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Published: Wednesday, 29 April 2015 10:25
In about one month, the flight from Ningbo to Rome will be open at Ningbo Lishe International Airport, the first direct flight from Ningbo to Europe. Meanwhile, more flights will be added to the routes to Japan, South Korea and the Southeast Asian countries, consolidating the internationalized orientation of Ningbo Port.
In recent years, with the rapid development of overseas tourism and business, Ningbo has launched the flights to such major destinations as Japan, South Korea and the Southeast Asia. The new routes to Europe, though in form of chartered flights, will greatly extend the "air corridor" for Ningbo. The new flights, to be conducted by the Zhejiang Branch of China Eastern Airlines, will include the Ningbo-Rome (Italy) route to be launched on May 28 and the Ningbo-Frankford (Germany) route to be launched on June 6. The first stage will be the chartered planes and later on the airline will conduct scheduled flights, and now people can fly to Europe by participating in the package tours arranged by travel agencies.
For the existing routes, more flights will be scheduled. The Eastern Airlines will add more flights to Japan, South Korea and the Southeast Asian countries from June 10 on. To be specific, new flights to Osaka (Japan) will be added on Monday and Friday, besides those on Thursday and Sunday scheduled currently, and the new flights to Shizuoka (Japan) will be added on Wednesday and Sunday, besides those on Tuesday and Friday. For the route to South Korea, besides the Saturday flights to Cheju, chartered planes will be scheduled to Seoul, Cheongju, Gwangju, and Daegu. For the routes to Southeast Asia, there will be a daily flight to Bangkok, instead of only on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and the flights to Danong (Vietnam) will be added on Wednesday and Saturday. In addition, the Zhejiang Branch of Eastern Airlines will launch the routes to Siem Reap (Cambodia) and Krabi (Thailand).
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Wednesday, 29 April 2015 10:18
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On April 22, Madam Shen turned on the Alipay in her mobile phone. She was immediately attracted by a new function of "City Service", with which she can register for seeing a doctor, book bus tickets, buy tickets for scenic spots, inquire traffic violations and even check whether she has the same name with other people.
With the accelerating integration of traffic, sanitation, Huji, public utilities like water electricity and gas bill, and tourist attractions into the Internet, the urban life of Ningbo people constantly caught the attention of Internet giants. In the forum held by Ant financial, Alibaba Group and Microblog, some of the urban service functions have been connected with Alipay, Microblog and Mobile Taobao. Now, people in Ningbo can have all these functions through the three mobile apps.
It is learned that services like the payment for public utilities in Ningbo have been offered one by one in Alipay, which brought much convenience to people. In 2014, more than 200 thousand households have used Alipay to pay for their bills of water, electricity and gas.