar government sources.”
Bertil Lintner, an expert on Burma and author of Great Game East: India, China and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier, confirmed the accuracy of the Jane’s report.
Lintner said the Burmese government was moving to gain control of the Shan State Army-North’s mountainous bases on the western bank of the Salween River, for an eventual offensive against the Wa rebels.

“Since the Burmese government signed a ceasefire with the Shan, they haven’t withdrawn any troops, but rather they have reinforced their troops,” said Aung Kyaw Zaw, an analyst based on the China-Burma border. “That is not a good sign. So, the Wa wants to prepare [for a possible war].”
The purchase of the gunships is part of Wa moves to make the Wa region more like an independent state, able to project force if necessary.

The United Wa State Army is the largest ethnic armed group in Burma, with an estimated 20,000 well-equipped fighters, and advanced weaponry including surface-to-air missiles.
The Burmese government has carried out an offensive against the SSA-North and Kachin rebels in northern Shan State since mid-April, calling up troops from as far away as Karenni State to back up their forces in Shan State, according to Aung Kyaw Zaw.

Quoting a Wa rebel source, the Jane’s report said “the Mi-17s reached the Wa-administered area by flying across the Mekong River from Lao rather than direct from China.”
Jane’s said five helicopters had been bought, but the Burmese government, which confirmed the deal, said only two aircraft had so far been delivered.

The UWSA headquarters is in Panghsang, northeastern Shan State on the China border, but it has a secondary stronghold in southern Shan State on the border with Thailand.
Burma and the United States have long said the UWSA funds its activities through heroin and methamphetamine production, earning large sums of money through illegal activities.
If the government launches an attack on the Wa, it would be a big war, according to analysts. There have been unconfirmed reports in recent weeks that the Wa have been digging in for a protracted ground war, hollowing out tunnels and constructing fortified positions, according to the sources.
The Burmese government recently bought a number of Mi-24P ‘Hind’ gunships from Russia. The reported sale of the Mi-17s to the Wa, armed with TY-90 short-range air-to-air missiles, would provide a strong deterrent to Naypyidaw moving against the Wa.

War profiteering with Chinese Characteristics

ZXAuto, a small Chinese producers of pick ups and SUVs proudly display their "Free Syria Army" technical in a recent Shanghai autoshow.  While this is so wrong on so many levels, I can't help it but to cheer for their entrepreneurial spirit, (with Chinese Characteristics of course)

Chinese Double speak. Actions speak louder than words...On on side support Bashar Al-Assad at the UN, on the other side as private industry to supply his opponents with weapons.

This is how international diplomacy is going to be going forward, double speak where actions on the ground do not meet with words. Isn't China also a nuclear weapons proliferator?

Norinco SH-1 Truck-mounted 155mm Gun-Howitzer of the Tatmadaw

China arming both sides in Burma and raking in the moolah.

In Syria also, Chinese supply to both Bashar Al-Assad and FSA
with MANPADS
http://asian-defence-news.blogspot.in/2013/02/communist-party-of-china-and-peoples.html 

Chinese supplied Norinco SH-1 Truck-mounted 155mm Gun-Howitzer to Burmese Army

 
While the Burma military is showing off their newly ordered Norinco SH-1 Truck-mounted 155mm Gun-Howitzer and other made-in-China hardware during their 68th Armed Forces Day parade in Naypyitaw,  the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) continues to use their made-in-China hardware to fight back the Tatmadaw

United Wa State Army's Chinese supplied M99 12.7mm Sniper Rifle

United Wa State Army's Chinese supplied M99 12.7mm Sniper Rifle

Upgraded early warning aircraft arrive in Taiwan

China may attack Taiwan using the next North Korean crisis which it will help create.

TAIPEI: Taiwan has received its final two upgraded early warning aircraft from the United States, a move expected to bolster the island’s air defence against rival China, the air force said Sunday.

Analysts say the planes — which have an all-weather early warning and control system platform with upgraded radar, software, avionics and propellers — will further reduce warning time if China launched an air attack on the island.

