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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:34
Zhenhai District is well known as a base for heavy and chemical industries. The district has more than 40 key provincial-level enterprises including Zhenhai Petrol Refining and Chemical Company.
Innovation has become a dynamic for the new round of economic development of Zhenhai. According to related statistics, since the beginning of 2012, Zhenhai District has had 14 newly established hi-tech enterprises, and the industrial output of all the district-level enterprises amounted to 32.11 billion yuan, accounting for 38.7% of the total output value of industrial enterprises above designated district-level size. With the rapid development of hi-tech enterprises, Zhenhai District has also witnessed booming of the cultural industries. In 2012, Zhenhai District ranked the first place in Ningbo for its quantity and quality of the introduced cultural industry project. In the first quarter in 2013, the district has brought in other 51 cultural creativity companies, fulfilling 25.5% of the annual scheduled targets, with the aggregated registered capital up to nearly 225 million yuan.
With the various platforms for hi-tech innovation, scientific result transformation and talent nuturing, the vigorous emerging industries in culture, new materials, new energies and electronic information are contributing to the economic upgrading in Zhenhai District.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 14 May 2013 09:16
Perhaps the most astonishing thing I noted when interviewing family members of American survivors of the Ningpo plague epidemic in 1940 was the resilience they expressed. The can-do attitude reverberated from a horrific scene in then-Manchuria through the generations to a Starbucks cafe conversation over coffee.
We thank MD, HB, JW, GC, and the surviving American families who participated in our analysis of the 1940 plague attack in Ningbo, Manchuria. Our work is dedicated to all of the Chinese victims involved in the biological warfare attacks of World War II.
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On October 27, 1940, members of Japanese Unit 731 conducted a live test deployment of plague-infected fleas in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, a city south of Shanghai.
The 4th Division of Unit 731 (Production), with a staff of 50 to 70 personnel, was responsible for producing cholera, anthrax, typhoid, paratyphoid, and plague. The 4th Division achieved an operational output of 300 kilograms of plague per month.
These agents were tested against live prisoners at Anda Station, which was located in Anda City, Suihua, HeilongJiang, China (131 km northwest of Harbin and 2,638 km north of Ningbo), as shown in Figure 1.
f The location of Anda Station Proving Ground, 131 km northwest of Harbin and the location of Unit 731’s main production facility.
Anda Station was a proving ground to determine optimal weapon configurations, meteorological conditions, and other parameters related to successful field deployment. At Anda Station, live Chinese prisoners were subjected to experimental infection by plague-infected fleas.
One experiment involved tying 10 to 15 prisoners to stakes and dropping up to 10 porcelain bombs from airplanes containing plague-infected fleas. At peak operations during the war, Japanese officers testified that 600 prisoners died per year during tests.
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