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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:18
Performance excellence management, CEO of quality, and quality prize for general manager…these are some of the contents of the Quality Month to be held in September with an aim to promote the quality management of enterprises. In the 12th Five-Year-Plan Period, Ningbo will invest 5 billion yuan to promote quality development of the city, an investment larger than ever before.
To vitalizing the city with quality is an important way for Ningbo to transform the development pattern, to improve the quality of development and to strengthen the comprehensive competitiveness of the city. Since 2009, Ningbo Municipal Government has released 15 policies and measures to support the quality development and has stipulated 4 local laws concerning quality. In the past three years, Ningbo has spent 4.2 billion yuan on the quality construction of products, engineering projects, services and environment.
This year, Ningbo will take a series of moves to promote the quality construction so as to be listed in the national demo cities powerful in quality. "Soon will organize experts to go to 30 enterprises to popularize the performance excellence management model," said Zhou Youpu, Director of Quality Division of Ningbo Bureau of Quality Supervision. The performance excellence management model is the quality assessment model adopted for the national quality prize of USA. To popularize this advanced international model among enterprises in Ningbo, Ningbo Municipal Government will spent over 2 million yuan.
CEO of Quality is a unique part of the quality management model of Ningbo and an inevitable part in the evaluation of famous brands, government quality prize assessment and the promotion of standardization. A CEO of Quality is for a vice manager general or higher in rank, who is responsible for the quality of the enterprise with the veto power for the quality and safety work of the enterprise. This year, all leading enterprises of Ningbo will have CEO of Quality. According to the plan, by 2015, the first acceptance rate of large and middle sized projects shall reach 100% and that for other projects shall be above 99%. The satisfaction rate for productive and consumer services shall increase by at least 10% above the 11th Five-year-plan Period.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:18
On September 9, Ningbo Scientific Popularity Day 2012 opened. Yu Hongyi, Member of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Director of Publicity Department of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, Hu Modun, Vice Director of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Municipal People's Congress, and Zheng Yu, Vice Chairman of Ningbo People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the opening ceremony. It reported that from September 9 to late September, over 100 activities of scientific popularity will be organized by the association of sciences of the city.
The event will have colorful activities: a composition contest of scientific popularity for the young people, a Sino-American interview of scientific popularity, a contest of q&a on popular ocean science, promotional activity of community science popularity "food safety and public health" and so on.
From now to late September, over 100 exciting scientific popularity activities will be organized by the associations of science and technology in the 11 countries, cities and districts, the 74 societies and the 49 scientific popularity bases. It is estimated that the activities will attract over 1 million visitors.
The theme of the event is food safety and public health.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:17
According to a news conference held on September 11 by Ningbo Municipal Government, the 5th China (Ningbo) Farmers' Film Festival will start from September 14.
The Farmers' Film Festival started in 2008 and as a cultural event of Ningbo, the festival is quite well known in the country.
According to Zou Daming, Spokesman and Deputy Director of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, News and Press, the festival will include such events as the countryside premiere of the film "Loyalty and Betrayal", show of the participating movies, the performance of film songs, the election of best liked actors and actresses by famers, and a meeting on the countryside films.
For the famers in mountain areas, the organizing committee of the festival will launch a program to donate film shows to farmers in the old revolutionary base areas and the rural areas in the west regions.
According to Zou Daming, the program of the "movie showing in the rural areas" is a cultural service program initiated by State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television of the P.R.C, in the form that government buys farmers movies. In recent years, with the implement of the program "10,000 film shows for rural areas", Ningbo has in the lead of the country in the target of "one free film every month for a village", all the countryside areas except the old revolutionary base areas and west regions. The organizer of the festival hopes enterprises and individuals will show their concern to the farmers in the old revolutionary base areas and west regions and buy them movies. A donation of 10 yuan can enable a village to watch a free movie
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:17
According to statistics by Zhenhai Development and Reform Bureau, industrial investment of Zhenhai reaches 5.596 billion RMB yuan from this January to August, up by 68.6% above the same period of last year, marking a new record in Zhenhai industrial investment.
The driving forces of the high investment are the startups of 58 new projects. Since the second half of last year, affected by retarded global economic recovery, Zhenhai economy suffers accordingly. To deal with this problem, Zhenhai District pays more attention on attracting investment and gives full support to large projects so as to drive economic development. Up to now, investment of Heyuan chemical engineering project, Jiangning chemical engineering project and Zhetiedafeng chemical engineering project amounts to 2.876 billion RMB yuan, accounting for 56.6 percent of the total investment.
At the meantime, technological transformation and renovation of Zhenhai local companies are vigorously advancing, which not only makes contribution to industrial investment, but also promotes the transformation of the pattern of economic development. For example, 110 million RMB yuan investment had been completed for the technological renovation project of Ningbo Xinfu chemical engineering Co., Ltd., a project of resource comprehensive utilization production line whose annual turnover of sulfuric acid production from sulfur-burning amounts to 600,000 tons. This project makes use of international advanced technology—American sulfuric acid production from sulfur-burning at a lower operating temperature, yielding more than 1 billion RMB yuan incremental income. Ningbo Alps Electronic Co. Ltd completed an investment of 85 million RMB yuan in the production line technological transformation of electronic products, and it is estimated that there will be 200 million RMB yuan incremental income annually after the transformation, with the profit and tax hitting 70 million RMB yuan. Statistics show, of the planned total investment of 5.758 billion RMB yuan in 113 technological transformation projects, 1.744 billion RMB yuan investment has completed, up by 24.3% over the same period of last year. Among all the 113 technological transformation projects, 52 projects have been listed as key projects with the total investment adds up to 1.16 billion RMB yuan. It is estimated that there will be 3.5 billion RMB yuan incremental income annually with the profit and tax hitting 300 million RMB yuan.