Railway-sea container linkage system launched

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 02 October 2012 15:03

Ningbo Port Group and Xiangyang Municipal Government signed the modern logistics agreement for strategic partnership on the morning of September 28. The establishment of the Xiangyang Branch of Ningbo Port International Container Co. Ltd. and Xiangyang Office of Ningbo Port Southeast Logistics Co. Ltd. marks the official launch of Xiangyang-Ningbo railway-sea container linkage system.

As an important industrial city and transportation hub, Xiangyang features prosperous automobile manufacturing and textile industry. By fully playing its role as a transportation hub city with Xiangyang North Railway Station being the Asia's largest unidirectional longitudinal type of railway station, the city will make joint efforts with Ningbo Port Group to accelerate the opening of the special trains for transporting container cargoes from Xiangyang and its surrounding regions to Ningbo Port economically and conveniently.

Ningbo Port has before opened the railway-sea linkage system in such areas as inside Zhejiang Province, Jiangxi Province, the three provinces in the Northeast China, Xi'an and Chengdu.

Zhenhai investment hits a record high

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:17

According to statistics by Zhenhai Development and Reform Bureau, industrial investment of Zhenhai reaches 5.596 billion RMB yuan from this January to August, up by 68.6% above the same period of last year, marking a new record in Zhenhai industrial investment.

The driving forces of the high investment are the startups of 58 new projects. Since the second half of last year, affected by retarded global economic recovery, Zhenhai economy suffers accordingly. To deal with this problem, Zhenhai District pays more attention on attracting investment and gives full support to large projects so as to drive economic development. Up to now, investment of Heyuan chemical engineering project, Jiangning chemical engineering project and Zhetiedafeng chemical engineering project amounts to 2.876 billion RMB yuan, accounting for 56.6 percent of the total investment.

At the meantime, technological transformation and renovation of Zhenhai local companies are vigorously advancing, which not only makes contribution to industrial investment, but also promotes the transformation of the pattern of economic development. For example, 110 million RMB yuan investment had been completed for the technological renovation project of Ningbo Xinfu chemical engineering Co., Ltd., a project of resource comprehensive utilization production line whose annual turnover of sulfuric acid production from sulfur-burning amounts to 600,000 tons. This project makes use of international advanced technology—American sulfuric acid production from sulfur-burning at a lower operating temperature, yielding more than 1 billion RMB yuan incremental income. Ningbo Alps Electronic Co. Ltd completed an investment of 85 million RMB yuan in the production line technological transformation of electronic products, and it is estimated that there will be 200 million RMB yuan incremental income annually after the transformation, with the profit and tax hitting 70 million RMB yuan. Statistics show, of the planned total investment of 5.758 billion RMB yuan in 113 technological transformation projects, 1.744 billion RMB yuan investment has completed, up by 24.3% over the same period of last year. Among all the 113 technological transformation projects, 52 projects have been listed as key projects with the total investment adds up to 1.16 billion RMB yuan. It is estimated that there will be 3.5 billion RMB yuan incremental income annually with the profit and tax hitting 300 million RMB yuan.

Ritual kicks off fishing festival

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:13

A grand sacrificial ceremony held in Xiangshan of Ningbo last Sunday kicked off the 15th China Fishing Festival. Xiangshan, the famous fishing county, is one of the six largest fishing ports in China.

Luo Fuhe, Vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), announced the opening of the 15th China Fishing Festival. Meanwhile, many government officials, related experts and scholars from many international and national marine organizations, marine research institutes, colleges and universities attended the ceremony together with other honored guests home and abroad.

After Ma Weiguang, Ningbo's Vice Mayor, delivered an opening speech, Zhao Limin, director of the Provincial Oceanic and Fisheries Bureau, announced the beginning of the fishing season. Exactly at 12 o'clock at noon, with the first sound of the gong as a symbol for sailing, thousands of ships were leaving for their "first fishing journey".

In local tradition, the fishermen in Xiangshan hold a sacrificial rite for the sea at the beginning of each fishing season, appreciating the bounty of the ocean and praying for safety and good harvest. The China Fishing Festival was first launched in 1998. Up to now, it is successfully held annually throughout 14 years. Over the past 14 years, the China Fishing Festival has developed diversified features. It comprises of ceremonies, forums, performances, trade and tourism, and a dozen of colorful activities. In recent years, the sacrificial ceremony became a major part of the China Fishing Festival, which aims to promote the fishing culture of the region.

Cixi becomes the eighth most competitive county-level city

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 04 September 2012 09:25

China Institute of City Competitiveness (CICC) published the ranking list of the most competitive county-level cities (2012) lately. Cixi was rated the eighth with a final score of 90.34.

The first city on the list is Kunshan City of Jiangsu Province, followed by Jingyin City, Zhangjiagang City, Changshu City, Wujiang City, Jinjiang City and Yixing City, all of which except Jinjiang City (Fujian Province) are cities of Jiangsu Province. Zhuji of Zhejiang Province ranked the tenth, while Shaoxing the 12th, Yiwu 14th and Yuyao 18th.

It is learned that the evaluation index system includes economic, social, environmental and cultural systems, with economic competitiveness, industrial competitiveness and financial competitiveness and other seven first level indicators, 50 second indicators as well as 217 third level indicators.

CICC is the first institute made up of over one hundred experts, scholars and researchers from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao as well as from abroad who share the common ambition of studying the development of Chinese cities and improving their competitiveness. The institute is an international academic community which specialized in studying the development of Chinese cities and improving their competitiveness as well as providing counseling and evaluation services. The ranking list of the most competitive county-level cities (2012) is a newly-added list of this year.