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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:02
According to a mail recently sent by the International Rowing Association (FISA), Huang Cheng, a Ningbo-native rower, was elected the world's best rower with disabilities (2012).
Due to time conflict, Huang Cheng was unable to attend the awards ceremony held on November 2 in Limerick, Ireland, but he produced a five-minute video of acceptance speech to express his excitement and inspiration with this award.
Huang won the championship of AS-level Men's Single Sculls Final with a score of 4 minutes 52 seconds 36 in London Paralympics Rowing. This is also the first rowing gold medal in the Paralympics.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:02
Ningbo has recently imported Netherlands cultivated hippeastrum for the first time through Ningbo Port. The flowers have passed the safety test carried by Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. Currently, its sample has been cultivated separately from other seedlings in a local seedling nursery.
The import includes 15,256 mature hippeastrum bulbs and 52 species. This is Ningbo's first import of hippeastrum bulbs from the Netherlands. With the development of national economy, florists have to import flowers to meet the rising demand of customers. China has seen a rising flower imports for both indoor and outdoor decoration. Ningbo Port imported 6.5 million or 14 batches of Dutch bulbs (mainly lily bulbs and tulip bulbs), worth US$1.8 million.
Hippeastrum is a bulbous plant in the family of Amaryllidaceae. Most Hippeastrum bulbs are between 5 to10 cm in diameter. It has more species and colors than tulips and hyacinth. Depending on the species, it bears large flowers even better than Lily and is thus loved by local consumers.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:01
Ningbo Textile Industry Chamber of Commerce was recently established in Keqiao of Shaoxing, the center of the Chinese textile industry. The newly founded chamber of commerce is a new home for Ningbo-native businesspeople in Shaoxing and another professional trade association next to Ningbo Chamber of Commerce established in Yiwu.
Currently, Ningbo Textile Industry Chamber of Commerce has attracted more than 100 member companies in the textile and service industries, an estimated worth of 1,000 million yuan. It is reported that over 10,000 Ningbo entrepreneurs are running around 600 companies in Shaoxing.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:01
Recently, an interesting name list has aroused local taxi drivers' response. An elderly named Chen Guorong living in Baihe Community of Jiangdong District recorded the license plate numbers of taxis who stopped for pedestrians at crosswalks, and there are more than 1,300 cars in his name list. He made this name list in order to praise the courtesy of these drivers. In response to Chen's deed, the Municipal Passenger Transportation Management Center invited these taxi drivers to attend a rap session.
In the rap session, the drivers expressed their opinions on polite driving. "We feel honored and we are just doing what we should do, but Mr. Chen is so considerate and take down." "Suppose I were a pedestrian on crosswalk, what if a drive didn’t stop for me? I would probably get annoyed."
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