Ningbo Newsletter 13th December., 2011
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- Published: Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:05
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By Elaine Chan
Event: Singapore Kakis Club Christmas Party 2011
The Singapore Kakis Club Christmas Party will be held on Saturday, 17th December 2011 at The Munich Brewery at Heyi Avenue from 6 until 10 p.m. There will be a buffet dinner spread of traditional Christmas delights and free flow of selected soft drinks and juices, and house-brewed beer. Not to be missed is the fantastic lucky draw prizes and subject to Jetstar’s confirmation (we’re almost there!), we could also be giving away free air tickets to Singapore!
There will also be our very own Santa Clause, Matt Galat, who will be all suited up in his Santa gear, which, I am sure will make our children’s day, as he personally presents little festive gifts to our little ones.
As for entertainment, the Exco team is preparing a surprise… just promise that you will support our performance with the clings and clangs of your plates, forks, knives and glasses, and most of all, please applaud loudly.. please J
This Christmas, we are going RETRO!
Think big shoulder pads, oversized, bright neon-coloured shirts, off-shoulder sleeve shirts, leg warmers, leotards or scrunch socks, high-waist pants with big bottoms, mini-skirts, acid-washed denims, fingerless gloves and big earrings, robot sunglasses, the PVC-made Jelly Shoes, huge layers of shocking blue eye shadow, multi-coloured ultra hair, the signature Madonna mole, Hawaiian shirts, goggles, fingerless gloves or Rhinestone gloves, high-top shoes, ear piercings…
Think Miami Vice, Europe, Poison, Whitesnake or Ocean Pacific, Reebok, Banana Republic, LA Gear, Jordache, Guess, Adidas and Liz Claiborn!
Tickets are on sale now at RMB 180 nett for members and RMB 200 nett for non members. We have limited space available so please book early to avoid disappointment.
To purchase your tickets, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For Janet Wang -Until today the donation is 278084.58
Nov.30~DEC.4 diary of janet wang
12月5日 白血病孩子黄佳宁的病房日记
我现在在输红细胞，化疗后我贫血很厉害，手指和嘴唇都是苍白的，头也晕乎乎的。今天查血白细胞和血小板都上去了一点，昨晚体温上去一点又自己退下来了，今天一直都正常。大概白细胞升到两千多我就可以回家休息一段时间，我盼望骨髓把好的细胞造得快一点，医院里我一天都不想多呆。
December 5
I am lack of RBC after chemotherapy. I have pale fingers and lips and I feel dizzy. They transfused me more RBC and it works. My temperature got up and down last night but it becomes normal today. I could rest at home once the WBC reaches 2000. I want to leave hospital A.S.A.P so I wish my marrow could speed up producing some good cells.
12月6日 白血病孩子黄佳宁的病房日记
这两天白细胞可能在长吧，我的体温正常了，今天医生把我的药水也减了好几瓶。上午有好几个病友都邀请我跟他们聊天，他们都说我是开心果，生了这种病还每天笑容满面
Garbage converted into new energy
On the afternoon of December 11, a worker from Yinzhou Landfill Power Plant project was collecting marsh gas. The project, the first of its kind in Ningbo, is located in Dongqiao County of Yinzhou District.
First snow came in Siming Mountain
First snow came in Ningbo Siming Mountain
On the morning of December 9, some tourists are appreciating the first snow of this winter in the National Forest Park of Siming Mountain are
Seniors organized to visit Xiangjiangkou Area
Some 20 seniors with Baisha Sub-District were organized to visit the Sanjiangkou area to enjoy the beautiful views a couple of days ago
Certificates of Origin help exempt 10 million USD
According to the inspection and quarantine department of Cixi, during the first 11 months 120 companies have obtained the certificates of the origin, which bring about an exemption of 10 million USD for Cixi exporting businesses
Yoyo competition
Yoyo competition
Over 200 yoyo ball players joined in a yoyo contest recently held in Zhenming Primary School of Ningbo
Foreign volunteers teaching English in a community
A foreign teacher of Ningbo University is teaching English in a neighborhood community in Jiangbei District.
Human resources service program welcomed by enterprises
Recently, a supply-demand matching meeting for human resources service program was held in the bonded zone of Ningbo, and eight agreements for services program were signed and another 78 programs reached the intention of signing agreement. In the meeting, human resources service agencies from other places brought with them some new service programs absent from the local agencies, which aroused great interest of the local enterprises. Shanghai Blue and White Law Office, for example, promised to offer personnel risk prevention and control program, which aims to dispel the possibility of damages to the enterprises by employees by means of eliminating the enterprises' deficiency in business management and business system from the legal point of view. Altogether over 20 enterprises reached the intention of signing agreements with the Law Office. The Chinese professional credit public management platform introduced by Golden Future Information Technology Company from Shenzhen makes it possible for member enterprises to record their employees' credits on the platform and consult the credit of their potential employees. This new program attracted great attention from a number of enterprises present in the meeting.
