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{\bf Yuqin Zhang and Ren Ding}
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{\bf A Note about Bezdek's Conjecture on Covering an Annulus by Strips}
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A closed plane region between two parallel lines is called a
strip. Andr\'{a}s Bezdek posed the following conjecture: {\it For each
convex region $K$ there is an $\varepsilon>0$ such that if
$\varepsilon K$ lies in the interior of $K$ and the annulus
$K\backslash \varepsilon K$ is covered by finitely many strips, then
the sum of the widths of the strips must be at least the minimal width
of $K$.} In this paper, we consider problems which are related to the
conjecture.

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