Office buildings and malls switch to “power saving mode” in Hangzhou

In view of straight summer heat recently, office buildings and shopping malls in Qianjiang New City have successively taken various measures to reduce energy consumption, saving electric power of 4,000 kWh per day.

Hangzhou Power Supply Corporation switches air conditioners to frequency conversion mode and turns up the AC temperature by 11℃ to save energy, power and cost. Ping’an Financial Center adopts “power saving mode” and shuts down half of the air conditioners, with AC energy consumption reduced by 60%. In addition to the reduction of energy consumption, shopping malls and other public places are subject to physical cooling by spraying water on curtain walls. Besides, radar sensing energy efficient lights are introduced to save energy, while power saving mode is adopted in many office buildings and shopping malls in Hangzhou. Moreover, SGCC Hangzhou Power Supply Corporation provides scientific guidance on power utilization by means of SMS and door-to-door services to ensure efficient and orderly energy conservation.

Wang Hao chairs provincial government executive meeting to schedule weekly economic operations

On the afternoon of the 11th, Governor Wang Hao presided over the 106th executive meeting of the provincial government to schedule weekly economic operations of our province, and review “Guiding Opinions on High-Quality Development of Global Advanced Manufacturing Base”.

The meeting pointed out that the province’s economy is currently under pressure from various aspects, and with the impact of the “August 2nd” epidemic in Yiwu, we are in a critical period of stabilizing economic progress. Relevant departments in various places must resolutely implement the important instructions on “preventing the epidemic, stabilizing the economy, and developing safely”, and based on the requirements of “a major economic province”, do a good job in various tasks, and make every effort to promote economic recovery and stable development. We must intensify our efforts to tackle tough problems in the industry, find the crux of the problems, implement a more precise and refined plan for each city and each county, and strengthen guidance for key industries and key cities and counties, so as to promote the recovery of the industry vigorously. We must stabilize land prices, housing prices, and expectations, and promote the steady and healthy development of the real estate market. We must take multiple measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, and continue to activate domestic demand and expand external demand. We must further ensure energy supply and price stability, do everything possible to meet the electricity demand of residents, agriculture, key industries, and key enterprises, accelerate the construction of major projects such as power supply, power grid, and energy storage, and speed up the formation of an energy mechanism that combines long-term and short-term schedules. We must make take full advantage of the special debt policies and the policy-based financial tools, promptly plan a number of “big high-quality” projects, and further improve effective investment, investment structure and investment efficiency, so as to enhance the stamina of high-quality development.

The meeting pointed out that manufacturing is an important foundation for Zhejiang’s high-quality development of a demonstration zone for common prosperity. On the basis of the “Guiding Opinions on High-Quality Development of Global Advanced Manufacturing Bases”, we must further refine the research on one-to-one policies and form more precise and practicable work measures. We must strengthen policy supply, further increase support for the development of the manufacturing industry, and solidly promote the construction of global advanced manufacturing bases.

The meeting also studied other matters.

Who is to blame for normalized high temperature?

This year, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai had little rain in the rainy season due to the shift of plum rain zone as a result of abnormal subtropical high, which was to blame for continuous high temperature and abnormal typhoon activities. On August 12, the National Meteorological Center of CMA issued the first state-level red alert for high temperature of up to 40℃ and over. High temperature may become a normal phenomenon in the future due to global warming and great impact of greenhouse gases.

Many regions provide higher subsidies for outdoor workers who are subjected to higher risk in high temperature. Hangzhou and other cities have also launched artificial rainfall for several times. However, appropriate clouds are necessary to make rain; that is to say, it needs certain weather conditions to make rain in high temperature even if the cost is not a question. Therefore, in order to fundamentally solve the problem of high temperature, we need to protect the environment to effectively curb the trend of global warming.

Hangzhou takes substantial measures to protect museum treasures

The museum is the place for cultural collections. As a city of museums, Hangzhou owns 36,000 pcs/sets of state-owned movable cultural relics. The core work of the museums is to safely display the cultural relics to the public in a sound and intact condition.

Hangzhou System for Management of Museum Collections, which was drafted by Hangzhou Garden & Cultural Relics Bureau (HGCRB) at the end of 2021 and was officially implemented on July 1 this year, sets out unified standards for the protection and management of movable cultural relics in Hangzhou.

Also, HGCRB develops “Intelligent Garden & Cultural Relics” management system to offer the digital management of the collections of state-owned museums across the city by offering electronic vouchers and leaving real-time marks. In addition, HGCRB has guided the digital reform of Linping District Museum so as to realize the digital management of the movable cultural relics by using cultural relic fingerprints to effectively present their trajectory.

The improved museum management system facilitates the protection and publicity of the collections.

Hairy crab price will be lowered by 10% as the fishing season starts

With stow net fishing vessels fully prepared to set off for fishing at 12:00 am on August 16th, fresh large yellow croakers, hairy crabs and other seafood will soon be available on the market.

Before the fishing vessels go out to the sea, many restaurants in Hangzhou have already booked seafood in advance and will wait for the goods at the wharves. Dadong, a live streamer at Xiangshan Fishing Port, has received over 70,000 orders for large yellow croakers by hawking before the camera.

The price of the hairy crabs supplied by Wang’s Group will be lowered slightly by 10% this year, as the weight and size of the hairy crabs which are the most favorite by the public, are generally reduced due to high temperature. Wang’s Group offered a lower price for the hairy crabs due to the reduction of cost as a result of improved logistics and its social responsibilities as a sponsor of Hangzhou Asian Games to offer discounts of seafood to Hangzhou citizens.

