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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Wednesday, 07 August 2013 08:41
On July 30, a mountaineer returned from the Jiulong Lake Resort in Zhenhai District “Just a few months apart, the rural environment can be that different.” he marveled. In the latest ranking for urban and rural environment in Zhenhai District, Jiulong Lake Town won the first place.
“The improvement of environmental outlook is brought about by the full implementation of the grid model of sanitation management.” said Hong Yuejun, Party Secretary of Jiulong Lake Town. Despite the beautiful scenery of Jiulong Lake area in the town, local residents and enterprises were lacking in awareness of environmental protection, leading to such problems as river blockage by garbage. To address the problem, the town has launched an environmental remediation campaign since April. The 11 villages and some major streets and rivers are divided into 86 grids, and 86 grid supervisors composed of leaders from the villages are made responsible for the grids, to ensure that each area and grid is taken good care of at any time, the so-called “full regional management and seamless cleaning”.
Some garbage collectors just place and dump their garbage randomly, serving as a big problem for the local environmental sanitation and people’s life, which becomes a starting point for the grid management. Recently, in Changhong Village, where there used to be many garbage collectors, 23 unlicensed collectors have been removed. In the two licensed collecting stations for used tires and recyclable steel products, all the items are neatly placed. According to Zhang Gaoping, Vice-secretary of Party Committee of Jiulong Lake Town, in
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 30 July 2013 13:44
More than 200,000 kilogram of Yuyao barberry is sold every day to Shanghai and Hangzhou, despite its high price, which is 30%-40% higher than that of barberry produced in other places. And tourists flow to Yuyao to pick bayberry by themselves. Peasants are happy to say that their high income owes much to the national famous brand.
To strengthen the competitiveness of byproducts and increase the income for peasants, Yuyao resorts to register agricultural products as brand ones. Last year, the agricultural output value reached 8.055 billion yuan, 80% of which was from brand agricultural products, contributing to an income increase of 1.3 billion yuan.
Famous as the China Bayberry Town, China Mustard Town and China Cherry Town, Yuyao now has 15 agricultural bases at the municipal level, which have led to the establishment of 110 leading agricultural enterprises and 357 agricultural cooperatives, incorporating 497,400 families and 557,700 mu land.
To enhance the core value and market value of the brand, more than 50 agricultural cooperatives and enterprises have cooperated with over 40 research organizations to set up 39 privately-run research institutions, introducing and developing over 200 new products and technologies.
