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Ningbo Newsletter 12th, February, 2013

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         Spring Festival Promotion : Pan Pacific Hotel Ningbo

In light of the festivities this Chinese New Year, Pan Pacific Ningbo has introduced a superb Chinese New Year deal of RMB 488 exclusive of breakfast, and RMB 528 inclusive of 1 – 2 breakfasts (depending on number of registered occupants), with a complimentary upgrade to our Deluxe guestrooms! Limited to the period of 8 till 24 February 2013.

Taking into consideration the lack of dining options available during this period of time, Pan Pacific Ningbo has also introduced a package of RMB 2013 nett for two consecutive nights, inclusive of 2 breakfasts and RMB 1000 of dining credit in the restaurants of the properties. Extending this for families that might want to do their own cooking in our Serviced Suites, Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Ningbo is introducing a package of RMB 628 nett per night, inclusive of 2 breakfasts and RMB 300 of dining credit in the restaurants of the properties. Limited to the period of 1 till 28 February 2013

Contact details: Pan Pacific Hotel & Serviced Suites Ningbo, 99 Min An Dong Lu, Jiangdong District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China, 315042, T:+86 574 8911 8888 ext. 6578 | F: +86 574 8187 5590 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A theatrical stage at Gulou

A newly built theatrical stage at Gulou,downtown Ningbo, is to open this Spring Festival. 

 

Residential housing deals reaching a record high within 5 months

In January of 2013, the turnover of the new residential housing and second-hand residential housing has reached a new high over the past five months. According to the latest "urban residential housing dealing information" released by Ningbo Municipal Housing Trade Center, in January, the amount of commodity housing sales in the urban areas of Ningbo increased by 475% over the same period last year, while the amount of the second-hand residential housing sales increased by 579%.

In January last year, the commodity housing sales confronted the "deep winter", with almost no purchasers turning up in the housing sales offices. By contrast, this year, some purchasers waited to sign the contracts even after 9 pm. In January last year, some small real estate agencies closed up because of the gloomy market, while at the same time this year, in the main Hall of Ningbo Municipal Housing Trade Center, many purchasers were queuing to get the transfer procedure done.

Statistics from the Housing Trade Center show that in January this year, the deal of 2209 commodity houses was completed, up by 45 houses over December of 2012, reaching a new high since last September. Compared with the 384 houses transacted in January last year, the growth rate reached a high 475%.


 

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5500 problems solved by "8718"

News came from Ningbo Municipal Economic and Information Technology Committee that in last year, the "8718" platform solved over 5500 problems for enterprises in an effort to create a good environment for the development of SMEs.

As the biggest public service platform for SMEs in Ningbo, the "8718" has become the most convenient "policy supermarket" for enterprises with an accumulated 18931 page views throughout last year and 520,000 people logging into the platform per day. With the newly added 364 pieces of policies, the accumulated policies have reached 1888 pieces. The accumulated inquires reached 4.36 million pieces, with an average of 12000 pieces per day


 

All freeway entries closed on February 8

From 00.00 of February 9, the free access of freeways by private cars during the Spring Festival period will be implemented. However, the heavy snow of February 8 brought new problems. Since 6 pm of February 8, all the freeway entries in Ningbo have been closed, along with the southern linking path of Hangzhou Bay Bridge, Zhoushan Bridge and Xiangshan Port Bridge.

In terms of high ways, a lot of mountain roads have become unavailable because of the snow, including the Fenghua section and part of Yuyao section of the Xuxi Provincial Road, Shengning Provincial Road, the Ninghai section of the Chengsong County Road, the Ninghai section of the Feida County Road, Meicha County Road and Shangjie County Road.

"The Hangzhou Bay Bridge and other sections of the freeways have been gradually closed since the evening of February 7. Today, the freeways in Ningbo are accessible, with some sections directed by traffic police and the Road Administration Bureau, and some sections closed to coaches." According to one official from Ningbo Road Administration Bureau, the opening time of the freeways depends on the weather condition, and people may choose others ways for travel if necessary.

It is expected that with the opening of the entries, the flow of vehicles will be at a high level. The related departments warn people to travel in order, to control the driving speed and keep the safe spaces between vehicles. The most important is that people should follow the directions of the road administration departments and the traffic police.

During the free-access period, no cards will be necessary at the toll gates. All the vehicles should slow down when going across the toll gates with a speed of about 20 kilometers per hour.

 

ASEAN becomes Ningbo's third largest trading partner

Ningbo Customs said on February 6th that since China-ASEAN Free Trade Area was initiated three years ago, trade between Ningbo and this region has grown steadily. ASEAN has become the third largest trading partner of Ningbo Port, only behind the US and the EU.

