Adult ceremony of girls

Adult ceremony of girls

On March 24, an adult ceremony of girls was performed in the Zhen's Residence in Zhenhai.

Battery powered cleaning vehicles on duty

The first batch of 13 dynamic battery cleaning vehicles was officially put into use in Haishu District on March 20. It is learned that these vehicles will be used on ten major streets in the district

50,000-ton cargo ship harboring in Zhenhai Port

On March 16, "Tiansheng No. 18", a cargo ship with a DWT of 51,000 tons, pulled in the No. 23 Terminal of Zhenhai Port. Being the largest ship in terms of DWT received by the bulk terminal, it symbolizes the transformation of Zhenhai Port from an estuary port to sea port after the trial operation of its terminal for 50,000-ton cargo ships since December 28 last year

"Consumption Promoting Month" activities to kick off next month

In accordance with the arrangement of expanding domestic needs and promoting consumption by the National Ministry of Commerce, Ningbo is to held the "Consumption Promoting Month" activities from April 2 to May 4. This is the first time for Ningbo to held the citywide activity of this kind, when all the districts and towns will carry out over 100 consumption activities of various kinds to arouse the citizens' consuming enthusiasm, in terms of brand consumption, online consumption, credit consumption, green consumption, food consumption and leisure consumption.

Ningbo Municipal Trade Bureau has arranged a range of trading enterprises and food and leisure enterprises with large scale, good reputation and influential power to take part in the activities.

During the consumption month, seven categories of themed activities will be carried out, including famous brands exhibition, safe online shopping, favorable credit consumption, green consumption experience, delicious food expo, health and beauty consuming and jolly community shopping.

Ningbo rail transit project to import equipments worth 350 million yuan

It is reported by Ningbo Customs on March 19 that last week, the first batch of imported equipments for the rail project arrived in Ningbo Lishe International Airport from France. The arrivals, valued at 234,500 US dollars, include such line signaling system parts as signal transceiver, ATP board, and train-ground communication equipments. All the imported equipments for the line No.1 project is estimated to be worth 350 million yuan.

It is learned that the first batch of imported signaling equipments are from ALSTOM Co. Ltd. The line signaling system can monitor and control the movement of trains and the status of such equipments of line switches and signals, thus informing the dispatching staff the operational status of the trains so that timely measures can be taken in times of emergency. In addition, the system can guarantee the safe operation of trains by providing protecting devices such as train gap protection, speeding protection, safe doors, and surveillance devices for underground screen doors and elevated security doors. In a sense, the train can realize "auto-pilot" with the system. Reportedly, the detailed design of the first phase of the line signaling system for the No.1 rail project has completed, and the first vehicle-carried train signal device will be sent to Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd for assembling and debugging in June 2012. The first batch of ground signaling system is to arrive in Ningbo in July and to be installed in October. A three-month no-load test operation will be carried out and the trial operation with passengers will be scheduled in 2014.

According to the information from related personnel from Ningbo Customs, the international tendering and contract signing job has been completed for the main mechanical and electric equipments of the first phase of the rail transit Line 1 project, to be opened in June 2014, and the construction is currently underway. Siemens (German), ALSTOM (French), Hochman (US), G & D (German) and SAFOP (Italian) have been chosen as major equipment suppliers after a comprehensive consideration of their enterprise qualifications, equipment quality and application performances. The imported equipments and systems mainly include vehicles, driving systems, signaling systems, AFC, underfloor wheel lathes, towing vehicles and rail grinding cars. Since March this year, about 50 batches of equipments will arrive in Ningbo, the last batch scheduled for April 2014, with the import value amounting to 350 million yuan

5000 high-level talents reserved within a year

 It is learned from Ningbo Personnel Service Center on March 19 that the high-level talent reserving plan has achieved significant results since it was launched one year ago. So far, the plan has reserved 5005 high-level talents from outside of Ningbo, completing half of the reserving task of the three-year plan period.

In last March, the high-level talent reserve plan was launched jointly by the Organization Department of Ningbo Party Committee, Ningbo Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and Ningbo Finance Bureau, aiming at reserving 10,000 high-level outside talents who are willing to work in Ningbo within the following three years. Each year a special fund of three million yuan is arranged for the reserving plan, and a one-time subsidy of 3000 yuan per person will be give to talents introduced through the plan.

