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Category: Charity Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:53
Shi Liqin, a laid-off worker from Yuyao, sells Dousu Cake (a specialty of Ningbo) every day at the streets of Yuayo downtown.
The 49-year-old woman has crippled legs due to poliomyelitis. She has once worked in a foreign trade company, which was closed this April and she lost her job of a monthly income of 3,000 yuan. But to many people’s surprise, she has been subsidizing two primary school students, one in the mountainous region of Yuyao and the other in Lijing, Yunnan Province. She gives at least 2,000 yuan to the two every year and wants to assist them to finish their high school. However, it is difficult for her to find a good job due to her being disable and old. So she decides to sell Dousu Cake.
When asked why she is willing to help other people when she is in a difficult situation, Shi says that she has sympathy for those in need because of her own experience. In 2008, she persuaded her families to sign the cornea donation agreement.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:53
The 2012 China Food Expo concluded in the International Convention and Exhibition Center on the afternoon of 18th. More than 2,000 enterprises took part in the Expo. Attendees reached 324,000, 38,000 of whom were professional merchants with an increase of 8.7% compared with last year. The turnover reached 12.73 billion yuan with an increase of 10.6% compared with that of last year.
The market-oriented Expo stresses promotion and business-business meetings by offering communicate platforms for suppliers and buyers. Great success has been achieved in near ten economic and trade discussions such as the purchase meeting of China’s top 100 business and trade enterprises, the purchase negotiation meeting of large chain enterprises in China and abroad.
Specialties from Taiwan, Zhejiang and other provinces were of distinct features and high quality, attracting a large number of buyers. Sales of Ningbo time-honored brands went through the roof and the exhibitors replenished twice or three times every day to meet the demand. More than 30 tons of goods at the exhibition area of Kuche, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were sold out soon. And at the request of the buyers, the Expo committee closed the Expo two hours later than planned.
For the first time the committee organized online Food Expo and promotion activities. Group buying websites signed agreements with more than 400 exhibitors within four days and 266 food companies signed contracts with the online Food Expo, bringing a food supply all the year round with a value of 110 million yuan. Over 10,000 people registered as members of online Food Expo and over 300,000 visited the website. The promotion activities were held jointly by the Expo Committee, Petro China, China Telecom, Jiaochen Group and associations of the five service industries. The 80,000 coupons issued to customers promoted consumptions at and after the Expo and beyond the food industry.
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Category: Tourist Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:53
It has been learned recently that red tourism (tour to revolutionary commemoration places after the foundation of CPC in 1921) has become popular since mid-November and most of the participants are grey heads.
“We spend one day visiting the former residences of Tong Dizhou, Zhou Yao, Sha Shi and the Family Sha. We are amazed at what we have seen”, said Yuan Jiuhui, the 78-year-old who lived at Xinzhi Community of Haishu District and came to the residences with his five friends after a two-hour bike ride. With a serious look, they were taking photos and notes.
Quite a number of tourists headed to revolutionary base areas and residences. Last week, the number of visitors to the former residences of Tong Dizhou, Zhou Yao and the Family Sha reached 1,000 respectively. “Since last week, we have received about 500 to 600 visitors almost every day and on 19th the number exceeds 1,000, equal to the number during the National Holiday”, said a worker at the former residence of Sha Shi. Half of the tourists were the elderly who came with a tourist team.
“Many of the routes are fit for the elderly who can join in the team tour available in Ningbo tour agents several times a week. Hot destinations include the former residence of Rou Shi in Ningbo and red tour resources in other provinces, such as the Jinggang Mountain in Jiangxi Province, Yanan in Shanxi province and Shajiabang in Changshu, Jiangsu province”, according to the agents, most of the tourists are the elderly people, who tend to tour around in the pleasant weather of early winter.
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Category: On The Campus
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Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 09:38
To celebrate the International Students Day, six students with the Ningbo University came to the Public Transport Company and helped clean buses for them.