China has repeatedly threatened to invade Taiwan should the island declare formal independence, prompting Taipei to seek more advanced weapons, largely from the United States.

The arrival of the two new E-2Ks brings the number of the advanced aircraft in the Taiwanese fleet to six. Taiwan acquired four less advanced E-2Ts from the US in 1995 and added two E-2Ks in 2006. The US then agreed to upgrade the four E-2Ts to E-2Ks as part of a $6.5 billion arms sale that upset Beijing in 2008. That deal also included advanced interceptor Patriot missiles, Apache attack helicopters and submarine-launched missiles. The two new planes to be delivered are the last of the four to be upgraded.

The air force declined to provide specifications of the E-2K, which is an improved version of Northrop Grumman’s E-2T, but military experts say it is equivalent to the E-2C 2000 now serving the US navy. Equipped with two eight-blade propellers and a dome on the back which houses antennas for their long-range radars, the planes were transported to the southern port of Kaohsiung Saturday, the air force said. A picture printed in Taiwan’s Liberty Times newspaper showed the two new planes, with their wings folded and fully covered by a white protective plastic sheet, being towed from the harbour to the nearby airport. The paper said the two aircraft are expected to fly to their home base is southern Pingtung county in a week. Ties between Taipei and Beijing have improved markedly since Ma Ying-jeou of the China-friendly Kuomintang party came to power in 2008, promising to boost trade links and allow more Chinese tourists to visit the island.

The art of war, Chinese style

The recent 50th anniversary of China’s invasion of India attracted much discussion, especially within India. Yet the debate shied away from drawing the broader, long-term lessons for Asian security.
The lessons are also relevant for China’s other neighbors because the 1962 war helped uncover the key elements of Beijing’s war-fighting doctrine — a doctrine it brought into play in 1969 (provoking bloody border clashes with Soviet forces), 1974 (occupying the Paracel Islands), 1979 (invading Vietnam), 1988 (seizing Johnson Reef), and 1995 (grabbing Mischief Reef). In each of those aggressions, the major 1962 elements were replicated.

As a 2010 Pentagon report citing the 1962 war, among others, put it, “The history of modern Chinese warfare provides numerous case studies in which China’s leaders have claimed military pre-emption as a strategically defensive act.” In fact, a 2010 essay in the Qiu Shi Journal — the ideological and theoretical organ of the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee — underscored the centrality of “offense as defense” in Chinese policy by declaring that “Throughout the history of new China, peace in China has never been gained by giving in, only through war. Safeguarding national interests is never achieved by mere negotiations, but by war.”

Unlike India, which still naively believes that it gained independence through nonviolence, not because a war-debilitated Britain could no longer hold on to its colonies, “new China” was born in blood after a long civil war. And it was built on blood, with Mao Zedong and other revolutionaries ever ready to employ force internally and externally. No sooner had the new China been established than it doubled its territorial size by forcibly absorbing Xinjiang and Tibet. Domestically, countless millions perished in witch-hunts, fratricidal killings and human-made disasters.
In fact, Mao attacked India after his “Great Leap Forward” created the worst famine in recorded world history, with the resulting damage to his credibility serving as a strong incentive for him to reassert his leadership through a war. The military victory over India indeed helped him to consolidate his grip on power, besides raising his international stature.

Yet, like a rape victim being scolded for inviting the attack, India was repeatedly rapped by some analysts during the anniversary debate for having brought on the Chinese aggression through “provocative” gestures and moves.

When the Chinese military marched hundreds of miles south to occupy the then-independent Tibet, bringing Han soldiers in large numbers to the Himalayan frontiers for the first time and setting the stage for China’s furtive encroachment on Indian territory, this supposedly did not constitute sufficient grounds for India to try to guard its undefended Himalayan borders. So when India belatedly deployed some units of its army, the action became, in Beijing’s words, a “forward policy” — a term lapped up by biddable analysts and still being bandied about.