Ningbo Chamber of Commerce in Chongqing founded
On December 9, the founding ceremony of Ningbo Chamber of Commerce in Chongqing was held, thus over 20,000 industrial and commercial personnel of Ningbo origin began to have a new "home". Gong Yunding, president of Chongqing Xinjing Small Loan Company, was elected chairman.
It is with the care and support from both governments of Chongqing and Ningbo that the establishment of Ningbo Chamber of Commerce in Chongqing is approved.
With an increasing number of Ningbo enterprises going out, the team of "Ningbo Bang" is ever growing, and Ningbo Chamber of Commerce has been founded in many big cities in China. This year has witnessed the establishment of Ningbo Chamber of Commerce in Zhongshan, Hangzhou, Nanchang and Lanzhou
US-Ningbo Economic and Trade Cooperation Seminar held
US-Ningbo Economic and Trade Cooperation Seminar was held in Nanyuan Universe Deluxe Hotel on the morning of December 9. Vice-mayor Wang Renzhou and Tom Barrett, Mayor of Milwaukee attended the seminar and made speeches.
Located in the southeast of Wisconsin State, Milwaukee is an important lake port and commercial city in the United States. And since May 2006, it has officially established a friendly exchange relationship with Ningbo.
During the session, related officials from Milwaukee Urban Development Bureau and Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce and responsible personnel from Rockville Automation Company and Harley Davidson Motor Company made a detailed introduction of the investment environment and economic and trade cooperation in Milwaukee and invited Ningbo entrepreneurs to invest there. Representatives from dozens of Ningbo enterprises were present at the seminar
I/E Volume:10 Times Growth in 10 Years
Over the past ten years, the trade scale of imports and exports in Ningbo increased over 10 times since China's WTO accession. The dependency rate of foreign trade has increased from 56.2% to 110%, the actual use of foreign capital amounts to 80% of the total and the foreign direct investment increases from 10 million US dollars to 1.2 billion US dollars. In a short period of ten years, Ningbo has realized a leapfrog development with container throuput rising from 1.21 million TEU to over 13 million TEU. These were the statistics released at the Ningbo WTO Affair Consultation Center held a couple of days ago.
There are over 100 foreign trade enterprises with respective output value exceeding 100 million US dollars in Ningbo.
Ningbo made great effort to promote an open economy by taking full advantage of port logistics and private economy. The total volume of imports and exports increased from 8.89 billion US dollars in 2001 to 97 billion US dollars this year. Now Ningbo has basically formed the export commodity structure relying mainly on electrical products supplemented by textile, clothing and light industrial products as well as the import commodity structure relying mainly on resource products and raw materials.
The number of foreign trade businesses has increased from over 1,000 to over 11,000, making direct trade contacts with over 220 countries and regions in the world. In terms of the ranking of imports and exports, Ningbo has risen to the 9th from the 14th last year among 36 provinces, cities, autonomous regions and cities separately designated in the state economic plan.
The foreign direct investment has increased from 10 million US dollars to 1.1 billion US dollars. The registered foreign-funded enterprises in Ningbo reach 5,772, with registered capital totaling 25.56 billion US dollars and actual capital contribution totaling 23.81 billion US dollars. At present, 34 enterprises of the world top 500 have founded 75 subsidiaries in Ningbo including IBM, ITOCHU, SAMSUNG, etc.
The capability of Ningbo companies to invest abroad was enhanced constantly, from single labor export to oversea takeover, research, exploration, etc. Last year, 36 of the 100 top Ningbo companies had oversea returns, with 5.157 US dollars oversea assets and 30,000 employees overseas
Cross-Bank Deposit Business for Foreign Currency Initiated in Ningbo
Recently, since Ningbo Payment and Clearing System opened the cross-bank deposit business for foreign currency, so far 30 banks or so have offered the US dollar business. It's learned that BOC Ningbo Branch is the first in China to offer such service for the payment and clearing system construction.
Cross-bank business for foreign currency, also known as personal foreign currency cross-bank transference, enables individuals in possess of an account at a certain bank to transfer their foreign currency at another correspondent bank (also accepting bank), in line with the stipulations of national foreign currency management. A service charge of 20 Yuan will be charged by the accepting bank for each transaction.
This business saves customers such problems as complex processing, slow transference, high service charges, etc., and avoids exchange loss in transference of foreign currency. With its opening, Ningbo Payment and Clearing System becomes more complete, as Ningbo residents are able to make instantaneous payment whatever the currency type and business type is
Standard Chartered Released SMEs' Confidence Index in Ningbo
On December 7, the Standard Chartered released the SMEs' Confidence Index in Ningbo, which reflect the operating environment, the operations, investment orientation and financing needs of SMEs. It shows that the index for Chinese SMEs stands at 47.37, with the operation confidence index at 59.79 and the macro confidence index at 33.13.
This was the first time that an overseas bank released the index for Chinese SMEs.
The indexes released yesterday showed that SMEs in China take a prudent attitude toward the economic operations of China and the confidence towards financing tends to be weak. But comparatively speaking, the operation confidence is stronger, indicating that most businesses are having stable production and sales.
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