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China: Chinese police make all-out efforts to ensure safety of tourists in high-altitude region

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Storyline: The Chinese police has been making all-out efforts to ensure safety of both tourists and locals by offering them prompt rescue and help in high-altitude border region in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. Standing at an elevation of 6,656 meters, Mount Kangrinboqe attracts tourists and pilgrims from home and abroad every year. In 2025, about 360,000 trekkers across the globe circled Mount Kangrinboqe. For trekkers, the rainy season is the most dangerous time there, when exposure, hypothermia, or fevers could be fatal for them. At extreme altitudes, acute mountain sickness, hypothermia, or pulmonary edema can strike trekkers without warning. The core challenge in global high-altitude rescue is timeliness, and the Chinese police based in Kangrinboqe averagely respond to emergencies in three minutes. Zhang Minsheng, police officer of Ta'erqin Border Police Station, often gets less than five hours of sleep a day as he and his colleagues are always busy with providing help for the trapped tourists. "I'll go to pick up the person who called, then come back for you. Just rest here for now," Zhang told a stranded tourist who needed a ride, while he was on his way to rescue another. When Zhang reached the tourist who had made the emergency call, he and his colleagues gave immediate assistance. "This is serious. She's coughing and could have pulmonary edema," said Zhang. After picking up the trapped tourists, Zhang and his colleagues immediately sent them to hospitals or to the areas in lower altitude. As of October 2025, the Chinese police in Ta'erqin Border Police Station, Ngari Border Detachment, had answered 265 emergency calls, saving 968 global trekkers. Shotlist: Xizang Autonomous Region, southwest China - Recent: 1. Mountains 2. Residential buildings, mountains 3. Police station, vehicle departing 4. Various of police officer driving car, vehicle moving UPSOUND (Chinese) Lyu Henggang, Chinese police officer: "Tourists with severe acute mountain sickness need our help." UPSOUND (Chinese) tourist (name not given): "I'm on oxygen right now, and one of my friends is half-unconscious." 5. Mountainous area 6. Police vehicle UPSOUND (Chinese) Zhang Minsheng, Chinese police officer: "Someone needs a ride." 7. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Minsheng, Chinese police officer: "I'll go to pick up the person who called, then come back for you. Just rest here for now." 8. Police officers talking with tourists 9. Various of police officers running to vehicle, driving 10. Various of police officers rescuing tourist, offering oxygen cylinder UPSOUND (Chinese) Zhang Minsheng, Chinese police officer: "Did you call the police?" UPSOUND (Chinese) tourist (name not given): "Yes, and my friend is in really bad shape too." UPSOUND (Chinese) Chinese police officer (name not given): "We've got oxygen cylinder. Here, take this bottle." 11. Tourist getting oxygen 12. Police officers helping trapped tourist 13. Police vehicle 14. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Minsheng, Chinese police officer: "This is serious. She's coughing and could have pulmonary edema." 15. Various of police officers driving, picking up other tourists, talking 16. Various of police officers rescuing trapped people amid snow 17. Various of police officers driving vehicle, providing help 18. Aerial shots of police vehicle running on road [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland]

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