Yinzhou exempted 40 mln yuan of administrative charges for small businesses

The Ministry of Finance and State Development and Reform Commission jointly issued a notice recently that 22 administrative charges on small businesses will be exempted from Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2014. Starting from yesterday, five of the 22 charges won’t be charged in Yinzhou and 16 have been exempted since July, 2008.
Since July 1st, 2008, Yinzhou has taken the lead in exempting 166 administrative charges through “exemption, financial subsidy and tax rebates”, which have saved 39.93 million Yuan for the small enterprises in the past 11 months.
Yinzhou has never levied five items of the 22 administrative charges. And since July 1st,2008 Yinzhou has exempted all the administrative charges besides the one charged by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade for certificates of goods origin, which will also be exempted from Jan 1st, 2012 on.

Phase II Project of Ningbo Software Park to Be Inaugurated soon

It was learned on Dec. 4 that the Phase II Project of Ningbo Software Industrial Park has been well under preparation and the construction is to be started by the end of this year.
Ningbo Software Industrial Park, located in the core area of Ningbo National Hi-tech Development Zone, was officially put into operation in October 2007. The floor area of the Phase I Project is 34,000 square meters. At present, the Park has introduced several service agencies such as Ningbo Software Service Guide, Software Testing Center, Information Safety Testing Center and gathered many influential software and information technology service outsourcing enterprises at home and abroad, among which Kingdee Software has become the largest supplier and service provider of business management software in Ningbo and Zhoushan. It will be the home of over 300 enterprises by the end of 2011. The Phase II Project will further improve the overall function of software and service outsourcing park and better cater to needs of the settled businesses.

According to Executive Opinion on Accelerating Software and Service Outsourcing Development (Provisional) issued by the Management Committee of Ningbo National High-tech Development Zone, from 2010, a special fund of 10 million CNY will be invested in software industry on a yearly basis for three years in a row. The revenue of software service outsourcing industry in Ningbo National High-tech Development Zone is expected to reach 10 billion CNY by the end of 2015.

Cultural Products making strides in "Going Global"

It was learned form the training class concerning cultural trade organized by the Ministry of Commerce in Ningbo, cultural product exports in Ningbo last year accounted for 3.34% of the export volume of the city, with a growth rate doubling the national average. During the first 10 months, it reached $380 mln, up 15.3% over the same time last year.
Some leading cultural enterprises like Soundking and Hailun have increased their export volume. After the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2008, Ningbo Soundking Group spent 70 mln Yuan on acquiring three other world-renowned audio brands (Studiomaster, Cardac, Carlsbro), which made it better known around the world. Recently, a group of 36 Europeans in purchase of super stereo musical instruments visited the Soundking Group and immediately signed intention agreements worth 10 mln Yuan. Another representative, Ningbo Hailun Musical Instrument Manufacturing co., Ltd., is known as the National Pilot Base for Cultural Industry, with its pianos exported to the EU, the US and the Asia-Pacific region. Building international sales networks has become a new alternative for Ningbo cultural enterprises. For example, Ningbo Kaku Cartoon Making Co., Ltd invested 2 mln HK dollars on establishing Maiquan & Keke International Cultural Media Co., Ltd in Hong Kong in October, mainly to promote its animations and derivatives, and to deal with orders from Japan, South Korea and other countries. Moreover, Zhejiang Xuanyi Internet Technology Co., Ltd, in collaboration with Chinese subsidiaries of game companies from Japan, America, etc, has brought its independently developed online game "The Revival of Empires" to the international market.

Other cultural enterprises such as Guangbo and Deli have also set up dozens of sales networks across the globe, especially in the European and US markets. Guangbo Group alone has founded 3 marketing companies in America, Dubai and Hong Kong respectively, and signed contracts with over 20 subsidiaries in Belgium, Italy, etc., exporting over 5,000 kinds of cultural products with a turnover of $90 mln per annum. 
It's shown by China's Customs Statistics that cultural products in Ningbo are mainly exported to the US and European market. During the first 10 months, a total of 140 mln dollars of Ningbo cultural products were exported to the US , up 20.4%, and 95.759 mln dollars to the EU, up 5.5%, among which visual artwork ranks in the first place (worth 300 mln dollars) ,with printing work the second ( worth 54.861 mln dollars).

In the next few years, as the NCDP (Ningbo Cultural Development Plan initiated during the 12th Five-Year Plan) puts it, we will give full support to the export of cultural products and services with Ningbo characteristics, attach great importance to international sales network construction. Driven by incentive policies, cultural products in Ningbo will go global at a rate never seen before

78 Logistics Enterprises Entering NALP

Since its opening in 2008, Ningbo Airport Logistics Park (NALP) has so far housed 78 logistics enterprises, which turned over a total of 6.8 billion Yuan per year.

Located in Wangchun Industrial Park, NALP is an important part of the seven logistics parks constructed in accordance with ''Ningbo Modern Logistics Planning". It aims to become a key airport logistics base in the Yangtze River Delta and a key comprehensive logistics base in Zhejiang Province, with aviation logistics as its locomotive and bonded logistics as its backup.

