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TengTou Spring Festival the Video

The following Video report was aired on Zhejiang TV during Spring Festival 2012.

A dozen foreigner invited by NingboLife and NingboExpat enjoyed a great time together with the villagers in Tengtou village ( Ningbo) Zhejiang.

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http://tv.cztv.com/play?guid=b32e29fe-d168-ff26-af97-70cb8ad8074c

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The 2012 Chinese Spring festival Event in Tengtou village. ALL FREE-- ALL FUN see it here......

The 2012 Chinese Spring festival Event in Tengtou village. ALL FREE-- see it here......

About a dozen foreign friends had free transport to and from Tengtou on Friday  20th January 12.30 pm and started at the parking lot behind the church at Tian Yi Square. (348 Disco)

The event, organized by the leaders and  villagers of TengTou village included Free entrance to TengTou village, free Tour, Free Strawberry picking, Free traditional village Spring Festival dinner.

For those which did not participate here some pictures and facts of the special once in a year event "spring festival in Tengtou":

There have been some cool interactive attractions and nature based programs aimed at natural sustainability. For example… in one part of the village they have a beautiful expansive greenhouse erected housing some rare plants and focusing on new hydroponic growing techniques. While on the other side of the village the visitors could monkeying around with hoists, buckets and a devise I can only describe as an enormous exercise bicycle contraption rigged to a rotating system of buckets. The area is meant to interactively show you how villagers in the past manually transported water using old methods. Definitely not the rice harvesting village life I would expect, but in Tengtou, it is a mixture of old and new.

On top of the sites, which are fun and educational, there are the villagers themselves. Smiles abound and you can really see a connection with the people to the village.

Everywhere you see that people are proud of what they have accomplished, and they should be. Tengtou is an important landmark in Ningbo, and a window into a fading chapter of Chinese life.

Especially in the year of the dragon, it is to mention that Tengtou and Fenghua are considered as the home of the China Dragon Dance. More than 300 Active groups are performing dragon dances in the region. But only a few foreigner had the chance to be part of it.

The event had created great interest by the news media KanKanKan ( NingboTv) Zhejiang Tv, CCTV, and several representatives of the press media did attend and report about the event.

Each one attending had a happy day while learning more about the Chinese past and present.

If you like to know more about TengTou or organize your own trip with a group to TengTou, please contact Eckhard for more details. <Eckhard is the Tourist Ambassador of TengTou village.>

excerpts based on Text by Mathew AsiaEnglishOnline

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Operas for the Spring Festival

During the Spring Festival, Yinzhou hosted 160 shows in celebration of the festival

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Ningbo Opera entertained audience

Ningbo Opera entertained audience

On the afternoon of January 25, thousands of spectators were listening attentively to the Ningbo Opera performance in Zhongshan Square.

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Celebrating the Spring Festival

On January 24, the drum team of a community in Haishu District was performing on the street for the residents in the community as a form of celebrating activity for the Spring Festival.

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tiger "xinle" debuted in Youngor Zoo

Liger "xinle" debuted in Youngor Zoo

On the first day of the lunar month, the cute liger cub "xinle" made its debut in Ningbo Youngor Zoo and attracted great attention from visitors. The cub was abandoned by its mother right after birth and was breast-fed by a mother dog.

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Spring Festival greetings in "wish trees"

Spring Festival greetings in "wish trees"

In Tianyi Square, six "wish trees" attracted citizens' attention with about a thousand greeting cards in them

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Port of Ningbo doubled container throughput in five years

In 2011, the throughput of cargo the Port of Ningbo handled reached 433 million tons, making historical new highs in successively five years. The annual handling capacity of containers reached 14.51 million standard containers, reaching the target specified in the general plan.

In the past 5 years, the Port of Ningbo has put greatest investment in infrastructures, resulting in notable increase in the comprehensive economic power and internal and international competitiveness.

In 2008, the Port of Ningbo started its strategy of turning itself into a powerful international port. In the year, the throughput of containers reached 10 million standard containers, becoming one of the 4 ports of China whose annual throughput reached 10 million containers.

From 2006 to 2011, the cargo-handling capacity of the port increased from 310 million tons to 430 million tons, and the throughput of containers increased from 7,060,000 to 14,510,000 standard containers. For the annual handling capacity of standard containers, the Port of Ningbo ranked No.3 in the ports of Mainland China and the No.6 in the world.

From 2007, the Port of Ningbo extended its business to the mainland building dry ports to expand its capacity of collecting goods in the mainland. So far, the dry ports in Jinhua, Yiwu, Shaoxing, Quzhou, Shangrao and Yingtan have been built and put in operation. In 2011, the port handled 218,000 standard containers from the dry ports, increased by 95% above the same period of the previous year.

In the meanwhile, the port further increased shipping lines. In 2011, the port had 236 shipping lines of containers, 73 more than the total in 2006. The monthly shipping service increased from 728 in 2006 to 1,300 in 2011. The port had its regular shipping services with over 600 ports of over 100 countries.

In the past five years, the investment in the infrastructural facilities has added up to over 10 billion yuan. On average, it has 2 to 3 berths built and put into operation. At present, it has 330 productive berths, including 80 deep-water berths for 10,000 tonnage ships. For this, the Port of Ningbo is a port in Mainland China that has the last number of large and super-large deepwater berths

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Ningbo ushering in a shopping peak after the snow

After paying new year's call to relatives and friends and staying at home due to the heavy snow, the citizens came out for shopping on the third day of the lunar month. Yesterday, all the shopping malls, supermarkets and specialized sales areas witnessed a busy atmosphere and a small sale peak came for such products as gold, winter clothing, food, tobacco, alcohol and electronic products.

The gold counter of Ningbo Second Department Store was surrounded by a number of customers inquiring about and trying on all kinds of jewelry, especially those dragon-shaped pendants and gold bars. According to a clerk, as people prefer to choose gold crafts as gifts and there are some discounts in price, the sale of gold jewelry has been going up and gold dragon decorations and pendants have been out of stock.

Large shopping malls launched the last round of effective discounts for winter clothing. Major shopping malls and department stores, such as Intime, Ningbo Second Department Store, New Hualian and Oriental Mall, launched such Spring Festival promotion activities as discounts, coupons, credits and lucky draws. The sale of winter clothing in these four stores increased by 5% over the same period last year, no less than that before the festival. "Today is the busiest day of the festival period, especially in the afternoon." said a cashier in the clothing counter in Intime. The most popular clothes are down jackets and cashmere sweaters. With a discounted down jacket costing only three to four hundred yuan, it is a good deal.

In large supermarkets such as Tesco and Auchan, all kinds of gift boxes with dragon patterns are put in some eye-catching positions on shelves. In the Spring Festival sales area, lots of customers are buying glutinous rice balls and seafood.