India does not commemorate war anniversaries the way the United States does — with annual ceremonies honoring its fallen heroes. For example, at the exact time the Japanese began bombing Pearl Harbor 71 years earlier, commemorations were held last weekend at Pearl Harbor and memorials elsewhere, drawing thousands of Americans. India, in fact, has not built a single memorial to honor those who were martyred in 1962 or any of its other wars. China, by contrast, has a 1962 war memorial in Tibet and its Beijing military museum depicts India as the “aggressor.”
In this light, the 50th anniversary of what American scholar Roderick MacFarquhar has dubbed “Mao’s India War,” which killed 3,270 Indian troops and 725 Chinese, ought to have served as a time for reflection on its larger lessons. By baring key features of Beijing’s warfighting doctrine, the 42-day war indeed holds lasting lessons for India and other countries locked in territorial disputes with China.

Here are six of the 1962 principles China replicated in its subsequent aggressions: (1) take the adversary by surprise to maximize political and psychological shock; (2) strike only when the international and regional timing is opportune; (3) hit as fast and as hard as possible by unleashing “human wave” assaults; (4) be willing to take military gambles; (5) mask offense as defense; and (6) wage war with the political objective to “teach a lesson” — an aim publicly acknowledged by Beijing in the 1962 and 1979 attacks.

The Chinese strategy to choose an opportune moment to strike became evident before 1962 when China invaded Tibet in October 1950 while the world was preoccupied with the Korean war. China’s rapid success in seizing eastern Tibet emboldened it to intervene in Korea.
The classic case of opportunistic timing, however, was 1962: The attack coincided with the Cuban missile crisis, which threatened to trigger nuclear Armageddon and helped cut off India from potential sources of international support. But no sooner had the U.S. signaled an end to the faceoff with the Soviet Union by terminating Cuba’s quarantine than China declared a unilateral cease-fire. Such was the shrewd timing that throughout the Chinese attack, the international spotlight remained on the U.S.-Soviet showdown, not on China’s bloody invasion of India.

Similarly, China seized the Paracel Islands from South Vietnam in 1974 after the U.S. military withdrawal from there had created a strategic vacuum. It occupied the disputed Johnson Reef in the Spratlys in 1988 when Moscow’s support for Vietnam had petered out after the Soviets stopped using Cam Ranh Bay as a major forward deployment base. And in 1995, China seized Mischief Reef when the Philippines stood isolated after having forced the U.S. to close its major military bases at Subic Bay and elsewhere on the archipelago.

The 1979 attack on Vietnam occurred after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping convinced U.S. President Jimmy Carter during his Washington visit that a “limited military action” against Vietnam was essential to contain Soviet and Vietnamese influence in Southeast Asia and to force Hanoi to withdraw its forces from Cambodia. After 29 days, China ended its Vietnam invasion and withdrew, claiming Hanoi had been sufficiently chastised.

It is apparent that new China hews to ancient theorist Sun Tzu’s advice: “All warfare is based on deception. … Attack where the enemy is unprepared; sally out when it does not expect you. These are the strategist’s keys to victory.”

Communist Party of China and Peoples Oppression Army supply FN-6 MANPAD of the Free Syria Army

One one side Communist Party of China and Peoples Oppression Army support Bashar Al-Assad, on another side Communist Party of China and Peoples Oppression Army supply Free Syrian Army with MANPADS ;)  Strange power China

China likes to play both sides for profit. Chinese external agency Ministry of State Security has become a bidder in the global arms black market.

In a drab Shanghai office block, Unit 61398, China’s cyber rats

http://intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf 

New found wealth has got a lot of confidence to Communist Party of China. They officially lie and deny all these " allegations"

Chinese communist Party closes its own citizens from free information flow over the internet but uses it for hacking others networks.

