- Details
-
Category: Ningbo District
-
Published: Monday, 14 November 2011 10:42
Ningbo Ring Expressway promises to be completed in its entirety by December this year. According to the joint meeting on the opening of the east section of the expressway, the principal part of the east section is to be completed in this month and it is ready to open in middle or late December.
The ring expressway is 86 km long. The west section, 42.07 km long, already opened in December 2007. The east section starts from Jiang Shan Bei to Yan Jia Qiao, 43.5 km long, with 11 elevated bridges. The designed speed is 120 km/h, and the design performance life is 100 years. With the completion of the east section, the ring road will form a complete ring.
The ring expressway is a core part of the expressway network, and it is called a “golden ring” for its importance. It should play an important role in relieving the traffic pressure in the urban area, linking the ports and promoting the construction of Ningbo-Zhoushan Port.
Now Ningbo has an expressway network extending to all directions. Northwestward, it has Hangzhou Bay Bridge, leading to Shanghai and Jiangsu; Westward, it has Hang-Yong Highway, leading to Anhui and Jiangsu; Southwestward, it has Yong-Jin Expressway, leading to Jiangxi; Southward, it has Yong-Tai-Wen Highway leading to Fujian Province
- Details
-
Category: Governmental News
-
Published: Monday, 14 November 2011 10:41
At the invitation of Nagaoka Municipal Government, Ningbo Artistic Troupe, of over 30 artists, recently left for Nagaoka for the 4th Ningbo Overseas Cultural Week. Yan Xiaoping, vice director of Ningbo Artistic Troupe said, "Our performances are distinct for Ningbo local favors and they will have the audiences know more about Ningbo."
In recent years, Ningbo has made great efforts to implement the strategy of having its culture "going out", and explore new ways and channels for overseas cultural exchanges. According to incomplete statistic figures, since 2004, the city has organized over 60 cultural exchange programs to over 20 countries and regions including USA, France, Britain, Japan, and China's Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao. These programs are all district for Chinese flavors and Ningbo local culture, involving such fields as the Yong Opera, the Shaoxing Opera, traditional Chinese instrumental music, dance, calligraphy and fine arts.
According to the Plan of Overseas Cultural Exchanges in the 12th Five-Year-Plan Period, Ningbo should organize a number of key cultural promoting program every year to explore the markets for the cultural products of Ningbo and promote the competitiveness and influence of the products. According to the plan, every year, the city should send one or two cultural troupes to the sister cities of Ningbo
- Details
-
Category: Ningbo Business
-
Published: Monday, 14 November 2011 10:40
The other day, Geely Automobile exported 1,450 cars to Cuban Government via the Customs of Ningbo. This is the largest export of finished cars via the port of Ningbo. In facing of the complicated international economic situation, Geely Automobile timely adjusted its strategy resulting in continuous increase of exports.
As a leader of car manufacturers in China, Geely Automobile "went out" to international markets earlier than others. In 2005, Geely Automobile started to export its Free Cruiser cars via the Port of Ningbo and from the last year, it started to export the Emgrand cars. Now, Geely Automobile sells its cars in over 40 countries and regions, and over 60,000 Free Cruisers have been sold abroad.
The exploration of new markets is the main cause for the increase of export of Geely. Geely's traditional overseas markets are Latin America and Africa. However the global financial crisis in 2008 caused a depression of these markets. Geely Automobile timely adjusted its strategy for the overseas markets and gave priority to the emerging markets in Asia. In the meanwhile, it opened the markets of Cuba and Chile. In the latter half of 2010, the export of Geely automobiles started to recover. In the first half this year, the export of Geely automobiles doubled the amount of the same period in the previous year.
The success of Geely in the exploring the overseas markets is attributed to its quality services. Now, Geely has over 200 service stations in the world. For the improvement of its services, Geely has set some large transfer warehouses of auto parts in some countries and it often sends its servicemen to foreign countries, to learn about the demands of customers.
"Greater export is of great significance for Geely to fulfill its strategic targets of production and sales," said Li Weiping, Deputy General Manager of Emgrand Automobile Company of Geely Holding Group
- Details
-
Category: Ningbo Business
-
Published: Monday, 14 November 2011 10:39
Today, Ningbo is once again the focus of the field of new materials home and abroad.
From November 9 to 12, opened China (Ningbo) International Forum of New Materials 2011, a forum hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, China Material Research Institute, Zhejiang University and Ningbo Municipal Government.
Attendants to the forum include experts in the material science field from 27 countries including the USA, the UK, Russia and Japan.
The hosts of the forum believe that that with the new projects, new concepts and new technologies brought to the forum, the forum will mace positive impact on the field of new materials in China and that the forum this year will be more influential than ever.
The forum opened in Ningbo in 2005. In 2004, the output of Ningbo in the field of new materials was only 29.9 billion yuan. But in 2010, it increased to 71 billion yuan, covering 33.49% of the total output of hi-tech products of the city in the year.
The success of the forum has resulted in the brisk development of the industry of new materials in Ningbo. Today, with such leading institutions as the Material Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ningbo Institution of China Arms Academy, Ningbo has formed a vigorous R&D industrial system of new materials and it has owned a number of technologies with independent intellectual property rights.
With the help of the forum, Ningbo is deepening the combination of industry, academia and the research community so as to strengthen the R&D of technologies of new materials and build an innovative industrial system with independent intellectual property rights and to be in a commanding height in the industry.