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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:53
Statistics from Ningbo Economic Cooperation Office show that in the first quarter of this year, Ningbo introduced 54 business projects by returned Zhejiang entrepreneurs from outside the province and from abroad, with a total agreed capital of 15.473 billion yuan and actual capital of 2.605 billion yuan. Together with the 2.912 billion yuan from 48 carry-over projects, the total capital available has reached 5.517 billion yuan.
At the beginning of the year, Ningbo made a specialized plan for the introduction of returned Zhejiang and Ningbo entrepreneurs: introducing a group of quality business projects by relying on such activities as the first session of "World Ningbo Group Conference" and "Shanghai – Ningbo Week". All the towns and districts carried out various kinds of introducing activities in response to this plan.
Xiangshan County is the "pioneer" of introducing returned entrepreneurs. In March, a promotion meeting for investment and cooperation by outside entrepreneurs of Xiangshan origin was held in Shanghai, resulting in the signing of 18 projects with a total investment of eight billion yuan, which drew the curtain of introducing business by returned Zhejiang and Ningbo entrepreneurs.
The newly introduced enterprises are facing new opportunities of development with their industrial focus returning to Ningbo. Tenglong Group, with its headquarters in Beilun District, established production-oriented enterprises in South Korea, Shandong Province and Jiangsu Province a few years ago, under influence of such factors as land and labor. Now, Chen Peijun, President of the enterprise, decided to transfer the developing focus to Beilun, where a project of over 1.5 billion yuan will be accomplished in October this year. It is estimated that the annual output value of the enterprise will reach 10 billion yuan.
According to an official from Ningbo Economic Cooperation Office, in 2012, the focus of the business introduction will be on headquarters economy, entity economy, marine economy, modern industry and cultural and creative industry. The target areas will involve the Yangtze River economic circle with Shanghai being the leading city, the Bohai economic circle with Beijing and Tianjin being core cities and the Pearl River Delta economic circle with Guangzhou and Shenzhen being the centers.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:53
It is learned from the energy-saving and consumption-reduction meeting held on April 6 that another "punch" is to made to deal with the energy-saving and consumption-reduction work. Specifically speaking, in the following three years, 31 heavy pollution and high consumption sectors in 14 industries will be the key area of treatment; this year, the elimination of S7 series transformers of over half of the industries will be completed; and each year, an energy-saving space of 300,000 tons of standard coal will be achieved.
Last year, Ningbo made great achievements in energy saving and consumption reduction. 121 key energy-consuming enterprises saved 0.785 million tons of standard coal. The backward capacity (equipments) of 379 enterprises in 17 industries were eliminated, resulting in a energy-consuming reduction of 0.53 million tons of standard coal and an electricity-consuming reduction of one billion kilowatt-hours. Based on that, this year, Ningbo is to implement the "dual control" strategy of energy-consuming intensity and quantity to ensure a decline of 4.5% of unit GDP energy consumption.
This year's key task is to eliminate the backward production capacity. In the following three years, Ningbo will treat, eliminate or improve 31 heavy-pollution and high-consumption sectors in 14 industries such as iron and steel, printing and dyeing, paper making and brick and tile. Besides, this year, the elimination of S7 series transformers of over half of the industries will be completed and each year, an energy-saving space of 300,000 tons of standard coal will be achieved. Great efforts will be made to promote the construction of the comprehensive energy management services platform, including the construction of personalized regional and industrial sub-platforms in over half of the energy-related departments of town and municipal levels.
Endeavor will also be made in such projects as energy-saving and transformation, clean production and industrial circular economy. Over 1000 energy-saving and transformation projects will be implemented in the city, with an energy-saving capacity of one million tons of standard coal per year. In the following five years, the "611" industrial circular economy project will be carried out in six fields including carbon reduction, water saving and water reusing, aiming at cultivating and developing ten demonstrative parks of industrial circular economy and 100 demonstrative enterprises of industrial circular economy.
In the major energy-saving fields, over 100 demonstrative projects of renewable energy application with an area of eight million square meters were carried out last year. Such projects as port container transportation were included in the national demonstrative projects of energy saving and consumption reduction in transportation industry. 90 pulbic institutions at the municipal level implemented the monthly energy-consuming monitoring and examing system. This year, besides strengthening the energy-saving supervision of new buildings, Ningbo will continue to promote the pilot project of container hanging transportation and improve the energy-saving management networks of all industries and major enterprises.
Statistics show that this year the summer peak electricity consumption gap for the whole province will reach six million to nine million kilowatts, while the gap for Ningbo stands at 1.1 million to 1.6 million kilowatts. Confronted with such a grim situation of summer electricity consumption, Ningbo is to make further efforts to improve its emergency plan of orderly electricity consumption and guarantee the electricity use of livelihood sectors and major sectors
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Category: Charity Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:51
The recent reports of sudden death at home of the elderly living alone have aroused great concern among citizens. On April 6, the Home Care Volunteer Base titled "filial piety supermarket" was jointly established by Jiangbei District Youth League and District Bureau of Civil Affairs. In the meanwhile, the "filial piety" volunteer campaign, a specialized service project for the elderly living alone, was launched with the help from related colleges and universities.
The ever-increasing number of the elderly living alone has caused such problems as the shortage of beds in nursing homes and the expansion of aging group, which poses great challenges to the existing pension system and the social stability. At present, there are 45,000 senior citizens at the age of 60 or older, accounting for 18.8% of the registered citizens. The caring issue has become serious as 55% of the elderly are empty nesters. To address this issue, by the opportunity of participating in social management, Jiangbei District Youth League adopted the innovative idea of cooperation with Ningbo College of Health Sciences by recruiting college volunteers to provide services for the elderly, such as regular blood pressure and glucose surveillance, massages and healthy diet instructions.
"We have set up eight service groups to provide door-to-door service at least once a week. Our service targets are mainly those retired elderly citizens (over 60 years old) living alone at home." said a related official from Jiangbei District Youth League. Each service group is made of eight to ten members, including three students majoring in nursing, rehabilitation and diet respectively. Each group will provide personalized services and establish health files for two to three empty nesters.
It is learned that so far eight communities in the district have been chosen as pilot areas of the service base. About 100 volunteers have entered the communities to carry out regular services for the empty nesters in those communities.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:50
According to the WTO office of Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending its regulations to allow the importation of wooden handicrafts from China under certain conditions. This action allows trade in Chinese wooden handicrafts to resume since it has been suspended in 2005.
The final rule will come into effect on April 30, 2012. Under the final rule, wooden handicrafts are defined as a commodity class of articles derived or made from natural components of wood, twigs and vines (including bamboo poles and garden stakes). Covered handicrafts include the following products where wood is present: carvings, baskets, boxes, bird houses, garden and lawn/patio furniture, potpourri, artificial trees, trellis towers, garden fencing and edging, and other items composed of wood.
At present, Ningbo has more than 100 wooden handicraft manufacturers, making Ningbo one of the major exporters of wooden products in China.
In 2005, the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the importation of most Chinese wooden handicrafts. The formal implementation of this newly amended rule will resume export of some Chinese wooden handicrafts which previously been banned. However, the U.S. agricultural authorities imposed very strict conditions on Chinese importation. Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau suggested enterprises should establish and improve the epidemic prevention system and control system of toxic and hazardous substances, and set a higher safety and environmental standards for their products