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July 16, 2010, Friday
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HANGZHOU is luring overseas talent to the Zhejiang Province Innovation Park in Yuhang District.
To attract high-level elites, many preferential policies have been enacted, including 3 million yuan (US$442,742) in housing subsidies.
The 300-hectare innovation park is next to the picturesque Xixi Wetland in the west and Metro Line 5 (under planning) in the north.
The 50,000-square-meter first phase has been set up as the park's Pioneer Zone, and another 80,000 square meters of construction will get underway this year.
The central garden is the core of the innovation park and low-rise buildings nearby are under construction. The blueprint calls for star-rated business hotels, mega shopping malls and hospitals.
More taxis
Around 200 specially marked rush-hour taxis might take to the roads in the morning and afternoon to ease traffic congestion.
"We are thinking of launching two types of cabs, one only operating during regular hours and the other only in rush hours, but it's a tentative idea at this stage," said Chen Wei, director of the Hangzhou Communications Bureau.
The city has more than 8,000 taxis, which still cannot meet demand.
The taxi occupancy rate is 70 percent a day, the limit in the taxi industry, said Chen.
Fresh corn
The corn crop is ready for harvest in the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) field in the southeastern part of the West Lake Scenic Zone.
And the public is welcome to help in the harvest and take corn home. Six ears of corn cost 20 yuan (US$2.95), and a reusable bag is included.
The area is planted in the symbolic Eight Trigrams pattern of Chinese mythology. Around 10,000 stalks of corn are planted in 1,333 square meters. It is available during 8am to 5pm.
Accident toll
A total of 1,723 accidents happened in the first half of the year, claiming 348 lives and causing direct economic losses of 14.95 million yuan (US$2.2 million).
Compared with the same period last year, there were 37 more accidents, an increase of 2.19 percent, while 36 fewer people died, a decrease in the death toll by 9.38 percent.
Economic losses fell by 189,000 yuan year-on-year.
New factory
Construction has begun on a new packaging factory for pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, which is expanding in China. The total investment is expected to reach 1 billion yuan (US$148 million).
The 75,000-square-meter project in the Hangzhou Economic and Technological Zone will become one of Merck's largest pharmaceutical packaging projects in the Asia Pacific region.
Production is expected to start in the first quarter of 2012.
Annual packaging capacity is expected to exceed 300 million packs. By 2017, the annual output value of the facility could reach 10 billion yuan.
Fake trophies
Sixty-five pirated copies of the FIFA World Cup trophies have been seized by Hangzhou Customs officers.
The trophies were being mailed from Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, to Japan.
In the first half of the year Hangzhou Customs seized almost 120,000 fake items related to the South Africa World Cup, worth more than 1 million yuan (US$147,578).
To attract high-level elites, many preferential policies have been enacted, including 3 million yuan (US$442,742) in housing subsidies.
The 300-hectare innovation park is next to the picturesque Xixi Wetland in the west and Metro Line 5 (under planning) in the north.
The 50,000-square-meter first phase has been set up as the park's Pioneer Zone, and another 80,000 square meters of construction will get underway this year.
The central garden is the core of the innovation park and low-rise buildings nearby are under construction. The blueprint calls for star-rated business hotels, mega shopping malls and hospitals.
More taxis
Around 200 specially marked rush-hour taxis might take to the roads in the morning and afternoon to ease traffic congestion.
"We are thinking of launching two types of cabs, one only operating during regular hours and the other only in rush hours, but it's a tentative idea at this stage," said Chen Wei, director of the Hangzhou Communications Bureau.
The city has more than 8,000 taxis, which still cannot meet demand.
The taxi occupancy rate is 70 percent a day, the limit in the taxi industry, said Chen.
Fresh corn
The corn crop is ready for harvest in the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) field in the southeastern part of the West Lake Scenic Zone.
And the public is welcome to help in the harvest and take corn home. Six ears of corn cost 20 yuan (US$2.95), and a reusable bag is included.
The area is planted in the symbolic Eight Trigrams pattern of Chinese mythology. Around 10,000 stalks of corn are planted in 1,333 square meters. It is available during 8am to 5pm.
Accident toll
A total of 1,723 accidents happened in the first half of the year, claiming 348 lives and causing direct economic losses of 14.95 million yuan (US$2.2 million).
Compared with the same period last year, there were 37 more accidents, an increase of 2.19 percent, while 36 fewer people died, a decrease in the death toll by 9.38 percent.
Economic losses fell by 189,000 yuan year-on-year.
New factory
Construction has begun on a new packaging factory for pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, which is expanding in China. The total investment is expected to reach 1 billion yuan (US$148 million).
The 75,000-square-meter project in the Hangzhou Economic and Technological Zone will become one of Merck's largest pharmaceutical packaging projects in the Asia Pacific region.
Production is expected to start in the first quarter of 2012.
Annual packaging capacity is expected to exceed 300 million packs. By 2017, the annual output value of the facility could reach 10 billion yuan.
Fake trophies
Sixty-five pirated copies of the FIFA World Cup trophies have been seized by Hangzhou Customs officers.
The trophies were being mailed from Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, to Japan.
In the first half of the year Hangzhou Customs seized almost 120,000 fake items related to the South Africa World Cup, worth more than 1 million yuan (US$147,578).
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