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March 18, 2011, Friday
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A racing game will be held in Hangzhou over the weekend as a warm-up for the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix to be held on April 15-17 in Shanghai. Two winners will have an opportunity to ride in an F1 safety car at the Shanghai International Circuit.
Registration is available at Partyworld KTV (50 Hubin Road) from 1:30pm to 9:30pm over the weekend. Applicants can compete in Carrera Slot Car Racing, which features proportionally reduced models of an F1 track as well as remote-controlled model cars.
Similar contests will also be held in Shanghai and Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province on April 2.
Hangzhou F1 fans can register at the F1 2011 Chinese Grand Prix microblog (or weibo, Chinese equivalent of Twitter) on http://t.sina.com.cn and claim gifts during the race.
Radiation leaks
The radiation leaks at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant will not affect Hangzhou, Zhejiang experts said on Tuesday.
Huang Wei, an official with the Zhejiang Environmental Protection Bureau, said all the statistics they collected were in normal range and there is nothing to be worried about at this stage.
Professor Cao Xuewu of Shanghai Jiao Tong University said radioactive pollution will diminish as the distance increases. Shanghai and Hangzhou are more than 2,000 kilometer away from the disaster area in Japan. Even if the radiation fallout reaches China, it will have small influence.
Online copshop
Since it was launched last June, Hangzhou police's online emergency report system has received 282 emergency reports as of last Friday and all the reported cases have been solved.
The online system also handled 188 video calls and published 360 pieces of information for missing people with 287 of them later found, Hangzhou police said.
Any citizen and company can use the online emergency report system if they register on the website, which also offers 20 kinds of police services including getting a passport.
Leisure fair ends
The 4th China (Hangzhou) International Outdoor & Leisure Fair closed on Wednesday at the Heping Exhibition Center. About 20,000 people visited the four-day show.
The fair occupied more than 15,000 square meters of space and attracted more than 200 exhibitors from home and abroad. The fair displayed mainly outdoor furniture, gardening tools, leisure and sports products, and camping facilities.
The fair has been held annually for three years and has become a well-known brand and a platform for communication between manufacturers and outdoor enthusiasts. Hangzhou and its surrounding towns is the country's outdoor leisure industry base. Currently, the city has 1,182 outdoor leisure enterprises, among which around 600 are foreign-invested.
Last year, the local outdoor leisure industry's output value was around 22 billion yuan (US$3.34 billion), 23.51 percent of the country's total, while its export volume reached US$2 million.
Price index rises
Hangzhou's consumer price index rose 4.5 percent year on year in February, growing 1.3 percent from last month's, according to the Hangzhou Statistics Bureau.
Food prices, a major component of the CPI, jumped 4.8 percent in February from the previous month. Prices for fresh vegetables, fruits and seafood increased 19.7 percent, 8 percent and 9.1 percent respectively.
February's price for services rose 0.8 percent from January with the cost of cleaning cars jumping the most at 28.5 percent.
Zhejiang Province's CPI rose 5.2 percent from a year earlier in February.
New rail links
The newly built Hangzhou East Railway Station for high-speed trains to Shanghai, Nanjing in Jiangsu Province and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province will be put into operation by July 2012.
Hangzhou passengers will be able to reach Ningbo in 36 minutes, Shanghai in about 38 minutes and Nanjing within one hour. They can also catch the Metro, city buses or taxis inside the complex and even boats on the nearby Grand Canal.
The station will serve 30 railway lines, the most in the country.
Catalogue update
A new "Zhejiang Three Guarantees Catalogue" was released by Zhejiang Administration for Industry and Commerce on Monday.
The catalogue which helps guarantee consumer rights features several new types of commodities, such as computers, audio-visual products and GPS.
The details of some old items have been updated, such as the warranty period of a car prolonged from one year to two years, while cameras are divided into three sections: film camera, digital camera and camera lens.
Registration is available at Partyworld KTV (50 Hubin Road) from 1:30pm to 9:30pm over the weekend. Applicants can compete in Carrera Slot Car Racing, which features proportionally reduced models of an F1 track as well as remote-controlled model cars.
Similar contests will also be held in Shanghai and Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province on April 2.
Hangzhou F1 fans can register at the F1 2011 Chinese Grand Prix microblog (or weibo, Chinese equivalent of Twitter) on http://t.sina.com.cn and claim gifts during the race.
Radiation leaks
The radiation leaks at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant will not affect Hangzhou, Zhejiang experts said on Tuesday.
Huang Wei, an official with the Zhejiang Environmental Protection Bureau, said all the statistics they collected were in normal range and there is nothing to be worried about at this stage.
Professor Cao Xuewu of Shanghai Jiao Tong University said radioactive pollution will diminish as the distance increases. Shanghai and Hangzhou are more than 2,000 kilometer away from the disaster area in Japan. Even if the radiation fallout reaches China, it will have small influence.
Online copshop
Since it was launched last June, Hangzhou police's online emergency report system has received 282 emergency reports as of last Friday and all the reported cases have been solved.
The online system also handled 188 video calls and published 360 pieces of information for missing people with 287 of them later found, Hangzhou police said.
Any citizen and company can use the online emergency report system if they register on the website, which also offers 20 kinds of police services including getting a passport.
Leisure fair ends
The 4th China (Hangzhou) International Outdoor & Leisure Fair closed on Wednesday at the Heping Exhibition Center. About 20,000 people visited the four-day show.
The fair occupied more than 15,000 square meters of space and attracted more than 200 exhibitors from home and abroad. The fair displayed mainly outdoor furniture, gardening tools, leisure and sports products, and camping facilities.
The fair has been held annually for three years and has become a well-known brand and a platform for communication between manufacturers and outdoor enthusiasts. Hangzhou and its surrounding towns is the country's outdoor leisure industry base. Currently, the city has 1,182 outdoor leisure enterprises, among which around 600 are foreign-invested.
Last year, the local outdoor leisure industry's output value was around 22 billion yuan (US$3.34 billion), 23.51 percent of the country's total, while its export volume reached US$2 million.
Price index rises
Hangzhou's consumer price index rose 4.5 percent year on year in February, growing 1.3 percent from last month's, according to the Hangzhou Statistics Bureau.
Food prices, a major component of the CPI, jumped 4.8 percent in February from the previous month. Prices for fresh vegetables, fruits and seafood increased 19.7 percent, 8 percent and 9.1 percent respectively.
February's price for services rose 0.8 percent from January with the cost of cleaning cars jumping the most at 28.5 percent.
Zhejiang Province's CPI rose 5.2 percent from a year earlier in February.
New rail links
The newly built Hangzhou East Railway Station for high-speed trains to Shanghai, Nanjing in Jiangsu Province and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province will be put into operation by July 2012.
Hangzhou passengers will be able to reach Ningbo in 36 minutes, Shanghai in about 38 minutes and Nanjing within one hour. They can also catch the Metro, city buses or taxis inside the complex and even boats on the nearby Grand Canal.
The station will serve 30 railway lines, the most in the country.
Catalogue update
A new "Zhejiang Three Guarantees Catalogue" was released by Zhejiang Administration for Industry and Commerce on Monday.
The catalogue which helps guarantee consumer rights features several new types of commodities, such as computers, audio-visual products and GPS.
The details of some old items have been updated, such as the warranty period of a car prolonged from one year to two years, while cameras are divided into three sections: film camera, digital camera and camera lens.
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