In March 1996, a series of reports planned by the Social Economy Department connected the formerly independent economic pages under the department's responsibility, and published six consecutive reports, including "Alas, why is it so difficult to spend money" and "All the Roads are Cards," which systematically reflected the difficulties of the public who had to run around to various designated banks to pay for water, electricity, gas and other expenses. This group of reports immediately caused a strong reaction in the public, many readers have written or called the newspaper, thanks for the people to say the heart.
In order to promote the early resolution of the problem, this series of reports are also organized into materials sent to the city leaders. After two years of unremitting tracking, the problem of payment of fees was finally resolved, payment of fees in March 1998, officially put into use in Xiamen, which is the first of its kind in the country, known as the Xiamen model. This group of reports has won national, provincial and municipal news awards.
In 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, 30,000 young people from Xiamen went to three counties in western Fujian (Yongding, Shanghang and Wuping) to receive re-education, and in the early 1980s most of them returned to the city, but more than 480 of them stayed in the area.
In 1995, Xiamen Evening News published an article by Xie Chunchi, a writer from Xiamen, entitled "Searching for the Last Zhiqing," reflecting the current situation of Xiamen's Zhiqing who stayed in the western part of the country, and their expectations and demands. After the publication of the article, the former Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Lu Zifen was y touched, the next day to the then municipal government leaders wrote an earnest letter, hoping that the Municipal Party Committee and the municipal government to properly solve the problem of intellectuals left behind in western Fujian. Municipal leaders attach great importance to this, by the municipal office of the investigation team, held a coordination meeting of relevant departments, and made a special trip to western Fujian to organize a symposium to listen to the views of young people.
October 1996, the municipal government office jointly issued "on the work of Xiamen in western Fujian Zhiqing opinions", "Xiamen Evening News" that is to "let the last Zhiqing return to the city" as the title of the report, in western Fujian Zhiqing and their relatives and friends have caused a great reaction. Thereafter, the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, Public Security Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau, Personnel Bureau, Labor Bureau, the Municipal Education Commission jointly issued a document on the return of some of the specific problems of Zhiqing to the city to deal with the decision, "Xiamen Evening News" timely report on the "Zhiqing returned to Xiamen with specific provisions," followed by May 17 report on the city of the new rules of the recruitment of Xiamen children of children of Zhiqing candidates. Jiulong River is the second largest river in our province. Xiamen City, since the completion of the North Stream Diversion Project, the Jiulong River water has become the most important water source in Xiamen. In order to call on all walks of life upstream and downstream *** with the protection of the ecology of the Jiulongjiang River, so that the public understand the Jiulongjiang River, "Xiamen Evening News" planned a study of the Jiulongjiang River *** Drinking a river of water series of reports.
The first activity was embarked on in 1998, and full preparations were made in advance to invite resource experts Hong Huasheng and Zhu Hejian to introduce the situation, and to hire Prof. Zhu Hejian as the general consultant of this activity; Associate Professor Liao Shanguang of Fu Shihua University, and Cao Wenzhi of Xiamen University's post-doctoral workstation participated in the study tour as an accompanying consultant; and five volunteers were publicly recruited to participate in the study tour.
The Xiamen Evening News followed the whole expedition by four reporters, including Pan Xingjun.
The expedition took place in February 1999, and the team traveled back to the area and then down to the city. The investigation team traced back and then down, traveled 10,000 miles, more than a month through 18 counties and districts in western Fujian and southern Fujian, has the source of the Jiulong River, Meihuashan Nature Reserve, Meihuahuashan Lake, Yanshixi, as well as Xixi River, Nanxi, Jiulong River into the sea section of the watershed of ecological and environmental protection status of the investigation, sent back to the report of more than 30 articles, more than 30 pictures. These reports through a large number of examples of field trips, reflecting the current situation of the Nine Dragons and the existence of problems, causing Xiamen, Zhang, Long and other places and provincial leaders to pay attention to contribute to the Nine Dragons Basin municipalities to join forces to carry out comprehensive remediation, so that the public have a more comprehensive understanding of Xiamen's mother river.
September 2003, "Xiamen Evening News" again hosted *** Drinking a river of water - the second Jiujiang River ecological survey, and Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Longyan three cities jointly with the Environmental Protection Bureau, the source of the Jiujiang River - Liancheng County, Quxi Township, Fengdi Village, the source of the Jiujiang River monument. Promoting multifaceted cooperation upstream, midstream and downstream. One night in June 2002, a citizen named Xu Yuhong called the Evening News hotline to tell about meeting a 14-year-old mentally disabled girl who couldn't find her way home on the train back to Xiamen. The girl was rescued by Anhui police from a case of trafficking in women and children, and she could only provide her name, Jiang Weilong, working in Shishi, Fujian, the rest could not provide more information, and even did not know her family's name and place of origin. Ms. Xu concluded from Jiang's accent that she is absolutely not Shishi people, in order to avoid letting the girl into the tiger's mouth, Ms. Xu to Xiamen Evening News for help.
