1472 yew podocarpus imported from Meishan Port

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Monday, 18 February 2013 09:51

Since being approved as the special port for yew podocarpus importation, Meishan Port in Ningbo has been quite busy. According to the latest statistics from Ningbo Customs, in 2012, the total number of imported yew podocarpus via Meishan Port reaches 1472, with a total worth of US$5.878 million and an average of US$3993 per plant.

At the beginning of 2012, Meishan Port was authorized as the special port for yew podocarpus importation by the State Administration of Quality and Technical Supervision, being the first such port in East China and the second in China. In April, the first batch of 50 yew podocarpus was imported via Meishan Port, with a total volume of US$142,000. At the end of 2012, the imports came to a peak, with 493 plants in November and 522 plants in December, accounting for about 70% of all the imports.

Being a kind of pine, yew podocarpus is a kind of valuable ornamental plant, which is usually planted around the roads, in scenic areas and around hotels. There is a great demand for the plant in domestic market. It is estimated that only in Zhejiang Province, the annual demand for imports will exceed 5000. So far, a 1000-acre modern agricultural park in the northeast corner has been established as the large-scale plant isolation area for newly imported plants. In the future, Meishan Bonded Port Zone will be established as the biggest imported living plants trading platform in East China.

Zhenhai became a pilot smart city (district)

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:20

Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development held a meeting on pilot programs of smart cities the other day. At the meeting, 90 cities (districts, towns) were listed in the program, including 5 cities (districts) in Zhejiang Province, and they are Zhenhai District, Shangcheng District of Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Jinhua and Zhuji in Shaoxing.

　　Two years ago, Zhenhai decided to accelerate its development in building itself into a smart district and declared 8 related systems, including the smart manufacturing system and the smart logistics system. Currently, a high-capacity trunk transmission network which takes optical cable as its main part and sitcom as a supplementary means, with leading scale, capacity and technology in the country. The government internet has over 300 outlets covering villages and districts of all levels. Information systems and platforms have been set up， such as the pollutant resources monitoring system and video surveillance system of the Environmental Protection Bureau, the video surveillance platform and police geographical information system of the Public Security Bureau and the smart urban management platform of the Urban Administrative Bureau.

　　Zhenhai is expected to meet the requirements of being a pilot smart city (district) in three years’ time so that it will become a leading district with industrial transformation, quality management services and good environmental protection.

Smart city means to integrate government function, urban management, social services and industrial economy into the big platform. The core target of building a smart city is to deliver better life to the people.

Beilun offers colorful New Year goods for its people

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:29

As Spring Festival is around the corner, have you “heard” or “smelt” it? Several days ago, Beilun Cultural Center held a fresh and creative activity of volunteers sending their good wishes to the aged in nursing homes with paper-cuts for window decoration. This aroused their old feelings toward the lunar New Year. Those paper-cuts were in the shape of five-peaches which represent longevity, Chinese character “Fu” in various kinds and so on. Seeing all these, Mrs Yang, who is nearly eighty, said with a big smile that: “we no longer worry about food or clothes. We care more about spiritual fulfillment, and now all the feelings about the New Year in my memory spring up again.”

“Spring Festival atmosphere comes from not only adequate materials, but also rich culture.” said head of Publicity Department of Beilun. In order to keep the traditional Spring Festival atmosphere, Beilun has organized a series of new spring cultural activities to benefit the people since New Year’s Day. They elaborately “braised” colorful cultural goods for Spring Festival, encouraged more citizens to go out from their homes, leaving drinking, cards and mahjong behind to have a “cultural new year” and promote traditional Chinese culture.

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Ningbo sets 13 marine economic projects

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:42

According to a related meeting held on January 4, Ningbo has set 13 projects for the development of marine economy. Of the 13 projects, there are 8 key projects: high-efficient marine biological cultivation, marine biological medicine, marine equipment, Ningbo New-type Marine Biological Research Center, and Ningbo Biological Industrial Center of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. There are 5 ordinary projects including Xiangshan Marine Biological R&D Project.

Reportedly, the marine economic innovative projects are organized by the Ministry of Finance and the National Bureau of Oceanography. The projects aim to promote the strategic emerging industries, and support some areas to establish demonstrative zones for the innovative development of marine economy. There are four funds for the projects: the special fund for strategic emerging industries, the fund for use of seas, the special fund for the studies of marine public welfare industries, and the special fund for the promotion of innovation of higher educational institutions.