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Industry park powers ahead

District | Nanhui
2009-12-28

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...

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Building Valley of the Sun

District | Nanhui
2009-12-28

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...

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Cooking up pretty pictures for Oven God

District | Nanhui
2009-12-28

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...

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City has senior priority

District | Nanhui
2009-11-2

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...

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Five-star luxury community lures elderly residents with service

District | Nanhui
2009-11-2

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...

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Antiques collector shares history with farmers

District | Nanhui
2009-9-14

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...

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

District | Nanhui
2009-9-14

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...

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

District | Nanhui
2009-8-1

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...

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

District | Nanhui
2009-6-6

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...

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Now they whistle for the sake of art

District | Nanhui
2009-6-6

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...

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Dress up, dress down, dress to the nines, dress to kill, dress for success

District | Nanhui
2009-1-24

THERE'S nothing new about chasing fashion in China, the ancients did it too. Now a costume museum in Nanhui District showcases 600 years of style - dragon robes, cow's blood coats and sexy qipao, writes Tan Weiyun ...

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A last unspoiled oasis of antiquity

District | Nanhui
2009-1-24

NANHUI Xinchang Ancient Town has been honored as one of China's well-preserved historical and cultural relics. The town, dating back more than 1,300 years, was recently recognized as a national-level "Famous Old...

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Dream house of old -- 'Where there is a will, there's a way'

District | Nanhui
2008-12-20

FLOWER farmer Wang Yangen is building his "dream house," a sprawling recreation of a gracious complex -- built with his own two hands and using bits of old architecture that were to be bulldozed, writes Tan Weiyun ...

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The next big thing: Lingang New City

District | Nanhui
2008-11-29

SHANGHAI'S next big boom after Pudong New Area will be Lingang New City in southernmost coastal Nanhui District. The carefully planned urban utopia will combine a garden city with a shipping hub, writes Tan Weiyun ...

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Nanhui casts a wide net for marine high tech

District | Nanhui
2008-11-29

NANHUI District is projected to become China's largest marine industrial base, according to an economic development plan outlined this week. More than 180 business leaders and industrial experts from coastal cities...