Sea-rail intermodal transport booming in Ningbo Zhoushan Port

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Published: Monday, 15 April 2019 06:35

Recently, a train carrying 116 standard boxes (container) of imported Russian timber entered Beilun Port Area and was transported to Taicang, Jiangsu Province via the Yangtze River branch line of Ningbo Ocean Shipping Company. This marks the handshake between the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, Xi'an, and the eastern departure port of the "Maritime Silk Road" Ningbo through the sea-rail intermodal train for the first time. The latest information shows that in the first quarter of 2019, Ningbo Zhoushan Port completed a total of 175,000 TEUs of container sea-rail combined transport, an increase of 45.4% over the same period last year.

Since the beginning of 2019, Ningbo has actively docked the important links of the “Belt and Road” in the central and western regions, and the multimodal transport has achieved interconnection. The railway line from Xi'an to Ningbo is long and the freight rate is high. Most of the imported timber in Xi'an area is transported to the coastal areas through road trailers. Ningbo Zhoushan Port actively communicates with the National Railway Group and cooperates with China Merchants Group to open the sea-rail intermodal train from Xi'an to Ningbo. The train will effectively link the China-European“Chang’an” train, which will help to further enlarge the brand effect of Ningbo Zhoushan Port sea-rail combined transport, and promote the construction of Ningbo Zhoushan intermodal logistics inter-route and the sea-rail intermodal international logistics channel. Trains for Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei and other key areas will be increased. In the first quarter, the volume of sea-rail combined transport business in Jiangxi reached 27,836 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 58.9%, a record high in the quarter.

With the help of the province's port integration strategy, we will deeply cultivate the provincial market. On January 11th, the “Huzhou-Ningbo Zhoushan Port” sea-rail intermodal train was successfully launched, becoming the second sea-rail train after Huzhou’s “Changxingnan-Ningbo Zhoushan Port”. On March 1st, the “Qianqing-Ningbo Zhoushan Port” sea-rail combined transport line was opened, the third daily train in Hangzhou and Shaoxing area

Two dragon boat racing events to be held in Ningbo

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Published: Thursday, 28 March 2019 08:14

The World Dragon Boat League Conference, jointly sponsored by the International Rowing Federation, the Kayaking Association of China and Ningbo Sports Bureau, was held from March 22 to 24, at the Dongqian Lake. At the conference, a signing ceremony was held and the “Ningbo declaration” was issued, announcing that the first Dragon Boat World Cup of the International Rowing Federation will be held at the Dongqian Lake area, Ningbo, in the second half of 2019. Meanwhile, representatives of dragon boat organizations from all over the world and regions have jointly set up the World Dragon Boat League Alliance, a new event guided by the International Rowing Federation. Hopefully, the World Dragon Boat League will start in 2020, and will be held in Ningbo for the first three consecutive years.

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Ningbo to be built as cradle of Chinese new country music

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Published: Thursday, 28 March 2019 08:15

News came from the press conference of Ningbo Municipal Information Office held on the afternoon of March 25 that Ningbo will take a range of important measures to strengthen the construction of the city as a cradle of the "new country music of China".

The new country music of China, mainly reflecting the rich nostalgia, homesickness, home tongue, and affection for hometown under the background of new rural life and urbanization in contemporary China, is a new type of music that conforms to the aesthetics of the new era and the characteristics of regional culture. It is an integration of a variety of music styles, such as rock and roll, folk songs, electronic music, local plays and dialect tunes.

Jointly sponsored by the Publicity Department of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and the Publicity Department of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, the "development plan for the new country music in China" is now based in Ningbo

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Social worker activities brisk in Ningbo

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Published: Thursday, 28 March 2019 08:10

Recently, a creative display competition for "micro treatment" was held at the Nanmen Street of Haishu District. With the sitcoms, sketches and poem recitals composed and directed by the social workers from the 11 communities of the district, the competition was a vivid reflection of the daily work of the 101 social workers of the district. 
Currently, there are 6,497 social workers in Ningbo with the national social workers' professional certificate, resulting in an average of 8.1 professional social workers per 10,000 people. According to the statistics released at the recently held opening ceremony of the "publicity week for social work", there are also six state-level demonstration stations for social work services, four provincial training and practicing bases for social work professionals, six provincial social work supervision talents, and 30 municipal demonstration bases for social work, enabling Ningbo to rank high in the province in terms of its overall level of social work. 

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