It is learned that 35% of the high-level talents incorporated into the reserving plan possess a master's degree and 13%, doctor's degree. Reportedly, shortly afterwards, employers can collect and retrieve talent information through the website of the reserving plan, directly contact the talents, and publish their recruitment information on the site.

Brunei promoting tourism in Ningbo

The other day, Brunei Darussalam organized a gathering in Ningbo promoting its unique local conditions, natural and tourism resources.

Brunei is a Islamic country in southeast Asia. Its size is only one sixth that of Hainan Province, and the population less than 400,000. The country is rich in resources of forests, coral reefs, waterfalls, islands and beaches.

Reportedly, China is the second largest market of Brunei. In 2011 33,000 Chinese tourists visited Brunei by air, only next to Malaysia in number

Dongqian Lake to build a lake recreational complex

In Dongqian Lake Holiday Resort, the Tulip Festival will open from March 28; Xianping Kindergarten will start its construction; a fast road that connects Dongqian Lake and downtown Ningbo will start construction; the Eastern Lakeside Cycleway, a project with its investment totaling 60 million yuan, will start its construction in June; the "Water World", the largest water recreational park in east China, will open this summer. These are some of the new programs that are expected to promote Dongqian Lake Resort to a national-level holiday resort.

The other day, out of hundreds of tourist resorts in the country, the National Tourism Administration picks Dongqian Lake of Ningbo, Haiquan Bay in Zhuhan, Tianmu Lake of Jiangsu, and Haiyang of Shandong Province to be candidates of national-level holiday resorts. According to Shi Jiquan, Director of the Administrative Committee of Dongqianhu Lake Holiday Resort, this year, the city will make great efforts to turn Dongqian Lake Holiday Resort into a first class national holiday resort.

Ningbo accelerating constructing a smart city

Ningbo is to quicken the steps to constructing a smart city. According to the "Guidelines for the Accelerated Construction of a Smart City 2012" this year, Ningbo is going to allocate over 5 billion yuan for the promotion of the infrastructural programs of the information network, the government cloud computation center, the information co-sharing program, and other programs related to the construction of a smart city.

"According to the spirit of 12th Ningbo Congress of Party Representatives, Ningbo this year will concentrate on the goals of economic transformation, urban management and public services and by means of promoting the key programs accelerate the construction of a smart city in an overall way," said Xie Yuedi, Director of Ningbo Municipal Office of Smart City Construction.

It is learned that in 2012, in the construction of a smart city, Ningbo will highlight the following aspects: to strengthen the integration and co-sharing of smart infrastructural resources, to improve the application of smart technologies, to promote the smart industries, and to optimize the environment for a smart city.

With respect to the improvement of the infrastructural resources for a smart city, Ningbo will realize the goal of "fiber-to-the-home" in major urban areas. The WLAN will cover all public places like the airport, bus stations, schools, pubs and CBDs. The renovation of the telecommunication infrastructural facilities in the six districts of the city will be basically completed, making Ningbo one of the most competitive cities in China in the quality of communications, network bandwidth and comprehensive services. Ningbo will build professional databases of population, legal persons, natural resources, geography and creditability and a complete information co-sharing mechanism.

With respect to the improvement of the application of smart technologies, Ningbo will strive to be among the best of China in the construction of key programs in logistics, health, social management, urban management, and power grid. It will accelerate the construction of a number of pilot programs in smart traffic, smart education, smart public services, smart culture, smart uses of energies and smart marine economies. , In the 2nd Smart City Expo to open this year, Ningbo will release at least 10 applied technologies that are in the lead of China.

With respect to the promotion of smart industries, the city will make fresh progress in the construction of the Software R&D Base in Ningbo National Hi-tech Zone and the Smart Equipment R&D Base in Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New Area. It will introduce and promote a number of smart industries. Notable progress will be made in marketizing the pilot programs. The total output of industries of new generation electronic information products should grow by 25% and that of the output of software by 20%. The city will promote 10 demonstrative e-business enterprises and 30 e-business websites with the e-business turnover reaching 140 billion yuan

Automobile industry base worth of 100-billion yuan to be built in Hangzhou Bay New Zone

 With the introduction of the two entire-vehicle projects of Geely and Volkswagen (Shanghai) and settlement of a range of high-end core parts manufacturers such as Mando (South Korea), Faurecia (France), Visteon (USA) and Yazaki (Japan), Hangzhou Bay New Zone has become an important automobile industry base and high-end core automobile parts manufacturing base.

