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Ningbo hospital establishes special medical service team for foreigners

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 30 December 2013 14:40
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The Affiliated Hospital of School of Medicine of Ningbo University launched a special medical service team for the foreigners in the city.
 
The Affiliated Hospital of the School of Medicine of Ningbo University launched a special medical service team on 9th December for foreigners residing or working in the city. 

Led by the director of the emergency department, the team is made of 34 medical workers from different departments in the hospital. They offer medical services for foreign patients and help them to check in or contact doctors. 

As the city further develops, Ningbo hospitals have been receiving more and more foreign patients. The special medical service team will help them more easily see a doctor and receive treatment.
  
SOURCE: WON Team

Ningbo's first locally-made metro train rolls off assembly line

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 30 December 2013 14:38
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Ningbo’s first locally made metro train rolled off the production line in the production workshop at the CSR Ningbo Industrial Base on Wednesday morning. 

The first metro train made in Ningbo will be put into use on Phase I of the Ningbo Rail Transit Line 1. It is the lightest and most energy-efficient metro vehicle of its kind ever produced in China.

The train, made of 6 compartments, was designed with a maximum operational speed of 80 km/h and a maximum capacity of 2,062 passengers. 

The exterior of the train uses white as its dominant hue with blue stripes added as well, while the interior adopts three colors of white, blue and silver and boasts a modern appearance. 

The train’s accessories were supplied by many local businesses, with the electronic cables and wires being from the Ningbo Ship Group, the oil paint from Dongsheng Company, and the stainless steel chairs being supplied from the Ningbo Dafeng Group.
 
SOURCE: WON Team

Ningbo to have 18 air quality monitoring stations

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 30 December 2013 14:18

According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Environment Protection, from December 20, Ningbo is to increase the number of national air quality monitoring stations from 8 to 18. The 10 stations will be provincial-level stations in Cixi, Yuyao and Ninghai. As a result, Ningbo will have 18 air quality monitoring stations. The new stations will officially release AQI. This indicates that the city has established a real time air quality information system.

At present, Ningbo has 8 national air quality monitoring stations at Taigu Primary School in Jiangdong, Sanjiang Middle School in Jiangbei District, Ningbo Environmental Monitoring Center, Longsai Hospital in Zhenhai, the environment protection building in Beilun, Zhejiang Wanli University, the Municipal Administrative Department in Ningbo National Hi-tech Zone, and Dongqianhu Water Plant. The 10 provincial-level stations are located in Cixi, Yuyao, Ninghai, Xiangshan, Fenghua and Ningbo Daxie Development Zone. To be specific, there will be 2 stations in Cixi, 2 in Yuyao, 2 in Ninghai, 2 in Xiangshan, 1 in Fenghua, and 1 in Daxie Development Zone. The 10 stations will release AQI at the same time. This indicates that the city has established a real time air quality information system.

By the internet and mobile phones, citizens can access the 18 monitoring stations for the real-time data of the 6 pollutants, the AQI, the air quality class, the major pollutants, the change of AQI in 24 hours, and the change of AQI in the past seven days or 30 days.

Yinzhou District ranks No.1 again for late rice yield

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 30 December 2013 14:23

News came from the Agriculture Guinness Office of Zhejiang Department of Agriculture that after the real-cut acceptance by related rice experts, the 120-mu single season late rice demonstration field by the Nanrui Grain & Machine Professional Cooperative from Dongqiao Town won the first place in Zhejiang Province in terms of single-season late rice yield, with an average yield per mu of 933.9 kilograms.

This year's acceptance calculate the final yield per mu by randomly choosing three pieces of field and cut the samples by the cutting machines and distract the standard moisture content. According to rice experts from Yinzhou District Agricultural Technology Station, the 120-mu demonstration field adopts the "Ningbo Superior 12" as the major variety and applies such high-production cultural techniques for the super-rice as advance seed-sowing, strong shoots cultivation, short shoot transplanting, thin planting, spike rate increase, soil testing and formulated fertilization and integrated pest management.   

In spite of the No.1 rank, the average yield of 933.9 kilograms is still a bit short of the 963.65 kilograms, a high national record set by Yinzhou District in 2012.

According to Huang Guoyang, Director of Zhejiang Provincial Technology Promotion Center, this high yield is still a miracle in such a year severely affected by various natural disasters. Yinzhou District has yet again written a new page of high rice yield.

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