Gong Picai, Vice General Manager of Wuhan Branch of China Eastern Airlines said "Flights from Wuhan to Guangzhou are mostly affected.

Xu, a former Tsinghua University professor who is now the vice general manager of Chinergy, the contractor building the reactors here.

But Denise Sabet, the vice general manager at Labbrand, suggests that the reasons include cultural differences and the Chinese reliance on characters for words, rather than a phonetic alphabet.