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Ningbo bolstering CEECs export expansion to China

Details: Category: Ningbo Business; Published: Tuesday, 31 August 2021 14:15

Surprisingly, on the first cloud matchmaking after the second China-CEECs Expo this year, the top one in the list of buyers was PetroChina!

In the afternoon of 26th, Walk into Supermarkets, the CEECs trade matchmaking activity, was held in Ningbo International Convention and Exhibition Center. According to the organizer, this post-exhibition supply and demand matchmaking activity is to integrate into the dual circulation development pattern and smooth out the terminal of the import industry chain of CEE goods. Thereupon, more CEE quality products will be accessible to the domestic consumer market. More than 10 buyers over the country were invited to participate, including chain supermarkets, chain convenience stores, etc.

"We have more than 20,000 convenience stores in 31 provinces, and more than 500 in Zhejiang alone." said Jiang Lirong, the person in charge of PetroChina's USmile Zhejiang Branch. The number of USmile convenience stores ranked in the top three in the 2020 national retail list.

Book on Ningbo dialect published

Details: Category: Ningbo News; Published: Tuesday, 31 August 2021 14:14

“Learning Ningbo Dialect”, a monograph on Ningbo dialect, was recently published by Shanghai University Press. The book, with a record of the features of contemporary Ningbo dialect, is not only a popular textbook for learning Ningbo dialect, but also a collection of fresh corpus of the dialect.

Qian Meng, the author of this book, is a native of Ningbo. In his early years, he studied for a master’s degree on Chinese Dialects in the Chinese Department of Shanghai University, under the guidance of Professor Qian Nairong, a famous linguist. His master’s thesis is on the grammar of Ningbo dialect, and he has also published such papers as “SOV Sentence Pattens in Ningbo Dialect”.

The book has 20 lessons, covering words, sentences and proverbs in all aspects of social life in Ningbo, with the content of each lesson closely combined with the local life scenes and folk customs. For example, “red and green colors are most beautiful, and fish and meat

“Memories of Matsuko” to be performed in Ningbo

Details: Category: Ningbo News; Published: Tuesday, 31 August 2021 14:13

On the evening of September 10 and 11, the stage play “Memories of Matsuko” will be staged at the Grand Theater of Ningbo Culture Plaza. The play is directed by Zhao Miao, planned by Jiang Fangzhou and starred by Zhang Jingchu. It is adapted from the Japanese film of the same title. Zhang Jingchu is considered to be “the most suitable candidate for Matsuko”. For the performance, she completed new challenges step by step with the persistence and exquisite acting skills of a successful actress, endowed the character with new vitality, and let the audience experience the unique charm of the “Chinese version of Matsuko”. Meanwhile, as a work focusing on women’s fate, this play also brings together female creators in the fields of literature and art: Jiang Fangzhou serves as its literary planner, and mural artist Wen Na as designer of its derivative articles. They will work together to present the character of Matsuko in their minds from different positions and perspectives.

During the three-and-a-half-hour performance, there will be 20 umbrellas, 25 professions, over 40 raincoats, over 60 pairs of shoes, over 100 characters, over 130 sets of clothes, and over 200 props at hand on the stage, and the shortest dressing time is only 7 seconds.

Exhibition of intangible cultural heritages and traditional culture launched

Details: Category: Ningbo District; Published: Tuesday, 31 August 2021 14:13

The opening ceremony of the Academic Exhibition of Ningbo Intangible Cultural Heritages and Traditional Culture was held in the Yangfan Art Museum on August 23. Nearly 80 Ningbo intangible cultural heritage works with exquisite pattern and exquisite workmanship on display at the exhibition attracted the attention of citizens.

Reportedly, the intangible cultural heritage works on display include both those by representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage items and those by ordinary cultural workers. In the form of bone-wood inlay, clay gold-color painting, Yue Kiln celadon, bamboo root carving, porcelain and sculpture, the exhibits aim to spread the traditional culture of Ningbo.

The inheritance of intangible cultural heritage is inseparable from the representative inheritors. Zhou Bingyi, the representative inheritor of Xiangshan bamboo root carving, also came to the scene. Like other intangible cultural heritage inheritors, he injected persistence