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Published: Tuesday, 03 January 2012 14:51
On Dec.26, 117 centrally administered SOEs gathered in Hangzhou for an investment fair. 52 cooperative projects were signed between Zhejiang and the SOEs, with a total contractual value of 272.06 billion CNY. Ningbo scored five contracts, worth 23.7 billion CNY, taking the second place in Zhejiang.
The Ningbo reform and development commission that attended the strategic cooperation memorandum signed between SASAC and Zhejiang and the investment fair said the four SOEs which signed contracts with Ningbo were Overseas Chinese Town Group (OCT), China Resources Group, China Chengtong Metal Group and China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd., respectively.
In addition, it is learned from Yinzhou District that three of the five contracts were signed with Yinzhou District. Besides their cooperation on super capacitor and tunnel equipment with China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd, what was worth noting was their cooperation on developing Taoyuanwan Scenic Area with Overseas Chinese Town Group.
Taoyuanwan, lying in the border of Jishigang town and Hengjie town, with villages of Simingshan and Shengjia, bounds in beautiful scenes and is expected to become one of important leisure spots of Ningbo.
The OCT Group, starting from a stretch of mud flat beside Shenzhen Bay, has become a large-scale state-owned corporation engaged in cross-sector and cross-industry undertakings. Now it has fostered three leading major businesses, namely real estate, tourism and hotel development.
It is learned from Fu Chengyu, president of SINOPEC, that SINOPEC will invest over 80 billion CNY in Zhejiang Province during the “12th five year plan” period, mainly in oil refining project, ethylene project, LNG and the selling network of oil product.
The general manager of China Chengtong Metal Group Guo Cuiping said that the Zhejiang marine economic development has become the national strategy was an excellent opportunity for Chengtong and Ningbo. Accelerating the modern logistics will become one important impetus to the marine economic development.
Sources said in this investment fair Ningbo was the second biggest winner only after Zhoushan. Zhoushan signed cooperation contracts worth about 36.6 billion CNY.
It is learned that during the “11th five year plan” period Zhejiang signed strategic cooperation framework with 44 SOEs with a value of 1297.4 billion CNY. Zhejiang has introduced 246 billion CNY investments, ranging from energy, petrifaction, transportation, machine equipment to IT and cultural creativity industry
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 03 January 2012 14:50
It is learned from related department on Dec.26 that the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee has lately approved the third group of national high-level innovation base for returned scholars and the first of such base in Ningbo is to be set up at Ningbo National High-tech Development Zone.
The base is to attract the oversea talents, serving as one of the important platforms for implementing the “1000 Talents Program” (Qianren Program). This base is mainly targeted at the key universities, large enterprises, national development zones and hi-tech development zones. Since 2008, three groups of such bases have been designated.
Ningbo municipal party committee and municipal government attach great importance to introduction of talents. To accelerate the transformation of economic development mode and promote the building of innovative city, the city has formulated two plans to introduce high-ranking talents innovative teams from overseas. Up to now, 11 people are listed in the national “1000 Talents Program”(Qianren Program) and 45 in provincial “1000 Talent Program”(Qianren Program).
As early as in 2009, to provide mechanism guarantee for oversea talents, Ningbo took the lead in granting subsidies to encourage enterprises to introduce overseas engineers. Statistics show that during 2010 about 160 overseas engineers were introduced and the subsidy granted went over 47.7 million CNY. Besides, 548 people learning abroad returned to Ningbo.
Meanwhile, Ningbo has strengthened the building of overseas high-level talent innovation base. In recent years, Ningbo National Hi-tech Development Zone has invested 200 million CNY for talent introduction, technological innovation and industrial development.
To ensure the success of innovation and business start-ups, the Zone also built several platforms, such as oversea students’ innovation park, R&D Park, Software Park and so on. These parks, occupying an area of 500,000 square meters, have gathered over 1000 enterprise with staffs totaling 10000 talents.
“This base will become an important platform for helping Ningbo gather more overseas talents which will provide more talents and wisdom for the “Six Speed-up Strategy” and marine economic development.” said Wang Haiguo, chairman of the Administrative Committee of Ningbo National High-tech Development Zone
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Published: Tuesday, 03 January 2012 14:50
The Ningbo Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission said on Dec.26 that the 12th Five-Year Special Plan on Energy Conservation in Ningbo has been issued. It stipulates that by the end of the 12th five-year period the energy consumption per 10000 CNY of GDP will be further reduced by 8.5% as against 2010, equal to the energy of 5 million tons of standard coal.
The plan proposes that by 2015 per unit consumption of main industrial products in Ningbo shall reach the Chinese advanced level or the international advanced level at the beginning of this century. The energy efficiency of new energy consumption equipment should reach the international advanced level. The city shall build and better energy conservation laws, regulations, standard system, policy guarantee mechanisms and technology service systems to form an energy conservation system featured in being government-driven, enterprise-led and wide participation.
During the 12th Five-Year Plan Period, guided by the goals of building a resource conservation and environment-friendly society, the city government will aim to fulfill the following four tasks: speed up restructuring and accelerate transformation; strengthen source control and the oversight of energy conservation; eliminate outdated mode of energy production and consumption; increase the investment of R&D and promote the application of technology. The energy conservation activities will be promoted in industry, construction, transportation, public institution and other fields