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January 13, 2012, Friday
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THE "I Love Hangzhou" International Photo Contest ended recently with 209 entries winning various prizes.
The organizer handed out one outstanding prize, eight first prizes and 200 prizes of excellence. The winners were selected from more than 60,000 entries.
The outstanding prize went to a photographer nicknamed Ri Yue, meaning sun and moon in Chinese. He lives on the 15th floor of a residential high-rise in Hangzhou overlooking a magpie nest. Using a camera, he documented a magpie couple hatching eggs and feeding five chicks in the spring of 2010.
Ri Yue snapped more than 20,000 photos of the magpie family until the young birds left the nest after two months. His photo essay won the outstanding prize of 50,000 yuan (US$7,937) in cash.
Ming Pin won a first prize with a picture of the Xixi Wetland. The beautiful nature reserve is the sole motif of the more than 100,000 photos he took there.
Ancient tombs
Hangzhou Archeology Institute and Xiaoshan Museum said that they had unearthed 45 tombs dating back to the 11th century BC.
The joint team began the excavation 10 months ago after police found grave robbers were digging some ancient tombs.
Archeologists have discovered 708 artifacts from the tombs, including pottery, bronze items, ironware and jade carvings. Based on their finds, the experts assumed the 45 tombs were built between the late Shang (16th century-11th century BC) and Eastern Zhou (770-256 BC) dynasties.
The acidic soil has eroded the jade, bronze and iron objects severely.
Most of the intact relics from the tombs are pottery pieces, said Shi Jianong, the curator of Xiaoshan Museum.
The tombs are on a hillside near Xiang Lake in Xiaoshan District. They face a 128-meter-high hill which used to be a fortress for the troops of Gou Jian, the king of Yue. Archeologists believe the tombs belonged to the warriors of the fortress.
Car sales dip
Car sales in Hangzhou last year dropped for the first time in four years, as the government ended some subsidy programs.
Sales fell 7.2 percent from a year earlier to 150,000 units, the Hangzhou Tax Bureau said this week. That followed sales of 160,000 in 2010, 117,000 in 2009 and 76,000 in 2008.
The government last year rescinded subsidies implemented to encourage consumers to buy small cars with engine capacities under 1.6 liters.
The only bright spot in new car sales in the city last year was luxury models, which posted a double-digit increase. Industry insiders said even that segment may suffer this year amid an economic slowdown.
Wetland award
Xixi Wetland in Hangzhou received a top award in China's tourism industry on Monday - China's only national wetland park received a 5A rating.
Altogether six scenic areas, including Huanglong in Sichuan Province and Shennongjia in Hubei Province, were given awards by the National Tourism Administration.
The wetland joins West Lake and Qiandao Lake in Hangzhou with top-level tourist ratings.
About 30 million yuan (US$4.75 million) has been invested in Xixi Wetland to upgrade roads and bridges, and set up a full-functioning tourism center in the park.
In addition, 25 million yuan was invested to set up nine information systems, including 3D graphics and remote controls.
More than 7.4 million people visited the wetland in the past two years, generating income of 280 million yuan for the park.
The organizer handed out one outstanding prize, eight first prizes and 200 prizes of excellence. The winners were selected from more than 60,000 entries.
The outstanding prize went to a photographer nicknamed Ri Yue, meaning sun and moon in Chinese. He lives on the 15th floor of a residential high-rise in Hangzhou overlooking a magpie nest. Using a camera, he documented a magpie couple hatching eggs and feeding five chicks in the spring of 2010.
Ri Yue snapped more than 20,000 photos of the magpie family until the young birds left the nest after two months. His photo essay won the outstanding prize of 50,000 yuan (US$7,937) in cash.
Ming Pin won a first prize with a picture of the Xixi Wetland. The beautiful nature reserve is the sole motif of the more than 100,000 photos he took there.
Ancient tombs
Hangzhou Archeology Institute and Xiaoshan Museum said that they had unearthed 45 tombs dating back to the 11th century BC.
The joint team began the excavation 10 months ago after police found grave robbers were digging some ancient tombs.
Archeologists have discovered 708 artifacts from the tombs, including pottery, bronze items, ironware and jade carvings. Based on their finds, the experts assumed the 45 tombs were built between the late Shang (16th century-11th century BC) and Eastern Zhou (770-256 BC) dynasties.
The acidic soil has eroded the jade, bronze and iron objects severely.
Most of the intact relics from the tombs are pottery pieces, said Shi Jianong, the curator of Xiaoshan Museum.
The tombs are on a hillside near Xiang Lake in Xiaoshan District. They face a 128-meter-high hill which used to be a fortress for the troops of Gou Jian, the king of Yue. Archeologists believe the tombs belonged to the warriors of the fortress.
Car sales dip
Car sales in Hangzhou last year dropped for the first time in four years, as the government ended some subsidy programs.
Sales fell 7.2 percent from a year earlier to 150,000 units, the Hangzhou Tax Bureau said this week. That followed sales of 160,000 in 2010, 117,000 in 2009 and 76,000 in 2008.
The government last year rescinded subsidies implemented to encourage consumers to buy small cars with engine capacities under 1.6 liters.
The only bright spot in new car sales in the city last year was luxury models, which posted a double-digit increase. Industry insiders said even that segment may suffer this year amid an economic slowdown.
Wetland award
Xixi Wetland in Hangzhou received a top award in China's tourism industry on Monday - China's only national wetland park received a 5A rating.
Altogether six scenic areas, including Huanglong in Sichuan Province and Shennongjia in Hubei Province, were given awards by the National Tourism Administration.
The wetland joins West Lake and Qiandao Lake in Hangzhou with top-level tourist ratings.
About 30 million yuan (US$4.75 million) has been invested in Xixi Wetland to upgrade roads and bridges, and set up a full-functioning tourism center in the park.
In addition, 25 million yuan was invested to set up nine information systems, including 3D graphics and remote controls.
More than 7.4 million people visited the wetland in the past two years, generating income of 280 million yuan for the park.
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