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中国政府力图抑制动车严重追尾事故引起的愤怒之时，中国国务院总理温家宝周四前往事故现场视察，向中国庞大的高速铁路系统发出了新的警示。
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中国总理温家宝周四在温州动车追尾事故发生地点献花。
事故加剧了人们对温家宝政府的批评，指责在高速铁路系统等引人瞩目的基础设施项目上一味地追求经济增长，而这些工程的建设几乎未征求公众意见、也缺乏透明度。
中国共产党官方喉舌报纸《人民日报》周三在头版评论文章中说，中国想要发展，但不要带血的GDP。报纸说，发展是硬道理，但发展并非不计代价，更不能被少数人曲解为一切为发展让路。
温家宝身穿白色短袖衬衫，在十几名随行官员的陪同下来到现场。他在悼念遇难者的鲜花前深深鞠躬，悲痛之情溢于言表。温家宝保证，政府的调查会给出一个经得起历史考验的结果。目前为止，政府调查由于缺乏透明性而遭到普遍指责。他特别提到自己病了11天，医生直到周四才勉强允许他出行，这显然是解释自己为何来迟。
温家宝在现场对记者说，高速铁路系统需要与其他交通设施建设进行权衡，这种论调与政府在事故发生前几个月一味宣传铁路系统形成鲜明对比。高速铁路系统是中国造价最高、建设最快的基础设施项目之一。
他说，高速铁路建设要实现速度、质量、效益和安全的统一，把安全放在第一位；失掉了安全，就失掉了高铁的可信度。
愤怒的公众已经要求政府就现代化铁路系统为何会出故障、谁该为此负责以及有关部门起初是否试图掩埋部分列车残骸做出回答。政府已经对第三个问题表示强烈否认。
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但就在他们做出这些呼吁同时，政府近几年却将大笔资金投入到大型公共工程建设中。
中国高速铁路系统是中国政府典型做法的缩影：整体规模堪称全球第一的高速铁路网预计将花费至少3,000亿美元。
但实际上，高铁项目引起了普遍的怨言，如票价太高、铁道部被指腐败、前铁道部长于今年2月落马以及接二连三的技术故障等。
周四，中国政府给出了上周六动车追尾事故真正原因的首个线索，说温州附近的铁路信号系统在遭雷击后，未能从绿灯变成红灯，这才造成一辆列车撞上了另一辆在雷雨天气下已失去动力的列车。中国政府没有详细说明。
虽然温家宝回避了有关该事故是否由人为失误造成的问题，但总部位于北京的一个铁路信号公司已为设备故障道歉。
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图片：动车追尾后的48小时
对于上周六撞车事故的原因和事故处理方式，中国政府仍需要做出很多回答。专家表示怀疑的是，雷击能否导致一个先进的铁路系统出现如此重大的故障，以至于造成像上周六那样的灾难。周四有关信号设备失灵的说法依然没有讲清楚，究竟哪段铁路的信号系统失灵。铁路信号系统是由多个子系统构成的一个复杂装置。
在中国提供这类安全系统的供应商北京和利时公司(Hollysys Automation Technologies Ltd.)说，上周六两列动车在温州相撞时，该公司为其安装的信号设备运行正常。这种信号设备被称作列车自动控制防护系统(ATP)。
和利时在自己网站上发布了一个注明是7月25日的新闻稿。新闻稿说，据来自多个信息源的数据分析显示，两列列车的ATP系统运作正常，无任何导致崩溃的故障发生。和利时在美国纳斯达克(Nasdaq)上市。
ATP系统安装在列车头部和尾部，从基于地面沿铁路轨道设置的列车控制中心系统获得信号，以维持安全运行。
和利时北京办公室的一位高管说，ATP只是安装在动车上的大型信号与安全设备中的一个系统，还说公司调查后发现，他们为那两辆出事列车安装的系统并无问题。
她说，目前没有看到有关其它相关系统运行情况的消息。
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao signaled new caution on the country's huge high-speed rail network on a visit to the site of a deadly bullet train crash as his government struggled to contain anger over the disaster.
