Tag Archives: Ningbo

Wanton tree destruction in Ningbo and other stories from China’s front pages today

When a user snapped and posted on Weibo a picture of trees mysteriously uprooted on a road in Ningbo and then left there to die, a journalist picked it up and decided to investigate. What he found was no massive … Continue reading

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Why is the air quality in Ningbo so bad? A government official explains

Pollution in Ningbo has apparently been very bad of late, with ubiquitous fog, occasional dust storms and a gloomy dusk hanging over the city like a “layer of cotton yarn”. So the local Modern Express (现代快报) from Zhejiang province decided to try … Continue reading

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Ningbo will ‘resolutely not have the PX project’

Unmentioned in almost every other newspaper in the country, but right in the middle of the front page of the Ningbo Daily (宁波日报) today is a brief announcement: Ningbo will resolutely not have the PX project. After protests all of last week against an expansion project … Continue reading

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Danwei Picks: sympathy for the embezzler

Reactions to Yu Huafeng (喻华峰); Rupert Murdoch tilts at China; the Rio Tinto acquisition; taxi drivers on a hunger strike in Ningbo.

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World’s longest sea bridge connects Shanghai to Ningbo

According to Xinhua, the bridge has the world’s longest cross-sea span. It will cut the length of the drive from Shanghai to Ningbo from 400 km to 80km.

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