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- Published: Monday, 15 August 2011 14:24
Recently, a number of serious accidents have happened in the transportation on water. To draw lessons from such accident and prevent similar happenings, a two-month special operation has been launched to check for safety hazards in the port and shipping systems of Ningbo and citizens can report any such hazard in a variety of ways. It is learned that these hazards fall into the following five major categories: enterprises do not have the necessary conditions for safe production stipulated in the state safe production law or trade standards or unsafe factors are present among the staff, in the environment, facilities and equipment, which may lead to accidents, casualty and loss of property; construction projects without safety facilities or whose safety facilities have not been officially examined, inspected and approved but are put into use and production; the operation, transportation and storage of dangerous items in violation of related laws and regulations or trade standards, which may lead to casualty and loss of property; enterprises concealing or falsely reporting deaths and injuries in accidents; other factors that may endanger the society or the production of enterprises leading to casualty and loss of property. Citizens may report such hazards via telephone, mail or e-mail: 87834812 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or 106, Wangga road, Jiangdong district (postal code: 315041). Authorities will look into the case within 20 work days and, if reports are proved true, reporters will be awarded ¥200, ¥500, and ¥800 accordingly.
On the morning of August 11, mayor Liuqi of Ningbo chaired the 106 conference of the standing committee of the municipal government to examine and pass the "The Five-year Plan for the Fitness of All Ningbo Citizens", which specifies the target, tasks and measures for the development of fitness programs for all Ningbo people. It is learned that the main tasks of the five-year plan are for the government to fully perform its function in providing public service in sports by developing a well established system to ensure the fitness of all people, so that the health level of citizens is remarkably raised, with the comprehensive fitness index reaching the provincial standard for a sports-strong city in Zhejiang. The plan includes such six projects as the construction of sports facilities, the development of fitness activities, the training in sports skills, the establishment of a network of sports societies, campus sports, sports demonstration programs, etc. The specific indexes for the coming five years include: 40% of citizens often participate in sports activities; 90% of citizens reach the national standards of physical fitness; 95% of sports facilities of downtown schools and 85% of county(district) schools are open to the public; 80% and 90% of counties and towns are listed as provincial "sports-strong"; there are 4 sports directors per one thousand people; each county of district develops at least one mass sports game; per capita sports area is above 1.8 square meters; sports expense increases in proportion to the increase in financial revenue; sports welfare funds from sports lottery is strictly used for the program of "fitness for all". It was agreed at the meeting that the implementation of the plan of fitness for all to improve the health of people and improve their quality of life is very significant in creating a harmonious society. All the related government departments should further strengthen their functions of public service, raise people's awareness of physical fitness, build and improve all kinds of sports facilities, establish a sound network of sports organizations, offer rich and varied activities, have proper plans and measures to push forward the sustainable development of the program of fitness for all to advocate a healthy, civilized and positive way of life among people. The conference also dealt with other matters, such as the examination of "Regulations to Improve Pre-school Education", etc.
After the earthquake in Wenzhuan, the safety of school premises has aroused greet concern in China. It is learned from the municipal education bureau of Ningbo that the three-year project of school premise reconstruction has had 125 schools completed while the entire project is expected to be completed by the end of the year, by which time all the 800,000 primary and middle school students will be having classes in seismic resistant classrooms. In 2009, Ningbo planned to conduct the safety assessment, removal, reconstruction and consolidation of primary and middle school premises of the city within 3 years. The plan included 287 schools, involving an investment of ¥5.03 billion. Up to now, a total sum of ¥3.91 billion has been invested, with 218 schools having been or still being reconstructed. After reconstruction, all the schools will be seismic-resistant. It is learned that the reconstruction project involves all the primary and middle schools of the city, public or private alike. After safety assessment, a total number of 287 schools have been included in the plan. What safety problems to be solved? According to a person in charge of finance of the project, one task is to reinforce school premises with safety hazards in arrears of high seismic intensity of or over 7 degrees. "After reconstruction, all schools must be 7-degree seismic-resistant." Schools with safety hazards of flooding, landslides, mud avalanche and typhoons are required to be moved to safety. Moreover, schools with safety hazards from lightening and fire are to be reconstructed, with dangerous houses relocated, reconstructed or reinforced accordingly. In addition to the school that need reconstruction of reinforcement, 93 schools need to be removed and rebuilt altogether. Now 72 of them are under construction and 44 have been completed. "The safety of school premises concerns everyone and that is why we are going to build them into safest places so that parents can rest assured of the kids' safety," said the person in charge. A visit to the construction sites The administrative buildings of some schools may not be completed in time. On the tenth, the teaching buildings and administrative buildings were seen surrounded by scaffolds on the usually quiet campuses of Don'en Middle School, Li Xinggui Middle School, Lumei Middle School and Kongpu Middle School and so on. According to a person in charge of the construction at Dong'en, 5 to 6 buildings of the school need to be reconstructed and now work on the pillars, beams and wall is almost finished while the decoration of the exterior walls in under way. It is learned that the new standard of seismic-resistance was issued after 1990 and many of the school houses built before that cannot meet the seismic resistance requirement. Most of the school premises included in the project belong to such houses. Then how can old buildings be made seismic-resistant? It is learned that consolidation is mainly done on columns, beams and walls with steel reinforced concrete to make them quake-proof. So far, there are 93 schools in the city busily under construction while the summer vacation is drawing to the close. Will the project delay the re-opening of schools? "We are pressed for time indeed, but with proper scheduling, we will make it before the vacation ends," said a person in charge. As for Haishu District, 14 primary and middle schools are still being constructed. A person responsible for safety in the district education bureau said "work on teaching buildings must be finished before August 25, which is the deadline." However, since the amount of work is enormous, work on the administrative and laboratory buildings of a few schools might be delayed a little.