CHINA DAILY MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2012 china 11 Kaifeng to restore historical image By AN BAIJIE to move out of the downtown acquired more than 626,000 [email protected] region in the next four years, the square meters of residents’ report said. houses for the construction Th e local government in Kai- Th e demolition and reloca- projects by late July, according feng, an ancient city in Central tion will cost at least 100 billion to the report on the govern- China’s Henan province, plans yuan ($15.7 billion). Th e city’s ment’s website. to restore the city’s historical fi nancial revenue was just 5 bil- An offi cial from the Kaifeng appearance of its downtown. lion yuan last year, according to city government told People’s The city was the capital of the report. Daily on Sunday that the cost seven dynasties, including the Kong Xiangcheng, deputy of the project was an estimate, Northern Song Dynasty (960- chief of the Kaifeng bureau of and the local government would 1127), when China’s economy housing and urban-rural devel- try to attract both enterprises boomed and society thrived. opment, said that the project and individuals to invest in the To restore the city’s historical was “very difficult” and the project. outlook of its peak period in the local government had “made The official, who spoke on Northern Song Dynasty, the preparations” for the upcoming condition of anonymity, denied RETURNING HEROES government plans to reconstruct diffi culties, the report said. China Business Journal’s report PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY some ancient buildings in the Th e local government signed that residents were forced to downtown area. Th e project will a contract on Thursday with move out, saying that the proj- Chinese Olympic swimming champions, Sun Yang, second from the left , and Ye Shiwen, second require more than 34,000 fami- the China Construction Bank ect benefi ted local people, who from the right, during a welcoming ceremony in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. lies to move from their homes by Henan branch, in which the could now move into better the end of the year, Wang Xue- bank promised to provide a 15 houses. jie, vice-mayor of Kaifeng, said billion yuan loan to the govern- Th e project was met with in a report released on the city ment within three to fi ve years, fi erce criticism by netizens government’s offi cial website on according to the Kaifeng city on micro blogs on Sunday Astronauts tell students about Shenzhou IX feat Saturday. government’s offi cial website. aft er it was reported by news Th e project aims to boost the Li Tao, a worker at Longting media. Many people ques- By GUO JIAXUE in Hong Kong A young man tried to answer people’s old dream of fl ying to which was used by the three ancient city’s tourism industry Park whose 133-square-meter tioned whether the local [email protected] but failed. Th en Jing explained the moon. He pointed out that astronauts to return to earth. and exhibit the prosperity of the house is slated to be demolished, government could afford that all the fruit that is brought reaching Mars still requires a At the exhibition, visitors can Northern Song Dynasty, Qi Jinli, claimed 600,000 yuan in com- the cost and whether local Space technology fever heat- is sliced into pieces and dried series of technological break- get a real look at how the three Party secretary of Kaifeng, said pensation, but the local govern- residents would benefi t from ed up on Sunday as the Shen- using a special technique. throughs. astronauts lived. A four-minute in early January, according to the ment insisted on paying him only the project. zhou IX astronauts disclosed Zhou Jianping, chief design- Earlier, the three astronauts video recorded the trio eat- government’s website. 274,030 yuan, according to a pro- Fan Lei, 35, an employee at more details of June’s manned er of the China Manned Space started the third day of their ing and drinking, conducting To make room for the devel- vincial news media. the local taxation bureau, said he space docking to a group of uni- Engineering Offi ce, also told the Hong Kong trip at the Peak in medical experiments, as well opment, the local government The local government has embraced the government’s versity students. students about the three phases the morning to overlook the as exercising with a riding cycle plans to demolish 5.8 million required the park’s administra- ambitious project because it Some 500 students from dif- of China’s manned space pro- city’s iconic harbor view. Subse- ergometer and pulley machine. square meters of old buildings tor — the bureau of cultural will make his hometown more ferent colleges in the city fi lled gram. He said that one more quently, they attended the open- A total of 100 photos will also in the next four years, Qi told heritage and parks — to per- beautiful. But he also worries the an auditorium at the Chinese space laboratory, a manned ing ceremony of an exhibition be exhibited as well as the tra- the Henan provincial radio sta- suade Li to accept the com- project might be discarded with University of Hong Kong on spacecraft and cargo space- on China’s fi rst manned space ditional Chinese knot made by tion in a program on June 28. pensation deal, according to a half-completed buildings due to Sunday afternoon for a face- craft will be launched. By 2020, docking mission at the Hong Liu Yang and her spacesuit. Th e blueprint of the recon- notice published on the Kaifeng money problems. to-face meeting with the three China’s fi rst near-earth manned Kong Science Museum. The trio arrived in Hong struction project shows that the Daily on Tuesday. “What I care for most is the astronauts, Jing Haipeng, Liu space station will be established Th e 15-day exhibition pres- Kong on Friday for a four-day new buildings will be built in The notice required seven housing issue — whether the Wang and Liu Yang. and become operational. ents a number of items to goodwill tour. On Saturday, the style of the Northern Song bureaus and departments, includ- compensation for demolished The astronauts answered Responding to a question give visitors a better picture they talked about their years of Dynasty, and even road signs ing the public security bureau and houses will meet residents’ questions about complicated raised by a student from the of the manned rendezvous hard astronaut training experi- on the streets will “refl ect the the transport bureau to persuade demand and whether the newly rendezvous, docking technolo- Hong Kong University of Sci- and docking mission between ences with 1,400 local primary character of the Northern Song some of their employees to accept built houses would be comfort- gies and space life. In a surprise ence and Technology about Tiangong-1 space station and and secondary students. The Dynasty”, according to a report the government’s compensation able to live in,” he told China twist, students were also tested when China will send astro- Shenzhou IX spacecraft that astronauts also revealed their in China Business Journal. deal for the demolition of their Daily on Sunday. by the astronauts. nauts to the moon and maybe was successfully completed in versatility at a welcome gala A total of 80,000 families, houses. Veteran astronaut Jing even Mars, Zhou answered June. show held by the Hong Kong making up nearly a third of Vice-mayor Wang said on Liu Hua in Zhengzhou con- Haipeng suddenly asked: “How that he believes it “won’t take Th e exhibits include the re- government on Saturday aft er- the city’s population, will have Friday that the government had tributed to this story. did we bring fruit to space?” too long” to realize the Chinese entry capsule of Shenzhou IX, noon.