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Ningbo Newsletter 1st-Nov., 2011

Details: Category: What's Happening In Ningbo Newsletter; Published: Monday, 31 October 2011 10:05

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Administrative Measures of Ningbo on Government Scholarship for International was recently released. The government scholarship aims to attract more international students to the higher education institutions. The scholarship is from 6,000 to 30,000 yuan.
The applicants for the scholarship should meet the following conditions: they should be foreign candidates or students of colleges in Ningbo for Ph.D, MA, BA or 2-year BA programs or those long-term students have made advanced studies in colleges in Ningbo for at least one semester.

According to the Measures, The quota for the scholarship should be 15% of the total of the international students in Ningbo. The scholarship is in four categories: A, B, C and D.

Kids organized to visit chrysanthemum exhibition

The kids with Wenzhu Kindergarten were organized to visit the chrysanthemum exhibition held in Zhenhai by volunteers with of the public transport company of Ningbo yesterday.

Fire-control knowledge publicized

On the coming of 11-9, the fire control day, fire fighters in Jiangdong came to the Bicheng Community on Oct. 26, to show the residents how to use fire distinguishers and how to escape fire.

Traffic police teaches kids traffic knowledge

A traffic policeman in Jiangdong was teaching kindergarten kids to learn to cross the zebra lines.

Foreign designers invited to help Ningbo enterprises

It was learned from the just concluded Ningbo Fashion Festival that many Ningbo companies had invited foreign designers to help them design fashion.

Volunteers learning sign language

Volunteers with Fuming Sub-District of Jiangdong were learning sign language in order to render better services for the deaf and mute.

Twenty-two projects of services signed with Hong Kong

On the forum of modern urban construction and development, which is part of the Ningbo-HK Economic Cooperation Forum was held in Hong Kong on Oct. 25.
Twenty-two joint projects of urban services were signed between Ningbo and Hong Kong.
These 22 projects, to name but a few, included MGM Hotel’s “cool city” project invested in the New Eastern Urban Area (NEUA), Huarun New Energy Holdings’ new energy project invested in Ninghai county, Hong Kong Shenggao Land’s Xiejia residential and commercial complex project in Jiangbei District of Ningbo as well as Hong Kong Chengbo Company’s Chengbo landing and capital increment project in Jiangdong District of Ningbo.

Young entrepreneurs in NB and HK discuss on the marine economy

How can Ningbo young entrepreneurs take the opportunity of national drive of developing marine economy? Yesterday afternoon, , entrepreneurs of Ningbo and HK gathered in Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Cente to exchange ideas on the theme of “concentrating on marine economy, speeding up transformation and upgrading ”at the forum on Young Entrepreneurs Development which is part of Forum on Economic Cooperation of Ningbo and Hong Kong. Tang Yijun, the Chairman of Municipal Political Consultative Conference attended the forum and gave a speech.
In his speech, Tang encouraged young entrepreneurs to made full use of the Forum on Young Entrepreneurs Development, strengthen exchanges, get good thoughts and promote cooperation. He also said they should create a new situation of complementary advantages, mutual benefit and balanced development.
At the forum, Ye Zhendu, a member of standing committee of National Youth Association, the Chairman of HK Youth Association, the managing director of Hong Kong Holdings Rongxing Group Co., Ltd., gave a speech named “the mission and opportunity of the youth”. He said putting great emphasis on developing marine economy was Hong Kong’s important experience, no marine economy, no Hong Kong today. He also pointed that Ningbo had as good conditions as Hong Kong in developing marine economy, such as deep water port, vast sea and a good harbor industry system, which also provided Hong Kong entrepreneurs with a new opportunity and platform.
Lin Haifeng, vice chairman of Ningbo Young Entrepreneurs Association and president of Risen Energy Co., Ltd., said in his speech that as Zhejiang’s maritime economy had become the national strategy in the first half year, and his company had made good preparations for developing marine economy or ocean-related industries.

Eleven enterprises of Ningbo attended WSIETR

According to the information from Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau on Oct. 25, eleven enterprises of Ningbo attended the Western China International Economy and Trade Fair (WSIETR). And still more enterprises visited the fair and made investigations, hoping to seize cooperation opportunities.

The 12th WSIETR held in Chengdu—the capital of Sichuan Province lasted from Oct. 18 to Oct. 22, attracting 4500 enterprises from 52 countries and areas. Ningbo Xinzhi Biotech Company and Ningbo Meikang Biotech Company along with 9 other enterprises were in the exhibition center of advanced technology, demonstrating the good image of Ningbo’s high and new technology industries and products.

Social retail sales this year reached 143.39 billion yuan

A couple of days ago, information from Ningbo Board of Trade showed that the social retails during the first three quarters have reached 143.39 billion Yuan, a year-on-year growth of 17.3%. Growths in wholesale, retail, accommodation and catering are 50.7%, 15.5%, 11.1% and 17.1% respectively.
Under the joint impact of complex domestic and international factors, the consumer market in the first half year has kept downturn momentum. And fortunately it is getting better in the latter half of the year.
In the first three quarters, the sales of 8 types of goods that compose nonproductive expenditure presented the trend of seven ups and one down. The seven ups are food, clothing, household items, medical care, traffic communication and educational and cultural services. Among them, medical care, and traffic communication increased faster, with the former growing by 63.3% and the latter 22.5%. While the housing and fitment aspect was on the down side, decreasing by 21%.
With the impact of the rising consumer prices, the income of people has decreased relatively, which led to the increase of most families’ expenses on food. This contributed to the result that per capita expenses on food from Jan. to Sept. reached 6126 yuan, increasing by 20.3% compared with the same period of last year. In addition, the Engel’s coefficient also rose from last year’s 35.5% to 37.6%.

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