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Industry park powers ahead

PROJECTS worth almost 2 billion yuan (US$295 million) have been launched in Nanhui Industrial Park, between Pudong International Airport and the Yangshan Deep-Water Port. Projects include alternative energy, information......

December 28, 2009, Monday

Building Valley of the Sun

A solar valley is under construction in Nanhui Industrial Park that aims to become a solar energy center in three to five years. The 5.5-square-kilometer area will represent an integrated industrial chain, from......

December 28, 2009, Monday

Cooking up pretty pictures for Oven God

SEVENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Sun Youxiang is rushing around his village these days, armed with paints and brushes, and decorating clay ovens with colorful flowers, birds, country scenes, couplets and good luck sayings. He's......

December 28, 2009, Monday

City has senior priority

SHANGHAI so far has 534,400 residents over 80 years old, representing almost 18 percent of the population over 60 years old, according to the city's Population and Family Planning Commission. Last year Shanghai's......

November 2, 2009, Monday

Five-star luxury community lures elderly residents with service

SHANGHAI is going gray. By 2030, the city will have 5 to 6 million senior citizens aged over 60, almost 30 percent of the total population. Statistics from the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau show that the elderly......

November 2, 2009, Monday

Antiques collector shares history with farmers

TANG Liguo is a farmer through and through. He raises fish in his pond, grows eggplant in the courtyard, plants gingko trees in front of his house and runs a small grocery with his wife in a room facing a countryside......

September 14, 2009, Monday

IT grad now rules the roost as Shanghai's 'King of Eggs'

AN IT grad returns to his humble village to raise chickens. Today he's crowing about it. Tan Weiyun unscrambles the tale. Squawking chickens, crowing roosters, smelly droppings and tons of feed - that's what......

September 14, 2009, Monday

Datuan garden offers a lot more than just plump, juicy peaches

IT'S peach season again. That oh so sweet and juicy fruit is ripe for the picking now and it looks like a bumper harvest this summer. From late July to early August is prime time for peaches in Shanghai. Urban......

August 1, 2009, Saturday

Now they whistle for the sake of art

BIRD whistling, a 100-year-old hunting skill in Nanhui's Shuyuan Village by Hangzhou Bay, has been turned into a popular art form with the help of the government. The skill was invented by local fishermen and......

June 6, 2009, Saturday

Sending a tweet - Old bird caller turns from hunter to savior

ONCE bird whistler Zhu Delong and fellow villagers used age-old bird-calling skills to catch birds and sell their meat. Today he helps environmentalists and bird flu researchers. Wing Tan pecks at the tale. Zhu......

June 6, 2009, Saturday



 

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