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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:19
Ningbo's job market began to pick up in October after a lull during the passed summer. According to Ningbo Human Resource Market, many local factories are short of technical talents as their orders are increasing in the fourth quarter.
In contrast to the strong demand of marketing talents in August and September, the need for mechanics talent is hot in October. Ningbo's human resources markets organized a total of 13 job fairs in October, nine focusing on mechanics and labor talents.
According to a working staff of Ningbo Human Resources Market, said that a number of domestic and international holidays are celebrated in Q4. Driven by the holiday consumption, local factories began to see rising orders, which triggers increased labor demand. Local job market has seen pickup after the National Holiday, and it is expected to reach a peak toward the yearend.
Human resources authority said they will hold job fairs for the soon-to-graduate university students in November.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:19
Ningbo pledges to build 120 rural public service centers in the next three years, according to a recent statement issued by the Municipal Government Office. With fixed official space, advanced facilities, and well-qualified staffs, these public service centers serve to offer first-class public services. According to the plan, 40 of them will be built to meet the standards of a demonstration public center.
According to the statement, the public service center of every general township is required to employ an agricultural technologist majoring in concerning fields including agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries, agricultural machinery, agricultural products quality and safety, and animal epidemic prevention. Both the municipal and local governments are encouraging college graduates to work in rural public service centers by giving subsides. Those qualified college graduates who have worked in rural public service centers for 3 years or more in the recruitment may be employed by larger agricultural public institutions with priority. Local government shall pay for the construction of public service center, but the municipal government will grant rewards up to 200,000 yuan to demonstration centers and 50,000 yuan to general centers.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:18
Ningbo Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Tuesday that Ningbo's consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.4 percent in September over the same period last year, flat the provincial average, and 0.5 percentage points lower than the national average. The price of consumer goods went up by 1.2 percent and the price of services grew by 2.0 percent.
The NBS data indicates that carryover effect brought by the policy of free tuition for secondary vocational education disappeared. Among the eight categories of commodities which are used to weigh CPI, prices for entertainment, educational products and services start to rise after kept falling in the previous months. Food prices picked up 2.2 percent. The prices of tobacco and liquor rose 2.4 percent. The price of clothing rose 1.4 percent. The household equipment and maintenance services prices rose 2.3 percent. The prices of health care and personal products increased 0 .5 percent. The prices of entertainment and educational products and services rose 0.5 percent, and the housing prices rose 1.9 percent. The price of transport and communication remain the downtrend by declining 0.1 percent.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:18
A delegation from Canada's British Columbia, a westernmost province of Canada, visited Ningbo this Tuesday. In an investment seminar with local authorities, they expressed their welcome to nearly a hundred local entrepreneurs. "We welcome Ningbo entrepreneurs to run factories, open restaurants, or buy local hotels or wineries in British Columbia," said the leader of the Canadian Delegation.
During a meeting with local entrepreneurs, representatives from the British Columbia introduced their investment environment and quality projects. In addition to mining, forestry, wineries and other key industries, they also provide services concerning the immigration plan, real estate development, investment policies and regulations, and supporting financial services.
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces, and the nearest province to China. Statistics from the Municipal Foreign Trade Bureau show that Ningbo companies have been expanding their overseas investment from traditional trade and logistics to emerging fields including resources development, new energy, eco-development, R & D and manufacturing.