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Rescuers carry the injured after two subway trains collided in Shanghai, east China, Sept. 27, 2011. A subway train rear-ended another Tuesday afternoon in Shanghai, leaving some passengers injured. Equipment failures were believed to have caused the crash on Subway Line 10, sources of the subway operator said.

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Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- A Shanghai subway train rammed into the back of another after a signaling fault, injuring 260 people and adding to concerns that the pace of China’s rail expansion may undermine safety.

The accident happened at about 2:51 p.m. on Line 10, which opened in April 2010, between Yuyuan, in the city’s historic district, and Lao Ximen. Part of the line has been closed, operator Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co. said in a statement on its website. Three of the injured are in a critical condition, state-run China Central Television said, citing Shanghai Metro.

Controllers were running the line with a manual system after signaling equipment failed about 40 minutes before the crash, Shanghai Metro said. More than 500 people were evacuated from the two trains, it said. Dozens of ambulances and at least 10 fire engines responded to the scene.

China has curbed rail construction since 40 people were killed in a high-speed crash in July that prompted criticism that authorities were building too fast. The subway and maglev- train network in Shanghai expanded more than sevenfold in eight years to 453 kilometers (281 miles) to keep pace with the growing population of China’s financial capital and demand during last year’s World Expo.

“It is a severe accident and should be a wakeup call for the managers of operators, suppliers and planners,” said Xie Weida, a professor at Shanghai-based Tongji University’s Urban Mass Transit Railway Research Institute. “Shanghai has pushed metro line projects pretty quickly in recent years as demand for public transportation is huge.”

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Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, shakes hands with North Korean Prime Minister Choe Yong Rim, left, at the Great Hall of the People Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 in Beijing, China. China and its impoverished neighbor North Korea are emphasizing trade and investment ties during a visit this week by Pyongyang's prime minister that also highlights China's efforts to restart talks on ending the North's nuclear programs.

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Firefighters attempt to put out a fire at a plant belonging to Apple Inc supplier Foxconn Group in the city of Yantai, Shandong province, eastern China, in this September 27, 2011 still image taken from video. The fire at the Foxconn plant has been extinguished without casualties and there will be no impact on operations, said a spokesman for group's listed entity Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd. Electrical cables on a building rooftop caught fire on Tuesday morning, the spokesman said, adding that any damage would be covered by insurance.

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Children dressed in costumes practice on their waist drums before taking part in the opening ceremony for the 3rd Baizhifang Cup Traditional Waist Drum Competition at the Grand View Garden in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. Ten qualified teams from eleven districts and counties of Beijing will compete for the Baizhifang Cup trophy on the annual event.

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Cargo ships loaded with containers arrive in Hong Kong on September 27, 2011. In August 2011, the value of total exports of goods increased by 6.8 percent over a year earlier after a year-on-year increase of 9.3 percent in July 2011, according to Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department.

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A researcher nurses 12 panda cubs, born this year, in a ward at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, Sept 26, 2011. The base is now home to 108 pandas. [Photo/Asianewsphoto]

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The 8.5-ton Tiangong-1 spacecraft and the Long March II-F rocket stand at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Sept 20. [Shu Dong/for China Daily]

JIUQUAN, Gansu - China is making last-minute preparations to launch the country's first space laboratory module at the end of this week at a launch center in northwest China.

The unmanned Tiangong-1 module was originally scheduled to be launched into low Earth orbit between September 27 and 30. However, the forecasted arrival of a cold air mass at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has pushed the launch back to September 29 or 30, depending on weather and other factors.

"This is a significant test. We've never done such a thing before," said Lu Jinrong, the launch center's chief engineer.

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