"Consumption engine" brings new power
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- Category: Governmental News
- Published: Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:12
According to a proposal from the commerce & trade work conference held on March 4, Ningbo will make efforts to strengthen consumption and promote economic growth in 2013 by enhancing effective investment, developing new industries, strengthening the scale of enterprises and expanding people's livelihood needs. It is expected that the total retail sales of consumer goods will rise by 13%, and the wholesale sales and the added value of the accommodation and catering sector will rise by 10% over the previous year. The total commodity sales will exceed 1.1 trillion yuan.
In 2013, Ningbo will adjust and optimize the layout of the key commerce & trade projects by transferring some of the large-scale commercial complex from the increasing overcrowded downtown areas to such minor markets in the central towns and satellite cities. Thus a comprehensive development layout will be formed, integrating the downtown areas and other places such as peripheral areas, satellite cities, small towns and new rural communities. the city will continue to improve effective investments and strengthen its developing trend. Besides, by integrating the existing resources, Ningbo will build such festive occasions as Ningbo Food Fair, New Year Goods Exhibition and Ningbo Shopping Festival, and Ningbo Food Festival into the festival brands with strong regional influence.
This year, Ningbo will choose some large and medium-sized key wholesale enterprises and chain enterprises as E-commerce pilots. The urban community public E-commerce platform in the "81890" model will be established, and three to five "Made-in-Ningbo" E-commerce enterprises and bases will be set up. The chain enterprises are encouraged to develop their direct chains by way of structural adjustment, joint reorganizing and share holding. Ningbo will support the development of the large-scale logistics enterprises integrating exhibition, trade, warehousing, processing and distribution.
In 2013, Ningbo will transform and upgrade 115 vegetable markets and construct 43 provincial civilized demonstration markets. In 100 spots of nine sectors including meat and vegetable wholesale markets, standardized vegetable markets and large and medium-sized chain supermarkets, the meat and vegetable circulation backward system will be established. The production capacity of 160 municipal-level vegetable bases will be consolidated or expanded.
