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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 04 June 2012 10:19
The opening ceremony of Ningbo Young Pioneers Library, or Children's Library, was held at Ningbo University Zone Library on Wednesday. The vice mayor, Chen Yijun, attended the ceremony and extended congratulations.
Jointly set up by Ningbo Commission of Communist Young League,the Municipal Bureau of Education, and Ningbo Commission of Young Pioneers, the library aims to provide a space where children can engage with books. With its collection of children's books, the library offers circulation, processing, statistical, reference and consultation services.
In addition, Ningbo plans to launch a project to set up more book clubs on and out of campus. According to the plan, 100 reading rooms, 200 book corners, and 500 book shelves will be set in schools for migrant children through sponsorship and donations. At present, the project has started in Yinzhou District.
The Young Pioneers Library will cooperate with Ningbo University Zone library, and set up long-term book donation stands, calling for public book donation. The books collected will be used for a reading promotion program.
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Published: Monday, 04 June 2012 10:12
Ningbo has launched a campaign to crack down traffic violations, said the Traffic Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau last Friday.
The campaign, lasting to the end of this September, aims to curb and combat the traffic violations as follows: speeding, overloading, overcrowding, fatigue driving, drunk driving, failing to give way when necessary, driving without a license, driving a type of vehicle for which a license has not been issued, the illegal modification of vehicles, illegal highway parking, large passenger buses failing to pay fines.
The campaign will target locations with heavy traffic, high accidents. A major overhaul will be carried out in large companies; shipping companies including passenger shipping and hazardous goods transport; and companies with serious traffic violations, safety hazards or traffic fatalities. Vehicles to be overhauled include large passenger vehicles, large-scale engineering vehicles, hazardous goods transport vehicles, and school buses.