Copyright 2024 - Ningbo Life / Ningbo Expat

A dynamic night picture at the Old Bund

The lively night at the old Bund. (Shi Yuchao)

High temperature is coming, and many people prefer to go out at night. At 12 o'clock on the evening of the 23rd, the hot summer air has been blown away by the river wind. At the Old Bund on the riverside, the buildings are still brightly lit, neon flashing, and people shaking. This is the best business season in the Bund Bar Street.

Read more: A dynamic night picture at the Old Bund

More flights for summer peak

On July 23, Ningbo Airport released news: in the first half of the year, the passenger throughput was 6,267,400, an increase of 11.12% over the same period of last year. The cumulative number of guaranteed flights was 44,800, an increase of 8.83%. Both data surpass the national average. With the coming of summer peak, from July 24, Ningbo Airport have added multiple flights.

The top ten domestic airports with the most passenger flow in Ningbo in the first half of the year were Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, Beijing Capital Airport, Chongqing Jiangbei Airport, Xi'an Xianyang Airport, Shenzhen Baoan Airport, Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport, Qingdao Liuting Airport, Changsha Huanghua Airport, Guiyang Longdongbao Airport and Kunming Changshui Airport. Among them, Guangzhou is still the number 1 destination for Ningbo citizens to travel, with a passenger flow of 312,200 passengers, which is attributed to the close business exchanges and trade activities between Ningbo and Guangzhou. Guiyang Longdongbao Airport is the first time to enter the top ten list, becoming the ninth largest domestic airport for Ningbo citizens to fly to in the first half of the year. In response to the national counterpart

Read more: More flights for summer peak

Ningbo Symphony Orchestra attends Italian Summer Music Festival

On the morning of July 19th, Beijing time, Ningbo Symphony Orchestra held the "Night of Ningbo in Milan" concert at the Frank Ballen Theatre in Milan, Italy. This is the third performance of Ningbo Symphony Orchestra in Italian Summer Music Festival.

The concert started with "Jasmine", which ended with thunderous applause from the audience. It was followed by the violin concerto "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai". The classic and beautiful melodies won warm applause. In the second half, the orchestra played the "Beethoven's seventh symphony in A major".

After the performance, the audience stood up and applauded. In the endless applause, the band performed another symphony work "Madeng Tune" made by the composer Tang Jianping. It is a different interpretation of percussion music, combined with Ningbo local style, bringing a new music experience to the Italian audience.

Read more: Ningbo Symphony Orchestra attends...

Ningbo's water transport construction investment exceeds 2 billion yuan in the first half of the year

In the face of the complicated and changing international shipping environment, Ningbo used multiple approaches to overcome difficulties, and the shipping economy has continued to develop steadily. On July 20th, statistics from the Ningbo Port and Shipping Administration showed that in the first half of 2019, the city's investment in water transport construction was 2.017 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 107.7%; the waterway cargo volume reached 148.64 million tons, an increase of 19.29%.

Since 2019, due to factors such as Sino-US trade friction, the shipping economy index has been running weakly. From January to May, the average shipping economy index of Ningbo was 102.71 points, down 2.9% year-on-year; the average confidence index of shipping companies was 96.11 points, up 0.8% year-on-year. At the same time, the 44 shipping companies monitored by the shipping economy platform produced main business income of 3.09 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 0.6%.

Read more: Ningbo's water transport construction...

Ningbo-Taiwan Rural Arts Exchange Base unveiled

Recently, the Ningbo-Taiwan Rural Arts Exchange Base was established at the Qiantong Ancient Town of Ninghai County, and ten artists from Taiwanare hired as “village artists”.

Taiwanhas accumulated much experience in revitalizing the rural areas with art. The rural arts exchange base aims to strengthen the communication and cooperation betweenNingboandTaiwanin the field of revitalizing the rural areas with art. By building the rural art exchange platforms, the base will inviteTaiwanartists to share their ideas in revitalizing the rural area, thus optimizing the development environment in such industries as tourism, rural home-stay and cultural creation, and further promote the prosperous industries, inhabitable ecology and affluent life in the rural area

Subcategories

f t g m