Mandiant claims Unit 61398:

• Employs hundreds, perhaps thousands of personnel
• Requires personnel trained in computer security and computer network operations
• Requires personnel proficient in the English language
• Has large-scale infrastructure and facilities in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai
• Was the beneficiary of special fibre optic communication infrastructure provided by state-owned enterprise China Telecom in the name of national defence.

This 12-story building on the outskirts of Shanghai is the headquarters of Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army. China’s defense ministry has denied that it is responsible for initiating digital attacks

 

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An explosive security report has pinned the majority of China-based attacks against the US to an army of hackers working for the People's Liberation Army out of a nondescript building on the outskirts of Shanghai. The report, by security firm Mandian, claims P.L.A Unit 61398 operates out of the complex and is responsible for a deluge of hacking traffic originating in and around it.Members of an infamous group known in most instances as Comment Crew or Shanghai Group were allegedly tracked to the P.L.A unit and the building.
It said public accounts of data breaches against US security firms, critical infrastructure, and industrial control system and SCADA operators to a persistent and government-backed hacking outfit operating out of the white Shanghai apartment block. "We believe that organisations in all industries related to China’s strategic priorities are potential targets of APT1’s (the group) comprehensive cyber espionage campaign," ther report stated. "While we have certainly seen the group target some industries more heavily than others, our observations confirm that APT1 has targeted at least four of the seven strategic emerging industries that China identified in its 12th Five Year Plan."
Mandiant researchers correlated data IP addresses, toolsets and social engineering information to pin the attacks to the hacking group. Beijing deniedthe accusations to the New York Times, and reiterated its affirmation that it is not involved in hacking which it considers illegal.
Chinese hackers have left a trail of victims including SCADA software outfits Telvent and Digital Bond, and security firm Alient Vault which had links to sensitive information on the US' defensive preparedness against hacking, according to the report.Hackers were also involved in the Shady Rathacking campaign which was billed as a massive global espionage attack that hit some 75 organisations, the report said. APT1 is one of scores of such collectives researchers say operate out of China at the behest of Beijing. It started operating and first came to the public light in 2006 when Symantec's Japan office described a host which was operated by a hacker known as Ugly Gorilla, who was tracked in the research.
"APT1 has a well-defined attack methodology, honed over years and designed to steal massive quantities of intellectual property. They begin with aggressive spear phishing, proceed to deploy custom digital weapons, and end by exporting compressed bundles of files to China – before beginning the cycle again," the report stated.They employ good English — with acceptable slang — in their socially engineered emails. They have evolved their digital weapons for more than seven years, resulting in continual upgrades as part of their own software release cycle. Their ability to adapt to their environment and spread across systems makes them effective in enterprise environments with trust relationships."
APT1 typically established a foothold in organisations via a well-written spear phishing attempt containing malicious pdf files within a compressed zip. It also used custom backdoors, thought to be previously unknown, of which 42 families were detailed by Mandiant."We usually detect multiple families of APT1 backdoors scattered around a victim network when APT1 has been present for more than a few weeks," the report said. The group's average infiltration lasted 356 days, with the longest stretching to four years and 10 months. The most amount of data stolen from a single organisation was 6.5 terabytes, extracted over 10 months.
The group was also unique in that it utilised unique attack vectors including GETMAIL which helped to steal email. Once the attackers compromised a network they were difficult to detect, the report said, because they connected to shared resources and could execute commands on other systems using Microsoft's psexec tool or Windows Task Scheduler."These actions are hard to detect because legitimate system administrators also use these techniques to perform actions around the network."

Beijing residents, state media fed up with persistent smog and government inaction

Yesterday the meter to the left went beyond index

BEIJING — It takes a lot to faze residents of a city as smoggy as Beijing. But after four straight days of air so hazardous it has defied government charts and labels, the disbelief and outrage are palpable.
Government vehicles have been pulled off the roads, production slowed at thousands of factories and children told to stay indoors. On Monday, even China’s state-run media — which usually avoid criticizing the government on such topics — ran reports and editorials acknowledging the problem and demanding solutions.

