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Ningbo will start the certification and registration of e-sports athletes- See more ...

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the General Administration of Market Supervision, and the Bureau of Statistics recently...

University of Nottingham Ningbo celebrates 15th anniversary- See more ...

On the afternoon of April 10th, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China celebrated its 15th anniversary, and held a “birthday dance...

Mustard harvest in Yuyao- See more ...

The vegetable grower salted the freshly harvested mustard. (Photo by Xu Neng and Fang Wen)...

Intelligent water treatment in Yuehu Lake- See more ...

On the afternoon of April 8, the beautiful Yuehu Lake under the blue sky. (Photo by Liu Bo and Sha...

Razor clam feast- See more ...

The razor shell is especially fat and tender during the time of Qingming. (Photo by Hu Long) The first Zhanqi Razor...

2nd phase of Ningbo Mould Industrial Park starts construction

Details: Category: Ningbo District; Published: Wednesday, 09 August 2017 05:52

The opening ceremony of the 1^st phase of Ningbo Mould Industrial Park as well as the groundbreaking ceremony of the 2^nd phase was held at Ningbo Southern Coastal New Zone on the morning of July 24. So far, the first phase of the park has been completed and put into use, with the business introduction rate of about 70%. The second phase covers an area of 385 mu, with a starting investment of 380 million yuan. Upon completion, the second phase will help to build the park a new highland of the industry by realizing the seamless connection of mould industry and new-energy vehicle industry.

As a specialized complex project for the transformation and upgrading of the mould industry, jointly built by Ningbo Industrial Investment Group and Ninghai County Government, the industrial park covers a planned area of about 1500 mu, with a total investment of 3.2 billion yuan. The first phase of the park covers 404 mu, with a construction area of 250,000 square meters and an investment of 850 million yuan. After three years’ construction, the first phase has been completed and 210 businesses have signed the agreement for settlement (with over 70 having settled down), including such prominent enterprises as Jianxin Mould, ZD Vehicles, Xianglu Auto Parts, Jiaxiang Mould and Doppler Cabling, demonstrating an industrial agglomeration effect

Sino-Chile FTA helps Ningbo enterprises to enjoy preferable tariff

Details: Category: Ningbo District; Published: Wednesday, 09 August 2017 05:49

Thanks to the signing of the free trade agreement between China and Chile, Ningbo’s export trade to Chile has grown rapidly. According to the statistics from Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, in the first half of this year, the bureau issued 9392 copies of Sino-Chile FTZ certificate of origin, with a total volume of US$280 million, up by 23.01% and 11.4% respectively. Estimated with the 5% reduction of tariff, the exporters of Ningbo received a total tariff reduction of about US$14 million.

Chile is the first South American country to establish diplomatic relations with China, and it’s also the first country in the world to give diplomatic recognition to China’s market-oriented economy. Since the signing of the Sino-Chile FTA in October 2006, Ningbo’s Sino-Chile FTZ certificate of origin has witnessed steady increase. In the first half of this year, the amount of the Sino-Chile FTZ certificate of origin of Ningbo ranked No.3 among those of all the free trade zones with China. In terms of the export product structure, the major exports to Chile are in the traditionally strong industries, including textiles, electrical appliances, machinery, plastic products and furniture, with a total of 7024 copies of certificate of origin, accounting for 74.79% of the total

UNNC joins hands with Yuyao to boost electrification industry

Details: Category: Ningbo District; Published: Wednesday, 17 May 2017 08:20

May 15, a formal contract was signed between Nottingham University (including the British Campus and the Chinese Campus) and Yuyao Industrial Park which carries out a program involving thousands of people in Zhejiang province, agreeing on the establishment of Nottingham-Yuyao International Research Institution. Both sides hope to build a strategic platform of application and research, experiments and production, industrialization and international business services rolled in to one, in high energy-consuming electromechanical fields. They, according to the contract, will make full use of their favorable conditions of resources respectively, co-financing the first five-year period drive of the research institution by 165 million RMB.

On the one hand, the team of Nottingham University in fields of electricity and electronics disciplines and electrical machinery and its control is one of the world’s largest scientific research teams. With a good command of advanced knowledge and technology of studies and development of electrical machinery, many products of scientific researches are on the verge of industrialization. On the

Juicy Peach Culture Festival held in Ninghai

Details: Category: Ningbo District; Published: Wednesday, 09 August 2017 05:47

The opening ceremony of the 10th Juicy Peach Culture Festival of Hucheng Township was held at the Hucheng Township Outdoors Sports Base on the morning of July 22. With the coming of the harvest season for the juicy peaches, the township is bathed in the sweet peach flavor again.

This year’s festival features a 15-day peach evening party. As a national ecological township, the Hucheng Township provides the tourists with the cool Zhongbao Stream and about 10,000-mu peach fields. When night falls, the tourists can enjoy the delicious food and beer at the sports base as well as the wonderful performance of the “Great Stage of the People”. At the evening party, each evening there will be a “peach king auction” and all the money raised at the auction will be used to support the students in need of the township. In addition, there will be seven activities including the “photography competition for the juicy peach culture festival”, “traditional culture exchange meeting” and “juicy peach sales”.

This is the 10th year for the Hucheng Township to hold the juicy peach culture festival, which has not only enhanced the fame of the juicy peach and increased the peach farmers’ income but also strengthened the farm-tourism integration and promoted the development of the rural tourism of the township.

Robot Expo Project Lands in Yuyao

Details: Category: Ningbo District; Published: Wednesday, 17 May 2017 08:19

On the morning of May 15, the building of International Robots Trading Exposition Hall got started in Yuyao. Robot Trading Exposition Market in the Yangtze River Delta region in Zhejiang province, which was the first national comprehensive Robot Trading Exposition Market, went into operation on May 15.

It is reported that Yuncheng Industrial Base Project is the out of the cooperation between municipal council and government and Huasheng Fund, which aims at the integration of production and finance. It is a comprehensive development project on a city level and incorporates integration of resources of industrial guiding and upgrading, development and investment, construction of the cloud infrastructure and city updating, featuring newly-emerging technologies of gathering and development of intelligent productions, big data, Internet+.

The gross investment of the project amounts to 20.3 billion yuan, with an expected controlling area of 20 square kilometers. The first-stage project covers an area of 3.2 square kilometers, in which