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Citizen Square of eastern new town to open to public

Word came from Ningbo Municipal Preparatory Office on September 23 that the Citizen Square, another large public space in the Eastern New Town for public recreation and leisure, has been completed and officially open to public.

Located at the south of the administration center of the core area of the Eastern New Town, the square integrates water features, bridges, sculptures and various kinds of green vegetation, with a total area of 146,000 square meters and a water covering area of 96,000 square meters. In the middle is an open area of lake, originally the Houtang River, which has been broadened from 30 meters wide to 170 meters at the widest section. Around the central lake, there is a five-meter wide slow-traffic footpath for people to cycle, job or walk on. There are seven landscape bridges, which will add fun to people walking or cycling around.

The square is convenient in traffic, and the citizens can get off at the North Fuqing Road Station of the Rail Transit Line No.1 and walk to the square. Some projects are still under construction, such as Ningbo Library, Ningbo Urban Exhibition Hall and the Workers' Home. In the future, a comprehensive gallery integrating such functions as business, education, leisure and entertainment will take shape to connect the square with the ecological corridor. 

Ningbo to receive seven million tourists

It is learned from the Holiday Tourism Work Meeting of Ningbo held on September 23 that during the 2015 National Day holiday, Ningbo will witness another prosperous tourist market. It is estimated that the tourists to Ningbo will exceed seven million, setting a historical new high.

As is reported, the Romon U-park, one of the first major tourist projects, will be completed and open to public during the holiday. The special offers of the Tourism Festival have activated the neighboring tourist markets. During the National Day holiday, a variety of places will launch a series of village experience activities with distinctive features and strong interactive characteristics, and the scenic spots will cooperate with the surrounding agritainment and farmhouse projects to attract tourists with some special village festival activities. In addition, some new tourism patterns, including mountain climbing, food fairs, folk tours and moonlight tours, will witness an increasing number of citizens and tourists for participation.

Besides the village leisure tourism, self-driving tours will become a major way of traveling during the holiday. It is estimated that during the National Day holiday, the self-driving tourists will account for over 70% of the total, bringing about great pressure to freeways, roads leading to scenic areas and parking lots of scenic spots. According to the hotel booking records, rooms in the high-star business hotels are still available, while the economical chain hotels are relatively busy

18th China Fishing Festival held in Xiangshan

On the morning of September 16, the sailing ceremony of the 18th China Fishing Festival was held in Shipu Harbor, Xiangshan, one of the six national fishing harbors. 
Present at the sailing ceremony were Zhang Dengyi, chairman of 4th Pacific Society of China and former director of State Oceanic Administration, Lu Ziyue, deputy party secretary and mayor of Ningbo, Gao Hongbo, vice chairman of China Writers Association, Wan Yawei, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Ningbo and director of the Propaganda Department, Su Limian, vice director of the Standing Committee of People Congress and chairman of Labor Unions, Lin Jingguo, deputy mayor and Wang Bin, representative of State Oceanic Administration. At the sailing ceremony, Lu Ziyue gave orders to start fishing and Lin Jingguo gave a speech on behalf of Ningbo municipal government. 
Since founded in 1998, China (Xiangshan) Fishing Festival, based on its rich fisheries culture, has drawn more and more people to respect oceans by holding festivals, thus promoting the blending of marine culture and marine economy and pushing forward the sound and rapid development of economy and society. After 17 years of experience, China (Xiangshan) Fishing Festival has become an influential cultural and tourist festival at home and abroad. Up to now, it has been awarded more than ten times and got listed in Ten Folk Festivals by China National Tourism Administration. 
Leaders and experts at the sailing ceremony said that ocean is the advantage of Xiangshan and Ningbo, and it is also the hope for future development. Ningbo will continue to exert the advantages of marine resources to build itself into “zhejiang marine economy development demonstration area”. Ningbo will follow the guidance of “harbor economic circle” to promote the development of marine science and technology and marine ecological civilization. With the richest marine resources in Ningbo, Xiangshan has the unique resources and advantage to develop marine economy. In the future, Xiangshan should hold tight of the strategic opportunity of “One Belt and One Road” and “Yangtze River Economic Belt” to build a new economic growth engine and make contributions for Ningbo to become a “strong city with marine economy”.
At around 11 o'clock, art performances began and Shipu became a world of happiness. 
At 12 o'clock on September 16, 2050 fishing ships and carrying boats finish three and a half months and four and a half month’ rest respectively and start out to sea. According to Fishery Department, Ningbo has 5520 fishing ships closing fishing this year. 76 fishing ships started fishing on July 1; 2957 on August 1; 513 on September 1; and the rest on September 16.

2000 types of fabric to be exhibited

It is learned from the organizing committee of the Ningbo International Fashion Festival, the preparation for the 2016-2017 Textile Fabric Trend Release Meeting is well under way. The meeting will feature the release of the international fashion information and the fabric fashion trends. With a total static area of over 500 square meters, the exhibition will reflect the retro inspiration in design. The whole fair will be divided into four theme exhibition areas and a video exhibition zone, respectively for the lifestyle, market consumption, popular colors and typical fabrics, as well as the potential fashion patterns.

The influence of the brands and the participants of the fashion trends release meeting has a significant increase. The 2000 fabrics are carefully selected from the 5000 types provided by over 800 textile fabric enterprises, including some winners of the China Fashion Fabric Competition, some certified functional system products and some products certified by the sustainable development system. In addition, the meeting will continue to provide the exhibition and negotiation area for independent designers, to facilitate the in-depth communication between clothing enterprises and designers.

Countdown to Fashion Ningbo

The 19th Fashion Ningbo will inaugurate on October 22. At present, everything is going on well and 96% booths have been put in place.
According to the latest statistics, the19th Fashion Ningbo has attracted 267 brands of 239 enterprises from 7 countries and 21 provinces and cities in China.
Up to now, the organizing committee has sent more than 230,000 invitation letters to enterprises at home and abroad. Over 5,000 businessmen have registered. More than 60 business groups plan to come. It is estimated that more than 8,500 professional purchasers and 100 important business groups will come to Ningbo. 
Apart from the famous local fashion brands like Youngor and Romon, other emerging brands, such as IT’SUP, Z&P, Gencl, BENKO, GXGKIDS, and Simba&nana, will also be exhibited in the Fashion Ningbo. 
To meet the market’s need, the19th Fashion Ningbo has added many new elements, such as “Internet+” booth featuring IT, animation costume booth with cultural and innovative characteristics and smart mechanical hall which aims to promote the intellectual manufacture level of fashion industry. 
This year’s Fashion Ningbo is more outlandish than previous ones. Three top fabric brands including George Brummell, Dashing Tweeds will be co- exhibited by UK group. Serbia group will display five designer brands including Ilica Trickovic and two clothing& accessories brands: Bimdi and THE FASHION. Uzbekistan group will participate in this festival with fabric suppliers, accessories suppliers and clothing & accessories brands.
During the festival, interactive exchange activities such as China Garments Forum, industry dialogue, men's clothing industry and trends meeting, China Fall &Winter textile fabric trend show, Chinese and foreign designer competition, purchaser assembly, and “machine substitution” summit forum & fair will be held continuously

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