Mews Briefs in Frontpage
1. The 86th Guangzhou Trade Fair posted a new high of US$ 12.7 billion under export contracts. Businessmen from 174 countries and regions went to the fair, 30% of them were new. The 87th fair will be held from April 15 to 26 next year. And the 88th fair will take place on October 15-26 in 2000.
2. Zhejiang Province's exports were valued at US$ 8.869 billion in the first 9 months this year, an year-on-year increase of 14%.
In this period, state enterprises' exports amounted to US$ 5.576
billion, making up 62.17% of the total exports in the province.
3. Huhhot, capital of Inner Mongolia, has commenced construction of a scientech cultural village in the New and High Technology Park Area. The village takes up 4.08 million sq m. And the park area focuses on bio-tech and patent daily life articles.
4. Local telephone household subscribers number over one million in Qingdao, a port city in Shandong Province. Telephone exchange capacity reaches 1.83 million lines and subscribers are one million households. The penetration rate in the whole city is 45.2 phones for one million households and 73 phones for one million households in the city proper.
5. A remote control teaching program is in operation in Shijiazhuang, provincial capital of Hebei Province. The program is being adopted at Hebei Teachers University. Under the program, students in classrooms in different localities can listen to lecturing in a principal classroom.
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