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Published: Monday, 28 November 2011 14:20
On November 20, Ningbo University and Ningbo Judicial Bureau jointly founded the first lawyer academy in Ningbo, aiming at educating young lawyers with sound theoretical knowledge, practical ability and professional ethics to satisfy the new demands of the economic and social development.
So far, there are 1340 practicing lawyers and 208 trainee solicitors in Ningbo. The legal profession in Ningbo has developed into a stage of a combination of specialization and integration and a focus on both non-litigation and litigation. However, there still exist such problems as low level of internationalization and uneven professional quality of lawyers. The newly founded lawyer academy will definitely play an important role in helping young lawyers with their development and in improving the overall quality of the legal profession.
On November 20, Ningbo University and Ningbo Judicial Bureau signed the cooperative agreement for the co-construction of Ningbo Lawyer Academy and Student Intern Base for the Law College of Ningbo University.
From now on, Ningbo Lawyer Academy will be located in Ningbo University, and by making full use of the teaching faculty and educational resources, such as some well-known legal experts and scholars home and abroad, it will carry out high-end bar practice seminar, training of legal profession and specialized skills, professional ethics education, and continuing education and warning education for lawyers, to produce lawyers of all levels.
In the meanwhile, Ningbo University is to establish its student intern bases in some related law offices. Taking advantage of the practical, inclusive and specialized resources of those offices, the students can take part in those internship activities as legal practice training, operational skills teaching, and values and career educating. Within the framework of the relevant laws and regulations, those offices provide an excellent internship platform for the students to get involved in some stages of litigation and non-litigation affairs or to make some administrative services.
On the afternoon of 20th, the second young lawyers' forum was held with the theme of "young lawyers' career planning and prospects". Xu Jianmin, standing director of Ningbo Bar Association and director of Zhejiang Haitai Law Office, delivered an impressive speech. Experts from Ningbo University, senior lawyers in Ningbo and officials in charge of legal affairs in judicial organizations attended the forum as honored guests and exchanged ideas with the present lawyers
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Published: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 09:10
On the afternoon of Nov. 15, the new industry promotion conference of Yuyao in Tokyo marked the beginning of 2011 Japan-Ningbo Week. Mayor Liu Qi attended the meeting and gave an address. More than 70 people from Mitsui and Co Ltd, Mitsubishi Corporation, Itochu Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, Fuji Electric Co. Ltd and other famous multinational corporation also attended the conference.
With the theme “accelerating transformation of development mode, promoting economic upgrading”, the Japan-Ningbo Week this year, in line with requirements of “six speed-ups”, closely focused the strategy of accelerating the advanced manufacturing industry and modern service industry for the purpose of increasing Ningbo’s core competitiveness and internationalization. Ningbo will further expand its influence in Japan, promote the wide cooperation communication with all fields of Japan, complement each other’s advantage and achieve win-win cooperation by means of holding high level symposium, special promotion conference and negotiation and investigation.
In his speech, Liu congratulated the new industry cooperation promotion conference of Yuyao and gave a brief introduction of economic and social development in Ningbo. He also said strategic new industry was the dominant power ushering in future development. He said “nowadays, taking the historic opportunity that Zhejiang marine economy has been upgraded as a part of national strategy, Ningbo is accelerating the transformation and upgrading of its industry and vigorously developing strategic new industry. Japan has solid R&D strength in new material, new energy, information technology and energy conservation and environment protection. Therefore, the cooperation space is large and our cooperation has a bright prospect. Through this conference we will achieve the cooperation in equipment manufacturing, intelligent appliances and modern service industry. Meanwhile, welcome Japanese entrepreneurs to Ningbo to investigate, cooperate and invest. I hope we can realize mutual benefit and common development.”
From the introduction, Yuyao recommended four pillar industries such as household appliance, mould of plastics, machinery, chemical fiber and textile. Besides, they also brought four growing industries such as optical, mechanical and electronic integration, electronic information, new material and biochemical engineering. At the conference, contracts for projects such as igniting device for gasoline engines, Kitchenware, new sealing material and digital pathological system worth 32.5 million dollars in investment were signed. They invested 15 million dollars in digital pathological system and telemedicine project and brought in advanced digital pathological systems to make a breakthrough in this field. Yuyao not only absorbs investment, but also introduces talented person and projects, e.g. they imported oversea high level innovative team guided by Doctor Chen Tao. Besides, Yuyao also exerts great effort in developing new industries and promoting the transformation and upgrading of its industry.
