The First Consumption Education Center Went into Operation

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Category: On The Campus

Published: Tuesday, 23 February 2016 11:40

 “While doing the shopping, consumers are advised to ask for a purchase proof so that they could report problematic products to the authorities”, said Leimin, vice secretary of Ningbo Consumer Protection Council in explaining how to protect consumers’ interests. Her lecture was the first one after the Consumption Education Center was set up.

Built by Ningbo Municipal Consumer Protection Council and Ningbo University Library, the Center provides a new platform for awareness building in consumption. After its inception, the Center is poised to make consumers more capable of preserving their legitimate rights and interests through launching consumer culture salon, on-site inquiry, consumption studies and distributing of publicity brochures.

“The Consumption Education Center will stage at least a special activity within a month”, said Yu Leimin. Authoritative sources will join us in providing insights into how to uphold rights and interests and how to consume in a more sensible way. The sources include relevant department officials, people from all circles, inspectors, university professors and lawyers. In addition, the Center will distribute publicity materials that include related laws and regulations, commodity-related briefings, rights and interests protection brochures and so on. Faculty from the Center will make regular visits to shopping malls and supermarkets as a way of promoting ways to identify substandard goods. This approach is interesting and well targeted.

Ningbo smart education platform launches learning APPs

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Published: Tuesday, 02 February 2016 09:23

It is learned from Ningbo Education Bureau that during the winter vacation Ningbo smart education platform will launch a variety of learning APPs and resources for students.

It is understood that students can have their own "learning packages" according to their own needs from those rich resources. During the winter vacation, the students can choose from over three million online classes by famous teachers all over the country. They can also communicate with their parents by means of various APPs, practice spoken English online, and compete with friends in study, life, social practice and other aspects.

To parents' relief, the students can seek help online during the winter vacation. The smart education platform launched the online question-solving activity by inviting some famous teachers and volunteer students. According to the schedule, from January 31 to February 5 and from February 15 to 20, four teachers and the volunteer groups will answer the questions online posed by middle school and primary school students. The questions are mainly for Chinese, maths, English and science.

Besides the teachers, the volunteer students are also available for solving problems. The "top school resources" application makes it possible for the students to learn about the learning materials of the top schools throughout the country. The local top schools, such as Zhenhai Middle School, Xiaoshi Middle School, Cixi Middle School and Yuyao Middle School, are also included in the application.

Maker space to exceed 100,000 square meters by 2017

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Published: Tuesday, 16 February 2016 20:15

Ningbo High and New Technology Zone is working to build an enabling platform for mass entrepreneurship and innovation in keeping with the booming era of internet-based innovation and business creations. Ningbo New Material Maker Space has become part of national service system that manages incubators for scientific firms. The Maker Space will position itself as a professional market-based research center with global presence. It aims to match researches with production.

Founded in July 2015, the High and New-tech Zone-based Maker Space represents the first ever large scale and integrated space in Ningbo. Over the past half year, the Maker Space has brought together the Chinese Academy of Sciences Maker Space, Business Model Concept Verification Lab, Ningbo New Oriental, Angel Club and other well-known entrepreneurship service institutes. More than 100 creators or creator teams have joined the Maker Space, covering computer hardware, new materials and other areas.

“Maker Space has offered a new type of entrepreneurship platform that features cost effectiveness, facilitation and openness. It has also provided entrepreneurs with working space, network space, social space and resource-sharing space”, said Zhang Nanfen, director of the managing commission. The Zone is poised to foster a new landscape that helps press ahead with the development of new business activities. That puts Ningbo Maker Space at the core, helping fuel the growth of innovation, entrepreneurship and emerging industries. The specialized scene also aims to harness the synergy of new materials, the Internet and the Maker Space. Different fields will be covered as well.

By 2017, the Zone will offer a new type of incubators with distinctive features. More than 100,000 square meters will be added to the existing areas of Maker Space, thus bringing together over 1,500 ambitious university graduates, overseas talents, scientists and technicians. More than 100 entrepreneurship-oriented service providers will make their presence there, offering entrepreneurship demonstrations, financial services, training and technology transfer

53 school canteens upgraded to transparent kitchens in Jiangdong

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Published: Wednesday, 27 January 2016 08:20

Recently, it is learned from Jiangdong Education Bureau that all the 53 school canteens in Jiangdong District have been upgraded to “transparent kitchens” for the safety of students, completing the provincial indicator a year ahead of schedule.
Jiangdong District has 45 primary schools, middle schools and kindergartens with a total of 53 canteens. In recent years, Jiangdong District has been actively promoting the “million students’ food safety” project by upgrading the school canteen hardware, installing monitoring software, increasing cameras and enhancing the level of monitoring and supervision by intelligent means to improve the quality of student restaurants.

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