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20 Ningbo Enterprises Rank Among “Top 100

Most Innovative Companies in Zhejiang”

The 2023 Zhejiang Top 100 Most Innovative Enterprises list was recently released, with 20 enterprises from Ningbo making the list—two more than last year—ranking second in the province. Among the top 50, Ningbo enterprises secured 11 spots.

In July 2023, Ningbo issued an action plan to improve the quality of high-value invention patents, proposing to pioneer new paths for cultivating high-value patent portfolios in the province. Increased funding was allocated, with support provided through projects to encourage innovation entities to develop high-value patent portfolios. “This initiative has proven highly attractive to innovative enterprises. By October 2023, nearly 90 enterprises had submitted applications for 77 projects,” according to an official from the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau. Ultimately, 20 projects were selected as the next round of cultivation initiatives, with one base and seven projects approved as provincial-level high-value patent portfolio cultivation bases and projects.

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Ningbo takes the lead in building urban data space

Data centers are springing up, servers are running day and night, and GPUs are running at full capacity... In the buzzing sound of machines, data shuttles back and forth between computer terminals and the “cloud terminals”. They are like the lifeblood of the information age, nourishing every digital cell.

However, data circulation still faces such difficulties as low efficiency, high cost, and poor security controllability. The problems of data holders being hesitant to supply data, data demanders being unable to find data, and mismatched data service providers have constrained the development of the data industry.

In order to further activate more data cells, Ningbo launched the construction of urban data space on December 29, becoming the first sub-provincial city in China to initiate the construction of such a data space.

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There will be more direct flights from Ningbo to Osaka

Spring Airlines announced that from October 27, the airline will increase the frequency of direct flights to Osaka, Japan, at Ningbo Lishe International Airport.

After the encryption, Spring Airlines’ Ningbo to Osaka flight will achieve one flight per day, plus China Eastern Airlines’ current Ningbo to Osaka flight three flights per Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, the frequency of this route at Ningbo Airport will be increased to a maximum of 2 flights per day, 10 flights per week, a total of 20 round-trip flights, further facilitating the travel of passengers from the two countries.

At present, Spring Airlines’ Ningbo to Osaka flights are operated by Airbus 320 aircraft, and the flight schedule is:

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The 2024 “AI Ningbo” first artificial intelligence empowerment

industry competition was launched

On September 20, the 2024 “AI Ningbo” First Artificial Intelligence Empowerment Industry Competition was officially launched. The competition sets up “four tracks” of intelligent technology, intelligent equipment, intelligent terminals, and smart cities, and sincerely invites talents from all walks of life to become Ningbo’s “dream partners”, and move forward with “data” and create the future intelligently.

Artificial intelligence technology is an important engine for the development of new quality productivity. With the theme of “Artificial Intelligence Empowering Industry”, this competition focuses on the construction of artificial intelligence talent echelon, gives full play to the advantages of Ningbo’s strong manufacturing industry foundation and rich application scenarios of artificial intelligence technology, explores a new path of talent introduction with competition and competition with competition, seizes the commanding heights of artificial intelligence development, and promotes Ningbo’s transformation to digital intelligence, new energy and internationalization with faster speed and stronger momentum.

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The export volume of new energy vehicles in Meishan Port Area

 reached a new high

On October 16, it was learned from the Ningbo Meishan Marine Department that the number of new energy vehicles exported by the Meishan Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port in the first three quarters of 2024 in the form of containers reached 13,571, a year-on-year increase of 95.21%. This figure has already exceeded the total export volume of 10,775 vehicles for the whole of 2023.

At the same time, the only professional ro-ro terminal in Zhejiang Province located in Meishan Port Area - Ningbo Meixi Ro-Ro Terminal also came with good news: in the first three quarters of this year, the terminal’s new energy vehicle throughput reached 30,450, a year-on-year increase of 16.38%.

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