Since the beginning of this year, NALP has seen a good momentum of rapid development, with a turnover of 5.52 billion Yuan from January to October, overtaking that of the three preceding years by 4.3 times

Ningbo Overtakes Shanghai in Through Transport Volume

Recently, it's learned that the trough transport volume in Ningbo port this year reaches 43,868 TEUs, 81.5% higher than the same time last year, making Ningbo Port overtake Shanghai Port and rank second only to Lianyungang. Furthermore, it is estimated to reach 47,000 by the end of this year, 27 times as many as the year before last.
(Note: through transport means carrying containers directly to the port by train)

Privately-run Vocational Education Summit Forum Held in Ningbo

Nowadays it is a common phenomenon in China that on one hand it is diffcult for college grads to get employed and on the other it is hard for companies to employ enough people. To address such a problem, the third national summit forum for the privately-run vocational education was held in Xikou, Ningbo, on December 2nd. Professors from more than 50 vocational schools attended the forum in an effort to find out ways to develop vocational education. Experts from college and educational institutions of Japan, Germany and Korea also attended the forum.
The forum, first held in Zhejiang, China, was sponsored by the Ningbo Dahongying University, which is one of the three vocational colleges that have the qualifications for undergraduate education.
The attendees discussed on how vocational schools cooperate with enterprises, how public-run vocational schools and privately-run ones cooperate with each other and how vocational schools cooperate with their foreign counterparts. They agreed that it is necessary for privately-run vocational colleges to seek multi-cooperation and opening-up.

Food Expo had 64,000 visitors

According to statistics from the organization committee, 64,000 people, businesspeople included, came to the Food Expo on December 3. The number of visitors increased considerably when compared with the first day.
The Expo opened at 9 am. Among the exhibition halls, the Famous Brand Hall, the China Hall, the Zhejiang Hall and Ningbo Hall were the most popular ones. In the Brand Hall, people could buy famous wines from all over the world. In the Zhoushan Hall and Ningbo hall, aquatic products especially tuna sold very well. In Ningbo Hall which was supported by the Agricultural Production Co-operatives, agricultural and sideline products of various kinds sold very well.
Another attraction for Ningbo people was that they could taste various kinds of delicious foods in the Expo, including the snacks from South Korea and Japan, Xinjiang mutton barbecue, Taiwan snacks and Huzhou steamed dumplings.
According to the organizer, 16,000 tickets of the Food Expo were sold on December 3, nearly 10,000 tickets more than the previous day. The sales of the tickets would last until 2 pm and all halls would be closed at 4 pm

Ningbo Artists Awarded in the National Youth Art Exhibition

In the fourth national youth art exhibition, Wang Xiongwei, an artist from the Sha-Menghai Calligraphy Institution won the award for excellence with his The Water of the Chilly River, outstripping its 20,000 rivals. Wang was awarded in Beijing on December 3rd.
The national youth art exhibition is a national comprehensive exhibition jointly sponsored by All-China Youth Federation, China Literature Federation and China Art Association to discover talented youth artists.
Apart from Wang, this year there have been other 18 people from the Institution whose works have been exhibited and awarded in the municipal, provincial and national art exhibitions.

NFTZ becomes an important functional zone

By means of intelligentized system of supply, purchase and distribution and by vigorously expanding sources of supplying core high value-added materials, Ningbo International Trade Ocean Shipping Supply CO., LTD has occupied 50% of Ningbo ocean shipping supply market. At present, it has become the only domestic supplier of the France Bourbon and ranked into the top-three list of service providers in ocean shipping.
The NFTZ has gathered many shipping service corporations like Ningbo International Trade Ocean Shipping Supply CO., LTD. The Zone is striving to improve the shipping service environment and trying to attract the leading shipping companies to invest there through deepening the shipping resources concentration and custom clearance service. Besides, NFTZ is exploring the high value-added modern shipping services and aiming to strengthen its comprehensive service ability.
The industry agglomeration of shipping logistics service is a prerequisite for Ningbo’s transformation from a transport port to a trade and logistics port. Relying on Ningbo Port Custom  Clearance Center, NFTZ has gathered 72 shipping service enterprises such as COSCO International Freight Co., Ltd., China Shipping Container Liners Co., Ltd., Ningbo Taiping International Trade Transportation Co., Ltd. and China United Tally Co., Ltd. These enterprises cover customs declaration, inspection declaration freight forwarders, shipping agency, tally and harbor engineering, and their services reach the whole Yangtze River Delta. From January to August this year, its agency value has topped 4 billion CNY and there emerged some shipping services enterprises each with annual revenue of over ten million CNY.
In NFTZ, the ship trading service business is in the ascendant. The Ningbo Ship Trading Co., Ltd in NFTZ is the first batch of seven ship sales and purchase service institutions which accord with Provisions on the Administration of Ship Sales and Purchase. This company has introduced modern transaction mode and can provide lots of services, such as information publishing, ship management, ship evaluation, ship brokerage, auction of ship and transaction and clearing. This year it has sold 59 ships with a volume of trade reaching 540 million CNY.
At present, NFTZ is vigorously exploring ship financial leasing and other high-end business for the purpose of building the pilot zone of modern ship service industry. “We will fully give play our prominent advantages of political function, industrial agglomeration and encouraging exploration to forge NFTZ into an important zone of marine economy and international giant port. ” said Ma Zhaoxiang, director of the Administrative Committee of NFTZ