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Published: Monday, 19 August 2019 16:55
“People would rather listen to Suzhou people quarrel than listen to Ningbo people talk." This proverb says that Ningbo dialect is not so gentle and difficult to understand. As early as more than 160 years ago, the founder of Ningbo No. 3 Middle School and the British sinologist, Bob Yi, wrote a magical book. It is said that foreigners can learn to speak Ningbo dialect in six months. This is the earliest Ningbo-dialect text in Roman alphabet "Yinyi Dialect" collected by Zhenhai District Archives.
It is reported that the museum has collected the electronic version of the book. The whole book consists of 7 pages. Except for the first line which is the Chinese character “Yin Yi Dialect”, the rest are all Romanesque words, a total of 753. They are arranged in the rhyme order: a, ia, ang, iang, ao, iao, etc, with a total of 48 rhymes. Foreigners can learn all the Ningbo dialect syllables by reading them. Therefore, this book can be said to be the earliest existing lectures on the teaching of Pinyin in Ningbo.
The writer is probably the founder of Ningbo No. 3 Middle School Bob Yi.
In modern history, Ningbo was influenced by the West earlier, and the missionaries had a certain influence on Ningbo’s education, publishing,
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Published: Friday, 02 August 2019 16:12
In recent years, CixiCountyhas made great efforts to promote the construction of the high-energy industrial platforms and accelerate the replacement of old growth drivers by new ones. “The industrial platforms have become the powerful engines to the economic development, the important carrier for opening-up and the testing field for systematic reforms in Cixi county, which will promote the county’s economy to step on a high-quality development road.” said a person in charge from Cixi County Party Committee. Recently, the County-level Economy Research Center of the CCID Consulting released the 2019 research report on the high-quality development index of the county-level economy in China and the 2019 list of China’s Top 100 Counties, in which Cixi County ranks No.7, the only one from Zhejiang Province among the top ten.
Just as Ningbo is developing its “246” billion and trillion-level industrial clusters, Cixi County is building its “10,000 mu and 100 trillion” industrial platform at the coastal economic development zone, as well as accelerating the construction of such five 10 billion-level industrial platforms as the high-tech industrial development zone, the Hangzhou Bay Innovative Economic Zone, the modern agricultural development
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