Since the free trade area came into effect on January 1st, 2010, 90% of the products between China and the 6 old members of ASEAN including Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore have been levied zero tariffs.

As the US and European economy is sluggish and the traditional export market is bleak, newly emerging markets have been thriving. And ASEAN, whose over 7000 products are tariff-free, has attracted the eyeballs of many Ningbo enterprises.

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The longest tunnel in Ningbo opened on February 7th

The 3250-meter-long Jinhai Tunnel, located in Chunhu Town, Fenghua, is the longest tunnel in Ningbo. It was started in March, 2011 and opened to traffic on February 7th this year. Thanks to this tunnel, the driving distance between downtown Fenghua and Qiucun, Song'ao was shortened by 20km, reducing the driving time by nearly half an hour. 

Beilun offers colorful New Year goods for its people

As Spring Festival is around the corner, have you “heard” or “smelt” it? Several days ago, Beilun Cultural Center held a fresh and creative activity of volunteers sending their good wishes to the aged in nursing homes with paper-cuts for window decoration. This aroused their old feelings toward the lunar New Year. Those paper-cuts were in the shape of five-peaches which represent longevity, Chinese character “Fu” in various kinds and so on. Seeing all these, Mrs Yang, who is nearly eighty, said with a big smile that: “we no longer worry about food or clothes. We care more about spiritual fulfillment, and now all the feelings about the New Year in my memory spring up again.”

“Spring Festival atmosphere comes from not only adequate materials, but also rich culture.” said head of Publicity Department of Beilun. In order to keep the traditional Spring Festival atmosphere, Beilun has organized a series of new spring cultural activities to benefit the people since New Year’s Day. They elaborately “braised” colorful cultural goods for Spring Festival, encouraged more citizens to go out from their homes, leaving drinking, cards and mahjong behind to have a “cultural new year” and promote traditional Chinese culture.

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Zhenhai had a “double harvest” on both domestic and foreign trade

According to the latest statistics, export of Zhenhai district reached 3.1 billion US dollars, up by 8.02% over the year before. The increase rate ranked No.1 among eleven districts (cities) and three development zones, which surpassed the municipal and provincial increase rate by 7 percentage points and 4 percentage points respectively.

Technological innovation and brand construction are the shining points for Zhenhai to further improve its market competitiveness of export products. In 2012, some key enterprises such as Ningbo ALPS Electric Co.Ltd., depend on technology innovation and high-tech technology force, realized huge increase on export. It is estimated that in 2012, export of high-tech products in Zhenhai reached 210 million US dollars, which increased by 59.93% compared with last year and occupied 6.8% of total export of this district.

Faced with unfavorable situations for export, Zhenhai district optimized its working mechanism, strengthened the policy guidance, accelerated project construction of the service sector, advanced comprehensive experiment units’ reform on tertiary industry, expanded business and capital introduction and service-oriented enterprises cultivation, which boosted service-oriented economy. According to the statistics, the added value of the service industry in Zhenhai reached 13.3 billon yuan, up by 13.7% over last year. The increase rate ranked No.1 in Ningbo, higher than the municipal average by 2.8 percentage points.

 

Air quality in Ningbo to be fine during the Spring Festival

According to Ningbo Environmental Protection Bureau, the air quality in Ningbo during the coming Spring Festival will be fine on the whole. But due to fireworks, there will be air pollution during a certain period of time in certain places.

Environment Monitoring Center of Ningbo and the meteorological station predict that there will be rain and snow from February 8th to 11th due to the cold air and the air quality will be fine. On February 12th, the weather will be sunny. But because of the rain in the previous days, relative humidity of air will be high and pollutants may accumulate and thus polluting the air. Therefore, from February 12th to 14th, the air quality will be bad. On February 15th, the diffusion capacity of air will be improved and the air quality will be fine.

The Environment Monitoring Center of Ningbo says that there will be air pollution during a certain period of time in certain places during the 2013 Spring Festival. According to the previous monitoring results, from 20:00 to 24:00 on the New Year’s Eve, a large number of fireworks are set off, which leads to the deterioration of air quality. From 5 a.m. to10 a.m. on the fifth day of the lunar year, people set off fireworks hoping to get luck and wealth, so air will be polluted, too. Experts say fireworks bring about much smoke and sulfur dioxide which lead to serious air pollution. 
  
On February 5th, Environmental Protection Bureau announced Proposal on Having a Low-carbon New Year. It suggests that people spend a green and low-carbon New Year by setting off fewer or no fireworks. Large fireworks that are harmful are not advocated and they should be replaced by electronic fireworks, instead. Meanwhile, the Bureau also encourages people to have green transportation, such as walking, bicycling and taking a bus.