Live: A bird’s-eye view relay in Hangzhou

A bird’s-eye view of Liangzhu Park in Hangzhou[Photo/hangzhou.com.cn]

Hangzhou is a city with a remarkable history and many scenic spots, and it is also the host city of the 19th Asian Games. On August 13, this metropolis will be presented from another perspective. 300 sorties of drones will relay in the cloud, showing the wonderful colors of day and night of this city from above.

More men cleaning up with housekeeping businesses

Housekeeping is no longer the exclusive domain of women in China, with some young men now offering to clean the corners of your house or tidy up your messy kitchen, for a fee.

More than 300 home service companies have popped up nationwide over the past two years, and some have begun to hire energetic men for housekeeping duties. They are helping to challenge the traditional idea that housekeeping is women’s work, at least according to a report from Urban Express in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

Generally, the cost of male housekeepers is upward of 25 yuan per square meter, which is more than women earn doing the same work, although many male housekeepers are also asked to do more physically demanding tasks.

Shao Gang and Shao Qiang-twins born in 1990 in Shandong province-and their 30 male employees all wear uniforms to work. From cleaning greasy cooker hoods and fixing cracks in windows, to dusting ceiling lights and even polishing the shell of your pet turtle, they do it all.

The twins originally came to Hangzhou at the end of 2015 to work as e-commerce livestream hosts, but when they turned up to film, they felt uncomfortable.

“It was as if there was nowhere to stand because the house was packed so full of products for the livestreams,” Shao Gang said.

Shortly afterward, he learned that deep cleaning services were in great demand but because most cleaners were women, and often elderly, they weren’t able to move beds or sofas or climb up to dust lampshades or ceiling corners, and so the idea for a new business was born.

Before they opened Hangzhou Shenshi Housekeeping Service Co in May last year, the twins spent 10,000 yuan ($1,500) being trained to clean professionally by a household service company in Zhengzhou, Henan province.

Once their company was up and running, they advertised by posting videos on platforms like Bilibili and Douyin, which are popular with the younger generation.

Business has been good and can bring in up to 300,000 yuan a month. As a result, the twins have opened new branches and now offer deep cleaning services in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou and a number of other cities, and have served thousands of customers.

Compared with the 300 to 400 yuan ordinary cleaning services charge, deep cleaning is more expensive, which means that the twins have to offer clients higher quality service.

Take cleaning a cooker hood as an example. The company mandates a four-step process.

“First, we remove the oil catcher, spray it with a professional cleaner and then scrub it vigorously. Then we wipe off the oil with a scouring pad and finally, we rub it clean with a white rag,” Shao Gang said.

When cleaning glass or a mirrored surface, there can be no fingerprints or watermarks, and clients should be able to see only a perfect reflection.

Even though many challenges remain in this corner of the service industry-including frequent quality complaints and labor disputes-the twins have found that demand for their service is growing rapidly, especially among younger clients.

“More than 80 percent of our customers are young people,” Shao Gang said, explaining that even many born in the 2000s who have only just started to work are willing to spend money on deep cleaning.

“For the young, who are more concerned with their quality of life, renting a house is not just about finding a place to sleep but about making a home where they can rest and relax, and so they are willing to pay for our services.”

Bring coolness to the construction site

Yesterday, the highest temperature of Hangzhou hit 40.9℃, a record high in this summer. Yesterday afternoon, Dingan Road Community of Qingbo Sub-district of Shangcheng District cooperated with relevant units under the jurisdiction of the district to provide herbal tea, mung bean soup, lemonade and other heat-relieving drinks for the workers engaged in old residential community renovation projects of Houshi Street as well as other outdoor workers in the neighborhood to send careand offerthe logistical support in the combat against the high temperature in the scorching summer.

Hangzhou was selected as the national pilot city in building the strong intellectual property city

Hangzhou was successfully selected as one of the demonstrative cities in Notice of China National Intellectual Property Administration on Determining National Pilot Cities in Building the Strong Intellectual Property City issued on August 11.

In recent years, Hangzhou has connected up all the links of the whole chain from the creation, utilization, protection and management to the service of intellectual properties to ensure the high-quality development of intellectual properties. In the Global Innovation Index City Ranking 2021 released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, Hangzhou ranks the 21st, moving up 4 places on the ranking year-on-year. As of the end of 2021, the city topped all provincial capitals in China with 106,000 valid invention patents and 2,062 PCT international applications. Next, Hangzhou will gradually boostthe projects for efficient utilization ofintellectual properties and promote the coordinated use of industrial intellectual properties.

Light up the spirit of the Asian Games in basketball

On August 11, the 3V3 Youth Basketball Match for Pairing Areas of Hangzhou was launched. Basketball youths from Aksu (Xinjiang), Delingha (Qinghai), Ganzi (Sichuan) and Enshi (Hubei), as well as the local basketball players of Hangzhou, gathered in Hangzhou Gongshu Canal Sports Park Gymnasium to attend the competition.

The champion teams took turns to exchange their skills, interpreting the sportsmanship of teamwork and tenacious struggle. The scene set wonderful performances, such as cheer leading, freestyle basketball and dance, and launched the Youth Calligraphy & Painting Exhibition themed by “Greeting the Asian Games and Jointly Building the Dream of the Powerful Country”, conveying the beautiful yearning for the Asian Games.