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Dong Chaoping, a researcher in Zhejiang Textile and Fashion College, has been working on natural clothing dyes for four years. Natural dyes are dyes or colorants derived from roots, nuts and flowers and thus are more eco-friendly.
White loquat, a widely known fruit grown in Ningbo's Ninghai County, is expected to bring more profit to local farmers. In Yishi Township, a major loquat plantation, the loquat processing industry begins to take shape.
As the annual blossom season sets in, the loquat trees are creating one of the most stunning scenes. To ensure a good harvest, the farmers are picking up unnecessary flowers. Numerous petals are falling down. The clever farmers will collect them and make flower tea and wine with it.
After ten years of painstaking efforts, Yishi Township boasts 1.2 million acres of the white loquat trees, which brings an output value of 150 million yuan. Loquat planting has become one of the leading farming industries in the town. However, the local farmers were not content to be fruit growers or sellers. They learned through experiments and innovations and started their fruit processing industry to enlarge their income.
Ningbo Textile Industry Chamber of Commerce was recently established in Keqiao of Shaoxing, the center of the Chinese textile industry. The newly founded chamber of commerce is a new home for Ningbo-native businesspeople in Shaoxing and another professional trade association next to Ningbo Chamber of Commerce established in Yiwu.
Currently, Ningbo Textile Industry Chamber of Commerce has attracted more than 100 member companies in the textile and service industries, an estimated worth of 1,000 million yuan. It is reported that over 10,000 Ningbo entrepreneurs are running around 600 companies in Shaoxing.
Customs statistics show that the Ningbo Free Trade Zone imported a total of US$ 39.83 million of food from January to November, a year-on-year increase of 6.2 percent. At least 70 percent of the imported food are reported to have entered the downtown markets of Ningbo.
Ningbo imported 7,169,000 liters of wines, worth US$ 38,490,000, 90, increased by 4.4 percent over the same period last year. The average import price was US$ 5.4 per liter, up 8 percent over the same period last year. The top three wine exporters are France, Spain and Chile, with a respective export volume of 3.703 million liters, l, 1.23 million liters and 686,000 liters, adding up to 78.4 percent of the total wine imports for the same period. Spain is the fastest-growing wine exporter to Ningbo, with an increase of 1.1 times over the same period last year. Ningbo imported 205,000 liters of beer, worth US$ 312,000, a year-on-year increase of 4.8 times and 4.3 times, respectively. The biggest exporter is Germany who exported a total of 193,000 liters to Ningbo, an increase of 6.8 times over the same period last year, accounting for 94 percent of the total beer imports over the same period.
In addition, Ningbo imported 175 tons of olive oil, valued at US$ 913,000, an increase of 62.3 percent and 74.1 percent, respectively. The top three olive exporters to Ningbo are Spain, Australia and Tunisia, with export volumes of 88.9 tons, 36 tons and 27 tons respectively. Olive imports from the three countries account for 86.8 percent of total import volume. Australia is the fastest growing olive exporter to Ningbo with an increase of 2.6 times over the same period last year. No imports from Tunisia were reported last year.
On the afternoon of December 4, Ningbo-Kaohsiung Meeting of Trade Cooperation, a meeting jointly hosted by Ningbo Municipal Government and Kaohsiung City Committee of the Kuomintang, opened in Ningbo. Vice Mayor of Ningbo Hong Jiaxiang, and Vice Directors of Kaohsiung City Committee of the Kuomintang Lei Zugang and Li Yuwen were present at the meeting.
Ningbo is favorite place for Taiwan investors. By the end of 2011, Ningbo approved 2,3952 Taiwan-funded projects, with the investment totaling 19.6 billion US dollars and the contract foreign capital totaling 12.3 billion Us dollars. Ningbo and Kaohsiung have a good foundation for cooperation. Many investors of Kaohsiung favor Ningbo and their investment involve many fields including LED manufacturing, metal processing, and plantation and agricultural product processing.
At the meeting, Hong Jiaxiang expressed his welcome to the Taiwan delegation. He made a brief introduction of the economic and trade cooperation of Ningbo and Taiwan and put forward his proposal to further promote the economic and trade cooperation of Ningbo and Taiwan. At the meeting, Lei Zugang expressed his hope that Taiwan and Ningbo should further strengthen economic and trade cooperation and promote development of the two places.
Much discussion was made of the furthering of the economic and trade cooperation of Ningbo and Kaohsiung. Speakers at the meeting included officials from Ningbo Foreign Economic Cooperation Bureau, Ningbo Council for Promotion of International Trade and Ningbo Municipal Office of Taiwan Affairs.
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