The trip by Mr. Wen, who said he had been too ill to travel until Thursday, was the strongest sign yet of Beijing's concern over the furor about the collision of two high-speed trains five days earlier, which killed 39 people and injured an additional 192 near the eastern city of Wenzhou.
The accident has amplified criticism that Mr. Wen's government is recklessly pursuing economic growth with high-profile infrastructure projects like the bullet-train network that are rolled out with little public input or transparency.
'China wants development, but it doesn't want blood-smeared GDP' said a front-page commentary Wednesday in the People's Daily, the Communist Party's official mouthpiece. 'Although development is the overarching goal of China, it should not come at a reckless price, nor be practiced by a handful of people as if it overrides everything,' said the paper.
Mr. Wen, in white shirt sleeves and accompanied by an entourage of dozens of officials, appeared visibly moved as he bowed deeply in front of a bed of fresh-cut flowers commemorating the accident's victims, and vowed that the government's investigation─which so far has been widely criticized for lacking transparency─will offer a result that can 'stand the test of history.' In an apparent effort to address the delay in his visit, he pointedly noted that he had been ill for 11 days, and that his doctors only reluctantly approved his travel Thursday.
Mr. Wen told reporters on the scene that the high-speed rail system─one of China's most expensive and rapidly constructed infrastructure projects─needs to be balanced against other transportation projects, a tone that contrasted with the government's relentless trumpeting of the rail network in the months before the accident.
'The high-speed railway development should integrate speed, quality, efficiency and safety. And safety should be put in the first place,' he said. 'Without safety, high-speed trains will lose their credibility.'
An angry public has demanded answers about how the modern rail system failed, who was to blame and whether authorities initially tried to conceal parts of the wreckage─something officials have strongly denied.
Mr. Wen and other Chinese leaders have talked for years about the need to emphasize the quality of growth rather simply speed. They have stressed the importance of narrowing a widening wealth gap, and curbing widespread environmental degradation.
Yet even as they have made those calls, the government has poured money in recent years into massive public-works projects.
The high-speed rail system has epitomized the government's approach: a world-beating network expected to cost at least $300 billion.
But the project has been plagued by widespread complaints that tickets are too costly, by allegations of corruption at the Railways Ministry and the firing of its top official in February, and by repeated technological glitches.
On Thursday, the government offered its first hint of what exactly caused Saturday's disaster, saying a railway signal system around Wenzhou failed to turn to red from green after being hit by lightning, which then caused one train to ram into another that itself had lost power in the lightning storm. The government didn't elaborate.
While Mr. Wen skirted questions about whether the accident was the result of human error, a Beijing-based rail signaling company apologized for its failures.
Now many see the accident as a wake-up call. 'High-speed rail is the best symbol and metaphor for China's social and economic development,' wrote Rui Chenggang, a prominent anchor from China Central Television, the state broadcaster, after the accident. 'If high speed doesn't slow, there will be unceasing problems and frequent accidents.'
The government still has numerous questions to answer about the cause of Saturday's accident and its handling. Experts have expressed incredulity that lightning could so severely disable an advanced rail system as to cause a disaster like Saturday's. And Thursday's claim that signaling equipment failed left unclear what part of the line's signalizing system─a comprehensive apparatus made up of multiple sub-systems─failed.
Hollysys Automation Technologies Ltd., a company that supplies such safety systems in China, said its signaling devices installed in the two trains involved in Saturday's accident─called automatic train protection, or ATP─'functioned normally' during the crash in Wenzhou.
'According to the analysis of data from multiple sources, the ATPs on the two trains provided by Hollysys functioned normally and well, and free of any malfunctions prior to the crash,' the Nasdaq-listed company said in a press release dated July 25 posted on its website.
ATP systems are installed at the front and rear of trains and receive signals from ground-based 'train control centers' along railways for safe operation.
An official in Hollysys' office in Beijing said ATP is just one system in the big signaling and safety equipment apparatus for high-speed trains, and the company's investigation found no issues with its systems installed on the trains.
It has no information on how other related systems performed, she said.
