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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE STATE COUNCIL FOR ENSURING SAFETY IN CIVIL AVIATION

    The following Announcement is hereby issued for the purpose of ensuring
safety in civil aviation, preventing the occurence of such incidents as
hijacking, damages to civil aircraft, and damages to civil aviation
installations and facilities, and guaranteeing the safety of public property
and the safety of passengers' lives and property:

    1. Chinese and foreign passengers, who travel by the international and
domestic civil air-liners, together with the luggage and things they carry
along, unless specially exempted, must all be subject to safety technical
examination before boarding; passengers shall pass through the safety
examination gate, and the luggage and articles they carry along shall be
examined by instruments; personal examination and open-trunk examination may
also be carried out. Those who refuse to accept the examination shall not be
permitted to board the plane.

    2. Passengers shall be strictly forbidden to enter the airport or travel
by plane with firearms, ammunition, lethal weapons, explosives, combustibles,
poisonous and radioactive matters and other dangerous articles that may
jeopardize the safety of civil aviation.

    3. It is strictly forbidden to climb over such installations round the
airport as the enclosing walls, boundary ditches, and barbed wire
entanglements. It is strictly forbidden to hunt, to fire shots, to shoot or to
traverse within the confines of the airport.

    4. It is strictly forbidden for people unconcerned, or their vehicles, to
come near the aircraft parking area and airliner parking area. All personnel
who have close contact with aircraft must be subject to the control and
examination of guardians and guards.

    5. It is strictly forbidden for personnel who have not undergone safety
examination to enter the isolated area of the airport waiting building. Those
who must enter the isolated area to execute their duties and have obtained
approval must also accept safety examination.

    6. Criminals who use violence or other means in hijacking aircraft or use
explosives or other means in damaging aircraft and civil aviation
installations shall be severely punished according to law by judicial organs.

    7. As regards the criminals who plot to hijack aircraft or to sabotage the
safety of civil aviation, any person is in duty bound to expose and inform
against them by reporting the case to the people's government. The units or
individuals that have distinguished themselves in preventing and checking an
attempted hijacking scheme or other schemes to sabotage the safety of civil
aviation shall be commended and rewarded.