Receiving the call, the Xiamen Evening News leadership and a number of reporters immediately came to the side of Xiao Xu and the girl, and left Jiang Weilong. To help Jiang Weilong find his way home, "Xiamen Evening News" reporter wrote a story full of twists and turns and suspense to find his family, according to the information provided by the readers about the girl's origin, and contacted the Hunan TV, the two places to join forces, a series of reports stirred up a strong interest in the people of the two places. With the help of readers, the 14-year-old girl finally returned to her hometown in Shaoyang, Hunan. Local villagers set off firecrackers along the way to thank for the rescue. Soon after, the local county government sent a fax saying that with the help of all sectors of the community, Xiao Jiang had gone to school. The government also issued a call to the entire county to learn from the noble spirit of Xiamen citizens who are eager to help the weak. In August 2003, Xie Wenying, a student at Xiamen University, sent a fax to Dr. Kazimierz Poznanski, who is far away from the other side of the ocean, hoping that through Xiamen Evening News, he would find out about the life of Zhou Tingxu, a Chinese American artist who was born in Xiamen 100 years ago, and search for his relatives and friends and biographical information in Xiamen. Dr. Katz, a renowned professor of economics at the University of Washington and an art collector, discovered Zhou's work and organized an exhibition of his paintings in Seattle.
The Xiamen Evening News published "Exploring the Traces of Zhou Tingxu," and immediately received numerous calls from readers providing important information about Zhou and his family. Reporters Gong Xiaoguan and Huang Qiwei collaborated to complete an in-depth report interpreting the Zhou family talent phenomenon. Professor Katz learned that "Xiamen Evening News" has explored the Zhou Tingxu related information, immediately flew to Xiamen, "Xiamen Evening News" invited some of the well-known figures in the Xiamen art world, *** with the discussion of Zhou Tingxu's oil painting art.
December 5, 2003, Professor Katz came to Xiamen again, put forward two suggestions: first, in Gulangyu Island for Zhou Tingxu held a solo exhibition; second, in Gulangyu Island to establish a museum of oil paintings, long-term exhibition of a portion of their own donations of Zhou Tingxu paintings. On August 15 - 20, 1997, Xiamen Evening News held a camp for young people in the Hua'an Mountains.
The Xiamen Evening News sent a special person to be the leader and counselor, responsible for the whole activity. There were 60 participants, all of whom were only children between the ages of 12 and 14.
After the event was announced, the number of applicants exceeded the original quota in less than two days. Parents who didn't sign up for the event sought to send their children to suffer through various channels, while those who did sign up for the event asked for no special care for their children.
The campers have endured a lot of trials and tribulations in the Hua'an mountains: walking dozens of miles in the blazing sun during the day and participating in field work; visiting students from poor families and blind girls who are self-reliant; living in classrooms at night and sleeping on bunk beds made of desks and chairs; and taking cold showers and eating peasant tea and rice.
After the end of the honing camp, Xiamen Evening News successively invited the staff and parents of the campers, education experts to talk, reflect on the concept of education, and discuss the quality of education. On the afternoon of September 23, 2001, Xiamen Evening News exclusively planned and implemented Xiamen's first twin bonding event was held on the Great Lawn of Xiamen Yuehua Convention and Exhibition Hotel. More than 450 pairs of twins and multiples from Xiamen met here, the oldest of whom was 90 years old and the youngest just 2 months old. The event was climaxed by a twins' talent show and a group photo of 450 pairs of twins and multiples. More than 30,000 people attended the gathering and more than 200 journalists from media outlets across the country joined in covering the event.
The whole event lasted nearly a month,**** going through several stages of registration, preliminary rounds, rematches and finals. Starting from the day of registration, Xiamen Evening News launched a story about twins every day, and also interspersed a lot of knowledge about life science introduction. The twins activity was highly evaluated by the community as highly intellectual, interesting, scientific and entertaining. The end of March 2003 was the day of the first international marathon held in Xiamen. In order to warm up the citizens who participated in the first marathon, Xiamen Evening News organized Xiamen Citizen's Marathon on March 2, 2003 at the Xiamen International Marathon track on the Round Island Road, which was divided into A and B groups, with 10 kilometers in group A and half distance in group B. The event was the first of its kind in China organized by a local media outlet. This is the first municipal marathon organized by a local media in China.
