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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:37
Ningbo has a population of about 10 million and about 12 million automobile vehicles. Today it has succumbed to the city disease of traffic jam.
The other day, Ningbo Municipal Government officially released "Ningbo Action Plan for Solution of Urban Traffic Jam", a decision made in the 16th executive meeting of Ningbo Municipal Government.
According to the plan, The guideline for the solution of urban traffic jam should be "people foremost" aiming to solve the traffic problem for the people. The plan sets up four fundamental principles: priority of public traffic, appropriate control of cars, encouragement of slow traffic, and optimization of the urban layout. The plan outlines "six actions": to improve the traffic network, to improve the public traffic facilities, to improve the facilities for slow traffic, to improve the parking conditions, to optimize traffic administration, and to strengthen the control of number of cars. With the implement of the plan, the city aims to basically solve the traffic jam problem before 2017 forming a good urban traffic system with orderly, smooth, safe, comfortable and harmonious traffic conditions.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:36
The other day, the Ministry of Commerce released a 2nd list of the 58 national foreign trade upgrading demonstrative bases, on which are Yinzhou Hardware Manufacturing Base, Xiangshan Leisure Wear Manufacturing Base, Fenghua Men's Clothes Manufacturing Base and Beilun Stationery Base. With Ninghai Stationery Production Base and Yinzhou Clothes Production Base, Ningbo has 6 national foreign trade upgrading demo bases, ranking the first in all cities of the country.
According to the plan of the Ministry of Commerce, in the following 5 to 10 years China should nurture a large number of demonstrative production bases that can play a leading role in export and have great competitiveness. These bases consist of professional ones, enterprises and production bases. Of the bases, the national foreign trade upgrading bases are concentrating zones of some specific industries in agricultural products, light industrial products, textile products, medicine and health products, chemical products, and new materials. By the end of 2012, the country has appointed 117 national foreign trade upgrading demonstrative bases.
The four bases of Ningbo on the list have notable concentrating effect and they have great potential in structural upgrading. Yinzhou Hardware Manufacturing Base has 841 enterprises in it, 43 of which have their annual output exceeding one million yuan. The base has over 200,000 workers and the annual export sales exceeds 30 billion yuan. Xiangshan Leisure Wear Manufacturing Base have been entitled "Famous Textile Production Zone of China" and "Ningbo Grade Textile Production Base". It has 83 independent brands. The products of the base export to over 140 countries and regions, with the annual export valuing 100 million US dollars
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:36
According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security, Ningbo Municipal Government issued the "Notice of Revision of Minimum Wages of Ningbo". According to the Notice, from January 1 on, the minimum monthly wage in Ningbo rise to 1,470 yuan, 1,310 yuan and 1,200 yuan. With the rise of the minimum wages, the payment for the social insurance should be accordingly adjusted.
A related person of Ningbo Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security said that The minimum wage system started in 1994. In the past 18 years, Ningbo has adjusted the minimum wage standards for 13 times and the hourly wages for non-fulltime work have also been on the steady rise.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:35
According to updated news from Ningbo Housing Construction Committee, in 2012 Ningbo has overfilled the task for the construction of low-price houses for low-income earners. By the end of December in 2012, the city built 11,114 sets of low-price houses, solving the housing problem for 7,000 low and middle-income families. The city started the construction of 28,076 sets (2.2077 million sq m) of economically affordable houses, including 18,010 sets of houses for low-income earners.
Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Government have always attached great importance to the housing for the low-income earners. The tasks of the low-price housing are part of the assessment for the county and district governments.
The large scale construction of low-price housing for low-income earners has benefitted more low and middle-income families. On this foundation, the city has improved the system for the construction and management of the houses, and perfected the housing security policies, so as to benefit the people in need.
Statistics show that by the end of 2012, Ningbo started to build 18,010 sets of low-price houses for low-income earners, including 13,902 low rent houses, benefitting 3,054 families. The city provided 1,792 flats of affordable and functional houses to the low-income households and 2,180 sets of limiting price houses. All this overfills the tasks Zhejiang Provincial government assigned to Ningbo.