Four Artists Listed in “New Talents Plan”

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 09 May 2017 01:45

According to the Municipal Folk Artists Association, four young artists were selected into the Xinfeng (“New Talents” )Plan” (arts and crafts) of 2017 on May 2nd, including Wen Guoli (ST color porcelain), Wang Huaner(hair embroidery), Xu Minjie (wheat straw patchwork) and Xu Jie (bamboo-rooting carving).

Since it started in 2013, the “New Talents Plan” has been aiming at bringing up young artistic talents in painting, calligraphy, photography and folk art. By professional training, field trips, artwork promotion, holding exhibitions, publishing painting albums, participating in national important training plans and other ways, the plan develops the young artistic talents and forms the artistic reserve force of Zhejiang. Since the “New Talents Plan” of 2017 started in the second half of last year, about hundred artists from 10 cities have entered the activity, whose works involve celadon porcelain, sword, stone carving, wood carving, shadow puppet, paper cutting, illumination and many other categories. Finally, 30 young talents, including 12 young talents, were selected by judges

The Longest Fishing Moratorium Starts on May 1

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 09 May 2017 01:36

At 12:00 on May 1, the Fishing Moratorium of East China Sea officially started. In the next 138 days, fresh fish from East China Sea would not be available for Ningbo citizens. In recent years, overfishing has been on a rise, causing low fish stocks. In January 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a notice on the adjustment of fishing moratorium, making big adjustment to the fishing moratorium schedules. According to the notice, the fishing moratorium of all China's waters will begin from 12 o’clock of May 1 to 12 o’clock of September 16. The moratorium will last nearly one month more than before, which is the longest since the establishment of moratorium system 22 years ago. 

With the fishing boats returning into the harbors, the price of seafood in Ningbo has been rising gradually. Some fishermen started to stock up on seafood, planning to sell it with a higher price after the holiday of May Day. As a result, trading volume of seafood in wholesale markets was down by more than 300 tons to only half of that in high seasons. The price of pomfret, red ointment crabs, octopus, mackerel and other seafood has risen by nearly 30% in 15 days. "The stock of fresh seafood is decreasing while there is still a high market demand.” said a seafood seller. According to him, the price of the seafood that had not been very popular has also rised dramatically during the May Day holiday to its highest record in 2017

Hundreds of Grassroots Performers Put on Shows about Ningbo on CCTV

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 09 May 2017 01:36

Performed by hundreds of grassroots performers, aiming to show the demeanor of Ningbo citizens as a whole, Gathering Talented Artists of Ningbo had its premiere in CCTV-3 at 3:23 p.m. of May 2.

Gathering Talented Artists is the first large-scale program launched by CCTV-3(Variety Channel) for ordinary people to exhibit their artistic talents. This year, the upgraded version of the program collects and selects unique performances of their local characteristics from culture centers across the country and launches them in terms of their contents. Ningbo was incorporated in the first batch of selected cities for the program in February. 

There are 7 performances in Gathering Talented Artists of Ningbo cohosted by comperes from CCTV and Ningbo, Guan Tong and Awei respectively, with recording starting in March 27. Lv Wei, State First-Class Artist and a good young singer from Ningbo, appeared in the program as a distinguished guest. Following the opening dance came the traditional show The Red Dowry, in which 28

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Painting exhibition for female artists held

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 25 April 2017 06:26

A painting exhibition for the works of three female artists (the N3 group) from Hangzhou and 15 from Ningbo was held at the No.117 Art Center on April 22. This is the first attempt of a co-exhibition by artists from the two cities, which provides a good opportunity for the communication of the artists and for the citizens to enjoy the omnipresent art and beauty in life.

The N3 group is an artist group of three female amateur artists from Hangzhou, and the three "Ns" refers to nice, new and news. The group members, Jin Hui, Liu Wen and Chen Yingying, are all fond of painting and they often hold exhibitions of their works in Hangzhou. This is the first time for them to bring their exhibition to Ningbo, and they also invited 15 female amateur artists of Ningbo to join hands with them for the exhibition.

After the opening ceremony, a "female saloon" was held for the participating artists. And the exhibition will be on until May 5