Ningbo mold talent market set up in Ninghai

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Published: Tuesday, 02 October 2012 15:01

Ningbo mold talent market, the city’s first market of the kind, was officially set up in Ninghai on the morning of September 24. The market plans to become the highland of mould talents and a distribution center of moulds the East China in five years. The mold talent market was built based on the former Ninghai talent market. “In coming five years we plan to turn it into a prestigious talent highland, a distribution center, and an information center of the mould industry of China and the East China in particular”, said an official of Ninghai County. The authorities say the mold talent market will try to break regional boundaries and set up some branches in the whole province with Ningbo as its base. It will also provide professional mold channels for mold talents to understand the market and release relevant information and policies about industry. 
Ninghai is known as “the China mold production base” and “China mold industrial base”. Now, the county is home to more than 500 mold manufacturers, with more than 50,000 employees. Last year, the industry generated output value of 4.7 billion yuan.

Prize giving ceremony for Technology Business Plan Competition held

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Published: Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:19

The prize giving ceremony for the Technology Business Plan Competition was held in Ningbo Innovation Port on the afternoon of Sept. 22. A total number of 105 awards worth of 7.9 mln yuan were unveiled on the ceremony. The more exciting news was that 23 business plans on the competition had successfully raised fund of 340 mln yuan.
The competition was jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ningbo Municipal Government. Since its launch in March and especially since the special report of building Ningbo into an angelic city written on June, 14, the authority had endeavored to encourage more private capitals to invest in Ningbo and more talents to start businesses here. In answer to the government’s appeal, many departments and offices such as the Municipal Personnel Office and Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau went to Beijing and Shanghai and held advertising activities there. What’s more, they also sent invitations to over 200 overseas students’ organizations via Overseas Students Association and Chinese Professional Association and other agents. At the beginning of this month, Wang Huizhong, the Party Secretary led a team to Silicon Valley and New York and held talks with overseas talents, appealing them to start businesses in Ningbo.
In the meantime, the competition made changes on the reward mechanism, setting up a special award to overseas talents who start businesses in Ningbo. Among which two are awards for overseas elites, each with a sum of one mln yuan. And the winners of these two awards were announced on the spot, being the program leaded by Dr. Dai Junhui and the program of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology respectively.
Zhai Lixin, Deputy Director of the Department of Policy, Regulations and Reform of the Ministry of Science and Technology made his congratulation on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Technology and expressed his sincere hope that Ningbo could be built into an angelic city, an innovative city as well as an entrepreneurial city. 

Four Post-Doctoral Research Stations Set up in Ningbo

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Published: Tuesday, 02 October 2012 14:59

News came from Ningbo University on September 24 that four post-doctoral research Stations had been added in Ningbo. This information was jointly issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Postdoctoral Management Committee. The four postdoctoral stations were the polymer chemistry station of CAS Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology& Engineering and the postdoctoral stations of mechanics, information and communication engineering and aquatic science at Ningbo University respectively. It was learned that Ningbo University, having its post-doctoral research stations for the first time, has begun to develop post-doctoral management policy and postdoctoral researchers recruitment plan to attract domestic and foreign talents.

Ningbo's universities see more female students

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Published: Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:15

As a new semester begins in most Ningbo schools last week, many local universities and colleges saw an increase in female students.

In Ningbo Institute of Education, the students are predominantly female in recent years. In 2012, the number of female students in the school accounts for 88 percent, a record high. The school enrolled 1,015 new students in 2012, including 893 females and only 122 males. They enrolled more than 200 pre-school education majors, but only six are male students.

And it's not just vocational schools that are seeing a rise in female students. The same situation happened in some comprehensive universities in Ningbo. Ningbo University enrolled a total of more than 8,000 freshmen this year, and the gender ratio was 45:55 (male to female). Women students definitely dominate such majors as languages study.

Zhejiang Wanli University enrolled 4,989 freshmen, including 2,256 boys and 2,733girls, or 45.2 percent male students and 54.8 percent female students, remaining a similar gender ratio with Ningbo University.

Even science and engineering-based universities like Ningbo University of Technology tend to see higher female enrollment. The school enrolled a total of 3,353 new students this year, with boys accounting for 58.66 percent and girls 41.34 percent. Girls dominate the liberal arts majors, especially language majors. The Japanese language program recruited 51 girls and only 10 boys. Another example is the Chinese Language program, which attracted 70 girls but only 11 boys.

However, many employers in Ningbo prefer male applicants when hiring employees, which makes female graduates more difficult to find jobs and less opportunities to get promotion than their male counterparts.