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Shanghai Children's Delegation to
West China was formed at the former residence of Soong Ching
Ling on Tuesday. The delegation, made up of 60 Shanghai
students, will stage a series of exchange programmes with
children in Qinghai this July in the fields of culture and
art. All the members were selected through competitions
on knowledge, composition and the environment. As part of
the programme, jointly organized by the Shanghai Soon Ching
Ling Foundation and Unilever, the programme aims to make
Shanghai children learn more about the West.
Elderly people in Shanghai now have
an electronic nurse since a specific calling service system
was put into use this month. The system allows people to
connect with hospitals, free health consulting and other
services simply by pressing a button in their houses. The
24-hour system was established through the community services
information system. The system can also be used to arrange
funiture repairs, contact nurses, buy tickets and even provides
a three-hour free calling period every afternoon to soothe
their loneliness. About 10,000 families will have this system
installed in their homes by the end of this year.
OF all the Chinese revolutionary
women, Jiang Jie, or Sister Jiang, is the epitome of perseverance,
determination, carefulness and sacrifice.Her story has been
adapted to movie and stage play. From June 7 to 11, it will
be presented as an opera is a combination of traditional
Chinese and Western opera.
CHINA'S first composite paper, printing
and packaging exchange centre has been set up in the city's
Pudong area.The centre's trade volume is extected to reach
5 billion yuan($600 million) by the end of May, 2002. Its
goal is to become the most authoritative centre in Asia
for information on pulp price, paper producing technologies
and trade information, printing and packaging product sales
and design trends.
Exhanging rings in the sky, on the
hill of surrounded by fish, Shanghai's young people combine
Chinese and Western elements in their weddings.
SHANGHAI plans to build up between
15-20 advanced clinical centres with an investment of 1
billion yuan($120 million) in fout to five years. Half of
the investment, of 500 million yuan($60 million),will be
allocated by the city government, while the other half will
be invested by the hospitals.
Dominant foreign involvement in
local State-owned enterprises is being encouraged with an
eye toward profitability.
Suzhou Creek, Huangpu River attract
builders looking to lure residents who fancy a touch of
nature.
In such a fast-moving city like
Shanghai ,pressure from work allows white-collar women little
time for their emotional life.Then how to keep a balance
between love and career seem to be an eternal problem for
them.
Locally made yachts are expected
to cruise on the Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek in the near
future.
Shanghai introduced $2.10 billion
of contractual foreign investment in the January-March period,
up 110 per cent from a year earlier,and actually used $899
million of foreign funds, up 39.7 per cent.
Shanghai customs will open a special
counter at Pudong International Airport for Asia-Pacific
Economic Co-operation(APEC) meetings for the convenience
of participants. APEC out-lets will also be opened at post
offices and some local Customs branches, according to Customs
sources.
Shanghai is eager to attract foreign
investment to accelerate the construction of its 10 railway
lines.To reduce costs and improve efficiency, the city set
up four separate companies last year to oversee investment,
construction, operation, and supervision.
Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines
recently signed an agreement to merge with china Northwest
Airlines and Yunnan Airlines. The new airline group's total
assets will amount to 47.3 billion yuan ($5.7billion), with
118 planes, 25,109 employees and 437 domestic and international
air routes.
FINLAND-based IDO Company, affiliated
with the world's llargest sanitary-ware producer, Sanitec
Company, has set up its China head office in Shanghai as
part of its business strategy to expand into the Chinese
market.
Some claim the sport can streamline
yur body and help yu lose or gain weight as you like.To
meet the demand of yung women in Shanghai who are looking
to lose weight in a healthy manner, a new sport called"shaping"was
recently introduced and has been gaining a lot of popularity.
Shanghai's 10 satellite towns¡ªthe
new Songjiang City and nine surburban towns¡ªwill be built
into towns displaying European, American and Australian
architectural styles.
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