On the evening of September 28, the awarding ceremony of the 3rd Chinese Kindness and Filiality Festival opened in Ningbo Grand Theatre.

Wang Huizhong, Member of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, announced the opening of the Festival.

At the ceremony, Song Wei, Member of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, and Director of Publicity Department of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, said, the culture of kindness and filiality is an important part of the traditional Chinese culture, and a mental tie of the Chinese home and abroad. In recent years, Jiangbei District has made great efforts to promote this culture and substantially promoted its regional influence. At present, Chinese Kindness and Filiality Festival has become a great event for the traditional culture and a platform for economic and cultural cooperation.

At the awarding ceremony, Jiangbei District Fund of Kindness and Filiality, a fund of 50 million yuan, was officially established. This fund is divided into 21 special sub-funds, aiming to help the poverty-stricken people in Jiangbei District and other public welfare projects.

On September 27, on behalf of Ningbo Municipal Government, Yu Hongyi, Member of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor of Ningbo, signed a memo of scientific and technological cooperation with Nottingham University. According to the memo, the two parties should establish a coordinating group of scientific and technological cooperation for the promotion of innovation and industrialization of scientific and technological results.

According to the memo, From 2011 to 2015, Nottingham University shall establish a technological transfer institution in Ningbo, which should be committed to recommend and transfer promising scientific and technological projects to enterprises in Ningbo.

In addition, according to the agreement signed before, Ningbo Municipal Government and Nottingham University should speed up the establishment of the "International Creativity Center of Doctors" and the United NMR Laboratory. The International Creativity Center of Doctors shall be jointly invested by Ningbo Education Commission, Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology, Ningbo Nottingham University and UK Nottingham University, which should invest 170 million yuan in the coming 6 years. The center aims to bring up 100 creativity-oriented talents with international perspectives.

According an authority of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology, the memo says that the two parties should establish a coordinating group of scientific and technological cooperation as a coordinator of routine affairs and decision making. In the near future, the two parties should work together in such fields as digital economy, marine technology, energy technology, manufacturing and environment technology.