The9th Qingdao International Sailing Week·Marine Festival2017, includes6 sections and over30 activities, kicked off in Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center on11thAugust.
The festival2017 is upgraded to Seven-Game-Two-Camp from Three-Game-One-Camp in previous events. Besides three local sailing brands, including Mayor Cup all-Qingdao tourism international round-the-island competition, Mazarin Qingdao international sailing competition, Sails of Wind Qingdao International OP sailing camp & sailing competition, the city also introduced a series of games and camps to different people, in particular,2017 International World-Famous University Sailing Game for college students, Oxford University, Cambridge University and Imperial College London of UK, UC Berkley of US, Moscow State University of Russia, The University of Melbourne, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University of China all send sailing teams to join the game in Qingdao. Holland, which enjoys rich sailing culture, formed a competitive college student league for Qingdao game. Qingdao University of Science and Technology, which recently got No.2 in team A of2017 Chinese College Student Sailing Championship, is going to compete with well-known competitors at home.
Holding at the same time with the Qingdao International Beer Festival, Qingdao will hold Summer of Olympics Sailing beer & gourmet season and carnival in Measure Dam in the Olympics Sailing Center. City citizens and visitors will not only enjoy more than20 kinds of different beer and more than50 snacks, but also can enjoy all kinds of entertainment facilities and events. (Sun Fei)
[Holding of sailing game of Beijing2018 Olympics Game in Qingdao triggered development of sailing sports in Qingdao. By Wang Hua]
Shandong People’s Friends award goes to3 foreigners in Qingdao
Famous football coach and German friend of Chinese people Mr. Klaus Schlappner, Mr. Maruyama from Qingdao Qeejoo Company, and Gerb Qingdao Control Co., Ltd. president Pu Enti were awarded Shandong People’s Friend recently.
Awarded to foreigners who make outstanding contribution to economic, social and foreign cooperation affairs of the province by Shandong People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the award is presented annually, and102 foreigners were awarded until now since2009. (Liu Zhenxing)
Qingdao’s4 invention patent indexes are No.1 in Shandong
Qingdao’s four major invention patent indexes, number of invention patent, PCT international patent application, domestic patent application and authorization cases, are No.1 in the whole Shandong province. According to the Notice of Patent Application and Authorization of Shandong in H12017 issued by Shandong Municipal Intelligence Rights Bureau recently.
In the1st half of2017, Shandong has67,998 domestic effective invention patents, up20.9% year-on-year. Qingdao has19,994 invention patents, up25.6% year-on-year. At the same time, Shandong applied for465 PCT international patents,243 are from Qingdao, over half of the total number.
Qingdao is superior on domestic patent application and authorization cases in Shandong. In the1st half of2017, Shandong has applied96,066 domestic patents,30,858 are invention patents. Qingdao applied25,312 patents, and10,517 are invention patents, more than1/3 of total number of Shandong. At the same time, Shandong got45,071 domestic patent authorizations, and9,217 are invention patents. Qingdao got10,336 domestic patent authorizations,2,961 are invention patents. Aggressive invention patent offers strong support to upgrade and transformation of Qingdao and Shandong economic development. (Li Wei)
Qingdao Dianbu Town to be one of China’s Most Beautiful Town2017
Dianbu Town of Laixi city stood out from over500 competitors to be one of China’s Most Beautiful Towns & Villages2017 in the1st round review, whichended recently.
Known as a Fertile Land of Peach Blossom, Dianbu Town enjoys good location--intersection of Laixi city, Jimo city and Pingdu city. The town is rich for tourist resources and a national AAA tourist site. Relying on the premier location and rich tourist resources, the town focuses on developing eco agricultural tourism, as well as eco livable town. Forest coverage rate of the town reaches to36%, and greening rate reaches to39%, average green land per person reaches to10.6sqm, satisfying basic needs of citizens with10-min recreational & fitness circle. The town has been honored with national eco town, national key town, one of the1stbatches of national feature town (aero town). (Lu Bo)
[Eco agricultural tourism of Dianbu town in Laixi city developed fast.]
