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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 01 July 2014 10:01
On June 22nd, China's Grand Canal was recognized as World Cultural Heritageby UNESCO World Heritage Committee which convened its 38th session in the Qatari capital. Now, Grand Canal became the 32nd World Cultural Heritage in China. As one of the 27 application cities of Grand Canal, Ningbo now has the 1st World Cultural Heritage.
As the southern end of Grand Canal, the part in Ningbo is the bond between the river transportation of the Grand Canal and sea transportation. It is also an important starting point of ancient sea silk road. The Grand Canal includes Suitang Grand Canal, Jinghang Grand Canal and East Zhejiang Canal. The East Zhejiang Canal was completed during Song Dynasty, which starts from Xixing town of Hangzhou in the west and ends in Ningbo in the east connecting the sea. China’s Grand Canal connects Beijing and Ningbo. Ningbo is a significant stop, which has been an important water and land transportation junction in the southeast coastal area since ancient time, as well as an important international port for economic and cultural exchange. It is thanks to Ningbo's double characters as both canal city and port city that the Grand Canal has the feature of opening to the outside, connecting the sea silk road.
In the application document, Ningbo part of Grand Canal includes three sections: East Zhejiang Shangyu to Yuyao, East Zhejiang Ningbo Section and Ningbo Sanjiangkou. Qing'an Hall, lying in the Sanjiangkou, is listed as affiliated heritage.
During the application for the World Cultural Heritage, the protection and administration of the Grand Canal (Ningbo) has been strengthened and improved, which will promote the protection of cultural heritage in the whole city. Thanks to the influence of world heritage and powerful brand effects, the new World Cultural Heritage will greatly upgrade Ningbo’s popularity and reputation in the world, so as to attract investment and other resources and boost related industries. It has provided a great opportunity for Ningbo to build into an international sea port and cultural city.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 23 June 2014 10:40
As an important aspect of a city's image, road environment has a lot to do with citizen's lives. To keep the urban road environment tidy, on May 10, 2013, Ningbo launched the road clearing action. After two year’s implementation of the action, Ningbo's road environment has made great progress.
In the past two years, based on the core concept of being "long-term, refined, professional and human-oriented", the urban management and environmental protection departments have been innovating the working models, improving management mechanism, and making efforts to cultivate professional teams to realize the leaping upgrading of the road environment. In the first quarter of this year, the average mark of central urban roads stood at 93.949, almost an increase of 10 over the early period of the action. The occurrence rate of the road garbage problem has decreased by 60.6%, while the satisfaction rate of citizens has been on the increase. The sweeping rate by means of machines has increased rapidly from 43% to over 75%, and the cleaning quality maintained a high standard all the year round.
With the efforts of about 7000 sanitation workers in over 700 days in the central urban area, the urban road environment has improved on a large scale. The road around the vegetable markets and small restaurants, which used to be messy, are now taking on a new look. Sanitation workers are now seen on the roads from dawn to dusk.
