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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.
For the first three days of the Spring Festival period, despite the bad weather condition, the festival food basket maintained a smooth transportation, and the sales increased while prices dropped.
On the morning of January 25, there is a busy scene in Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market. Suburban vegetable farmers from Jiangbei District and Zhenhai District brought in such seasonal vegetables as green vegetables, spinach and lettuce. Meanwhile, over 100 tons of such vegetables as lamp pepper, bean, leek, pea and aubergine, are also carried to the market by trunks from places outside Ningbo. According to statistics, the turnover of the vegetable wholesales amounted to 283 tons on January 25, increased by 1.8 times compared with the day before. And the average wholesale price for vegetables is 3.63 yuan per kilo, down by 25.6% over the day before and down by 2.9% over the same period last year.
In Ningbo Aquatic Products Market, the seafood from the East Sea arrived before the Spring Festival Eve and the frozen fish stock become the main products. Besides the local aquatic products, such as hairtail, pomfret, eel, swimming crab, little clubs fish, small yellow croaker, sepia and squid, imported salmon, tuna, squid and pomfret, etc. from Norway, the United States and Japan can also be seen in the market. According to statistics, since the Spring Festival Eve, the turnover of aquatic products has reached 580 tons. The average wholesale price on the 25th is 28.37 yuan per kilo, down by 13.4% over the period before the festival.
Since the Spring Festival Eve, the total sale of pork reached 225 tons in the urban district, an increase of 3.1% over the same period last year. The average wholesale price of pork on the 25th is 23.73 yuan per kilo, down by 0.9% over the period before the festival. In Ningbo Meat, Poultry and Egg Wholesale Market, about 330,000 live chickens were sold, an increase of 85% over the same period last year, while the sale of eggs reached 222 tons, almost the same as that of last year. The wholesale price for live chicken and egg are 13.18 yuan per kilo and 7.48 yuan per kilo respectively, down by 3.7% and 20.3% respectively over the same period last year.
Recently, in a community in Haishu District, an artist was invited to teach the pupils in the community to paint dragons to greet the coming "Year of Dragon"
Ningbo witnessed the first snow in the Year of Dragon on the second day of the first lunar month. At about nine in the morning, snowflakes began to fall down and it became heavier near noon. Although the snow was somewhat gentle, the atmosphere of the festival became thicker. According to the weather forecast released by Ningbo Meteorological Observatory at 11 o'clock, today it will be cloudy with snow sometimes, and at night it will be overcast to cloudy. Tomorrow it will be cloudy to clear. The maximum temperature of tomorrow will be 6 degrees and the minimum temperature will be minus 3 degrees, frozen
Recently, staff of Ningbo Assistance Station went to all corners of the towns and districts to look for vagrants and beggars, and tried to persuade those homeless people to celebrate the Spring Festival in the assistance station.
According to Hang Hongying, the Deputy-director of Ningbo Assistance Station, a lot has been done to help those who stayed temporarily in the station to go back home to celebrate the Spring Festival with their families. Up to now, the station has managed to buy railway tickets for all but six people who cannot name their home address. The station is now making every endeavor to help the remaining six to contact their families. Besides, the New Year’s Eve dinner has been arranged for them so that they can still enjoy a happy and peaceful new year in case that their families could not be found. Besides, staff of the station went to all towns and districts to look for vagrants and beggars at streets, and tried to persuade them to go to the station to celebrate the Spring Festival. However, as most of the homeless were unwilling to go to the station, the staff could only distribute them some materials for warmth and left them the phone number just in case. It is said that during the Spring Festival holiday, three groups of staff will go to persuade the vagrants and beggars on streets to go to stay in the station. In days of rainy and snowy weather and frozen weather, there will be more patrols on streets
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