Development Urged in Heilongjiang
September 8, 2008
Heilongjiang is part of northeast China (Manchuria), the traditional base of industry for the People’s Republic of China. Industry is focused upon coal, petroleum, lumber, machinery, and food. Due to its location, Heilongjiang is also an important gateway for trade with Russia.
Heilongjiang possesses the country’s largest forest zone, with a total area of 18.8 million hectares.
In contrast, it has rich coal reserves and electricity generation capacity in its power zone. The area includes the resource-rich cities Mudanjiang, Jiamusi, Jixi, Qitaihe, Shuangyashan and Hegang. The zone has 92% of the coal in the province.
Top Chinese political adviser, Jia Qinglin, on a visit there urged new social and economic development. This fits in with the government’s country’s strategy to revitalize the old industrial base.
Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), made this known during an inspection tour of Heilongjiang. He visited local farms, enterprises and research institutes.
He said Heilongjiang, the country’s largest production base of commodity grain, should make further efforts on grain production, by increasing agricultural input and infrastructure construction.
In addition, the province should promote the development of agricultural science and technology, and further arouse farmers’ initiatives for farming.
Meanwhile, Heilongjiang, as one of China’s important industrial bases, should encourage its equipment manufacturing industry.
Jia Qinglin, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, showed great concern regarding local ethnic minorities’ lives, saying the government should continue to help them lead harmonious and happy lives.
Source: English People’s Daily Online
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China’s expanding transport system
August 15, 2008
An increasingly advanced transportation system is handling massive human and cargo movements within China. Here is a collection of transport statistics. All data for 2007 unless otherwise stated.
Highways: World’s second-largest system at 3.58 million km, of which 53,900 km were expressways. Passenger capacity exceeded 20.5 billion and freight volume reached 16.4 billion tonnes.
Railways: Total length 78,000 km, of which 24,400 km were electrified, ranking third after Russia and Germany. Length in service 6 percent of world total but carried 25 percent of world traffic. Ridership was 1.36 billion, up 8 percent year-on-year. Freight volume 3.12 billion tonnes, up 8.6 percent.
Fastest train runs 350 km (217 miles) per hour between the capital, Beijing, and neighboring Tianjin.
Subways: Six cities have subways — Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Taipei and Nanjing. Systems under construction in eight other cities.
Beijing system ridership exceed 613 million.
Ports: Thirteen ports, each with annual throughput exceeding 100 million tonnes; eight among world’s top 50 container ports (including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian and Qingdao). Total throughput at Shanghai 560 million tonnes. More than 3,800 port berths, of which more than 1,000 are above 1,000 tonnes.
Merchant fleet total deadweight tonnage 60 million, fourth in world.
Airlines: Routes total 1,506, of which 1,216 were domestic and 290 were international connecting 91 cities. Airports total 152, handling 185.8 million persons, 4.02 million tonnes of cargo.
Five privately-run airlines and six joint ventures.
Source: Xinhua News
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Yerevan: Facing Lack of Subway Car Parking
July 16, 2008
Today in a discussion session conducted in the Municipality of Yerevan the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan was also present. According to the officials the problem number one in our city is the lack of subway car parking even in the central part of the city, reported the press service of the President’s Administration.
During the discussion the president said that the main problem is that cars are parking in wrong territories and places and not the points that there are too many cars in our city. “We should work on this rather seriously and find some solutions,” said the president.
According to the information and public relations department of the Municipality, the director of Italian “Renko” company Giovanni Rubini was also present at the discussion. He said that the representative of Italian Company in Armenia is “Armenian PPP” and as soon as they are authorized to conduct the project they will start constructing sub way car parking first in the squares of Aznavour and Saxarov and then expand the project.
The President said that the construction of those subway car parking is very important to make simple the traffic in Armenia.
Source: http://www.panorama.am
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London’s priciest car park ‘charges £43 for six hours’
July 16, 2008
Parking in the capital’s most expensive car park will set you back £43 for a six-hour stay, a London newspaper said Monday.
The multi-storey car park on Pavilion Road in Knightsbridge has been named London’s costliest by the Evening Standard. Located walking distance from luxury department store Harrods, the NCP-run facility charges drivers £7.20 an hour.
The paper said the highest hourly rate could be found at the NCP in Berners Street, Bloomsbury, which charges £8 per hour but a mere £33 for six hours.
The survey found that people driving into the capital for a day of shopping are better off parking at the Masterpark on Oxford Street where charges are £5 an hour or £24.50 for six hours.
AA president Edmund King told the Evening Standard the charges were “mind-boggling”, adding that they keep many shoppers out of central London.
Bargain hunters unwilling to walk, cycle or take the Tube or bus, should head for the City of London area car parks, the paper said, with parking at Spitalfields and Smithfield Market a steal at £2 an hour.
Source: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9Q36wTrSbBSwq9jMKc3iJQt1LQQ
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Networked Parking System Alerts Drivers to Free Spots
July 12, 2008
New technologies promise to revolutionize the hunt for a parking spot in big cities like San Francisco. Donald Shoup is along for the ride.
“This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24,000 metered parking spaces in the nation’s most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which of the spaces are free at any moment.
Drivers will be alerted to empty parking places either by displays on street signs, or by looking at maps on screens of their smartphones. They may even be able to pay for parking by cellphone, and add to the parking meter from their phones without returning to the car.
Solving the parking mess takes on special significance in San Francisco because two years ago a 19-year-old, Boris Albinder, was stabbed to death during a fight over a parking space.
“If the San Francisco experiment works, no one will have to murder anyone over a parking space,” said Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose work on the pricing of parking spaces and whether more spaces are good for cities has led to a revolution in ideas about relieving congestion.”
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