Aftermath of the Wenzhou Train Collision in China

According to ChinaSmack,

Domestic journalists are already used to receiving this kind of garbage/junk text messages

Translation of the text in the above photograph:

Propaganda notice: The Wenzhou train accident will be uniformly referred to as the “7.23 Yong-Wen Line Exceptionally Serious Railway Accident”.

The Wenzhou train accident from now on will be reported with “great love in the face of great disaster” as the main theme. Don’t question, don’t expand, don’t associate, and don’t repost [about the matter] on individual/personal microblogs! Appropriate service [charity/volunteer] information may be provided during television programs, but be careful of the atmosphere created by music selection!

China has spent measureless amount of resources to brush up its images.  But instead of trying to make the train attendants pretty, they really ought to solve real problems big and small.


Train Attendants Practicing Smiling


Train Attendants Practicing Giving Directions


Newly built Nanjing Railroad Station after a storm


Newly built Nanjing Railroad Station after a storm

But the aftermath is not promising. It seems that after the immediate sacking of some officials, Chinese authorities went back on the same tactics as reported by ChinaSmack.  Many appalling things happened after the collision.  Rescue efforts prematurely ended; trains were dismantled and even buried before real evidence collection could possibly have taken place.  Now, turning tragedy into comedy is in order again.  We can only hope the tragedy in this magnitude won't happen again:

We only wish the tragedy in the


Collision caught by video camera