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June 29, 2012, Friday
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COLLEGE students compete in the second China Top Universities Dragon Boat Race held at Xixi Wetland, Hangzhou, during the Dragon Boat Festival last weekend. Seven prestigious universities, including Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, battled it out in the event that was held on a 500-meter stretch of creek. Zhejiang University and the University of Science and Technology of China took the top prizes. - Xu Wenwen
Yes to guide dogs
Visually impaired passengers will be allowed to take guide dogs onto Hangzhou Metro trains, under regulations announced recently.
Hangzhou will become the first city in China to allow the specially trained dogs on trains.
In order to avoid accidents or disturbance for other passengers, special cars will be designated for passengers with guide dogs, though any passenger will be allowed to sit in these carriages. There are 8,828 registered blind people in Hangzhou, but only two registered guide dogs. To train a dog requires about 200,000 yuan (US$31,746), a sum not affordable in a city population where the average annual income was 30,000 yuan last year.
The new rules also forbid passengers from eating food on the trains, or taking folding bikes or other pets into carriages. Each passenger is allowed a free ticket for one child under 1.3 meters in height, but additional children will be required to pay.
The rules are expected to take effect this October before Metro Line 1 starts operation.
Energy savings
Hangzhou city government issued the city's 2012 Energy-Saving Plan recently, setting a target of energy consumption to grow no more than 4.3 percent from last year.
The plan stipulates a government employee can use no more than 2,300 kilowatt hours of electricity and 30 tons of water a year.
In addition, gasoline consumption for government cars is limited to an average 13 liters for every 100 kilometers. The government plans to introduce more green cars in future.
This year Hangzhou also plans to shut down 230 production lines or factories with poor energy consumption performances, saving 1.5 million tons of coal a year.
Laureate invests
Nobel laureate Myron Scholes signed an investment agreement with Zhejiang InnoTek Co Ltd at Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City last week. Scholes said the investment environment in Hangzhou is outstanding and he was looking forward to cooperating in the fields of finance and investment.
Scholes, 71, is a Canadian-born American financial economist who is best known as one of the authors of the Black-Scholes equation. In 1997 he awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a method to determine the value of derivatives. He will also serve as chief consultant for Zhejiang InnoTek.
Zhejiang InnoTek is a high-tech company in the Internet of things field, specializing in intelligent parking management system.
Drugs destroyed
More than 300 kilograms of drugs were burned at Tianziling Garbage Treatment Center in Hangzhou on Monday.
Police confiscated the illegal narcotics after solving more than 10,000 cases in Zhejiang Province in the past three years. The drugs were destroyed to mark International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
In the first five months of the year, 14,174 drug addicts were found and punished in Zhejiang Province. The total number of registered drug addicts in the province reached 86,400 by the end of May. Drug addicts under the age of 35 accounted for two thirds of the total, police said.
I do, I do, I do, I do ...
The Fifth International Marriage Custom Culture Festival began in Hangzhou last week, with 30 couples having a group wedding at the opening ceremony.
The festival, which runs until October 20, is one part of West Lake International Expo, involving group weddings, parties and marriage custom exhibitions.
A "hundred-person marathon wedding" is planned for October.
Pollution checks
Hangzhou plans to set up 48 long-term heavy metal inspection spots across the city to monitor farmland and ensure food safety.
Inspection spots will be set up at main food producing areas, beside factories and mines and at irrigation areas, according to the newly released Soil Cleaning Action Plan.
Mercury and hexavalent chromium are the main heavy metals polluting Hangzhou's water and soil. Under the plan, 80 percent of Hangzhou's soil should pass heavy metal readings for main food producing areas by 2015. There are 221,700 hectares of farmland in Hangzhou. The city plans to test polluted farmland along the Qiantang River, Fuchun River and Xin'an River - the three main rivers in the city.
China's soil is the most polluted in the world and the situation will only worsen for another 30 years, Professor Pan Genxing of Nanjing Agricultural University was quoted as saying in a report published by the Economic Observer newspaper this month.
Yes to guide dogs
Visually impaired passengers will be allowed to take guide dogs onto Hangzhou Metro trains, under regulations announced recently.
Hangzhou will become the first city in China to allow the specially trained dogs on trains.
In order to avoid accidents or disturbance for other passengers, special cars will be designated for passengers with guide dogs, though any passenger will be allowed to sit in these carriages. There are 8,828 registered blind people in Hangzhou, but only two registered guide dogs. To train a dog requires about 200,000 yuan (US$31,746), a sum not affordable in a city population where the average annual income was 30,000 yuan last year.
The new rules also forbid passengers from eating food on the trains, or taking folding bikes or other pets into carriages. Each passenger is allowed a free ticket for one child under 1.3 meters in height, but additional children will be required to pay.
The rules are expected to take effect this October before Metro Line 1 starts operation.
Energy savings
Hangzhou city government issued the city's 2012 Energy-Saving Plan recently, setting a target of energy consumption to grow no more than 4.3 percent from last year.
The plan stipulates a government employee can use no more than 2,300 kilowatt hours of electricity and 30 tons of water a year.
In addition, gasoline consumption for government cars is limited to an average 13 liters for every 100 kilometers. The government plans to introduce more green cars in future.
This year Hangzhou also plans to shut down 230 production lines or factories with poor energy consumption performances, saving 1.5 million tons of coal a year.
Laureate invests
Nobel laureate Myron Scholes signed an investment agreement with Zhejiang InnoTek Co Ltd at Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City last week. Scholes said the investment environment in Hangzhou is outstanding and he was looking forward to cooperating in the fields of finance and investment.
Scholes, 71, is a Canadian-born American financial economist who is best known as one of the authors of the Black-Scholes equation. In 1997 he awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a method to determine the value of derivatives. He will also serve as chief consultant for Zhejiang InnoTek.
Zhejiang InnoTek is a high-tech company in the Internet of things field, specializing in intelligent parking management system.
Drugs destroyed
More than 300 kilograms of drugs were burned at Tianziling Garbage Treatment Center in Hangzhou on Monday.
Police confiscated the illegal narcotics after solving more than 10,000 cases in Zhejiang Province in the past three years. The drugs were destroyed to mark International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
In the first five months of the year, 14,174 drug addicts were found and punished in Zhejiang Province. The total number of registered drug addicts in the province reached 86,400 by the end of May. Drug addicts under the age of 35 accounted for two thirds of the total, police said.
I do, I do, I do, I do ...
The Fifth International Marriage Custom Culture Festival began in Hangzhou last week, with 30 couples having a group wedding at the opening ceremony.
The festival, which runs until October 20, is one part of West Lake International Expo, involving group weddings, parties and marriage custom exhibitions.
A "hundred-person marathon wedding" is planned for October.
Pollution checks
Hangzhou plans to set up 48 long-term heavy metal inspection spots across the city to monitor farmland and ensure food safety.
Inspection spots will be set up at main food producing areas, beside factories and mines and at irrigation areas, according to the newly released Soil Cleaning Action Plan.
Mercury and hexavalent chromium are the main heavy metals polluting Hangzhou's water and soil. Under the plan, 80 percent of Hangzhou's soil should pass heavy metal readings for main food producing areas by 2015. There are 221,700 hectares of farmland in Hangzhou. The city plans to test polluted farmland along the Qiantang River, Fuchun River and Xin'an River - the three main rivers in the city.
China's soil is the most polluted in the world and the situation will only worsen for another 30 years, Professor Pan Genxing of Nanjing Agricultural University was quoted as saying in a report published by the Economic Observer newspaper this month.
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