Intelligence + Character = ACCESS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY NINGBO Committed to creating No. 1, Ai Xue Road (Liren Garden), Beilun District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, P.R.C. 315800 global citizens who s are life-long learners, collaborative thinkers and effective communicators Successful Graduates! • Pre K-12th grade • Only school in the region accredited by the Western Association of Schools & AIAN would like to Colleges congratulate the graduating • US curriculum aligned to Common Core class of 2016 for their successful application and • Only school in the region to offer SAT acceptances at leading testing for students on campus universities around the world. • Caring, experienced, qualified teachers These include: • Small class sizes Itsuki Sakamoto • Busing from 4 districts • University of Colorado, USA • AP and NWEA MAP testing • Purdue University, USA We would particularly • Only school in the region with • University of Iowa, USA like to congratulate Itsuki membership in EARCOS and ACAMIS • University of Hawaii, USA Sakamoto who is the first • In our 12th year of producing qualified • Houston Community College, USA graduate to complete graduates accepted in colleges across • Michigan State University, USA his entire 12 years of North America, Europe and Asia. • Stony Brook University, USA education at AIAN! • University of California, Riverside, USA Itsuki has been accepted • Syracuse University, USA at Purdue University • Kansas State University, USA in the Faculty of • University of Illinois at Urbana- Engineering. 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As of press time, it is not reported whether the child was acting out of patriotic duty and following the assertion in the People's Liberation Army Daily that the film was a “US propaganda tool,” or whether it was just not a fan of pop art in general. Either way, Zhao somehow remained calm and said that the child couldn't have possibly understood what it was doing and that perhaps the incident might have occurred during one of the brief instances of Wanda employees not giving a damn. The parents have since come forward to apologize and have offered compensation, which Zhao refused. Perhaps Zhao has a future making sand mandalas. Speaking of art... 6 | JUNE 2016 X THE WIRE / SHORTLIST / INSIGHT / BUSINESS City Aims to Develop Art and Culture Industries plans to vertically integrate its film production industry, so that props, sets, facilities, costumes, and actors can all be found within the city. According to Zhao Huifeng, the director of Ningbo Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the city will host over 100 activities for the 2016 Culture City of East Asia program, including the East Asian Art Festival, the Tian Yi Ge Forum, and the China, South Korea, and Japan Buddhism Convention. “Following the opening ceremony, we will work to make this Culture City of East Asia the shining star on the vanguard of Last month the city hosted the 2016 China (Ningbo) Cultural an improved human civilization,” said Zhao, presumably while Industries Fair recently in honor of Ningbo's designation as a choking back tears. 2016 Culture City of East Asia. This prestigious honor reflects Oops! Container Ships Collide off Ningbo Ningbo’s dedication to protecting its cultural heritage (provided, While en route from Qingdao to Ningbo last month, Maersk apparently, there are no children around) and establishing itself Line’s Safmarine Meru collided with the Northern Jasper, a as a cultural capital of China, as well as promoting its culture German-owned container vessel. The incident took place around throughout the rest of the world. 120 nautical miles east of our fair city. The collision caused severe damage and a fire to break out aboard Safmarine Meru and a fire Ningbo’s cultural events reflect the city’s strategy to develop broke out. The Safmarine Meru’s crew of 22 people abandoned its culture on a local and national scale, specifically in the the vessel shortly after, but all are reportedly safe and sound. areas of literature, music, and film. This “Three-in-One City” strategy is intended to promote Ningbo’s rich cultural history Safmarine Meru is a 4,650 TEU container vessel, built in 2006 in each of the three areas. To support its long literary tradition, and sails under the Hong Kong flag. At the time of the collision, Ningbo is planning to develop its digital reading network, foster Safmarine Meru had less than 400 full containers on board and community groups and activities for reading, and expand its was deployed on Maersk Line’s TP18 service. Northern Jasper publishing industry. As for establishing Ningbo as a “city of was built in 2009 and sails under the Liberian flag. It has a 8,400 music,” the city plans to continue its recent tradition of hosting TEU capacity and is owned by Norddeutsche Reederei NAV, music festivals, as well as developing other music-related which is probably interesting to some people. activities and cultivating musical talent among its citizens. In regards to the city’s relationship with the film business, Ningbo Rock On! "Ningbo Music East Midlands Airport- Port" to be Built Ningbo Direct Flights in A project which seeks to build a “music-industrial chain”, Our Future? with a total investment of RMB 20 million yuan, has begun in central Jiangbei near the Ningbo Grande Theatre. The Ian Curryer, chief executive of Nottingham City Council, project has been dubbed “Ningbo Music Port” and is an said he had held "very constructive discussions" with attempt to “accelerate the expansion and clustering of the Ningbo Airport while visiting the city as part of a business cultural industries.” delegation. The airport, whose quintessentially British location is described as being in “Leicestershire close to According to some related leaders from the district Castle Donington,” would serve to strengthen ties between government, the music cultural industry will become Nottingham (UK) and Ningbo. an important impetus to the economic transformation of Jiangbei District. It will develop the music cultural And East Midlands Airport chiefs have described securing industry for the development of the marine silk road and sustainable scheduled long haul flights to China, America accelerate its integration into the national development and destinations in the Middle East as a "major goal" for the strategy. "Ningbo Music Port" will not only be a clustering future. platform for music cultural businesses and a community featuring fashion and culture, but a “music port” cultural transmission and exchange. JUNE 2016 | 7 The BRIEFING City Hosts APEC Urbanization Forum Ningbo hosted this year's APEC Urbanization Forum from June 2nd-3rd. Over 200 guests from APEC member countries participated in the forum, discussing the topic of “Urbanization and Inclusive Growth”. The forum is an attempt to put the results of APEC 2015 into practice and is the first large and high-level APEC forum on the theme of urbanization. The big to-do included an opening ceremony, a ministerial roundtable, a press conference of Ningbo Initiative, heinous traffic jams, six theme forums, hit 1.77 billion, 61 percent of the whole population in the field trips for delegates and other activities. During the forum, region. According to estimates of the World Bank, global urban discussions were held regarding such topics as interaction population is expected to reach 2.38 billion in 2050, 77 percent among Asia-Pacific cities, urban sustainable development and of the total. Urbanization has been recognized as a frontier innovation in urbanization, focusing on specific issues of all sorts for regional cooperation," said a statement released during the like enhancing urban infrastructure and amenities, constructing forum. smart and green cities, effecting urban reconstruction, innovating in financing practice during urbanization, boosting As to why Ningbo was chosen for the event, “Ningbo is among small and medium-sized cities, where to get the best pizza the first crop of pilot cities for the national experiment of (it's Amore's, by the way). The forum introduced the “Ningbo neo-urbanization. It made many significant attempts during Initiative,” which was surely specific and devoid of propaganda. its urbanization that might inspire APEC members,” explained Chen Yijun, member of Standing Committee of the CPC Ningbo "In 2014, the urban population of APEC member economies Municipal Committee and vice mayor.