Civil Aviation Administration of China: Power banks without 3C certification or recalled models banned on domestic flights

To ensure the safety of aviation operations, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has issued an urgent notice. Starting June 28, passengers are prohibited from carrying power banks that lack a 3C certification label, have unclear 3C labeling, or belong to recalled models or batches on domestic flights. (For details, please visit the official website of the State Administration for Market Regulation's Defective Product Recall Technical Center at www.samrdprc.org.cn/xfpzh/xfpgnzh)

Pudong Airport and Hongqiao Airport will enforce the requirements of this notice to ensure passenger safety. We kindly ask all passengers to comply with this notice by carefully checking the certification label, brand, and model of your power banks before traveling. Please do not bring non-compliant power banks on board. Remove your power bank before security checks to prevent travel delays.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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Man sentenced to 8 years for Shanghai airport blast
Released:2017-02-21

A man wassentenced to eight years in prison for setting off two homemade explosivedevices in Shanghai Pudong International Airport in June 2016, a court inShanghai announced on Feb 17.

Shanghai No 3Intermediate People's Court handed down the sentence to Zhou Xingbai and alsostripped his political rights for two years.

The court foundthat Zhou formed the idea of setting off bombs at the airport and ending hisown life in May 2016, due to dissatisfaction with his personal life.

Zhou set off twohomemade explosive devices in beer bottles at a check-in counter in Terminal 2at around 2:30 pm on June 12, 2016. Three passengers were slightly injured byflying glass, and a few flights were affected.

He cut his ownthroat with a knife at the airport, but was taken to hospital for medicaltreatment.

On his WeChataccount, he wrote that he owed many people money and was going to do something"very crazy."

Zhou has no mentalillness and should take full criminal responsibility for his actions, accordingto the court.