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If people (working in the aviation industry) are not reliable, all other preventive measures will be useless."

Li Wei, an expert on antiterrorism studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, says eliminating human factors is the priority in counterterrorism.

"More personnel, materials and financial resources should be put toward research and development of core and strategically important technologies."

President Xi Jinping, in a speech at a cybersecurity symposium in Beijing on April 19.

"Unlike air and water pollution, there are no specific regulations in China for soil pollution."

Du Liming, a state legislator, says the government should speed up the creation of laws to address pollution of the soil..

(China Daily Africa Weekly 04/29/2016 page2)