Consulting services on hearing rehabilitation offered in Ningbo Book City

On the morning of March 2, a day before the 13th National Ear Care Day, Ningbo CDPF, together with the Ningbo Rehabilitation Hospital and Disabled Persons' Federation of Jiangdong District, offered free consulting services on hearing rehabilitation to citizens.

Under the theme of ‘Reduce noise and protect your ears”, the organizers publicized knowledge about taking care of ears through posters, brochures distribution. They also offered free consultation service on noise prevention and hearing health. Meanwhile, they gave off free anti-noise earplugs to those who work long hours in the high-decibel workplace.

Experts say, noise may irritate people and loud noise even do harm to human health. However, noise exists everywhere in our daily life. Loud noise can cause discomfort of human body. Long-term exposure to environmental noise as high as 90 db can lead to severe hearing damage and cause neurasthenia, headache, hypertension and other diseases. According to the second National Sample Survey on Disability, hearing disability caused by noise is steadily on rise.

Experts offer the following advices to the public. Do not stay too long in a loud noise environment. If necessary, use the anti-noise earplugs. Besides, developing good habits with the ears can effectively reduce noise damage.

Seven exhibitions to be held in March

According to local authorities, seven exhibitions will be held in Ningbo international Exhibition Centre in March, including the 13th International Machinery Industry Exhibition, the 5th China (Ningbo) International Boutique Furniture Exhibition and the 17th Ningbo International Auto Expo. These events are good opportunities for consumers in Ningbo to find a good home decoration company, or to buy a piece of new furniture or even a new car.

Almost every day in March will see an exhibition ongoing. Sometimes two exhibitions might be held at the same time, but in different pavilions.

These exhibitions come in all sizes. Some might just take up in one pavilion while others may occupy three or four pavilions. One of the most striking scene will be the 17th Ningbo International Auto Expo held on March 23 to 26, which takes up all the eight pavilions in the Exhibition Center. Moreover, 10 car exhibitors have to display their cars in the outdoor open space.

Some exhibitions are so important that they serve as industry benchmark. Take the 13th International Machinery Industry Exhibition as example. Having attracted a large number of well-known domestic and international machine manufacturers, the exhibition directly reveals the current condition of the manufacturing enterprises in Ningbo. The fifth China (Ningbo) international Boutique furniture from March 9 to 12 remains a topic of concern, for it will show if Ningbo furniture market can survive the effect from the recent control policy over property market regulation.

Ningbo's first auction for mining rights

Recently, the live auction for two mining rights has been successfully held in Ningbo. This is the first live auction for mining rights in public trading platform after major adjustment on mining rights trading has been made last November.

The auction includes the mining rights of two ordinary stone mines. The first one is located in a village in Yin Jiang Township in Yinzou District. After a price offer, the mining right was sold at 8.85 million yuan.

The second one belongs to an ordinary building stone mine located in another village in Yinzhou District, with a capacity of 5.14 million tones. The starting price was 10.8 million yuan. Besides, the bidder has to pay a total of 8.5 million yuan as the deposit for environmental resuming. After a fierce competition of 38 bids, a bidder finally won the mining right at 26.7 million yuan, with a premium rate as high as 147%

Ningbo gives preference to small enterprises in personnel training

This year, Ningbo will further favor the enterprises in personnel training so that in 2015 the enterprises will have 85% of the total of talents. According to Ningbo Municipal Human Resource Center, this year the city will give preference to small and micro enterprises in personnel training.

Small and micro enterprises are often restricted by lack of qualified talented people. Reportedly, the city this year will open more training resources to small and micro enterprises. Those fast growing and upgrading middle, small and micro enterprises will have greater support. The management personnel in middle and small enterprises may have opportunities to get trained in advanced training classes home and abroad.

This year, the city will intensify the training of personnel that the city needs urgently, especially the personnel in marine economy management, port logistics, logistic network, and smart industries, so as to solve the bottleneck problem of shortage of personnel for emerging industries

Results of State Quality Checks of Ningbo products

The other day, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine released the result of the 6th products quality check 2011. In 2011, Ningbo had 6 batches of products checked by the state. Of the 457 batches of products of 70 kinds checked, 421 batches passed, with the acceptance rate reaching 92.1%, 5 points higher than the previous year. This indicates that the quality of Ningbo products is in general good.