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The trip by Mr. Wen, who said he had been too ill to travel until Thursday, was the strongest sign yet of Beijing's concern over the furor about the collision of two high-speed trains five days earlier, which killed 39 people and injured an additional 192 near the eastern city of Wenzhou.
The accident has amplified criticism that Mr. Wen's government is recklessly pursuing economic growth with high-profile infrastructure projects like the bullet-train network that are rolled out with little public input or transparency.
'China wants development, but it doesn't want blood-smeared GDP' said a front-page commentary Wednesday in the People's Daily, the Communist Party's official mouthpiece. 'Although development is the overarching goal of China, it should not come at a reckless price, nor be practiced by a handful of people as if it overrides everything,' said the paper.
Mr. Wen, in white shirt sleeves and accompanied by an entourage of dozens of officials, appeared visibly moved as he bowed deeply in front of a bed of fresh-cut flowers commemorating the accident's victims, and vowed that the government's investigation─which so far has been widely criticized for lacking transparency─will offer a result that can 'stand the test of history.' In an apparent effort to address the delay in his visit, he pointedly noted that he had been ill for 11 days, and that his doctors only reluctantly approved his travel Thursday.
Mr. Wen told reporters on the scene that the high-speed rail system─one of China's most expensive and rapidly constructed infrastructure projects─needs to be balanced against other transportation projects, a tone that contrasted with the government's relentless trumpeting of the rail network in the months before the accident.
'The high-speed railway development should integrate speed, quality, efficiency and safety. And safety should be put in the first place,' he said. 'Without safety, high-speed trains will lose their credibility.'
An angry public has demanded answers about how the modern rail system failed, who was to blame and whether authorities initially tried to conceal parts of the wreckage─something officials have strongly denied.
Mr. Wen and other Chinese leaders have talked for years about the need to emphasize the quality of growth rather simply speed. They have stressed the importance of narrowing a widening wealth gap, and curbing widespread environmental degradation.
Yet even as they have made those calls, the government has poured money in recent years into massive public-works projects.
The high-speed rail system has epitomized the government's approach: a world-beating network expected to cost at least $300 billion.
But the project has been plagued by widespread complaints that tickets are too costly, by allegations of corruption at the Railways Ministry and the firing of its top official in February, and by repeated technological glitches.
On Thursday, the government offered its first hint of what exactly caused Saturday's disaster, saying a railway signal system around Wenzhou failed to turn to red from green after being hit by lightning, which then caused one train to ram into another that itself had lost power in the lightning storm. The government didn't elaborate.
While Mr. Wen skirted questions about whether the accident was the result of human error, a Beijing-based rail signaling company apologized for its failures.
Now many see the accident as a wake-up call. 'High-speed rail is the best symbol and metaphor for China's social and economic development,' wrote Rui Chenggang, a prominent anchor from China Central Television, the state broadcaster, after the accident. 'If high speed doesn't slow, there will be unceasing problems and frequent accidents.'
The government still has numerous questions to answer about the cause of Saturday's accident and its handling. Experts have expressed incredulity that lightning could so severely disable an advanced rail system as to cause a disaster like Saturday's. And Thursday's claim that signaling equipment failed left unclear what part of the line's signalizing system─a comprehensive apparatus made up of multiple sub-systems─failed.
Hollysys Automation Technologies Ltd., a company that supplies such safety systems in China, said its signaling devices installed in the two trains involved in Saturday's accident─called automatic train protection, or ATP─'functioned normally' during the crash in Wenzhou.
'According to the analysis of data from multiple sources, the ATPs on the two trains provided by Hollysys functioned normally and well, and free of any malfunctions prior to the crash,' the Nasdaq-listed company said in a press release dated July 25 posted on its website.
ATP systems are installed at the front and rear of trains and receive signals from ground-based 'train control centers' along railways for safe operation.
An official in Hollysys' office in Beijing said ATP is just one system in the big signaling and safety equipment apparatus for high-speed trains, and the company's investigation found no issues with its systems installed on the trains.
It has no information on how other related systems performed, she said.
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