1200 citizens and friends from Germany, the United States, Britain, Japan, Singapore and other countries took part in this joyful and healthy gathering, the oldest of whom was 74 years old and the youngest was more than 10 years old. Meanwhile, many departments such as transportation and medical care worked together to successfully conduct a drill for the Xiamen International Marathon. Since March 2002, the Xiamen Evening News and the city's Federation of Trade Unions have joined forces to launch the Spring Rain Initiative to help laid-off workers start their own businesses.
More than 200 families applied, and many wrote business plans. The city federation of trade unions organized a household survey of the applicants, Xiamen Evening News and the federation of trade unions to hire the heads of relevant departments, experts and retired entrepreneurs to form a group of consultants to analyze and evaluate the business plans of these families, Xiamen Evening News also collects ideas from the community, and mobilizes the readers to contribute to the independent entrepreneurship of the laid-off people.
Banks, industry and commerce, taxation and other departments have said that they will provide the most favorable policies and fastest services for the spring rain action entrepreneurial families. After months of effort, the first batch of seed families one after another entrepreneurial open. They are: Chen Yaqing's spring rain flower fragrance flower store, Ye Jianfeng's spring rain flower line, military wife to Xiaodan spring rain beret restaurant and Lv Bixin's spring rain Baoji food workshop. The Xiamen Evening News set up a number of typical self-employed entrepreneurs and self-employed people. For a while, Chunyu's reputation rose, and many citizens cheered and encouraged the laid-off workers, visiting their homes to take care of their businesses and help the jobless. Every year, the new college students enrolled in the time, "Xiamen Evening News" hotline will always receive a number of new students and their parents call, asking about the enrollment should pay attention to, said the preparation of all kinds of difficult and confusing. For this reason, "Xiamen Evening News" News Department in July 2004 - August planning to launch a newborn companion school action, intended for the new students about to embark on the college campus to create a platform for acquaintance and help, and successfully out of this important step in life.
In 2004, more than 200 freshmen from five regions, including the northeast and northwest, were linked to each other as school partners through the editors of the Evening News.
The first school buddy program was so well received that it was continued the following year. Older students volunteered as volunteers and were happy to act as guides and escorts for their younger siblings, which became a highlight. That year, more than 300 freshmen formed school partners in five areas, and even freshmen from Quanzhou, Nanping and Sanming participated. The Xiamen Evening News also asked Xiamen Airlines and the train station to send special staff to the site to provide inquiry and booking services.
The newborns partnering to go to school has become a must-have activity for Xiamen Evening News every year. Positions to help students is the City Charity Federation and the Xiamen Evening News jointly carried out a new mode of assistance, the activities of the initiative enterprises to provide poor high school students with summer work-study positions, so that they work to earn money, not only to raise tuition fees, but also to exercise the ability.
The first job aid activity was launched in June, 2005. Within half a month, 24 companies offered 206 jobs. The students who applied for the post of student aid amounted to more than 180, the students were successfully employed, and those who persisted until the end got two months' salary.
The novelty and creativity of the post student aid activity attracted the Central People's Broadcasting Station, People's Daily, China Social News, and various media in Xiamen to come to make in-depth reports, and the Fujian Provincial Television News Channel specialized in 3-day interviews with successive Reporting. At the beginning of 2005, "Xiamen Evening News" news department began planning and police *** with the establishment of anti-pickpocket volunteer brigade advocate matters.
Previously, there have been some members of the public spontaneously anti-pickpocketing activities, but these courageous people scattered, the lack of appropriate management and professional skills training. Based on this, the Xiamen Evening News advocated the establishment of an organized civil anti-pickpocket team, managed by the police, the insurance company to provide accidental casualty insurance.
In June 2005, with the assistance of the Municipal Public Security Bureau to obtain the support of the relevant municipal leaders. Xiamen Evening News reporter began to contact with spontaneous anti-pickpocketing citizens such as Wu Dongliang, many interviews with senior anti-pickpocketing police Jiang Haiying and professional anti-pickpocketing police, and with the support of the police, and detained in detention centers, drug rehabilitation centers of old pickpockets in close proximity to get a large number of first-hand materials.
After full preparation, the Xiamen Evening News in November 2005 began to officially launch a continuous report from the civil anti-pickpocketing to the city's anti-pickpocketing status quo, pickpocketing gangs, and the current police anti-pickpocketing encountered resistance, etc., step by step, the civil anti-pickpocketing pushed to the foreground. Almost daily full-page reports for a month, attracting widespread social attention, civil anti-pickpocketing has become a hot spot of concern to Xiamen citizens, enrollment in the volunteer brigade of the public is very enthusiastic.