 

Lanxess to invest 5.5 million euros in a new pigment factory

Lanxess, one of the Top 500, has announced that it will build a high-tech iron oxide red pigment factory which is environmentally sound so as to expand its production network of inorganic pigments worldwide. The construction of the factory will be started in the second quarter this year with a total investment of 5.5 million euros. The factory is expected to be put into use in the first half of 2015 and turn out 25,000 tons of products in the first year.

It is learned that this is the second modern iron oxide red pigment factory invested by Lanxess, with the first located in Jinshan, Shanghai. With the development of urbanization in China, Lanxess has increased its investment in the Chinese market. Currently, Lanxess has 10 branch companies in mainland China, accounting for 10% of its total sales revenue.

 

Cancer, second leading cause of death

February 4th is World Cancer Day. In recent years, lung cancer, stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, esophagus cancer, breast cancer and nose cancer have become the main diseases that harm people’s health. The incidence of cancer is rising and people affected are getting younger. 
    According to a report on the cause of death from Ningbo Municipal Center for Disease Control & Prevention, cancer has become the second leading cause of death in Ningbo, only next to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. But experts say that the latest medical research has shown that cancer may not be a death sentence, instead, it can be a controllable chronic disease. The key is prevention and early treatment. 
    Lung cancer, a malignant tumor, is the No.1 and No.2 killer in men and women respectively. It accounts for 1/6 of all tumors. Unfortunately, 80% of this cancer is diagnosed in the middle or late stage. 
    The treatments of cancer include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation treatment and biological treatment. It is very important to choose proper treatment for different stages.
     The probability of lung cancer is higher in smokers than in non-smokers. The earlier and the longer one smokes, the more likely he is to get lung cancer.
    Experts say people had better not smoke. People over 40 should have a CT test every year so that the disease can be found and treated earlier. 

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Officials to take the lead in setting off fewer or no fireworks

Notification from Ningbo Civilize Organ Construction office on February 4th said that officials should take the lead in having a civilized Spring Festival and setting off fewer or no fireworks.
Manager from the office said that the proposal of “having a festival with fewer fireworks” was widely approved by officials as they thought it was a party member’s responsibility. He also mentioned that in order to require party members to take the lead, the proposal would be sent to other organs and units, including Daxie, Ningbo Free Trade Zone (NFTZ), Dongqian Lake Resort, etc.


 

Modern agriculture cultivated“Strawhat Engineers”

Huang Xinshan, a farmer who stopped his study after junior high and has raised spotted deer for eleven years in Beilun, recently got the title of "Strawhat Engineer". Huang said:"I received so little education,all I have is experience. I can't believe I can have this title, now I can brag to others."

    In spite of education background and age, there were 32 agricultural technicians got the title of "Strawhat Engineer". Among them, some are good at planting fruits and running agritainment who have a lot of practical experience; some are generation after 80s who have high degree certificate and rich theoretical knowledge. "Strawhat Engineer" refers to talents who got agriculturally practical technical titles, and this was the first time to hold the awards ceremony in Beilun.

  “This title used to award to agronomists,and only open to graduates from technical secondary schools and junior colleges. But now, "Strawhat Engineer are open to all the agricultural technicians as long as you are experienced enough." the manager said. There are more than 7500 agricultural technicians in Beilun. With the development of modern agriculture, more people emerges to take lead in planation, breeding and other areas. Unlike the traditional farmers, these people usually have had professional training, and are equipped with theoretical knowledge and have passion for agricultural researches, so they are able to carry out scientific researches independently. In this activity, over a hundred people applied for the award and 32 won it after experts’ evaluation.

     We need more "Strawhat Engineers", said an official from Agriculture and Forestry Bureau. The development of modern agriculture needs both technology and talents, and the cultivation and introduction of talents becomes a challenge. To make things easier, there are more and more young people who choose agriculture as career, and they are the hope of modern agriculture.

 

29 enterprises from Ningbo got listed on Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

Among all the enterprises that were in accord with the Access Conditions of Dyeing and Printing Industry and got listed on the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 29 were from Ningbo, which occupied a quarter of all the listed enterprises.

  Of the 29 enterprises, 8 are located in Beilun, including Shenzhou Knitting Co.Ltd, Veken Elite Zhedong Knitting Co.Ltd; 7 are from Hangzhou Bay area; others are scattered in Yinzhou, Yuyao, Zhenhai, Cixi, Fenghua, etc.

