Round-the-city expressway completed

Round-the-city expressway completed

The east section of the round-the-city expressway was completed and put to use a couple of days ago. It forms a complete ring expressway with the west section.

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Kids learning paper-cutting

Kids learning paper-cutting

Kids with Huayan Community of Jiangdong were learning paper cutting from artisans a couple of days ago. They enjoyed the art a lot.

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Harvest of late oranges

The harvest season of new variety of late oranges on a farm in Ninghai attracts lots of city visitors

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Rise of advanced manufacturing industry in Ningbo

German engineers are busying working in a workshop of PACOMA (China) Hydraulic Technology GmbH in Ningbo

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Wandi Village, a National Wenming Village

Wandi Village, of Yinzhou District, was recently honored as a National Wenming Village.

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Cultural Month in Tengtou Village

Cultural Month in Tengtou Village

Tengtou Village in Fenghua recently started the Cultural Month program, in celebrating the coming New Yea

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Ge Mingxia, Gong Xueming honored as "Pride of Zhejiang"

On the evening of Dec. 22, under the interview of the famous TV anchor Bai Yansong, the award ceremony of “The Pride of Zhejiang-the most influential people in 2011” was held at the Zhejiang TV Station. Ge Mingxia and Gong Xueming from Ningbo won this title.
At the ceremony, Ge Mingxia was the third one to be announce as a figure of the year. Bai Yansong asked her “from your colleagues we know you are always as happy as attending a marriage ceremony everyday, do you really have so many happy things?” “Each of my students is an angel, so I am sure to feel happy to stay with angels.” Her reply won warm applause.
Gong Xueming was the fourth to be announced. After Bai Yansong’s interview, a few minutes was left for Gong to publicize his newly-founded “Lan-Tian-Xia Ai-Xin Studio” (or Charity Studio Under Blue Sky). Gong affectionately said “let’s join together to help the children who are deprived of schooling for poverty.” Bai Yansong also added “Gong and his wife opened a charity car wash center, so the more you go there to have your cars cleaned, the more money they will earn to help more children.”
The 49-year-old Ge Mingxia is a senior teacher of Ninghai Yuelong Middle School. She developed an “Affectionate Teaching Method”. The 40-year-old Gong Xueming has a car wash center in Hushan Street, Cixi City. In the past 15 years, he has helped more than 100 poor students and helped more than 5600 students find their sponsors in Ningbo. So he is called “matchmaker of student aiding”.
The selection of “The Pride of Zhejiang” was initiated by Zhejiang provincial publicity department and sponsored by the Radio and Television Group of Zhejiang, undertaken by Qianjiang Channel and jointly organized by more than 30 media agencies. Last night, the selection committee publicized the result based on public votes and experts’ evaluation. 10 out of 40 candidates were honored as “The Pride of Zhejiang”.
It is learned that the selection was started in 2005. In the past 7 years, 9 people from Ningbo have been honored as “The Pride of Zhejiang”. Among them, Wang Yanqin, a communist cadre, has been devoted himself to caring about the disabled. Lin Ping has donated part of her liver to save an eight-year old girl.
Besides, Chen Jun, the first stem cells donator in the Zhejiang Press, blood donators for injuries in the 7•23 Wenzhou Fatal Crash and other six individuals and groups were awarded as “The Pride of Zhejiang”.

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Comprehensive Energy Management Platform of Ningbo put into operation

The Comprehensive Energy Management Platform of Ningbo was put into operation on December 22. The platform will gather data of energy consumption of various industries for the service of energy-saving management of the city.

At present the first phase functionality of the platform has been in service. 450 enterprises whose annual energy consumption is above 3,000 tons of standard coal are monitored by the platform. Liu Qi, Vice Secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Ningbo, and Yu Hongyi, Member of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor of Ningbo, attended the opening ceremony.

In the 12th Five-year-plan Period, Ningbo has the hard task of energy saving and emission reduction. To further promote the comprehensive management of the energy consumption, Ningbo in the last year started the preparation for the construction of this platform. Zhejiang Yungang Data Company is the undertaker of the designing, building and operating of the platform. At present, the first phase of the platform has passed the acceptance check by the National Development and Reform Commission and other government departments.

