China opens first
vegetable museum -
China's first vegetable museum
opened in eastern Shandong Province Monday, covering an area of
3,000 square meters.
China Shouguang Vegetable Museum
shows the relationship between the development of China's
vegetable farming and society, exhibiting items such as farming
tools, specimens and drawings from the Longshan civilization
period (2340 B.C. - 1940 B.C.) to modern period, said Wang Ziran,
deputy director of the museum's project team.
"You can find a
130-million-year-old plant fossil here and see the tools used to
farm vegetables in the Han Dynasty, about 2100 years ago," He
added.
The museum is located in Shandong's
Shouguang City, known as "Vegetable Town of China," where 56,000
hectares are used to grow vegetables out of a total 94,000
hectares of arable land.
The city area produced about 4
billion kilograms of high-quality vegetables in 2009, according
to the local government.
(Source: CCTV.com
April 20, 2010 )
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China's Ministry of Culture on
Tuesday set building standards of public libraries to ensure
that they can meet the demands of the country's booming
urban population.
Population size would be the major reference for the size of
new libraries from Nov. 1, the ministry said in a circular.
In the
past, the size of public cultural facilities was usually
decided by local administrations, but in some counties and
villages, especially in eastern China, communities had
expanded quickly, beyond the scale of their libraries, said
a ministry official.
Under the
new rules, a library in an area with up to 200,000 people
should be a minimum of 800 square meters and a maximum of
4,500 square meters.
The
specific size could be decided by the local government in
accordance with practicality.
A
community with up to 1.5 million should have a library
ranging from 4,500 square meters to 20,000 square meters;
while libraries in areas with up to 10 million people should
range from 20,000 to 60,000 square meters.
"If local
governments want to build a library, they should follow the
standard, which was based on field surveys and reference to
international levels," said the official, who declined to be
named.
He said
local populations would include all residents living in an
area for at least six months, which would allow rural
migrant workers to use the facilities.
The
ministry started to draft the construction standard under
orders from the Construction Ministry in 2002. (Xinhua News
2008-10-21)
