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Ningbo Newsletter 20th August,, 2013

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NingboLife is the fastest  growing Ningbo online and real life community. Get your information online and meet the people in real life at dinners, parties, concerts meetings or at spontaneous activities in pubs and restaurants in and around Ningbo.

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Dear Reader , 

NingboLife is the fastest  growing Ningbo online and real life community. Get your information online and meet the people in real life at dinners, parties, concerts meetings or at spontaneous activities in pubs and restaurants in and around Ningbo.

 Dear itsme , get you free account and share the community. Use your existing Google, Twitter, FaceBook account login
>>>> NEW>>>> Make money with NingboLife.con and become and an affiliate. All products sold from our shop trough your account will bring you renmimbies

COIC Dinner at Shangri-La hotel 19.00 buffet area 

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Apartments for salePrint

Four apartments located on the same floor in top location in Ningbo are for sale. The location is near the new Nan Chang (South Railway Station). As the apartments are not decorated, you have free hands to make your own design and style. All 4 apartments are located on the same floor level and can be joint in many ways.

For more details please contact:    eckhard. cnool @ gmail. com

 

no decoration is made to the apartments. China Style raw space. Reasonable pricing and good investment. Please see www.ningboexpat.com for details and pictures

offers welcome to above email

The next Event Expats meet Friends in Ningbo is on 4th September..make no other plans.. 

ningbo expat Mixer-2 Old traditions come alive again. As many of you might still recall, the NingboExpat dinner had been hosted 250 times over the past years. 5 years each Wednesday Foreign nationals of all walks of life did mingle with Chinese citizens. It had proven to be a good platform to find friends, get viable information and create successful business relationships.
Times have changed and Ningbo is offering a lot more opportunities that in those days. Therefore the NingboExpat dinner is having a new format, called the “NINGBOEXPAT MIXER”. It will be held 

>>>each first Wednesday of the month<<<>>> at the Ningbo Shangri-La Hotel Lobster and Grill bar

 >>>>>Starting from 19.00 till 21:30. <<<<  4th September 2013

Special prices on drinks for example Draft Beer Tsing Tao or Carlsberg at Rmb 35/mug only, Red and White Wine at Rmb 35/glass, Soft Drinks and Chilled Juices at Rmb 25.

Complimentary finger food will be served which can be pizza slices, pasta dishes, salmon sticks or similar depending on the chefs selection.  Open for all and only limited by the number of available seats.
A great place for new comers to Ningbo too. Here you can find more information about Ningbo, the “who is who” and the “where is where” of Ningbo City (and district). Entrance is free and “no strings attached”.

APARTMENT FOR RENT 

This is a new well decorated 2 bedroom apartment at around 85 square meters including one living room, one dining room, wash room, kitchen, shower room as well as a big balcony which I make use a part of it to build a glass room. The apartment is fully equipped with furniture and home appliances including 3 air conditioner, refrigerator, wash machine, TV, hot water heater, gas cooker, cooker hood, bed, wardrobe, Sofa, dining table, kitchen furniture, etc.  

The apartment is located in the 5th phase of Qing Linwan which is the largest residential community in Ningbo city, and the community is situated on the riverside of Yuyao river which is a good place to do some exercises in the riverside park along the river. The area is very convenient for transportation as several lines of bus going through there and closes to some shopping centers like Wanda Square, Auchan supermarket and 21 pier commercial center.

The renting fee is RMB3500/month excluding utility fee and residential management fee, foreigner is the first priority for leasing.

 

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Exports to Russia hit a record high

News from Ningbo Customs shows Ningbo’s exports to Russia from August, 2012 to July, 2013 totaled 2.04 billion yuan, up by 17.5 percent against the same period of last year and the increasing speed being 15 percent higher than Ningbo’s overall speed. The exports value in June reached 200 million yuan and hit a record high for the month span.
It is learned that Russia became the 156th member of the WTO on August 23 of 2012, and its average tariff level has lowered gradually since. Over one third of its commodities lowered their import and export duties and one fourth of the duties will be settled within three years. Ningbo’s export commodities to Russia are mainly mechanical and electronic products, garments and textiles. The export value for mechanical and electronic products stood at 1.19 billion yuan, up by 13.5 percent, while the value for garments and textiles reached 400 million yuan, increased by 18.9 percent.

