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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:40
The other day, Ningbo Municipal Government released Opinions on Accelerating Import Trade, which specifies measures to promote import trade.
The Opinions will be put into effect from February. The Opinions suggests that by 2016 the independent import should be 40% of the total of independent import and export, that the import via Ningbo Customs should be 38% of the total of the import and export via Ningbo Customs and that Ningbo should make greater contribution to the balance of foreign trade of Zhejiang and China.
So far, Ningbo has 4,700 import companies. Statistics of Ningbo Customs show that in the first 11 months in 2012, the total import and export volume was $88.403 billion US dollars, and the import 32.113 billion.
In the three years from 2013, every year Ningbo will put in some 40 million yuan as special fund for the support of import trade, to encourage enterprises to enlarge import trade, to build professional import market, to encourage enterprises and to participate in import commodity fairs. The fund shall also be used to support credit insurance and promote supporting services for import trade.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:39
According to Ningbo Administration for Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine, in 2012, Ningbo exported 1,848,300 mobile phones, valuing $323.68 million, increased by 65.9% and 46.1% respectively year on year. This indicates that the negative growth that had lasted for successively three years has come to an end. The cell phones are exported to 29 countries and regions including Hong Kong of China, India, Ukraine and Croatia, 7 countries and regions more than the previous year.
The increase of mobile phone export is mainly a result of the large scale expansion of the overseas market by Mobiwire Mobiles (Ningbo) Co., Ltd.. In 2012, the company took over Mobiwre Company of SAGEM GROUP and thus has the R&D and sales teams of Mobiwre Company. This is the first time a private Ningbo mobile phone enterprises acquired a foreign mobile phone manufacturer. With effective operation, the company resumed the export of cell phones to Europe in the fourth quarter of 2012, and in less than 4 months, the export amounted to 196,000 phones, valuing about 3 million US dollars. The export of smart phones is becoming a tendency for the export of phones of Ningbo. It is estimated that in 2013 the export of smart phones will exceed 40% of the export of mobile phones
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:39
On January 19, The Port of Ningbo has the innovation project of four wharfs pass the designing check by the Ministry of Communications.
The four wharfs are: the container ship wharf of Beilun of the Port of Ningbo, Daxie Container Wharf, the multi-functional wharf of Beilun Mountain, and the wharf of Beilun Power Plant.
With the innovation project, the capacity of the wharfs will be radically upgraded, especially the container ship wharf of Beilun and Daxie International Container Wharfs—they will be capable of berthing 150,000-tonnage container ships, the largest ones in China.
A 150,000-tonnage container ship is usually capable of loading 14,000 standard containers.
According to a related authority from Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Port Administration, the innovation project will not only ensure work safety but also strengthen the enterprises' core competence and integrate the coastal resources. This year the Port of Ningbo plans to complete 13 innovative projects of wharfs which promise to increase the annual passage capacity of the ports by 43.47 million tons under the present coastal resources.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:39
In 2012, Ningbo invested 18.18 billion yuan in traffic infrastructure, completing a number of traffic projects like Xiangshan Bridge and its extensions. According to a meeting on traffic of Ningbo, in 2013, the city plans to put 18.18 billion yuan in traffic infrastructure, building 200 kilometers of roads and 65.5 kilometers of railways.
At the meeting, Ningbo Headquarters of Railways Construction said that the Hang-Yong Passenger Line has passed the static testing and will go on for joint testing. The Zhuangqiao Station is basically completed. The principal part of Yuyaobei Station has been completed. The line is expected to open in this year.
A related authority of the railway department said Hang-Yong Passenger Line will link Ningbo to the national high-speed railway network. Ningbo will increase 50 pairs of passenger trains and the number of passengers trains will be increased to 86 pairs, for the convenience of the passengers.