Newly recruited soldiers of PLA start off

Details

Category: Ningbo News

Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:09

China's People's Liberation Army started the yearly winter recruitment in Ningbo this Monday. A total of 545 new recruits from Ningbo will set off this weekend to join their army units in Sichun, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Hainan provinces.

Employees' talent show

Details

Category: Ningbo News

Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:07

Ningbo Water Supply Company held its "First Annual Faculty/Staff Talent Show" last Friday, featuring acts ranging from dancing, folk opera, to acrobatics.

Writing Chinese couplets for the coming new year

Details

Category: Ningbo News

Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:08

A group of Chinese calligrapher lovers in Feihong Sub-district of Yinzhou District, were writing duilian, or Chinese couplets as gifts to their neighbors. As a long-held tradition, couplets written on red paper are posted on each side of the front door on Chinese New Year's Day to celebrate the New Year.

'Smart halfway house' to be built for the disabled

Details

Category: Ningbo News

Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:04

Ningbo's Jiangbei District started to build the first 'smart halfway house' in Zhejiang Province on Monday. The effort aims to help people with disabilities toadjust to and reenter society after receiving medical treatment.

Aimed to assist the disabled to adapt family and social life, the halfway house serves as a rehabilitation agency with a home life experience center, an aids and equipments center, and an information service platform. It is reported that the halfway house will be located in the Ningbo Ninth Hospital with an area of480 square meters.

An official of Jiangbei District said that the halfway house distinguishes from others by an intelligent information service system, which offers intelligent information service by means of communications networks, intelligent call, Internet of Things (IOT) and other high-tech resources