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People gather at the Westgate
Mall to watch a 350-square-metre, 100,000-piece
domino complex falling down in succession last weekend.
The activity is held to celebrate Beijing's successful
bid to host the 2008 Olympics.
shanghai is to build 15
wildlife protection zones in the next 10 years.
When the project is completed, the area of protection
zones within the city will total 1,000 square kilometres,
one-sixth of the total area of Shanghai. About 80
percent of animals living in the city will then
be protected. The 15 zones will be spread across
different counties.
Many Shanghai people seek
evening work. The local job market has begun opening
at night from 7:00pm to 9:00pm to meet the needs
of workers who are busy in the daytime. It is the
first time that this method has been employed in
China, and it has met with a good reception from
local residents.
Over the past few years,
many Hong Kong film companies have been looking
for aspiring stars in the mainland. With more investment
by hong Kong businessmen in Shanghai, more Hong
Kong-based popular singers come to business centres
in the downtown area to do promotion.
Shanghai Dazhong Transportation
has joined hands with Shanghai Yatong Co Ltd to
set up Shanghai Chongming Traffic Investment Co
Ltd as part of Chongming's overall development in
the new century. The venture, with registered capital
of 50 million Yuan ($6 million), will help Chongming,
China's third largest island, build highways and
container wharves.
The Shanghai Aircraft Factory
will soon deliver its 100th even tail for Boeing
737-NG airplanes to the Boeing company. Boeing experts
in shanghai said even tails produced by the Chinese
factory conform to international aviation quality
control standards and are comparable with international
advanced levels.
China opened its wholesale
industry to foreign investment for the first time,
as it approved the country's first wholesale joint
venture early last week.
Rapid economic development
in the city is attracting more and more Chinese
people studying abroad to come back and display
their prowess. The latest statistics show that to
date, 25,000 returned students are working in the
city. In the past 20 years, more than 100,000 people
left Shanghai to study abroad.Almost 50 per cent
of the returned students are working at State-owned
enterprises or foreign-funded enterprises.Many of
them have become the backbones of their respective
work units. In addition, returned students have
established more than 1,100 enterprises in Shanghai,
involving a total investment of $250 million.
Purchasing a house and renting
it out has become a new investment trend among Shanghai
residents. The house-rental market has prospered
and the number of rental offices nearly doubled.
The market is better controlled, with more agents,
on-line renting and house banks set up.
Shanghaiese now can see
many plants that did not grow here before. A college
key lab in Pudong has cloned nearly 60 plants, some
of which grow in Japan in remote mountains and species
on the verge of extinction. Experts in the lab said
a cloned plant can bear more than 100 yung plants
after three months.
The APEC Youth Festival-APEC
Young Leaders/Entrepreneurs Forum opened in Shanghai
on July 11.More than 230 young entrepreneurs, scholars
and government officials from all 21 APEC member
economies attended the forum. The theme of the forum
is "building commonprosperity by meeting challenges
of young leaders and entrepreneurs in the new economy."
The participants will deliver speeches, hold symposiums
and join the virtual trade show.
Shanghai Shipyard on the
Huangpu River will be moved to Chongming Island
within three or four years, to make way for the
expansion of Pudong's Lujiazui Finance and Trade
Zone.The shipyard occupies an area of 440,000 square
metres and the development project is expected to
cost about 10 billion yuan($1.2 billion).
CHINA Eastern Airlines is
to begin operating charter flights from Shanghai
to Kwangju, South Korea. The airline now serves
eight South Korean destinations with 41 weekly flights.
The Shanghai-based China
Sky Aviation Enterprises Group consisting of six
provincial airlines is to conduct goods transfer
business at six cities where the airlines are based
by opening up 74 air routes. The six airlines have
signed agreements. The group will discuss co-operation
in sharing aviation materials,curbing costs and
improving management.
Shanghai Bell Co Ltd has
recently aroused the attention of the information
technology industry with a proposal for development
of the next generation network(NGN).The NGN, based
upon the available network resources and an open
network frame, aims to provide diverse services
including voice, data and multimedia.
To mark the 80th anniversary
of the foundation of the Communist Party of China,
Shanghai TV Station hung an 80-metre-long and 56-metre-wide
Party flag on the wall of the station's building
on Sunday morning. Made by the Shanghai Flag and
Banner Factory, it is the biggest Party flag ever
made.
Pudong created a gross domestic
product of 37.6 billion yuan($4.5 billion) in the
first five months of this year, up 15.8 per cent
over the same period last year.
Sun Microsystems Shanghai
and the Hong Kong-based Internet infrastructure
company HoldFast have joined forces to establish
an Internet Application Product Research and Development
Centre in Shanghai.
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