The haze that has settled over the capital highlights a thorny situation for China’s newly elevated slate of leaders, who have promised transparency and reform. Delivering those on such persistent, intractable problems as China’s environment, however, may prove difficult.
The trouble began last week with a growing fog over the city. By Friday, it had become hard to see office buildings just down the street. By Saturday, the smog had reached epic proportions, stinging residents’ eyes, causing respiratory problems and sparking a panicked run on stores selling masks and air filters.

Beijing’s municipal government reported air-quality-index levels as high as 500 Saturday night, on a scale by which U.S. experts consider anything above 150 to be unhealthy and anything from 301 to 500 to be hazardous.

But that was just half the story, because Chinese monitors stop recording at 500.
An air monitor run by the U.S. Embassy that sends out hourly tweets — and has been the subject of much official Chinese rancor in the past — showed the air quality topping out at 755, an astonishing level that the embassy called, for lack of a better description, “beyond index.”
And there it stayed, lingering between “hazardous” and “beyond index” until Monday night, when it was finally downgraded to “very unhealthy.”

Although the pollution crisis is possibly the worst in recent memory, some experts and environmental activists say it is the government’s reaction that has surprised them most.
The Communist Party’s main mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, ran a front-page editorial Monday calling the darkened sky a “suffocating siege.” China Daily said there should be a “healthy debate” about air quality and asked why there are not stricter regulations for cars, urban density and tree planting. Even the nationalistic Global Times called for more transparency and less fixation on the kind of economic growth that turns a blind eye to environmental consequences.
Some think the reversal of state media on the issue has been driven by public pressure, as well as the effect of new-media information, such as the U.S. Embassy’s air-quality tweets.


China’s officials and state media, however, have not explained their approach, limiting most of their discussion to what is causing the fog and to possible solutions.
Those answers have proved elusive. Official experts quoted in state media have blamed the crisis on factors including weather patterns, factories in neighboring provinces, increased numbers of cars, hilly terrain and more burning of coal for heat amid a cold snap.

Japan War Games Defense Of Disputed Islands Against China

China Newspaper Says To 'Prepare For The Worst' After Military Confrontation With Japan In The East China Sea

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/754886.shtml

"Peaceful" Rise of China demonstrating itself

Y-8 plane game of China

Y-8 a transport plane, and it can be, but the aircraft has more than 30 variants. The Y-8 performs everything from Mineral Research, to Geophysical Surveying, to Electronic Warfare to Intelligence Gathering and one variant is simply an innocuous but lethal fully loaded gunship, with two heavy cannons and three heavy machine guns.

It's the perfect plane for a game of cat and mouse because if the Y-8 ever received fire from Japan's F-15s, China could simply maintain it was an unarmed transport model carrying troops, or the Y8-F model that carries only livestock.

In the meantime, the plane can perform all manner of sophisticated tests on the seabed floor, while eavesdropping on Japanese communications. China has been flying these planes consistently lately to surveil the contested island chain that's supposed to hold billions in oil and gas reserves.

 After repeatedly flying surveillance aircraft into disputed airspace with Japan, which made Tokyo scramble F-15s in response, China sent fighters of its own on Thursday into the East China Sea.

A Friday press release out of China confirms the incident began when Beijing was flying a Shaanxi Y-8 on a "routine Thursday patrol" over the "oil and gas fields in the East China Sea."


So, again, on Thursday Japan spotted aircraft in its Air Defense Identification Zone (above the islands) that it believed to be Chinese J-7 interceptors, along with some J-10 fighters whose combat abilities rival that of Western jets. Japan responded with two F-15s scrambled from Naha, Okinawa — just a couple hundred miles away. There are minor variations from either side about who sent what first, but all agree the aircraft met above the islands.

The Chinese planes scattered soon after, but this marked the first time China and Japan flung military assets at one another over the East China Sea island dispute. A line was crossed and staying behind it in the future will only be more difficult.

n interesting fact about Naha, aside from its proximity to the contested territory, is that while being fairly remote, it is also home to Alfred R. Magleby, a United States Consul General who holds a M.S. in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. This is appropriate, since the Naha Port (formerly Military) Facility is part of U.S. Forces Japan and the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is less than nine miles from where Japan's F-15s scrambled.

