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By Wu Huixin |
November 30, 2012, Friday
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THE 8th China International Press Photo Contest Awards Ceremony was held in Hangzhou earlier on Tuesday.
Four foreign golden medal winners - Toru Hanai and Carlos Gutierrez of Reuters, Jakub Lukasz Kaminski of Rzeczpospolita, Louiza Gkouliamaki of AFP and Rebecca Blackwell of AP - were among recipients attending.
Around 30,000 photographs by more than 2,300 journalists and photographers were submitted. More than 60 percent of entries were from foreign countries and areas.
The results of the competition were announced in March.
The 12-person jury, including five members from China, plus others from the United States, France, Argentina and the Republic of Mali, selected 79 prize-winning works.
These are on display in Zhejiang Museum of Natural History until Sunday. Anther 400 winning works from previous years are exhibited on Bai Causeway in West Lake Scenic Area.
On the awards ceremony, Yu Ning, chairman of the organizing committee, announced that next year the contest would again be held in Hangzhou.
The photographic contest was sponsored by the Photojournalist Society of China, Zhejiang Daily Newspaper Group, the Organizing Committee of the Hangzhou International West Lake Expo and Hangzhou Information Office.
Metro increase
THE interval between Hangzhou Metro trains during morning and afternoon peak hours has been reduced to around five minutes to meet weekday demand, the Metro operator said recently.
Hangzhou Metro also decided to add four carriages from 7:30am to 9am and from 5pm to 7pm to cope with the passenger surge.
The city's Metro Line 1 opened on November 24 and can carry up to 287,000 passengers per day.
On its first Sunday, some 173,000 passengers used the Metro, with traffic peaking from 2pm to 3pm. The largest number of passengers were at Wulin Square Station, Longxiangqiao Station near West Lake and Hangzhou Railway Station.The 48-kilometer-long Metro Line 1 has 31 stations and 48 trains.
Pupils' pooreyesight
SHORT-sightedness has become a serious health problem for students at primary and high schools in Hangzhou, according to health statistics released this week.
More than 50 percent of all primary school students in the downtown area are short-sighted, with 82 percent of students at one school suffering from the problem.
Meanwhile, more than 80 percent of high school graduates are short-sighted, the statistics revealed.
The heavy burden of homework, frequent use of electronic gadgets and poor lighting while studying are cited as the main reasons for prevalence of short-sightedness in local schools.
According to Ministry of Education regulations, homework for primary school students should not take more than one hour, while children in grades one and two should have no writing assignments.
This is to ensure at least 10 hours' sleep for primary students and eight hours for middle school pupils.
However, in reality many students do homework deep into the night.
The regulation also states that students should take at least one hour of physical exercise per day. Schools in Hangzhou excelled in this category; its students were the healthiest among all cities in Zhejiang Province.
Knowledge title
HANGZHOU has recently granted the title of "knowledge-oriented family" to 300 more families, bringing the number holding the city-level title to 550.
Since 2002, Hangzhou has been encouraging learning and the reading of books, with the city being recognized as a model for the country for the number of knowledge-oriented families it can boast.
To date, Hangzhou has organized 18,000 family reading events which almost 970,000 households attended.
Hangzhou's aim is to set up a lifelong education system.
Flight to 'Emerald'
DIRECT flights from Hangzhou to Yunnan's Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture began last week.
The Capital Airlines flight, operated by Airbus 319s, leaves Hangzhou at 7:25am and arrives at Xishuangbanna at 10:35am. The return flight leaves Xishuangbanna at 10:40am, arriving at Xiaoshan International Airport at 1:30pm.
At present, only one flight a day is operating. Tickets are currently available for 1,130 yuan (US$179) - a 55 percent discount on the face value of 2,500 yuan.
Nicknamed "The Emerald," Xishuangbanna boasts tropical forests and a diversity of wildlife.
It is seen as a good vacation destination in winter, as temperatures range from 18 degrees Celsius to 30 degrees.
Four foreign golden medal winners - Toru Hanai and Carlos Gutierrez of Reuters, Jakub Lukasz Kaminski of Rzeczpospolita, Louiza Gkouliamaki of AFP and Rebecca Blackwell of AP - were among recipients attending.
Around 30,000 photographs by more than 2,300 journalists and photographers were submitted. More than 60 percent of entries were from foreign countries and areas.
The results of the competition were announced in March.
The 12-person jury, including five members from China, plus others from the United States, France, Argentina and the Republic of Mali, selected 79 prize-winning works.
These are on display in Zhejiang Museum of Natural History until Sunday. Anther 400 winning works from previous years are exhibited on Bai Causeway in West Lake Scenic Area.
On the awards ceremony, Yu Ning, chairman of the organizing committee, announced that next year the contest would again be held in Hangzhou.
The photographic contest was sponsored by the Photojournalist Society of China, Zhejiang Daily Newspaper Group, the Organizing Committee of the Hangzhou International West Lake Expo and Hangzhou Information Office.
Metro increase
THE interval between Hangzhou Metro trains during morning and afternoon peak hours has been reduced to around five minutes to meet weekday demand, the Metro operator said recently.
Hangzhou Metro also decided to add four carriages from 7:30am to 9am and from 5pm to 7pm to cope with the passenger surge.
The city's Metro Line 1 opened on November 24 and can carry up to 287,000 passengers per day.
On its first Sunday, some 173,000 passengers used the Metro, with traffic peaking from 2pm to 3pm. The largest number of passengers were at Wulin Square Station, Longxiangqiao Station near West Lake and Hangzhou Railway Station.The 48-kilometer-long Metro Line 1 has 31 stations and 48 trains.
Pupils' pooreyesight
SHORT-sightedness has become a serious health problem for students at primary and high schools in Hangzhou, according to health statistics released this week.
More than 50 percent of all primary school students in the downtown area are short-sighted, with 82 percent of students at one school suffering from the problem.
Meanwhile, more than 80 percent of high school graduates are short-sighted, the statistics revealed.
The heavy burden of homework, frequent use of electronic gadgets and poor lighting while studying are cited as the main reasons for prevalence of short-sightedness in local schools.
According to Ministry of Education regulations, homework for primary school students should not take more than one hour, while children in grades one and two should have no writing assignments.
This is to ensure at least 10 hours' sleep for primary students and eight hours for middle school pupils.
However, in reality many students do homework deep into the night.
The regulation also states that students should take at least one hour of physical exercise per day. Schools in Hangzhou excelled in this category; its students were the healthiest among all cities in Zhejiang Province.
Knowledge title
HANGZHOU has recently granted the title of "knowledge-oriented family" to 300 more families, bringing the number holding the city-level title to 550.
Since 2002, Hangzhou has been encouraging learning and the reading of books, with the city being recognized as a model for the country for the number of knowledge-oriented families it can boast.
To date, Hangzhou has organized 18,000 family reading events which almost 970,000 households attended.
Hangzhou's aim is to set up a lifelong education system.
Flight to 'Emerald'
DIRECT flights from Hangzhou to Yunnan's Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture began last week.
The Capital Airlines flight, operated by Airbus 319s, leaves Hangzhou at 7:25am and arrives at Xishuangbanna at 10:35am. The return flight leaves Xishuangbanna at 10:40am, arriving at Xiaoshan International Airport at 1:30pm.
At present, only one flight a day is operating. Tickets are currently available for 1,130 yuan (US$179) - a 55 percent discount on the face value of 2,500 yuan.
Nicknamed "The Emerald," Xishuangbanna boasts tropical forests and a diversity of wildlife.
It is seen as a good vacation destination in winter, as temperatures range from 18 degrees Celsius to 30 degrees.
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