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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Thursday, 28 February 2013 07:10
"This year, will promote the construction of a modern oceanic administration system and modern fishery industrial system and improve the comprehensive administration of the ocean and fishery," said Zhang Zhihong, director of Xiangshan Oceanic and Fishery Bureau the other day.
Zhang Zhihong said that Xiangshan Oceanic and Fishery Bureau will innovate oceanic administration, support key island projects, strengthen the restoration of oceans and islands, promote the oceanic ecological environment and popularize laws of oceanic administration. With these measures, the county will promote the innovation of oceanic administration so as to ensure the development of the marine economy.
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Thursday, 28 February 2013 07:09
According to Yinzhou Science and Technology Bureau, the Ministry of Science and Technology released the result of the last list of the hi-tech enterprises of the national the Torch Project for the year 2012 on which are 40 enterprises. So far, Yinzhou District has 232 national-level hi-tech enterprises, ranking the first in Ningbo City.
Since 2008 the country started the approval of the national-level enterprises of the Torch Project, Yinzhou has had more and more nationally approved hi-tech enterprises, which play the leading role in the economic transformation and upgrading in Yinzhou.
Of the 232 high-tech enterprises, 114 have municipal-level or higher-level technological centers including 4 national level ones, half the number of Ningbo. These technological centers have committed to over 100 national projects of the "863 Project", the "Torch Project" and the Innovation Fund and so on. In 2012, the district spent about 2.7 billion yuan on R&D, most of the high-tech enterprises.
Statistics show that of the 232 hi-tech enterprises, there are 191 large enterprises, 99 of which each have their sales valuing over 100 million yuan.
Thanks to the high-tech enterprises, in 2012, the annual output, sales and profit tax reached respectively 58.09 billion yuan, 56.16 billion yuan and 4.73 billion yuan, increased by 23.8%, 23.8% and 1.6% respectively on the yearly base.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Thursday, 28 February 2013 07:08
n response to the new policies of Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Industry and Commerce on reducing the load of enterprises, Ningbo Municipal Administration of Industry and Commerce said that Ningbo has already implemented some of the new policies. At present, the industrial and commercial administrative department of Ningbo is building a service platform for financial institutions, so as to speed up the approval procedure and reduce the load of enterprises.
In the first month this year, Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Industry and Commerce released new policies to further reform the administrative examination and approval system.
Some of the new policies have already been experimented and even implemented in Ningbo, including softening the terms for the registration locations. Years ago, Ningbo started the practice of issuing more than one business license to cultural innovative enterprises. In the end of 2012, the industrial and commercial administration of Ningbo started the on-line name registration. So far, over 700 enterprises have got their names registered. the installments of registration capital have already been implemented in Ningbo.
Of the new policy "on-line examination of full funding", the industrial and commercial administrative department of Ningbo is building a service platform for financial institutions, and it is to complete and put into use this March. According to the requirement of Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Industry and Commerce, the service platform for financial institutions will comprise three sub systems of capital verification, on-line annual examination and comprehensive credit granting. The platform aims to realize spontaneous examination of funding and reduce the time for capital verification.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Thursday, 28 February 2013 07:08
Statistics of Ningbo Customs show that in January this year, the total import and export volume amounted to 8.73 billion US dollars, increased by 6.5% year on year. Of the total, the import is 3.09 billion US dollars, increased by 14.8%; the export totals 5.64 billion US dollars, increased by 2.5%. Among the 15 quasi-provincial cities of the country, Ningbo ranks the 3rd, only next to Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
The import and export of private enterprises increased by 11.9% year on year, 5.4 points higher than the average of Ningbo.
EU and USA are still the major markets for the export of Ningbo and ASEAN has replaced Japan, becoming the 3rd larges trade partner of Ningbo. The biggest increase of import is in the necessities, especially olive oil, beer, natural honey, and coffee.
According to Sang Baichuan, professor of the international economic institute of the University of International Business and Economics, the foreign trade this year is still in difficulty, though the hardest time has passed. The economy of USA is recovering slowly. Japan and the EU are going out of the European debt crisis. Therefore the situation of foreign trade this year will be better than in 2012. It is expected to grow steadily, at a slow rate of about 8%.