Bamboo shoots processed

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:58

In the past few days, most residents in Yantou Village of Fenghua County were busy roasting the bamboo shoots, which has become a special scene of the tour to this village.

Legal personnel training program kicks off

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Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:46

On Monday, Li Shouwei, Deputy Director of Criminal Law branch of the Standing Committee of National People's Congress, gave a lecture on the interpretation of the newly amended Criminal Procedure Law. More than 420 listeners, including lawyers, judges, and university professors were present.

To start his lecture, Li explained the meaning of the word "lawyer", suggesting it does not limited to the profession of attorney. It actually refers to any legal workers, including the prosecutors, lawyers, university professors, scholars and experts. He went on to explain the background and necessity to modify the Criminal Procedure law. He also analyzed the new rules in the revised law and issues worth noticing in the enforcement effort.

Urban management volunteers beautifying the city

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Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:53

On the afternoon of April 8, over 10,000 urban management volunteers carried out the beautifying activities of tidying the fences and cleaning up the green belt garbage in cross-river bridges, green fields in riverside parks and major streets and parks in all the towns and districts. It is learned from Ningbo Urban Management Bureau that in the near future the related departments will launch the urban streets cleaning campaign to make a cleaner Ningbo.

"There are over 6,800 sanitation workers doing cleaning jobs every day in the city. Anyway, it is far from enough to keep the whole city in constant tidiness. Joint efforts made by the public is indispensible in the city-beautifying campaign." said Luo Wei, Director of Ningbo Urban Management Volunteers Association. He hope that the action of the volunteers can have a subtle influence on more citizens.

According to the urban management departments, besides the above-mentioned beautifying activity, a special fund of 70 million yuan will be set up to be used in the year-long street-cleaning campaign. It is hope that through this campaign, the sweeping rate by machine will increase from 45% to 75%, thus reducing greatly the labor intensity of the sanitation workers. The garbage on road will be cleaned up within 15 minutes. The property management departments, sanitation workers and residents will work together to take responsibility for the cleaning job of all the areas.

PM2.5 in Ningbo meets national standard

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Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:45

The daily average of PM2.5 concentration in Ningbo was 56 micrograms per cubic meter, a slight increase over 48 micrograms per cubic meter on the previous day, according to data posted on the official website of the Ningbo Environmental Protection Bureau(NEPB) on Sunday.

PM2.5 refers to particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in size or about 1/30th the average width of a human hair. An expert from environmental monitoring station predicts that PM2.5 concentration may continue to rise in the coming days due to the fine weather during the Qingming festival.

According to a graph posted on the NEPB website, the daily average PM2.5 concentration remains changeable over the past week. The figure reached 72 micrograms per cubic meter last Monday, close to the upper limit of grade II air quality (75 micrograms / cubic meter). Later on, it reached another "small peak" to 61 micrograms per cubic meter, and fell to 36 micrograms / cubic meter, the lowest record during the past week. The data shows that PM2.5 in Ningbo didn't exceed the upper limit of 70 micrograms per cubic meter as regulated by the newly-enforced national air quality standard.

An expert from environmental monitoring station said: "In addition to the coal-burning, dust and vehicle exhaust emissions, weather condition can also influence PM2.5 concentration as well." The sunny and windy weather last week carried dust, resulting high PM 2.5 record on March 26.