 

Listed companies account for 1/5 of Zhejiang

News from the Capital Market Development Seminar shows that, since 2003, Ningbo’s economy has maintained steady and moderately fast development in spite of the influences of the global financial crisis and the gloomy domestic economy.
Statistics shows that Ningbo has 55 listed companies at home and abroad, accounting for one fifth of Zhejiang, and ranked the second (after Shenzhen) among all the municipalities with independent planning status. To be specific, 42 were listed in foreign countries and 13 were in China, all together raising a fund of 60.5 billion yuan. Although the IPO has closed for nearly a year from the second half year of 2012 till now, companies have accelerated their paces for listing. Along with the development of the regional capital market, some 80 Ningbo companies have made full preparations for the listing and another 200 have expressed wills for listing and have been doing the preliminary work. 
As to the merger and acquisition work, Ningbo’s listed companies were also very active at the encouragement of the government. It is learned that mergers and acquisitions have turned into effective ways to speed up enterprises’ development. Relative governmental departments have given many supports for this end. For example, the administration for industry and commerce opened a privileged channel for companies whose aim was to merge and reorganize and offered specialized services to them.

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500 agricultural products exhibit in HK

Ningbo government held an exhibition on the 24th the Food Expo (opened on August 15 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center) to display its agricultural products of good qualities.
Many officials took part in the opening ceremony, including Li Delin, the deputy chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, and Lin Jingguo, the duputy mayor of Ningbo. It is the fifth time that Ningbo participated in the fair.
Over 1,100 businesses from 26 countries and regions took part in the fair, among which 44 were from Ningbo, whose products were claimed to be green, safe and of high quality. They were mainly in the trade negotiation exhibition hall and the sales exhibition hall, including some 500 kinds of products in such six categories as grain and oil products, vegetables and fruits, livestock products and aquatic products etc.

 

CPI up by 2.0% in July

The CPI(Consumer Price index) of July was released on August 13th by the Survey Office of National Bureau of Statistics in Ningbo. Compared with the same period of last year, the CPI in July, 0.3% higher than in June, increases by 2.0%, 0.6% lower than the increase in June. 
   Prices of consumer goods increase by 1.4% and that of service items by 3.2%. Specifically, food prices increase by 2.1%, wines and cigarettes by 0.2%, clothes by 2.5%, appliances and maintenance service by 2.0%, medical care and personal necessities by 2.8%, recreation, education, cultural articles and service by 1.1%, housing by 3.3%. But transportation and communication prices decrease by 0.1%.
  Compared with the CPI in June, the CPI in July increases by 0.3% for the increase in travel prices. And food prices grow by 0.1% due to the influence of high temperature on storage and transportation of vegetables and fruits. Prices of vegetables and fruits grow by 5.3% and 2.6% respectively. And owing to the high temperature and decreased selling, prices of meat and poultry products is down by 0.1% , that of eggs by 0.7% and that of aquatic products by 0.6%. 
   Prices of service items grow by 1.1% in July compared with that in June. The increase is mainly due to the great increase of 18.2% in travel cost in the travel season. And for the peak of training courses in summer vacation, prices of education are up by 1.6%.
  Prices of industrial consumer goods decrease by 0.1% compared with that in June. Prices of clothes and jewels are down by 1.8% and 4.3% respectively.  After the National Development and Reform Commission has adjusted prices of processed oil, prices of patrol, diesel and LPG have decreased by 1.2% ,1.1% and 1.4%. 