  Ministry of Industry and Information Technology set the access conditions aimed at accelerating the structural adjustment of this industry, standardizing projects access, promoting energy conservation and emission reduction, which promote a sustainable development in this industry

 

Zhenhai became a pilot smart city (district)

Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development held a meeting on pilot programs of smart cities the other day. At the meeting, 90 cities (districts, towns) were listed in the program, including 5 cities (districts) in Zhejiang Province, and they are Zhenhai District, Shangcheng District of Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Jinhua and Zhuji in Shaoxing.

  Two years ago, Zhenhai decided to accelerate its development in building itself into a smart district and declared 8 related systems, including the smart manufacturing system and the smart logistics system. Currently, a high-capacity trunk transmission network which takes optical cable as its main part and sitcom as a supplementary means, with leading scale, capacity and technology in the country. The government internet has over 300 outlets covering villages and districts of all levels. Information systems and platforms have been set up, such as the pollutant resources monitoring system and video surveillance system of the Environmental Protection Bureau, the video surveillance platform and police geographical information system of the Public Security Bureau and the smart urban management platform of the Urban Administrative Bureau.

  Zhenhai is expected to meet the requirements of being a pilot smart city (district) in three years’ time so that it will become a leading district with industrial transformation, quality management services and good environmental protection.

Smart city means to integrate government function, urban management, social services and industrial economy into the big platform. The core target of building a smart city is to deliver better life to the people.


 

Over 800 officials visited grass-roots party members in Jiangdong

How to avoid formality when government officials visit grass-root people? As the Spring Festival is around the corner, officials from Jiangdong District visited people with responsibility and emotion, and help solving problems for those who need most help. Several days ago, the district organized the visiting activity and let the officials contact with people directly. By now, more than 800 officials have visited more than 1300 people, solved 297 problems in the development of enterprises, and put an end to 42 delayed cases, which made the practical working style popular among the public.

“We received help from the district party committee and government when we were in need.” said Zheng Fenyong, general manager of Buer Electronic and expertise who was rewarded with special subsidy from the State Council. He told officials his company had difficulty in marketing its three-dimensional phone tour guide and the Human resources and Social Security Bureau helped them find a new market for their new products.

 In order to provide better services for those who work on the major project, officials

penetrated more than 10 important parts of East New Zone and worked at spot for more than twenty times.

To encourage officials to visit the grass-roots people, 74 communities are divided and officials are required to visit at least 3 houses. So far, more than 13000 people have been visited.

 

People's sense of security in Ningbo ranks No.4 among 38 cities

According to the municipal public security conference held on 31st January, 2012, Public Security Bureau in Ningbo has undertaken special activities like crime crackdown, gun and violence control, etc. The rates of cracking down criminal cases, criminal capture have increased 10.3 percent and 48.3 percent respectively, and the criminal cases have decreased by 0.9 percent, the robbery and theft cases by 11.3 percent and 13.7 percent respectively compared to the year before. On the blue book of people’s sense of security in 38 cities which Chinese Academy of Social Science has issued, Ningbo ranked No.4.

 

Public services increasing in "quality" and "quantity"

n 2012, despite of the tight government finance, Jiangdong District increased its expenditure in livelihood to 1.86 billion yuan, up by 11.4%. It has been the third consecutive year for the district government to put over 70% of the added financial investment in livelihood of the people, thus increasing the public services both in "quality" and "quantity".

It is said that in 2012 Jiangdong District made great efforts to promote the construction of the affordable houses: over 3000 affordable houses were under construction and low-rent houses were available for another 612 households. The transformation and improvement of 11 small lanes were carried out, including the improve ment of municipal roads, outside of buildings, shop signboards, landscapes and aerial lines. There are now 83 pension service projects (in 11 categories) in the district and the coverage rate of the high-quality pre-school education resources reaches 85.6%. 

About 80% of the community health service centers have been identified as provincial or national demonstration zones.  In addition to the increase in "quantity", the "quality" of the public services has been greatly enhanced by opening more channels and reducing unnecessary links. Over the past few years, the district has been promoting the "one-stop" public service station model, integrating such services as social rescue, re-employment service, domestic service and family planning service into an open ser" service halls, providing more convenient and direct public services for thousands of citizens. 

The hairless elderly and the disabled are the key objects of social public services. In 2012, another two professional companies for elderly services were introduced to Jiangdong District, and the objects of the government-funded services increased almost by 30%. Over 5000 elderly citizens in the district can enjoy such professional services as domestic service and psychiatric service.

It is said that in the following period the district will focus on the perfection of the network of public services and social management, and strive to achieve the equalization and generalization of the public services.

 

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