Of the products checked, 52 kinds are 100% qualified, including bed necessities, electric processing lathes, home gas stoves, glasses and pressure cookers.

Ningbo to take 11 special actions for the "6 accelerates" strategy

According to Ningbo Municipal Office of the Campaign of the "Three Thinks and Three Pursues", the working plan for the campaign this year was recently released. In the plan are 11 special actions for the solution of the social and economic difficulties and the problems of greatest concern to the people. These actions aim to further accelerate the implement of the "6 accelerates" strategy.

To promote the industrial transformation and upgrading, Ningbo will take special actions to support the rapidly growing enterprises, eliminate backward productivities and promote energy saving and discharge reduction. According to the plan, this year Ningbo will complete the approval and implement of 100 key preliminary works of new projects and start the construction of 100 key projects. It will eliminate a number of backward productivities in 14 key industries, improve 31 massive economic areas of highly polluting and high energy consuming enterprises and save 300,000 tons of standard coal every year.

To speed up improving the quality of the people's lives, the city will take special actions to renovate 60 villages and towns in those underdeveloped areas. It will take special actions to improve the main roads and renovate 35 back streets in the central urban areas.

In addition, the city will go on the actions of "No-dead-end Roads" and "No Highly Polluting Fuel Areas. In this year, the city will break through 21 dead-end roads and eliminate 150 coal fueled boilers in the No Highly Polluting Fuel Areas

Hong Kong Touring Exhibition opened in Jiangbei Wanda Plaza

The 6-day Hong Kong Touring Exhibition 2011-2012 in Ningbo opened the other day in Wanda Plaza in Jiangbei. Chang Minyi, Vice Chairman of Ningbo People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the meeting, attended the opening ceremony.

The Hong Kong Touring Exhibition is hosted by the Shanghai Economy and Trade Office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and sponsored by Zhejiang Provincial Office of Affairs of Hong Kong and Macao and Ningbo Municipal Office of Foreign Affairs. With pictures, the exhibition displays the newest social and economic development of Hong Kong and trade and business cooperation of Hong Kong with mainland China since its return to the motherland. It also introduces tourist destinations, shopping, education and investment environment of Hong Kong

12th Ningbo Congress of Party Representatives closed

After completing its agenda of the election of the members and alternate members of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Party Committee and adopting the reports by the 11th Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and the Discipline Department of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, the 12th Ningbo Congress of Party Representatives successfully closed in Ningbo Grand Theatre.

The truth-seeking and pioneering spirit has always been the core of the whole process of the congress and it is a successful meeting with innovative spirit, inspiring result and well defined targets for the future development of Ningbo City.

Attendants to the closing ceremony included representatives of the democratic parties, major authorities of the Federation of Industry and Commerce, and representatives of the government departments, representatives of Ningbo People's Political Consultative Conference and representatives with no political affiliation.

The executive chairmen of the closing ceremony are: Wang Huizhong, Liu Qi, Tang Yijun, Wang Yong, Shou Yongnian, Yu Hongyi, Wang Jianbo, Song Wei, Wang Huimin, Zhu Wei, Chen Lixin, Ji Junmin, Zhao Kai, Liu Haiquan, Wang Zhuohui, Li Jianjun, Xiang Bingyan, Ye Chenghuan and Chen Yong.

Wang Huizhong presided over the closing ceremony

Yinzhou-made ice-cream machines exported to Emirates 

The other day, 1,728 ice-cream machines made by Ningbo Maijie Electric Company were exported to the Union of Arab Emirates. This is the first time Yinzhou exports its ice-cream machines to a foreign country.

In the world there is a great demand for ice-cream machines. The success of Yinzhou in exporting the machines opens a new channel for the export of home appliances made in Yinzhou It is a new opportunity for related companies for the export business