In the future, when responding to China's fighter deployment, if Japan considers permitting its F-15 pilots to fire tracer bullets as warning shots against Chinese planes, it is now reasonable to assume that U.S. forces at Futenma may have an indirect say in that decision.

Firing tracers, which usually contain phosphorous or some highly flammable material, sends a line of light through the air like a laser. Tracers are usually loaded in about every tenth round to let gunners know where they're shooting, but in this case they would be fired to show Chinese pilots they're being fired upon.

The Chinese jets are likely flying from air base Shuimen, built east of the islands in Fujian Province, not too much farther from the islands than Naha, Okinawa. So both sides have assets equally within reach of the islands.

Chinese Navy Carrier operations - Liaoning (ex-Varyag) - Shenyang J-15

ChinChin in Tibet - Ganbala "Heroic" Radar Station for Communist Party of China occupation

Ganbala "Heroic" Radar Station above and below

Good concrete roads lead up to the Ganbala "Heroic" Radar Station

Radar crew signing off on group Macau lottery agreement

A delivery ceremony for the main part of the construction project of a combat-readiness highway for the Ganbala radar station of the Air Force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was held on the morning of November 21, 2012.

The Ganbala radar station is the highest man-controlled radar station in the world with a height of 5,374 meters above the sea level. The project of the highway, measuring 9 kilometers in length, was undertaken by the Office of Traffic and Combat Readiness of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Military Transportation Department under the Logistics Department of the PLA Air Force. After nearly 15 months of construction since September of 2011, the completed combat-readiness highway, featured with standard and scientific designs in protection and drainage systems, costs over 29 million yuan (about 4.7 millions US $).

Prior to the construction, the highway was a winding sand road which, in frequent rains and snows, witnessed landslides and debris flows from time to time. Being only 9 kilometers in length, it used to take nearly an hour of drive, but now, it takes less than 15 minutes.
According to leaders from the Military Transportation Department of the Logistics Department of the PLA Air Force, all the radar stations on the snowy plateau will have the class-4 highways built according to national standards under the joint efforts of military and civilian sectors.

Tibet connectivity
With the fastest construction speed, most investment, and constantly improved management system, Tibetan highway transportation has acquired the most noteworthy construction achievements, bringing the rural highway construction a historical leap to a better stage of best and fastest development.
Back to the old days, Tibetan highway construction was left behind due to its bad natural conditions and weak economic base.
Since 2001, budget and investment for Tibet highway construction has been expanded. With 53.3 billion yuan (about $8.56 billion) investment, the Tibetan highway total distance has increased from 39760 kilometers to 63108 kilometers by the end of 2011 at a growth rate of 58.7%.
The amount of newly built and rebuilt highway in the past decade exceeds the sum total of that in the previous 50 years after the Tibet Peaceful Liberation. The airport expressway between Lhasa and Gunga fulfils the zero breakthrough of Tibetan expressway. The opening of the Galongla tunnel on Mutuo [Metok, north of the McMahon Line] highway ends up the highway-less history of the last county in China.

Tibetan road network has made breaking through development by increasing 265.4% of the previous 10,647 km highway roads that can be graded at the level of political unit. So far, 60 counties in Tibet have had asphalt road.

Meanwhile, the passenger transport network also has a primary formation. Now there are 30,000 commercial cars in the whole Tibet Autonomous Region. Accordingly, the passenger transport routes has risen from less than 100 to 353, covering 98.6% Tibetan counties and 61% Tibetan rural towns.The Risur Bridge Highway is 94 kilometers long. It is reported that the project adopts the Level 4 technical standard of road construction, with a design speed of 20 kilometers per hour, 6.5 meters width of roadbed and 6 meters wide pavement. The whole project will be invested with 399,925,519 yuan (about $64.3 million) and its overall construction will last for 18 months.The newly built highways along with the old ones will bring together great opportunities to Tibet’s development. Tibetans believe that their life will become better and better owing to the highways that lead them to wealth.

