雅思口语培训机构:Senior China Rail Exec Dies As High-Speed Crash Probe Proceeds

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As Beijing pledges it will soon identify the culprits for a deadly high-speed rail crash last month, a Chinese railway signaling company that earlier apologized for its responsibility in the accident said its 55-year-old general manager collapsed dead of a heart attack during an inspection.
China Railway Signal & Communication Corp. on Tuesday identified the deceased executive as Ma Cheng, its general manager and deputy Communist Party Secretary. In a brief statement, the company said he died Monday 'during a safety inspection in Shenzhen.'
A spokesman for the company couldn't be reached for comment.
While it is unclear whether Mr. Ma's death is directly related to his company's business, fallout from a July 23 high-speed rail crash in China continues to accumulate. The government said this week that it has concluded a preliminary assessment of what went wrong to cause a collision of two fast trains that killed 40 people, and that it will make public the results by mid-September.
'The technical report of the accident and an expert panel report on the accident's direct cause have been completed,' according to Huang Yi, spokesman of the State Administration of Work Safety. 'The next stage will be to identify those who are responsible for the crash.'
Mr. Huang, speaking Monday during an online interview with the government news agency Xinhua, said preliminary investigations revealed serious design flaws in railway-signaling equipment, as well as poor emergency-response and safety-management loopholes. He reiterated a position voiced by inspectors earlier that the accident should have been avoided.
Hours after the July 23 crash, government inspectors began pointing to flawed signaling as the explanation for why a speeding train on a two-year-old track rammed the tail of a nearly stationary one outside the eastern city Wenzhou. But the government hasn't been more specific than saying a signal light flashing green should have been switched to red. Officials have said lightning may have played a part in the accident.
A handful of railway officials have been dismissed from their posts.
China Railway Signal, known as CRSC, is the country's dominant producer of the signaling equipment that allows dispatchers to organize rail and subway carriages. One of its subsidiaries is the only company to so far accept blame for a role in the Wenzhou accident.
The China Railway Signal unit, Beijing National Railway Research & Design Institute of Signal & Communication, on July 28 issued a statement expressing 'deep' sorrow about the loss of state property and individual lives. 'We will shoulder our responsibility, accept the deserved punishment,' the institute said, without elaboration.
China Railway Signal, known as CRSC, has a broad footprint in railway signaling, with numerous factories, research arms and engineering facilities. Its subsidiary ventures operate in at least 20 countries including Zambia, Iran and North Korea.
The dead man, Mr. Ma, is closely identified with China's high-speed signal system, a homegrown version of a European standard. In April, Mr. Ma was honored as one of China's top innovators in a ceremony held at the World Metro Rail Summit in Beijing, which recognized the company's FZL200 rail signaling system.
Last September, Mr. Ma sounded triumphant in announcing plans to install control systems on a Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line. 'We are going to improve ourselves through the construction of Beijing-Shanghai high speed rail, in terms of our key controlling technology, systems integration, equipment production, construction and installation, aiming at lifting CRSC up to the world's first class high-tech group on railway signaling and communication,' he said, according to the company's website.
In addition to holding a senior position at the government-owned group company, Mr. Ma last year became chairman of a corporate entity that was preparing to make a stock market listing.
Chinese media reports Tuesday said he collapsed as government investigators were probing for details of the July 23 crash. The reports carried no suggestion of foul play.