Foreign friends enjoy International Spring Festival Gala

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Monday, 03 February 2020 13:38

On January 11, the Chinese New Year celebration activities sponsored by Haishu Foreign Culture Exchange Association held in the culture hall of Minlecun, Gaoqiaozhen. International friends from more than twenty countries, including Russia, France and the Philippines, gathered with local villagers to experience the traditional Chinese New Year in advance.

 In the afternoon, foreign friends and villagers of Minlecun together performed an International Spring Festival Gala. Besides the percussion performance and Kung Fu show, villagers and foreign friends also chorused Auld Long Syne… The wonderful programs drew the world closer to Ningbo.

 In addition to artistic performances, a series of experience activities such as writing the "Fu" character, making golden mice and traditional snacks enabled international friends to experience the traditional customs of the Chinese New Year. During the part of making rice cakes, after a simple demonstration, foreign friends couldn’t wait to try it. Despite the language barrier, they soon succeeded by making gestures and eye contact

Ninghai County selected as a "national demonstration zone for holistic tourism"

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Monday, 18 November 2019 16:53

On November 8, at the National Promotion Meeting for Holistic Tourism held at the Xinxian County of Xinyang, Henan Province, the list of the first 71 "national demonstration zones for holistic tourism" was released, among which there were three from Zhejiang Province, and Ninghai County was the only one from Ningbo.
In recent years, with its ecological advantages, Ninghai County has built seven national A-level tourist attractions, one national key village for rural tourism, five provincial leisure tourism demonstration villages, and 70 provincial A-level scenic villages. The development of tourism leads to the improvement of economic benefits, and the holistic tourism has become the new engine for the development of the county. In the first nine months of 2019, Ninghai County received 12.569 million visitors, and the total tourism revenue was 13.67 billion yuan, up by 14.9% and 14.4% year-on-year, respectively. The county's homestay turnover stood at 250 million yuan, leading to a sales volume of 630 million yuan for agricultural products.

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First Development Conference for Yinzhouness held

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Monday, 18 November 2019 16:56

On the morning of November 12, the 1st Development Conference for Yinzhouness was held. With the theme of "working for the future of Yinzhou District", the conference attracted over 500 "think tank" members of Yinzhou origin to share ideas for the high-quality development of the district.
The signing ceremony of major projects was held on the site, with a total investment of 47 billion yuan for 19 projects, covering such fields as headquarters economy, industry-city integration, infrastructure construction, high-end equipment, intelligent manufacturing, and industrial platforms. The Haier Intelligent Port project, with the largest investment of more than 10 billion yuan, will build a "sci-tech industrial city". With a total investment of 7.7 billion yuan, Xiangshan Bay Port Dredging High-speed Project, with a total route length of about 24.15 km and a design speed of 100 km/h, will further optimize the layout of the regional highway network, The Kangqiang Electronic Semiconductor Packaging Materials Project, with a total investment of 150 million yuan, will be built as the No.1 production and R&D base in China for semiconductor packaging materials.

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Ningbo Zoushu Inheritance Base settles in Xianxiang

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Monday, 18 November 2019 16:52

On the evening of November 6, the unveiling ceremony of the national intangible cultural heritage project Ningbo Zoushu Base and the performance of the troupe were held in Xianliu Village, Xianxiang Town.

Ningbo Zoushu is a traditional Quyi and one of the four major Quyis in Zhejiang Province. It has a profound mass base in Ningbo. In 2008, it was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection lists.

After investigations by various departments, in 2019, Ningbo Zoushu Protection Unit was changed to Xianliu Village, Xianxiang Town, Yinzhou District.

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