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September 9, 2011, Friday
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EIGHT famous international surfers including Mary Osborne will compete on the Qiantang River next Wednesday.
It will be part of the weeklong 2011 Surfing China Carnival starting from Sunday. On Sunday and Monday, a Silver Dragon skateboard contest will be held at the Planning Hall of Qianjiang New City while an extreme sports forum will be held on Tuesday.
A beer and music festival starts this Sunday and continues for the rest of the week. Organizers have also prepared a fashion show at Residents Plaza on Sunday and Monday. Visitors can even try simulated surfing at the plaza until next Friday.
Top place to retire
Fortune China magazine found that Hangzhou, Chengdu and Qingdao were the top three places Chinese citizens eyed as a place to live after retiring.
The survey asked 1,000 respondents about quality of life, social welfare standards, natural and cultural environment, service standards and level of contentedness.
Hangzhou, which ranked second after Qingdao in last year's survey for its history and natural beauty, took the lead in this year's survey. The provincial capital of Zhejiang was praised as a city where urban construction and natural resources coexisted in harmony while its cultural environment also placed it among the top five cities.
Emergency drill
A major area of downtown Hangzhou was closed to traffic yesterday for a trial emergency drill.
The affected roads included Shuguang Road from Huanglong Road to Lingyin Road, Yugu Road from Tianmushan Road to Lingyin Road, Qiushi Road from Yugu Road to Shuguang Road and Zheda Road from Yugu Road to Shuguang Road.
The trial drill lasted from 2:30pm to 4pm.
Bus lines along these roads were shortened or canceled during the time and have reverted to their normal schedules.
The official emergency drill will be in the same area on September 15.
Taxies for disabled
Fifty taxis specially designed to provide easy access for disabled people will hit Hangzhou streets by the end of the month as part of a test run ahead of next month's National Paralympic Games.
Wheelchairs can be loaded into the taxies directly by pushing them up a slope board that extends from the taxi. A seatbelt ensures the chairs don't move about during the journey.
The fare for the 50 cabs will be the same as for normal city taxis. The cabs look similar to the iconic London taxi, according to Wu Zhongliang, an official from the Hangzhou transport authority.
The flag-down fare in Hangzhou is 11 yuan (US$1.72), including a 1 yuan fuel surcharge, and passengers pay 2 yuan per kilometer after the first 3 kilometers. The waiting fee is set at 2 yuan per five minutes.
Cloud computing
Hangzhou's first ever industrial park focusing on cloud computing was set up last week.
Wasu Group, IBM and Xihu District Cloud Computing Public Service Platform were the first to enter the park after signing strategic agreements at the opening ceremony.
The first phase of the park project has been completed with more than 20,000 square meters of office space. When the project is completed in four years, it will have a total office area of nearly 300,000 square meters.
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network, such as the Internet.
It will be part of the weeklong 2011 Surfing China Carnival starting from Sunday. On Sunday and Monday, a Silver Dragon skateboard contest will be held at the Planning Hall of Qianjiang New City while an extreme sports forum will be held on Tuesday.
A beer and music festival starts this Sunday and continues for the rest of the week. Organizers have also prepared a fashion show at Residents Plaza on Sunday and Monday. Visitors can even try simulated surfing at the plaza until next Friday.
Top place to retire
Fortune China magazine found that Hangzhou, Chengdu and Qingdao were the top three places Chinese citizens eyed as a place to live after retiring.
The survey asked 1,000 respondents about quality of life, social welfare standards, natural and cultural environment, service standards and level of contentedness.
Hangzhou, which ranked second after Qingdao in last year's survey for its history and natural beauty, took the lead in this year's survey. The provincial capital of Zhejiang was praised as a city where urban construction and natural resources coexisted in harmony while its cultural environment also placed it among the top five cities.
Emergency drill
A major area of downtown Hangzhou was closed to traffic yesterday for a trial emergency drill.
The affected roads included Shuguang Road from Huanglong Road to Lingyin Road, Yugu Road from Tianmushan Road to Lingyin Road, Qiushi Road from Yugu Road to Shuguang Road and Zheda Road from Yugu Road to Shuguang Road.
The trial drill lasted from 2:30pm to 4pm.
Bus lines along these roads were shortened or canceled during the time and have reverted to their normal schedules.
The official emergency drill will be in the same area on September 15.
Taxies for disabled
Fifty taxis specially designed to provide easy access for disabled people will hit Hangzhou streets by the end of the month as part of a test run ahead of next month's National Paralympic Games.
Wheelchairs can be loaded into the taxies directly by pushing them up a slope board that extends from the taxi. A seatbelt ensures the chairs don't move about during the journey.
The fare for the 50 cabs will be the same as for normal city taxis. The cabs look similar to the iconic London taxi, according to Wu Zhongliang, an official from the Hangzhou transport authority.
The flag-down fare in Hangzhou is 11 yuan (US$1.72), including a 1 yuan fuel surcharge, and passengers pay 2 yuan per kilometer after the first 3 kilometers. The waiting fee is set at 2 yuan per five minutes.
Cloud computing
Hangzhou's first ever industrial park focusing on cloud computing was set up last week.
Wasu Group, IBM and Xihu District Cloud Computing Public Service Platform were the first to enter the park after signing strategic agreements at the opening ceremony.
The first phase of the park project has been completed with more than 20,000 square meters of office space. When the project is completed in four years, it will have a total office area of nearly 300,000 square meters.
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network, such as the Internet.
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