【正文】 ports petitions and Culture amp。 Kite Festival, Jiangxinzhou Islet Fruit Festival, and Linggu Temple Sweet Osmanthus Published:Monday,July 26,2010 7:12 PM PRCUrban EnvironmentNanjing is an enjoyable city to live with the development of society and standards of living, people pay more attention to the quality of life enjoyable environment will play an important role in attracting talent and is making great efforts to strengthen the protection of the historical city and the prehensive treatment of the environment, in order to build a better “Green Nanjing Project” has been widely developed, and has been successful in the prehensive treatment of environmental and historical forest coverage of the city is 24%, the green coverage of the builtup areas is %, and the average park area is square meters, ranking among the top cities in ProtectionThere are 23 nature reserves in the city。and because of this, Nanjing culture has benefited from the continuous influx of people and traditions ing down the Yangtze Yunjin brocade has a history of over 1,500 was known for its elegant and gorgeous colors and patterns, which are pared to the bright clouds in the sky.(The name Yunjin in Chinese means ”cloud“ brocade.)The craftsmanship of Nanjing Yunjin brocade marks the zenith of Chinese silk weaving block printing technique can be seen in Jinling Buddhist Scripture Press in the technique, which has a 1,300yearlong history, requires the collaboration of half a dozen craftspeople with printing expertise, dexterity and team has a long tradition of planting and appreciating plums, which survived the six dynasties during which the city was designated as the capital of the records indicate that the Plum Hill south of the city and the Plum Villa north of the city were two choice places to plant and appreciate the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Wei recreated the panorama of the city in plum blossom in his ”Mountain Zhongshan and the Plum Blossom.Plum blossom Huge numbers of plum trees are planted in the Pearl Spring Park, Gulin Park and Mount Plum, home to one of the four biggest plum plantations in spring es, the blossoming plum trees attract hundreds of thousands of year since 1996, the City of Nanjing organizes an international plum blossom festival either in February or a bination of efforts to promote tourism and trade together with cultural and entertainment activities, the city aims to introduce the world to Nanjing?s beauty, history and , Chinese people toll bells on the eve of the New city of Nanjing organizes the belltolling to wele the New Year, extending greetings to all the people of the city and expressing wishes for world peace and is home to some of the best libraries, art galleries and museums in Library, founded in 1907, houses more than 7 million volumes of printed materials and is the third largest library in the country, next to Beijing and Shanghai Art Gallery, the largest gallery in the province, presents some of the best traditional and contemporary art pieces in Museum, formerly known as the National Central Museum before 1949, is the first modern museum and remains one of the leading museums in library Nanjing has many fine theatres where professional opera troupes perform the Peking opera as well as many local operas of the Yue, Yang, and Jiangsu Kunqu Troupe has played an important role in reviving the Kunqu opera, China39。s location on the Yangtze river has historically served as one of China39。s Nanjing 333 BC, the State of Chu built Jinling in the northwestern part of presentday first became a capital in 229, when Sun Quan of the East Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period(220280)relocated the Kingdom?s capital to Jianye, a city he extended on the basis of the 3rd to the beginning of the 5th century, six dynasties including Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen founded their capitals 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding Emperor of the Ming Dynasty(13681644), chose Nanjing as the capital of his empire, and the city became the political, economic and cultural center of the was Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang who launched the project of building the city wall, the longest in the navigation was encouraged in the early years of the Ming He, the great navigator, lived in Nanjing and built his ships 1405 to 1433, Zheng He made seven voyages, and his fleet visited 37 countries in Southeast Asia, East Africa and the Middle 1853, when the Taiping peasant insurgents stormed Nanjing, they made it the capital of what they called the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, renaming it name lasted just eleven Yatsen established the Republic of China and was chosen as its Provisional President in Nanjing on December 29, 1911, after the victory of the 1911 Revolution that ended the monarchy of the Qing became the capital of the Republic on April 18, 1927, when Chiang Kaishek proclaimed the inauguration of the National Government the 1920s and early 1930s, Nanjing underwent a rapid development and was transformed into a modern , this process was disrupted by the Japanese December 1937, the Japanese troops attacked the city, and mitted atrocities during the inhuman Nanjing the founding of the People39。第一篇：青奧會(huì)資料(英語)Q1: Who first suggested holding a Youth Olympic Games? When was the YOG approved?A: The idea for such an event was introduced by International Olympic Committee(IOC)president Jacques Rogge in July 6, 2007, IOC members at the 119th IOC session in Guatemala City approved the creation of a youth version of the Olympic : How often will the YOG be held?A：The Youth Olympic Games(YOG)are planned as an international multisport event held every four years in staggered summer and winter events, consistent with the current Olympic Games first and second summer sessions will take place in Singapore in 2010 and in Nanjing in first winter session will take place in 2012 in : Which sports are on the programme of YOG?A：The 26 sports contested at the Olym