Scientific studies being conducted in  Ganbala Heroic Radar Station

Yu Mengsun, 75, talks to air force pilots at the 5,374-meter Ganbala Radar Station on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Yu Mengsun, the founder of aviation biomedical engineering studies in China. He stole and copied hearing aid technology from Siemens (read below)

Yu conducts an experiment on sleep quality

Yu Mengsun has dedicated himself to improving the flight safety of air force pilots in a more than 50-year career. Wang Ru reports.
In 2010 and 2011, 75-year-old Yu Mengsun twice reached the 5,374-meter Ganbala Radar Station on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, the world's highest manually operated radar station.
He did so to check the health condition of air force soldiers and conduct his research on the plateau's oxygen supply in heavy storms.
It is not the craziest thing Yu has done. In 1972, in order to test safety and get accurate data, Yu risked his life sitting in an ejector seat propelled by a rocket, into the sky.
As an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the founder of aviation biomedical engineering studies in China, Yu's research is vital to the development of the air force in China.
Thanks to his groundbreaking inventions and military applications research during his more than 50-year career, the safety of generations of military pilots has been enhanced.
"Science will finally smile on you, if you don't cheat her," Yu says.
He was born in Shanghai, in March 1936. At 15, he attended a military college, then studied at the Medical College of Nanjing University, before he was transferred to the Air Force Military Medical School.
After graduating in 1954, he joined an air force unit as an assistant surgeon. Since 1955, he has been working at the Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine.

When he was an intern at the institute, a teacher showed him an electric hearing device made by Siemens, one of only two in China, imported from Germany.
Yu decided to make one. He collected machine parts and started to copy the product. During an experiment a fuse blew and the whole building experienced a blackout. His hearing device was confiscated, but when the institute's professors eventually discovered it functioned as well as the imported ones, he was recruited.

In the 1950s, due to the absence of aviation medical telemetry equipment, a real-time data transfer technique only possessed by the United States and the former Soviet Union at the time, the health condition of pilots could not be checked during flights.
In 1958, Yu developed the country's first aviation medical telemetry equipment. In 1972, putting his own safety aside, Yu tested out a rocket ejection seat. The data he collected from the risky experiment made him a pioneer in the field.

"His research still contributes to the safety of pilots in advanced jet fighters," says Luo Yongchang, director of the Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine.

In 1974, the medical team responsible for the health of leaders - including the former chairman Mao Zedong and premier Zhou Enlai - asked Yu to make health monitors for them.
After the country started its reform and opening-up process, China started to import precise medical instruments, most of which were very expensive.
"The ultimate goal of developing science and technology is to solve problems. Compared with Western countries, we lagged behind in some fields, but I knew we could solve our problems through hard work," Yu says.
He says his research shows that sleep problems for pilots caused 10.5 percent of accidents.
For decades, the only way to examine an air force pilot's sleep quality was through a doctor observing and questioning.

Yu found that when people sleep, their heartbeats, pulse and breathing convey how well they are sleeping and a computer can analyze this information.

Over the next 10 years, Yu and his research team made numerous experiments and eventually invented a sleeping monitor mattress - the most developed product of its kind - to analyze the sleep quality of its users. It is now widely used by the People's Liberation Army air force.
Since 2011, Yu and his colleagues have been to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau four times to research and collect health data on pilots who arrive at a high altitude place for the first time.
He has also developed a low-oxygen chamber with normal air pressure to help pilots adapt to the plateau environment.

Due to his inventions, the air force is now able to simultaneously measure 12 physiological and physical parameters of pilots within a 300 km flight radius.
"Thanks to Yu's painstaking efforts, the combat power of the air force on the plateau has been increased," says Xie Guanglin, political commissar of the Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine.

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