The platform has three functions: government administration, management of enterprises and public services.

It is reported that the city will speed up the construction of the second phase of the platform and start the public service function in all the counties, cities and districts. The city expects to have the sub administrative platforms of energy data built in at least half of the departments related to energy administration and in 2013 to have all the industries of the city covered by the platform

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Ningbo realized complete coverage of medical insurance in urban areas

According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security, in 2011 Ningbo realized complete coverage of medical insurance for urban citizens, with the number of medical insurance participants in urban areas amounting to 583,700.

It is learned that to extend the medical insurance coverage for urban citizens is one of the serving-the-people projects of Ningbo municipal government. This year, Ningbo further raised the insurance payment ratio for hospitalized patients and patients of special diseases. This benefit for the medical insurance participants made the payment settlement more convenient and encouraged more people to participate in the medical insurance.

Statistics show that in 2011 the coverage of the medical insurance programs of old residents, people without fixed employment and children in early childhood reached 98.06% and the coverage of the students reached 97.13%. “So far, the social medical insurance system has basically covered all urban residents,” said a person from Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security.

Of the medical insurance participants of urban citizens, over 10,000 are people living on basic minimum living allowance, and the severely disable people. Thanks to the policy of the whole premium paid by the government, the poverty-stricken people whole are prone to diseases are covered by the urban residents medical insurance system.

Besides, the participants of college students of the medical insurance have increased by about 10%. This year 139,700 college students participated in medical insurance, with the participation rate amounting to 97.62%

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Ningbo Trade Union helping poverty-stricken workers

For the New Year and the Spring Festival, the trade unions of various levels of Ningbo will raise funds of 25 million yuan to help the 30,000 families of poverty-stricken local workers and migrant workers. The other day, at the meeting celebrating the 20th anniversary of the “helping the poor” program, Ningbo Trade Union started the program for the coming festivals. It is reported that the program will have the following activities:

presenting newspapers, aiding the workers of special jobs, helping the workers of serious diseases, aiding the students of poor families, inviting poor people to festival dinners, and giving free trip for migrant workers going home.

From December 23 to the eve of the Spring Festival, Zhejiang Trade Union and Ningbo General Trade Union will organize visits to enterprises and workers in difficulty. According to the plan, 10 teams will be dispatched to visit small and minor enterprises in difficulty, the poverty-stricken workers, the model workers and various people in need. Consolation money and gifts will be given to all the workers in poverty.

From January 12 to 13, Ningbo General Trade Union and Ningbo Branch of ICBC will carry out the program of “free air trip for migrant workers to go home”, and 400 model migrant workers from Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou will be given free air trip for their home towns

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Achievements Ningbo government has made this year

In the first year of the 12th Five-Year-Plan Period, Ningbo has made achievements in all aspects that concern the livelihood of the people like employment, social security, medical care, education, culture, food and drug and social management. At the press conference by Ningbo Municipal Government held on the 20th this month, Ren Jiancheng, Deputy Director of Ningbo Municipal Development and Reform Commission, announced that this year the city has enhanced the livelihood of the people, improved the public services, and optimized the mechanism.

Today, Ningbo has 8 full-employment counties (cities and districts). The city has increased 142,000 jobs, 56,000 urban unemployed residents have got reemployed, the registered unemployment rate in cities is bellow 3.33%, and the number of “zero-employed families” remains zero. By September this year, the city has increased 74,000 businesses.

The city has accelerated the municipal-level integrated social insurance, timely increased the social security standard, and further widened the insurance coverage.

This year, Ningbo released the Middle and Long Term Plan for the Development of Education. It has take active measures to solve the problems of pre-school education. It has extended the schooling aiding program to students from pre-schooling to postgraduate programs. It has popularized the free of charge physic examination among all students including the children of migrant workers.

In the implement of the food safety strategy, the city has improved the mechanism of information transparency for food safety, timely releasing information concerning food safety. It has taken special actions to crack down the production of bogus medicines and standardized the medicine market order