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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 09:24
Yinzhou Bank openly issued 2 billion yuan of financial bonds in the national inner-bank bond market a few days ago, and the raised funds were set to loan to small and micro enterprises. It becomes the first rural financial institution across China which got the approval to issue that kind of financial bond.
The bonds spans three years with an interest rate of 5 percent. According to relative personnel of Yinzhou Bank, the bank would decide the lending rate in terms of the raised funds, providing preferential rate for medium-sized, small and micro enterprises as much as possible. The amount of loan is expected to reach four bln to five bln in 2013, and the beneficiaries will increase by 600 companies, a fact indicates that those companies can hire 24,000 more workers and create output value of five bln yuan.
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 09:24
Ninghai County established its first blood donation center on November 9, which attracted 35 blood donors on the first day. The establishment of the center aims to promote voluntary blood donation and ease the chronic blood shortages. According to local authorities, Ninghai County is leading other regions in Ningbo as to the voluntary blood donation and was awarded for its contribution. Ninghai County reported a total of 3,580 blood donations, or 1.2 tons of blood donated in 2011, and achieved a self-sufficiency ratio of 110 percent.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 09:24
Delivery firms in Ningbo have been handling record levels of business after the Singles' Day promotion. Many delivery companies are busy hiring temporary couriers to meet the projected soaring demand. Some of them even hire residential working staff or security guards as their part-time couriers.
Several chains courier company in Haishu, Jiangdong district reported soaring in deliveries after November 11. In one delivery branch, packages were piled into a 2-meter-high hill, and some packages were scattered two or three meters away at the door.
A courier surnamed Li said while loading packages on his motorbike, "this is our busiest time of a year. We have been unloading packages early in the morning, and started to deliver packages at 8:00. We have to work without rest until next week."
To cope with the soaring business, many companies began to hire temporary couriers. According to statistics released by 58-Job.com, many job applicants in their website enter list of potential employees for many delivery firms as early as September this year. The demand of couriers rose nearly 30 to 40 percent compared with two months ago, and the salary offered by delivery companies rose about 12 percent. In order to improve their efficiency, Ningbo Branch of Yto Express even hired working staff and security guards in some residential quarters, who will help to deliver the packages to the buyers as soon as they arrive at the quarter.
A number of local courier companies reported a 50 percent increase of daily handling from usual. Ningbo's express delivery sector is expected to see a peak on November15 and 16 as packages keep pouring in. Fortunately, it is still within the daily handling limit of local courier companies.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 09:23
Simon Van Booy, a well-received British writer visited Ningbo and talked with his Chinese readers face-to-face on Tuesday.
Simon Van Booy is a British author who lives in the United States. Born in Great Britain, he grew up in rural Wales, and has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York, New Hampton. His short story collection Love Begins in Winter won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the world's richest short story prize.
Simon Van Booy is best known among Chinese readers for his two collections of short stories, The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter. Simon is especially good at describing love stories set in cities. His first full-length novel is due to be published in China imminently. Invited by the Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate General in Shanghai, the 99 Reading Club, and Ningbo Fenglinwan Bookstore, Simon Van Booy came to Ningbo to meet with his Chinese readers face to face, sharing the living stories in his writing career.