In January last year, the high-end automobile parts industrial park was established in the new zone in cooperation with the Geely Group. In April, the whole-vehicle project of Geely with an annual output of 120,000 automobiles was put into production. In January 2012, the whole-vehicle project of Volkswagen with an annual output of 300,000 automobiles began to be constructed. In March 2012, the supplier park for the Ningbo base of Volkswagen (Shanghai) (also known as Ningbo International Automobile Industrial Park) started to invite business. According to Zhou Jiangyong, member of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Party Committee and Secretary of the Working Committee of the administrative committee of the new zone, the automobile industry is one of the major 100 billion yuan industries to be cultivated in Ningbo, and it is also the dominating industry in the new zone and leading industry in enterprise transformation and upgrading. To promote the specialized, high-end and large-scale development of the automobile industry may play a significant role in implementing the large platform construction set by the provincial government and party committee and the "six-quickening" strategic planning set by Ningbo municipal government and party committee, as well as in building the demonstrative zone of "quality development".

According to the schedule given by the site headquarters of Volkswagen (Shanghai), the record for the fastest whole-vehicle production will be born in the zone. This year, by speeding up the construction of the large platform featuring automobile industry and enlarging the accumulative effect of the settlement of Volkswagen, the zone will make great efforts to attract a range of big and effective projects with global influence and a leading role in industrial transformation and upgrading, including three to five Fortune 500 (world) companies and over five Fortune 500 (China) companies. So far, some specialists and specialized advisory agencies in automobile industry have been entrusted by the new zone authority to design the development planning of the automobile industrial park, and the industrial park for automobiles and parts has been listed as one of the eight major parks to be constructed during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. It is estimated that by 2015, the total turnover of the automobile industry in the new zone will break 100 billion yuan.

Ye Wentao, Chief of Economic Development and Administrative Approval Bureau of Hangzhou Bay New Zone, commented that as the "industrial locomotive", automobile industry has a long industrial chain and plays an indispensible role in strengthening the local comprehensive economy. The rise of the automobile industry in the new zone may make a limitless impact on Ningbo and even the entire province

Ningbo International Auto Expo to be held

The 17th Ningbo International Auto Expo, known as "weathervane of Ningbo auto world", will be opened this week. It is learned from related departments on March 20 that the exhibition area of this expo will exceed 60,000 square meters. With over 70 mainstream car brand exhibitors from home and abroad, 90% of them being direct manufacturers, this session of the expo will be the largest one in terms of scale.

Ningbo international auto expo, jointly hosted by Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Foreign Trade and Ningbo Daily Newspaper Group, has been held twice a year since 2003. This session will be held form March 23 to 26 in eight halls and outdoor venues including Ningbo International Conference and Exhibition Center. Over 400 models including Maserati roadster, and about 20 new models such as Land Rover Freelander 2, Jeep 2012 and the new Audi A5 family will be exhibited on site

The forming meeting of the innovative mentor group for returned personnel in Ningbo was held on the afternoon of March 20. Zhang Yan，President of Ningbo EXCITON New Material Technology Co. Ltd., was invited as one of the first 14 mentors. Wang Yong, Vice-Secretary of Ningbo Party Committee and Executive Vice Mayor of Ningbo attended the meeting and made an important speech.

In the last few years, as the municipal government and party committee has make it the city's most important strategic task to accelerate introducing high-end overseas talents to start business in Ningbo, the group of the high-end overseas talents has been expanding steadily. So far, 17 talents and 51 talents have been respectively included in the national and provincial "1000 talents project", and a number of returned talents have been quite successful in innovation and entrepreneurship. However, most of the returned personnel may meet such difficulties as unfamiliar environment, fierce competition, transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and lack of capital, which makes it necessary to learn from experienced innovative mentors. That's the main reason why Ningbo Municipal Federation of Returned Overseas decided to set up the mentor group.

Wang Yong extended congratulations on the foundation of the mentor group on behalf of the municipal party committee and municipal government. He said, the foundation of the innovative mentor is another big event for returned talents after the establishment of "Ningbo Haibang Talent Fund" in 2011, as well as an important action by Ningbo Municipal Federation of Returned Overseas of implementing the spirit of the 12th Municipal Party Congress. It is of great significance to giving full play of the advantages of the returned talents, implementing the strategy of "talents strengthening the city power", promoting the "six-quickening" strategy, providing services for enterprises and promoting the construction of innovative city.