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Category: Health News
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Published: Tuesday, 03 July 2012 09:59
Ningbo kicks off a pilot reform in its 24 public hospitals today. The move will prohibit public hospitals from making profit from drug sales.
The pilot program involved 24 government-run hospitals in Ningbo as well as its five sub-cities including Cixi, fenghua, Yuyao, Xiangshan, and Ninghai.
The reform means public hospitals will return to its nature of serving the public rather than making money. Wang Renyuan, director of Municipal Health Bureau, said the involved 24 public hospitals will not be allowed to make profit from drug prescriptions, which means all the drugs, except traditional herbal medicine, are to be sold at government controlled prices. Another measure scheduled for trial is that the hospitals are required to fix a drug catalogue to ensure that the proportion of essential drugs and health care drugs in prescription. This will effectively curb the practice of hospitals' relying on drug sales for income and thus establish a reasonable, effective and optimized medical service system.
It is estimated that the move will cause 20 percent, or 370 million yuan income loss to the public hospitals. The economic losses will be compensated for by a rational increase of medical care service fee, including surgical fees, treatment fees, care fees, consultation fees, examination fees, and ward bed fees. However, the increase rate should be lower than the markups it charges on drugs and should be covered by medical insurance for employees, medical insurance for urban residents and the new rural cooperative medical insurance.
Insiders believe the reform will ease the public complaint of soaring medical bills and stop public hospitals from operating with profits from drug sales. Besides, the adjustment of medical service will better represents the value of physicians' work and help to improve the quality of medical care.
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Category: Tourist Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 03 July 2012 09:58
The first five month of 2012 has seen overseas tour hot in contrast with the inbound and domestic tour. According to statistics released by the Municipal Tourism Bureau, from this January to May, 143,500 local tourists chose to take overseas holidays in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and other countries, a rise of 32 percent year-on-year.
The figure includes 66,600 tourists choose to travel abroad, an increase of 34 percent year-on-year. The hottest destination is Korea, attracting 14,000 tourists, an increase of 465 percent year-on-year. In addition to Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, and the United States are the top destination countries for Ningbo tourists.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 03 July 2012 09:58
While the local residents are enjoying the sweet bayberries of Cixi, in the supermarkets of Spain and France, the Ningbo-imported fruit is sold at the price of 3 yuan for one bayberry.
Mao Chunmiao, a bayberry grower in Cixi, has been busy these days. After picking up the bayberries, Mao and his workers are busy pre-cooling, sorting, packaging these delicate fruits, and then send the fruits into preservation workshop for processing, and finally store them in cold storage. Four days later, these bayberries will be placed on supermarket shelves in Spain, France, Italy and other European countries.
Mao said his bayberries would sell for US$ 15 per kilogram in France, Spain and other countries. "Our export volume is small, but it is quite profitable. We shall be producing 100 tons of bayberries this year, and 5 tons will be exported abroad, earning US$ 75,000 for us."
While Mao seeks international market for his bayberries, other bayberry growers are looking for market in North and Northwest China. Sun Baiqiao, another bayberry grower, said, "Our bayberries are mainly sold in Beijing, Lanzhou and other northern cities. We plan to sell nine tons of bayberries in these cities this year.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 03 July 2012 09:57
Ningbo-made products like clothing and small home appliances are hot in the Libyan market as Libya begins its post-war reconstruction. Customs statistics show, from this January to May, Ningbo's export volume to Libya reached US$ 57,550,000, a year-on-year increase of 5.6 times.
The statistics show that from this January to May, Ningbo's general trade exports to Libya tops US$ 52,720,000, a year-on-year increase of 6.1 times, accounting for 91.6 percent of total exports over the same period. Exports of the private compnies stood at US$ 41,490,000, a year-on-year increase of 7.1 times, accounting for 72.1 percent of the total exports over the same period. With no export was reported last May, the export volume in this May amounted to US$ 22,120,000, hitting a record high.
The major exporting products include air conditioners (US$ 12.79 million, a year-on-year increase of 56.9 times), small home appliances (US$ 6,808,000, a year-on-year increase of 6.7 times), textiles and clothing (US$ 5,458,000, a year-on-year increase of 8.9 times). However, customs analysts warn risks still exist in the exportation to Libya as the Libya's political situation remains unstable. They suggest Ningbo companies should be careful in handling exportation