To the beginning of December 2005, the time is relatively mature, officially authorized by the Municipal Public Security Bureau, December 11 that year officially announced the establishment of Xiamen City, volunteer anti-pickpocketing brigade, the first batch of 80 members. Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee Chen Bingfa called the civilized city of civilized citizens of the division of righteousness and courage, since then, the whole society quickly formed a good anti-pickpocketing atmosphere, courageous and courageous event after event, a number of old pickpockets have fled from Xiamen. In 1995, the city bus company introduced unmanned ticket cars, the implementation of passengers to find change and other issues, many complaints. one day in September, then deputy editor-in-chief of the Xiamen Evening News, Zhu Jialin, to its bus to find change by the crew of the Miss sneer even 1 yuan are concerned about the experience, wrote "unmanned ticket car testimonials" published in Xiamen Evening News, published in Xiamen Evening News, 1 edition of the speech column, that the bus company has to improve the window service.
This has caused the leadership of the bus company attaches great importance to the two sides decided to take advantage of the situation, the bus company to spend money to buy opinions in the "Xiamen Evening News" set up public transport and the public column, so that the public bus service safety lines and other aspects of the criticism.
In just half a month, "Xiamen Evening News" editorial board received more than 800 letters, unprecedented scale, there are criticism and suggestions, some even draw the need for additional service facilities design map. Bus company leaders said that the public such a thorough perspective of public transportation, help to deepen the reform of the public transportation system. Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, the head of the News Division, said that this is unprecedented in the history of Xiamen news a big discussion. In April 2000, many readers wrote to report the island's urban and rural areas of tofu black store poor sanitation, "Xiamen Evening News" reporter learned from the health epidemic prevention department of Xiamen City, issued a health license for tofu processing sites only 6, but there are more than 200 undocumented black store. Based on this information, the news department of Xiamen Evening News immediately planned a follow-up report.
Women journalists Sun Liping and He Chongmei, posing as restaurant owners and purchasing staff, secretly visited some of the black stores, where the hygiene situation is alarming, and many of the gypsum powder used to make bean curd is actually industrial, and even recycled from medical waste. And Xiamen people eat 80% of the tofu is produced in this way.
Reporters based on unannounced visits published "in the tofu white behind" on-site newsletters, causing the public and all relevant units a great reaction, Huli District immediately carried out comprehensive law enforcement to check the black store, "Xiamen Evening News" for three consecutive days of tracking reports. The then mayor Zhu Yayan personally made instructions next to the report, instructed the Deputy Food Bureau to investigate, and held a meeting with the leadership of the Industry and Commerce Bureau, Health Bureau, Deputy Food Bureau, to discuss the solution to the problem of black tofu. Mayor Zhu and thanked the reporter for his work.
The city then acted together on and off the island to seize a number of unscrupulous processing sites, while a number of regular tofu stores with on-site processing came into being, allowing the public to eat tofu in a safe and hygienic manner. In January-March 2004, the Xiamen Evening News launched a series of reports on gutter oil, which caused a strong reaction in the city.
Reporter Liu Wenhui from a restaurant in Xiamen, a chef learned that some of the restaurants and hotels with oil is very unstandardized. To this end, the reporter to "restaurant chef pain reveals gutter oil shady" as the title, launched the first of a series of reports. After that, respectively, to "how the gutter oil is made", "gutter oil so turnover", "small store with oil shocking" as the title of the Xiamen gutter oil generation, processing, turnover and small store with oil status quo was exposed.
After that, Xiamen Evening News and Xiamen Catering Association jointly launched the "Xiamen Catering Industry Refusal of Gutter Oil Integrity Commitment Initiative", and the first 38 catering enterprises participated in the second motion. Finally, on March 15, 2004, Xiamen's major catering enterprises set up a refusal of gutter oil integrity unit alliance, from the front to guide the catering enterprises to regulate the use of oil.
In addition to this, in order to cut off the flow of gutter oil from the source to the table, Xiamen City, the relevant departments and enterprises also acted. First of all, the gutter oil processing enterprises in Xiamen Evening News issued an appeal to the regular business large-scale recycling of gutter oil, do biodiesel or soap, resist the wild recyclers will be recycled gutter oil recycling to the dining table; second, the business sector has also introduced measures to plug the oil: all grain and oil sales stores must establish accounts, the business sector of the unqualified food and beverage outlets to post the "banned show", informing consumers that the store cooking oil problems, etc.; the relevant departments are also Promote the installation of oil-water separators in catering enterprises, to eliminate the flow of leftover kitchen oil to the gutter.