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A team of robots developed by the Engineering College were rehearsing for a national competition June 12. The robots were all developed by a research team headed by Dr. Zhong Qiubo.
The import of rice from Vietnam has overridden that from Thailand and Vietnam became the largest rice exporter in Ningbo, despite the fact that rice from Thailand once accounted for over 90 percent of the total imported volume of the city.
Statistics shows that Ningbo Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau accepted 15 times of rice inspection appliances, involving 5,080 tones of rice worth of 2.49 mln dollars till the end of May. Among which 9 times are rice from Vietnam, having 4,400 tones worth of 1.74 mln dollars. These three figures soared by 8 times, 28 times and 24 times respectively and accounted for 60.0 percent, 86.6 percent and 69.9 percent of the total figures respectively.
The flood last year curtailed the output of rice in Thailand. In addition, the exchange rate and the intervention measures Thailand government adopted made the rice price higher than other exporters, leaving it incompetent with the price of Vietnam rice. Moreover, the rising of China’s price level made Vietnam rice even popular in China. Statistics showed that China had become the largest importer of Vietnam rice, with the export volume rising by 4.4 times and export value 4 times, reported by a Vietnam newspaper.
A job fair in want of creative talents is scheduled to be held at Hefeng Creative Square on June 16. A total of 360 middle-and-high ranking positions are available, each with an annual pay of over 100,000 yuan.
It is learned that the job fair has attracted 49 companies, ranging from real estate field (construction and engineering industries), machinofacture field (electromechanical industry, heavy industry), tourism field (hotel industry and catering industry), internet field (e-commerce), textiles industry, and financial investment to the trading sector (import and export), communication field (transportation and logistics), automobile industry (motorcycle industry) as well as IT industry etc.
Ningbo's energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) dropped 5.9 percent year on year in the first quarter of this year, said Ningbo Energy Conservation Office on June 11. Among which, energy consumption per unit of added value of industrial enterprises above the designated size jumped 6.2 percent against the same period of last year, making it the best performance in recent years.
In the first quarter of this year, the added value of industrial enterprises above the designated size increased 2.8 percent while its total energy consumption dropped 3.6 percent. “The fact reflected the determination of Ningbo to adjust its industrial structure”, said Lin Keyu, Director of Ningbo Energy Conservation Office. Industrial energy conservation is of vital importance for Ningbo to finish its obligatory target for saving energies in the circumstance that industrial energy consumption accounts for three fourths of its total.
In face with the severe situation of restricted resources and the larger percentage of heavy industries, Ningbo authority has made great efforts in the monitoring, supervising and early warning of energy conservation. To be specific, it has improved three integrated mechanisms including the responsibility mechanism, the system of veto by one note and the administrative accountability system. It has also implemented three projects ranging from industrial structure, techniques and management. In addition, it has adopted legal, economic and administrative means to urge every sector to give prominence to energy conservation.
The adjustment and upgrading of industrial structure is the key to energy conservation. Along with the quickened pace in developing strategic emerging industries and reforming traditional industries, Ningbo will add more force to close down backward production facilities and equipments, put restriction on the production and export of resource products and products whose production is energy intensive or highly polluting and improve the efficiency on energy allocation. At the same time, Ningbo will also build up and improve the incentive and restraining mechanism for the close down of highly-polluting and highly-energy consuming industries, and enlarge the implementation area for differential electricity pricing system as well as improve the mechanism to close down backward production capability.
To set up a long-term mechanism enabling enterprises to increase investment on energy conservation, Ningbo will intensify the popularization and appliance of new energy-saving technologies, equipments and products while centering on the ten energy-saving projects including the transformation of steady boilers and kilns, the upgrading of energy system and so on.
According to the special plan for energy conservation in the 12th five year period, to the year 2015, over 6600 enterprises above the designated size must fulfill its energy-saving goals and 114 key energy consumption enterprises should save 2.23 mln tons of standard coal. Ningbo should also finish 1,000 transformation projects adopting energy-saving technologies to save 1 mln tons of standard coal each year, carry out 1,000 auditing projects of clean production, and close down backward production capability in 14 highly-polluting and highly-energy consuming industries in order to reduce 0.3 mln tons of standard coal each year.
The Fourteenth ZJITS, the Eleventh CICGF and the Fifth China Opening-up Forum were concluded on June 11. Over 2000 exhibiting companies participated in the two Fairs and the Forum and gained orders worth 586 million US Dollars. 11 cities of Zhejiang Province signed 107 overseas investment projects with a total investment of 4.7 billion US Dollars.
According to the statistics from the organizing committee, 10,158 overseas merchants including senior executives from over 60 World Top 500 Companies attended the Two Fairs and One Forum.
The ZJITS arranged 21 cooperative negotiation conferences in 3 days and a half. The Zhejiang investment partnership symposium attracted 429 overseas enterprises and institutions and 1618 Zhejiang enterprises and signed 285 overseas talent introduction contracts. 11 cities of Zhejiang Province signed 107 overseas investment projects with a total investment of 4.7 billion US Dollars.
The CICGF attracted enterprises from 7 countries and regions which exhibited over 100,000 kinds of commodities. Except for Zhejiang enterprises, enterprises from 10 provinces, cities and autonomous regions of China participated in the Fair. 12 large international purchasers including Wal-Mart, Auchan, Tesco and LOTTE Mart came to the Fair for procurement. The total turnover of the fair reached 586 million US Dollars, among which, Household Products & Gifts ranked first with a total order of 248 billion Yuan, Home Appliances & Electronics and Household Textiles & Garments ranked second and third with a total order of 230 million US Dollars and 73 million US Dollars respectively. The largest import markets were ASEAN, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
At the forum, several experts proposed their suggestions on opening-up in the new era under the main lines of reform and opening-up, bring in enlightenment for the development of local enterprises. 900 people attended the forum. In addition, the list of the 2012 top 500 foreign trade enterprises of China was released, further enhancing the renown of Ningbo.
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