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June 15, 2012, Friday
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THE Fifth Hangzhou Citizen Photography Festival, collecting and exhibiting photos of Hangzhou, will be held from August 30 to September 3.
Entries should be related to Hangzhou, and can be about - but not limited to - Hangzhou people, scenery and folk life. Anyone is welcome to enter.
Outstanding photographs will be displayed in the exhibition accompanying the festival, and also be included in the album "Photographs from Hangzhou Citizen Photography Festival from 2008 to 2012."
Entries should be sent to photo@hicenter.cn before July 13.
For more details on the competition, call (0571) 8880-1398, or visit www.hicenter.cn.
Metro train delivery
The first batch of subway trains for Metro Line 1 have been delivered and are ready for test runs.
The 21 subway trains are now at Qibao train depot. Made by China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, the aluminum alloy trains have six 2.8-meter-wide carriages and a carrying capacity of 2,036 people.
Sporting white exteriors with red stripes under the windows, the trains travel at a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour.
A Metro map is placed over each door and an LCD board provides information on stations. Eight LED screens in each carriage will broadcast programs.
The trains will undergo tests before Line 1 opens to the public in October. Another 27 subway trains will be delivered by August 2013.
3D film's a wrap
China's first 3D animation movie "Magic Wonderland" has finished shooting and is expected to be released this year, its production company has said.
The movie about the adventures of a little girl looking for her mother is produced by Zhejiang ZN Animation Company, Bluever International Media Company of Zhejiang Radio and TV Group and Five Star Oriental Television Investment Company of Anhui Radio and TV Group.
The movie version of Magic Wonderland is adapted from the TV series, which has been exported to more than 30 countries and regions.
Since 2008, the TV series has been played on China's CCTV, America's Nickelodeon, and Signore's Mediacorp. There is also a "Magic Wonderland" musical.
Producers from Zhejiang Radio and TV Group are now working on dubbing the movie.
Elite dragon race
College students from elite C9 League schools, China's Ivy League, will take part in the 2nd China Elite School Dragon Boat Race at Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou on June 23.
The C9 League includes: Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Harbin Industry University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, Chinese Science and Technology University and Xi'an Jiao Tong University.
Eight other universities in Hangzhou will also compete againstthe C9 schools.
The competition is part of Dragon Boat Festival celebrations. This year the festival falls on June 23.
Boar killed
A wild boar was beaten to death after scaring people samba dancing and doing early morning exercises in a park beside West Lake on Monday.
"We dance here at 6am every day," an elderly man, surnamed Wang, said. "We had just started when a boar leapt into the square.
"It was knee-high, 1 meter long with brown skin. It had no tusks and looked like a big mouse."
The dancers ran and the startled animal tried to flee, bumping into several people. Hearing the commotion, three security guards, armed with a broom, a stick and an iron pipe, chased the boar.
"The boar must have been scared as it slipped twice on the wet marble paving," another elderly man, surnamed Zhao, said.
It ran into a parking lot and where it bumped into a man playing badminton, who swung his racket at the unfortunate creature. The boar fell, but managed to get up, turn and rush across Beishan Road toward Baoshi Hill, its pursuers hot on its trail.
However, as it tried to cross the road it got its head jammed in central reservation railings.
A passer-by surnamed Qian said: "I saw many people chasing the boar. After its head got stuck, it looked like it was in great pain."
Witnesses said a man grabbed the iron pipe from a guard and brought it down on the boar's head, killing it immediately.
Not a rubbish day out
Primary school students play a ring throwing game about garbage sorting at the Huajiachi Community Environment Protection Promotion Site in Hangzhou. Opened this month, this is the city's first environment promotion site, and was created on the site of a waste transfer station. It now functions both as a park and as an information center where visitors can learn more about the city's refuse sorting regime. - Xu Wenwen
Entries should be related to Hangzhou, and can be about - but not limited to - Hangzhou people, scenery and folk life. Anyone is welcome to enter.
Outstanding photographs will be displayed in the exhibition accompanying the festival, and also be included in the album "Photographs from Hangzhou Citizen Photography Festival from 2008 to 2012."
Entries should be sent to photo@hicenter.cn before July 13.
For more details on the competition, call (0571) 8880-1398, or visit www.hicenter.cn.
Metro train delivery
The first batch of subway trains for Metro Line 1 have been delivered and are ready for test runs.
The 21 subway trains are now at Qibao train depot. Made by China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, the aluminum alloy trains have six 2.8-meter-wide carriages and a carrying capacity of 2,036 people.
Sporting white exteriors with red stripes under the windows, the trains travel at a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour.
A Metro map is placed over each door and an LCD board provides information on stations. Eight LED screens in each carriage will broadcast programs.
The trains will undergo tests before Line 1 opens to the public in October. Another 27 subway trains will be delivered by August 2013.
3D film's a wrap
China's first 3D animation movie "Magic Wonderland" has finished shooting and is expected to be released this year, its production company has said.
The movie about the adventures of a little girl looking for her mother is produced by Zhejiang ZN Animation Company, Bluever International Media Company of Zhejiang Radio and TV Group and Five Star Oriental Television Investment Company of Anhui Radio and TV Group.
The movie version of Magic Wonderland is adapted from the TV series, which has been exported to more than 30 countries and regions.
Since 2008, the TV series has been played on China's CCTV, America's Nickelodeon, and Signore's Mediacorp. There is also a "Magic Wonderland" musical.
Producers from Zhejiang Radio and TV Group are now working on dubbing the movie.
Elite dragon race
College students from elite C9 League schools, China's Ivy League, will take part in the 2nd China Elite School Dragon Boat Race at Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou on June 23.
The C9 League includes: Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Harbin Industry University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, Chinese Science and Technology University and Xi'an Jiao Tong University.
Eight other universities in Hangzhou will also compete againstthe C9 schools.
The competition is part of Dragon Boat Festival celebrations. This year the festival falls on June 23.
Boar killed
A wild boar was beaten to death after scaring people samba dancing and doing early morning exercises in a park beside West Lake on Monday.
"We dance here at 6am every day," an elderly man, surnamed Wang, said. "We had just started when a boar leapt into the square.
"It was knee-high, 1 meter long with brown skin. It had no tusks and looked like a big mouse."
The dancers ran and the startled animal tried to flee, bumping into several people. Hearing the commotion, three security guards, armed with a broom, a stick and an iron pipe, chased the boar.
"The boar must have been scared as it slipped twice on the wet marble paving," another elderly man, surnamed Zhao, said.
It ran into a parking lot and where it bumped into a man playing badminton, who swung his racket at the unfortunate creature. The boar fell, but managed to get up, turn and rush across Beishan Road toward Baoshi Hill, its pursuers hot on its trail.
However, as it tried to cross the road it got its head jammed in central reservation railings.
A passer-by surnamed Qian said: "I saw many people chasing the boar. After its head got stuck, it looked like it was in great pain."
Witnesses said a man grabbed the iron pipe from a guard and brought it down on the boar's head, killing it immediately.
Not a rubbish day out
Primary school students play a ring throwing game about garbage sorting at the Huajiachi Community Environment Protection Promotion Site in Hangzhou. Opened this month, this is the city's first environment promotion site, and was created on the site of a waste transfer station. It now functions both as a park and as an information center where visitors can learn more about the city's refuse sorting regime. - Xu Wenwen
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