 

The first Association of Cultural and Creative Industries established in Zhenghai

On August 13th, the Association of Cultural and Creative Industries, the first one in Zhejiang Province, was established in Zhenhai. 93 companies, including Ningbo Donglan Holdings Ltd. and Zhejiang Bangtian Culture Development Co., Ltd are the first members to join the Association.
    The establishment of the Association is a milestone in developing the cultural and creative industries, which have been greatly developed in Zhenhai since last year . Till this July, there have been 467 cultural and creative enterprises, 367 of which are newly introduced and 100 of which have a registered capital of more than 5 million yuan($817,000). A number of 2,322 talents have been attracted with 1,921 having associate degrees. The time of works including animations, documentaries and propaganda films amounts to 5,830 minutes. 
Local and non-profitable, the Association will provide opportunities for industry cooperation, further development, exchange&training and financial resources. 
To strengthen innovation&cooperation and to assemble resources, the Association signed cooperation agreements on talent training, film release, financial support and industry cooperation with China Visual, Hunan TV, Zhenhai Branch of Bank of Hangzhou and the Association of Zhenhai Enterprises. This will enhance the innovative capacity, qualifications and competitiveness of Zhenhai cultural and creative industry cluster. 

 

19 major projects get provincial approval for land use

19 major projects, including Hangzhou Bay Bridge and Hangzhou-Ningbo Highway Connection Project, have received provincial approval of 6180 mu (4,120,000 square meters) land.
  Some other projects of the 19 ones, mainly of transportation, energy and irrigation, are the improvement project of flood prevention facilities in the downtown Yaojiang and the north part of the Yongjin Highway Connection project.   
   It has been learned that the approved land is reserved land under the provincial plan for major projects and does not affect land approval under the national plan.
 

 

3S service offered in Jiangdong District

Early since the beginning of the year, the Jiangdong District has been innovating its service for talents, establishing a 3S(service net, speed and standard) system. 
The service net refers to two aspects: online and offline. Online service projects have been improved. For affairs that have to be progressed online, applicants now can spend less time with seven days at most for common affairs and 15 days at most for special ones. More than 500 applications have been progressed online and over 2,000 posts offered. The offline service has also been enlarged. Home for Talents, the first one in Zhejiang Province, has formed a service network with the service center for talents, human resources industry garden and workshop for enterprise talents to offer better service. 
Service speed has been increased. Top talent projects have the priority to be tackled more quickly. Early in the beginning of 2013, a high-quality overseas professional was introduced. To make it possible to apply for the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, service workers finished the introduction procedures within days. 

 

Import of consumer goods increased rapidly

It has been learned that consumer goods imported from the Ningbo port in the first half of 2013 reached a value of $260 million, an increase of 8.9% compared with the same period of 2012. The increasing speed is 5.9% higher than that of the same period of last year.
The first three import markets of China are EU, Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) and South Korea. Food products, taking 55.2% of the import goods, rank first, and value of food products reaches$140 million, with an increase of 9.3%. Among food products, wine, aquatic products, fruits and snacks are the most popular. The value of aquatic products(mainly tuna,salmon and frozen shrimp), for example, has reached$56.87 million, increasing by 24.4% over the same period. The main trade partners include South Korean, Thailand, Mexico and 30 other countries and regions

 

Couple divorces over husband's snoring

A husband's incessant snoring led to a couple's divorce in Ningbo city, in neighboring Zhejiang Province, Qianjiang Evening News reported Wednesday.

The 30-year-old wife, surnamed Wang, said in her divorce application that she had not had a sound night's sleep since she married her husband, surnamed Gong, in October 2012. Gong's heavy snoring caused her to get ill and she lost 7.5 kilograms in the first six months.

Even though there are medical solutions for snoring, Wang said instead the couple quarreled and never talked about how to find an answer.

Wang filed her divorce application in Zhenhai Court in Ningbo last month, saying she could not stand the sound of her husband's snoring anymore.

The divorce was granted and Wang paid Gong compensation of 5,000 yuan (US$806.45), the judge said.

 
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