Free Haircut for the Elderly

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Wednesday, 12 October 2011 08:28

October 5th was the Double Ninth Festival. Voluntary hairdressers from Xiangshan helped 201 senior citizens with their haircut.  The three-day activity gained support and favor from the elderly.

113 post office spots provide IC card recharging service

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Wednesday, 12 October 2011 06:48

From October 9, the post office spots in Ningbo (including the 6 districts and Daxie Island) began to provide the recharging service for the public transportation IC cards. With the joining of the 113 spots, the total number of IC card recharging spots reached 130, and they can be found all over the city.

"The wide distribution of the post office spots is a great supplement to our existing recharging spots." said the official who is in charge of the Citizen Card Administration Company. Since last year, they have attempted to cooperate with the post office by opening 5 recharging spots in the downtown post offices. The result is quite satisfactory, which leads to the opening of the 113 spots.

From now on, the recharging of the regular IC cards and the purchase of the personalized IC card can be done in the 113 post office spots. But the preferential cards such as student cards, senior citizen cards, care cards and free-of-charge cards can only be got from the existing citizen card centers. In addition, according to the Citizen Card Administration Company, the online recharging service for the IC card will have been realized by the end of this year.

Flowers to Centenarians

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Wednesday, 12 October 2011 08:26

October 5th is the Double Ninth Festival. Recently, Central Kindergarten in Jiangdong district and Shuguang community jointly carried out activities of respecting, caring and helping senior citizens. Children sent flowers, cards to the elderly and wished them good health and longevity.

Firefighters work around the clock

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Wednesday, 12 October 2011 06:42

At 7:30 on Tuesday, over ten firefighters from Jiangdong district were fully equipped for a fire drill at the Modern Shopping Mall. Firefighters were still on duty during the National Day Holiday.  They got three cases on Tuesday and saved properties worth over 100,000 for local residents.

Reporters visited the fire station in Jiangdong district where they met Mr Bao., a firefighter who was on duty back then.  There were several monitoring computers and alarm telephones in the office. Once he got a phone call, he must immediately deliver the message to firefighters so that they could arrive at the site as soon as possible. There were maps of roads, information about fire protection channels, key spots and water suppliers posted on the wall. Mr. Bao kept checking the key spots and working out the shortest route even when there were no reporting cases.

At around 11 a.m. when firefighters just came back from work to have lunch, another case was reported. One of the 11 gas bottles of a hotel has leaked and it would be catastrophic if it was ignited. The firefighters hurried to the site. They evacuated residents, moved out the leaking gas bottle and cooled other gases. Together with workers from the gas company, they eliminated the potential dangers.

According to the duty record, firefighters not only contain flames for residents, but also tackle problems like car accidents, drowning, theft and so on. As long as residents call for help, they will arrive in no time.