Jiangbei District Tourist Service Center opened

Details

Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:33

On the morning of September 28, Jiangbei District Tourist Service Center opened at Laowaitan of Jiangbei. As a second large non-profiting tourist service institution in Ningbo, the center is expected to be of great help for tourists to Jiangbei District.

In recent years, with the rapid development of tourist economy, the number of visitors to Jiangbei increased from 460,810 in 2005 to 4,787,700 in 2010, and the output of the tourist economy rose from 302 million yuan in 2005 to 4.859 billion yuan. In the last year, Jiangbei was elected “Top Tourist District of Zhejiang" and China Kindness and Filiality Festival becomes one of the top ten festivals of Ningbo.

China Cartoon and Animation Art Exhibition to open in Ningbo

Details

Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:32

According to College of Science and Technology, Ningbo University, the first China Cartoon and Animation Art Exhibition is to open in Ningbo Arts Gallery from November 18 to December 11.

Sun Lijun, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Film Academy and Dean of the Institute of Cartoon and Animation of the Academy, Kevin Geiger, former Director of Cartoon Department of Disney, Wu Guanying, profession of the School of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, and Xu Yingqing, a graphic processing expert from the Asian Institute of Microsoft, attended the Summit Forum.

The exhibition will display chosen works of short cartoon films from China, South Korea and Japan.

Awarding Ceremony of Chinese Kindness and Filiality Festival held

Details

Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:33

On the evening of September 28, the awarding ceremony of the 3rd Chinese Kindness and Filiality Festival opened in Ningbo Grand Theatre.

Wang Huizhong, Member of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, announced the opening of the Festival.

At the ceremony, Song Wei, Member of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, and Director of Publicity Department of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, said, the culture of kindness and filiality is an important part of the traditional Chinese culture, and a mental tie of the Chinese home and abroad. In recent years, Jiangbei District has made great efforts to promote this culture and substantially promoted its regional influence. At present, Chinese Kindness and Filiality Festival has become a great event for the traditional culture and a platform for economic and cultural cooperation.

At the awarding ceremony, Jiangbei District Fund of Kindness and Filiality, a fund of 50 million yuan, was officially established. This fund is divided into 21 special sub-funds, aiming to help the poverty-stricken people in Jiangbei District and other public welfare projects.

Ningbo-Lishui cooperation going on

Details

Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:28

On September 26, a meeting of the cooperation of Lishui and Ningbo was held. At the meeting, the two cities signed over 10 cooperative agreements on construction of rural infrastructural facilities, industrial manufacturing, travel and exchanges of agricultural products. The agreements involve about 200 million yuan. Chen Yijun, Vice Mayor of Ningbo Municipal Government, Wang Yongkang, Mayor of Lishui, and Cai Xiaohua, Vice Mayor of Lishui, attended the signing ceremony.

The focus of the cooperative projects is to help Lishui improve its agricultural infrastructures, educate modern technicians and develop features economies. From this year on, Ningbo will invest 3 million yuan in Lishui for such projects as mountaineer relocation, agricultural parks, medical centers and the farmers' training center. Yuyao, Cixi, Yinzhou, Beilun and Ninghai of Ningbo City will invest in some counties of Liushui for such projects as construction of roads in rural areas, office buildings of villages and improvement of educational facilities.