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May 11, 2012, Friday
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THE first tunnel under the Grand Canal will open to traffic next month, providing quicker access to Qianjiang New Town and Xiasha area in Hangzhou.
The tunnel along the Qiantang River starts from Zhijiang Road E. in Qianjiang New Town in the west and goes to Yunhe Road E. in the east.
The tunnel is 1.8 kilometers long with four lanes and a speed limit of 50 kilometers per hour.
Rock'n'roll forever
American rock group Mercury Rev, British musician Peter Murphy and Chinese rock and roll bands will perform at Taiziwan Park in Hangzhou next weekend.
It will be the first time Mercury Rev and Peter Murphy, the former lead singer of Bauhaus, perform in concert on the Chinese mainland. The show will be part of the West Lake Music Festival.
One-day and two-day tickets are available on Taobao.com. A one-day ticket costs 120 yuan (US$32), up from 100 yuan last year, while the two-day ticket is 200 yuan, up from 160 yuan.
The organizer is recruiting 60 volunteers for the festival.
Patents aplenty
A total of 13,204 patents were awarded last year in Hangzhou, according to the Hangzhou Science and Technology Bureau.
That means nearly two people per 1,000 have a patent in the city with a permanent resident population of 6 million. The ratio is the highest among China's provincial cities.
The bureau reported there were 40,892 patent applications, up 38 percent from a year earlier. Among them, 4,512 patents were for inventions, up 39 percent year-on-year.
The high number of patents resulted from innovation in Hangzhou enterprises and universities, a bureau staff member said. More than 50 percent of the patents belong to enterprises in Hangzhou. Zhejiang University has the most patents among universities nationwide.
Bike rental app
An app showing nearby public bicycle rental stations for Apple gadget users is likely to improve based on an agreement on sharing real-time data between its developer and Hangzhou Public Transport Group.
The "Hangzhou on Palm" app has been popular among public bike users since it can identify a user's position, show nearby bike rental stations and tell users if bicycles are available in real time.
However, iPhone, iPad and iPod users found the app had stopped functioning recently.
The database is taken from Hangzhou Public Transport Group's website, which stopped updating data a week ago, said app developer Zhang Guangyu.
The website considered the app software to be a hacker because of frequent visits and high data flow.
Both sides then agreed to sort out problems, upgrade the software and change the way data is read.
They didn't report when the app's new version would be available.
Zhang works in an IT company in Hangzhou and got the idea when he found it was difficult to rent a bicycle.
Cartoons on show
Original works by famous Taiwanese cartoonist Zhu Deyong are on exhibit at his newly furnished studio beside Baima Lake in Hangzhou.
The 30 originals were selected from five of his renowned works and were part of the just-concluded 8th China International Animation & Cartoon Festival.
Hangzhou authorities plan to construct a Zhu Deyong Humor Hall beside the studio.
Shooting of the film "Pink Lady," which is inspired by Zhu's cartoon series of the same name, will begin in Hangzhou by the end of the year.
The creative culture industry is one of the city's pillar industries. The sector posted turnover of 70.2 billion yuan in 2010, 11.8 percent of the city's GDP.
The tunnel along the Qiantang River starts from Zhijiang Road E. in Qianjiang New Town in the west and goes to Yunhe Road E. in the east.
The tunnel is 1.8 kilometers long with four lanes and a speed limit of 50 kilometers per hour.
Rock'n'roll forever
American rock group Mercury Rev, British musician Peter Murphy and Chinese rock and roll bands will perform at Taiziwan Park in Hangzhou next weekend.
It will be the first time Mercury Rev and Peter Murphy, the former lead singer of Bauhaus, perform in concert on the Chinese mainland. The show will be part of the West Lake Music Festival.
One-day and two-day tickets are available on Taobao.com. A one-day ticket costs 120 yuan (US$32), up from 100 yuan last year, while the two-day ticket is 200 yuan, up from 160 yuan.
The organizer is recruiting 60 volunteers for the festival.
Patents aplenty
A total of 13,204 patents were awarded last year in Hangzhou, according to the Hangzhou Science and Technology Bureau.
That means nearly two people per 1,000 have a patent in the city with a permanent resident population of 6 million. The ratio is the highest among China's provincial cities.
The bureau reported there were 40,892 patent applications, up 38 percent from a year earlier. Among them, 4,512 patents were for inventions, up 39 percent year-on-year.
The high number of patents resulted from innovation in Hangzhou enterprises and universities, a bureau staff member said. More than 50 percent of the patents belong to enterprises in Hangzhou. Zhejiang University has the most patents among universities nationwide.
Bike rental app
An app showing nearby public bicycle rental stations for Apple gadget users is likely to improve based on an agreement on sharing real-time data between its developer and Hangzhou Public Transport Group.
The "Hangzhou on Palm" app has been popular among public bike users since it can identify a user's position, show nearby bike rental stations and tell users if bicycles are available in real time.
However, iPhone, iPad and iPod users found the app had stopped functioning recently.
The database is taken from Hangzhou Public Transport Group's website, which stopped updating data a week ago, said app developer Zhang Guangyu.
The website considered the app software to be a hacker because of frequent visits and high data flow.
Both sides then agreed to sort out problems, upgrade the software and change the way data is read.
They didn't report when the app's new version would be available.
Zhang works in an IT company in Hangzhou and got the idea when he found it was difficult to rent a bicycle.
Cartoons on show
Original works by famous Taiwanese cartoonist Zhu Deyong are on exhibit at his newly furnished studio beside Baima Lake in Hangzhou.
The 30 originals were selected from five of his renowned works and were part of the just-concluded 8th China International Animation & Cartoon Festival.
Hangzhou authorities plan to construct a Zhu Deyong Humor Hall beside the studio.
Shooting of the film "Pink Lady," which is inspired by Zhu's cartoon series of the same name, will begin in Hangzhou by the end of the year.
The creative culture industry is one of the city's pillar industries. The sector posted turnover of 70.2 billion yuan in 2010, 11.8 percent of the city's GDP.
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