Taiwan & Ningbo college students enjoy summer camp

Details

Category: On The Campus

Published: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:22

The annual "Taiwan & Ningbo College Students Summer Camp" officially kicked off on Monday. Hu Jianyue, Vice Chairman of Ningbo People's Political Consultative Conference, and Zhang Dongmei, chairman of the Taipei Clansmen Society of Ningbo, participated in the opening ceremony and delivered speeches.

The exchange program is jointly organized by Ningbo and Taipei. As the longest organized student exchange program across the Strait, the summer camp has been held 18 times since 1993.

The organizers said the summer camp this year has attracted more than 50 college students from 20 colleges and universities in Taiwan.

The camp will last to the end of this month. In the upcoming week, the visiting Taiwan students will tour the Hemudu ruins in Yuyao, the former residence of Wang Yangming(one of the most influential philosophers in the Confucian tradition), Xikou Town(the hometown of Chiang Kai-shek), and Hangzhou Bay Bridge. Besides, they will attend a series of exchange activities with students from local universities like Ningbo University, Ningbo City College of Vocational Technology, and Zhejiang Wanli College.

According to the organizers, more than 100 college students across the straits participated in the opening ceremony.

"Smart Campus Project" to complete in September

Details

Category: On The Campus

Published: Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:03

On the morning of July 17, opened in Ningbo the Cross Straights Meeting on Wireless Cities. According to the meeting, Ningbo has started the cooperation with Taiwan in the fields of smart campuses and smart buildings. The smart campus project was piloted in the Experimental School of Ningbo National Hi-tech Zone and it is to complete and put into use this September. Chen Zhongchao, Vice Mayor of Ningbo Municipality, attended the meeting.
 
To strengthen the cooperation between China’s Mainland and Taiwan, in August 2010, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and the State Development and Reform Commission jointly issued a document, assigning Ningbo to be a pilot city the Cross Straights wireless city program. According to the document, Ningbo and Taiwan should cooperate in constructing wireless city network with TD-SCDMA and WiFi, in the application of TD-SCDMA terminal and in the added value services and related products of TD-SCDMA.

Taiwan is one of the earliest cities that started the construction of wireless cities, with much experience in the construction of informationized campus. The pilot smart campus program in the Experimental School of Ningbo National Hi-tech Zone has its investment reaching 5 million yuan, involving such fields as campus security, smart classrooms, and remote teaching. It is to complete and put into use this September.

College students paint Ningbo's intangible cultural heritage

Details

Category: On The Campus

Published: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:21

A group of college students in Ningbo painted on a 100-meter long scroll in their summer vocation to depict Ningbo's intangible cultural heritage. One of them said, "More than 90 percent of Ningbo residents do not know the Cultural Heritage Day." They hope their painting can arouse the public concern over the protection of intangible cultural heritage in Ningbo.

These college students are from a volunteer team in Ningbo University of Technology. All of the 30 students in the team were born in 1990s and most of them are freshmen. After many field visits and data collection, they completed the artwork, which is displayed on their campus. Their painting depicts 20 Ningbo traditional art or crafts, which ate representatives of the intangible cultural heritage in Ningbo. In the painting, one can find typical Ningbo local colors like watchman's drum in Zhenhai, Zoushu (local opera), bone and wood mosaic art, gold paint wood carving, the recipe of Gangyagou Restaurant, and lion dance in Meishan.

The painters will display the 100-meter long artwork in Ningbo Museum, calling for more concerns over the protection of intangible cultural heritage in Ningbo

International students attending Chinese summer camp

Details

Category: On The Campus

Published: Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:28

A number of international students from France are learning Chinese, cross-stitch, paper cutting and other traditional handicraft in a summer camp run by Ningbo No.3 Secondary School.