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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:37
Ningbo's Xiangshan County recently succeeded in using solidago canadensis, an invasive plant, for growing medium for mushrooms. In the past year, Xiangshan County used more than 100 tons of the plant for agricultural use.
Solidago canadensis was introduced to China as an ornamental plant in 1935, and then it escaped into the wild. Due to its fast growth and prolific reproduction, it kills other vegetation and endangers local ecosystems and plants. Therefore, it is known as "eco-killer" and "flower king". In recent years, local governments started to give manpower and financial support in the prevention and control of the invasive plant.
In 2010, the Plant Protection Station of Xiangshan County began to explore the ecological prevention and control test on solidago canadensis. Their test showed that the plant is non-toxic and the protein it contains is as high as 22.28 percent in April and more than 12 percent in July. It can be used as livestock feed for rabbits, sheep, and cattle. However, the measure did not solve the environmental threaten brought by solidago canadensis completely.
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Category: Health News
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Published: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:37
The seasonal influenza is less harsh that the previous year, said Ningbo City Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this Tuesday.
According to Yi Bo, director of CDC's Department of Communicable Disease Prevention, Ningbo's hospitals at municipal-level received more outpatients with upper respiratory tract infections in recent days, but the number is below the level of the same period in 2012. The monitored hospitals received a daily average of 600 flu patients recently. The number usually fluctuates between 400 to 600 while it reached 1,200 during the peak period last year.
Data released by influenza surveillance stations show that the number of patients with influenza symptoms does not increase over the same period in the previous two years. The CDC so far hasn't discovered influenza virus from the specimens of influenza yet.
The local CDC suggested the public, particularly the elderly and children, keeping their houses well ventilated and avoiding crowd whenever possible during the flu season. The CDC also urged children, the elderly and medical workers to get vaccinated for the upcoming flu season
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:36
Statistics from Ningbo Airport show that it handled 5,267,000 inbound and outbound passengers and 44,900 aircraft movements in 2012, a year-on-year growth of 5.1 percent and 2 percent respectively.
In 2012, the Ningbo Airport opened flight routes to Yinchuan, Hohhot, Guilin, Zhuhai, and Fuyang, and restored the once-suspended routes to Harbin, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, and Zhangjiajie. In addition to the existing routes to Singapore, Cheju, Siem Reap, and Bangkok, the airport also opened up international routes to Seoul and Phuket. Currently, the airport is negotiating with a number of international airline companies on the opening of freight routes to Japan, the United States, Mexico and other countries.
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:36
With the Spring Festival drawing near, local businesses owners in Shanxia Sub-district of Beilun District, together with their chiefs of the trade unions, went to Ningbo East Railway Station and booked group train tickets for their migrant workers for the coming Spring Festival.
It is reported that Shanxia Sub-district has 137 companies employing more than 10,000 migrant workers. Every year the migrant workers would face the difficulty of buying train tickets for Spring Festival travel. Now, the community and trade union will put joint efforts to give a hand for migrant workers in buying train tickets. The considerate move made many migrant employees feel warm.
Over a hundred local companies in the sub-district has collected ticket information of their migrant employees and assigned a different number of tickets booking tasks to their managing staff. The related personnel timely informed their workers of the ticket booking information through QQ and microblogs. They will strive to make it convenient for migrant workers to get tickets during the coming Spring Festival.