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Final Group Of Three Yuhangyuans Made "Public" Appearances
Hong Kong - Oct 10, 2003 The group of three yuhangyuans who are in the final competition for the single spot on the historic Shenzhou-5 (SZ-5) mission have made "public" appearances at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre (JSLC), Wen Wei Po reports today (Oct. 10). This might be the first time that JSLC personnel who were not involved directly in yuhangyuan training learned about which yuhangyuans belonged to the final group of three candidates for flight. The newspaper does not actually reveal the names of the three yuhangyuans, perhaps under strict rules that such disclosure is inappropriate at this time. The report says that the two yuhangyuan trainers Li Qinglong and Wu Jie, who had received training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia in 1997, are not among the final group of candidates. Wen Wei Po says that the names of the three yuhangyuans don't have the character "long" and their surnames are not "Cheng", "Li" or "Wu". "Cheng" is a reference to some media reports in Hong Kong that a yuhangyuan is named "Cheng Long". Two of the three yuhangyuans come from the northeastern part of China while the other candidate comes from the south. All three candidates speak fairly standard putonghua (mandarin), but with an ever slight regional accent. The two northerners are not particularly tall compared to the candidate from the south. In general native northerners are typically taller and have a larger physique than southerners.
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