Ningbo Changes Land Use Pattern to Promote Development

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Published: Monday, 04 March 2013 05:27

Municipal work conference of land and resources was held on February 27. Mayor Liu Qi pointed out that the present management of municipal land and resources faced multiple pressure including. We should deepen reform and innovation and change land use pattern to fundamentally ease the tensions and contradictions between supply and demand of land resources.

　　It was learned that three reforms were to be promote in Ningbo this year. First, the reform of the administrative examination and approval system would be push forward actively and steadily and the power would be transferred to county (city) and district level as far as possible. Second, the construction of pilot site of wasteland and hilly land would be accelerated and new industrial projects were to be introduced in these pilot blocks. Third, the promotion of the linking pilot of the increase and decrease ofconstruction land in urban and rural areas would be speeded up.

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Ningbo Administration of Work Safety supervises mine safety

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Published: Thursday, 28 February 2013 07:15

Officials from Ningbo Administration of Work Safety have been busy checking safety work of mine enterprises to prevent worksite accidents.
As the Spring Festival has come to an end, migrant workers of the mine enterprises are back to work, which requires comprehensive safety check of work environment and equipments. The panel of officials will thoroughly conduct the check and enterprises starting work before the check or failing to meet standards will be punished.

Three companies credited as high-tech enterprises

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Published: Monday, 04 March 2013 05:25

Three companies in the free trade zone were credited as high-tech enterprises after the verification of the leading group for the Identification and Management of High-tech Enterprises. The three companies are Ningbo BYD Company Limited, Ningbo Zhongmeng Co., Ltd and Ningbo Wind Energy Company Ltd respectively. Up till now, there are 14 identified high-tech companies in the free trade zone, all of which are concentrated in such five areas as new materials, integrated circuits, instrument manufacturing, semiconductor, software IT services. High-tech companies play key roles in the transformation and upgrading of the regional economy.
In the past a few years, as the free trade zone actively carrying out the identification work of high-tech companies, the amount of high-tech companies has increased year by year. In 2012, these companies kept developing even in times of adversity. The output value, sales value, profits and taxes as well as foreign exchanges reached 50.7 billion yuan, 45.8 billion yuan, 1.2 billion yuan and 2.6 billion yuan respectively. Among which the output value and sales value each increased 20 percent and 9.3 percent against 2011. The output value of high-tech enterprises makes up 90.3 percent of the whole of the industrial enterprises above designated size.
 In 2013, the free trade zone will strengthen the cultivation of high-tech companies in such sectors as LCD photoelectric, integrated semiconductor circuit, computer, industrial communication device and new materials, with the aim to develop a group of companies with high technical content and sound prospect.

People's livelihood improvement:

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Published: Thursday, 28 February 2013 07:13

Among the bills submitted at the People's Congress of Ningbo held yesterday, the bill about improving people’s livelihood was the biggest concern of the deputies. 
According to Shi Xu, vice chairwoman of the Congress, three of the four bills are about lawmaking and one is about supervision. The four bills cover problems of city management, making or amending laws on using and managing buildings.
The secretariat received a total of 578 suggestions, 149 of which were about city planning and environmental protection, 126 were about social affairs and 80 about transport and industries. 72 suggestions concern finance and commerce and 36 concern agriculture and rural areas. These suggestions cover issues of city and transport management, food and medicine safety, ecological civilization and improvement of people’s living environment. Special attention is given to building old residential districts and strengthening supervision on old and dangerous buildings. Deputies also offer suggestions on speeding up economic transformation and upgrading, unifying urban and rural development, improving government functions and promoting SMEs development.