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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:58
The 340 mus organic rice of Grain Cooperative of Shandeng village in Shangtian Town reaped a bumper harvest recently, and every kilogram of rice sold at a price of 50 yuan. The good news excited greatly Wang Fuqiang, who charges the Cooperative. He said that agricultural experts guided them to grow high-quality rice without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the rice sold well in the market.
Introducing technology talents to guide the development of high efficient agriculture is a key measure of Shangtian Town in recent years. The town introduced talents from colleges and research centers and carried out scientific and technological production, industrialized operation as well as brand management, transforming the traditional agricultural mode into a modern mode. Fenghua Aoji Agricultural Science and Technology Co., Ltd hired Lu Lizhi and Tao Zhengrrong, who are both livestock breeding researchers of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, as its technical advisors and invested over five mln yuan to set up a private institution. Up till now, the institute has helped the company improve the production quantity and quality, attracting many experts from other countries like Germany and Japan.
Going global is another development of Shangtian high-efficient agriculture. As its strawberries win great reputation, some farmers began to grow strawberries in Pudong, Jiading of Shanghai. The planting area of Shangtian strawberries reached 3,200 mus, forming a pattern of large-scale growing and industrialized operation.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:58
Mei Xuejun, a farmer in Yuyao city, no longer need worry about selling out his Jiaobai (wild rice stem) ever since it was labeled the trademark of “Yuyao Jiaobai”. Moreover, its price is also several times higher than other unlabeled ones.
Trademark to identify places of origin of agricultural products is only a miniature of the achievements that Ningbo has made in building itself into a trademark demo city. Ningbo’s trademark construction developed rapidly with the national preferential policy in building trademark demo cities. News from Ningbo’s Industrial and Commercial Bureau showed that the total number of Ningbo’s registered trademarks increased by 52.8 percent, among which 7,625 were international ones and ranked the first in Zhejiang province. The number of trademarks to identify places of origin were 21, resulting in relative farmers’ annual income increasing by 30 percent averagely.
In May, 2010, Ningbo became the first group of demo cities to carry out the trademark strategy. The construction work won great attention from the government. For one thing, all the enterprises enjoy “green channels” in trademark registration cycle, international trademark application, and protection of well-known trademarks. For another thing, the Municipal Party Committee and the government launched ten policies in relevance to the trademark strategy, aiming at promoting companies’ independent innovation, and the trademark building and managing of small and medium - sized and micro enterprises. In addition, all county (town) level governments also carried out many rewarding policies.
Read more: Registered trademark guarantees...
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:57
The eighth meeting of the Singapore - Zhejiang Economic and Trade Council (SZETC) was held in Ningbo on Nov. 20, and it is learned that Ningbo is hopeful to embrace more commercial opportunities as Zhejiang plans to strengthen its cooperation with Singapore in marine economy, trade and internationalization, environment protection and port logistics as well as other service industries in 2013. Officials attended the meeting included Gong Zheng, a member of the Provincial Standing Committee, and Fu Haiyan, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of Singapore. The latter is also the second minister of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources and second minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The SZETC was formed in 2003 and has played an important role in promoting the bilateral economic and trade cooperation between Singapore and Zhejiang. Singapore has also become an important trade partner of Ningbo. From Jan. to Aug. in 2012, Ningbo’s imports from Singapore stood at 489 mln US dollars, an increase of 72.2 percent over the same period of the previous year. The cooperation increased significantly as Ningbo held the Singapore-China (Ningbo) Import & Export Fair for four consecutive years since 2009. The fair of this year has attracted over 3,000 Singapore purchasers and businessmen, and made a turnover of 40 mln US dollars.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:56
Statistics from Ningbo’s Human Resources and Social Security Bureau showed that, till Nov. 15, Ningbo government has already delivered 307 mln yuan of small-sum secured loans to help over 4,300 people to start their own businesses and create nearly 20,000 new jobs.
With the aim to encourage self-employment and support the development of micro and small businesses, employment management agencies of all levels carried out the key policy of promoting entrepreneurship and employment through small-sum secured loans. To be specific, they simplified loan application procedures, lowered loan threshold, and provided door-to-door services and other measures to help people start their own businesses. Statistics show that the government has already delivered 105 mln yuan of loans since the beginning of this year, an increase of 85 percent. It has fulfilled the goal of delivering 100 mln yuan of loans in a year ahead of schedule, and has supported 752 people to become self-employed and created 4,917 jobs at the same time.
The measure of simplifying application procedures and lowering threshold provides applicants easier ways. Qualified applicants include unemployed people, college graduates, demobilized soldiers, and rural residents who hold Ningbo’s city residence and have reached the legal working age. They can take relative materials to the human resources and social security service stations in the districts or towns where their residences are registered to apply for the loan. Once they are proved qualified, they could complete the formalities within five to fifteen working days.
Read more: 300 mln secured loans given to small...