China's first universal automatic identification system should be operating by July, identifying ocean-going ships on the Yangtze River and protecting them from potential terrorism.

Officials with the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration say the new system is able to keep track of ships, their countries of origin, their size, and number of crew. "It can be used to prevent terrorism... we could identify precisely the target," said Liu Gongchen, executive deputy director of the Maritime Safety Administration of China ......
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