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Ningbo rice wine meets with great favor in overseas markets

Rice wine, whose cradle is in China, and beer as well as grape wine, are three most ancient wines in the world. Rice wine features seasoning and health care and is the favorite drink of the locals of Ningbo. Today, Ningbo rice wine has gone abroad and is most favorable received among foreign consumers.
Statistics from the Ningbo customs show that 589.4 myrialiter of rice wine has been exported from January to October this year, a year-on-year rise of 22.6% over the same period last year. And its trade value is $ 3.1 million, with an increase of 30.9%. During this period, the average price of rice wine is $ 0.53 per litre,  increasing 8.2% from $ 0.49 per litre last year.
The US, Spain and Portugal are three largest import countries of Ningbo rice wine during this period. United States imports 132.8 myrialiter, surging 51.1 times, Spain 83.4 myrialiter, with a decrease of 23.8%, and Portugal 54.6 myrialiter, an increase of 3.6 times. The total import of these three countries accounts for 45.9% of Ningbo rice wine exports

78 Logistics Enterprises Entering NALP

Since its opening in 2008, Ningbo Airport Logistics Park (NALP) has so far housed 78 logistics enterprises, which turned over a total of 6.8 billion Yuan per year.

Located in Wangchun Industrial Park, NALP is an important part of the seven logistics parks constructed in accordance with ''Ningbo Modern Logistics Planning". It aims to become a key airport logistics base in the Yangtze River Delta and a key comprehensive logistics base in Zhejiang Province, with aviation logistics as its locomotive and bonded logistics as its backup.

Since the beginning of this year, NALP has seen a good momentum of rapid development, with a turnover of 5.52 billion Yuan from January to October, overtaking that of the three preceding years by 4.3 times

NFTZ Forging a Global Wine Purchase Platform

Since the first try of wine import business in 2009,Ningbo Free Trade Zone(NFTZ)has become the largest professional wine import market in Zhejiang province.
75 wine import companies from NFTZ attended the food Expo held on December 2, with the exhibition area totaling 2,189 square meters, which set a record high in scale.
NFTZ has its incomparable advantages in forging the wine import market.
NFTZ is adjacent to the fine Ningbo port and enjoys the convenient transportation to Shanghai within 3 hours. The companies settled here have some business privileges such as free choice of settlement through RMB or USD, accepting LC from domestic companies, etc. 
In forging a global wine purchase platform, NFTZ has made great effort to improve the clearance environment for wine import.
Special window for the wine import companies was set by Ningbo Customs and new measures for determining the price of imported wine were employed. The first professional lab for wine testing in East China was founded in NFTZ by Ningbo Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. At present, NFTZ boasts salient advantages in clearance efficiency and costs for imported wines.
The NFTZ has set up a special market development company, providing services of engineering property, market management and promotion, business consultation and international trade Agency. At the same time, the supervision commission was set up to maintain the creditability of the market, which was jointly established by Ningbo Administrative Commission, Ningbo Customs, Ningbo Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Ningbo Administration of Industry and Commerce as well as some representative companies.
At present, NFTZ has become the largest professional physical market of wine importation in China. It has attracted over 180 member companies and imported over 3000 kinds of wines all over the world. In 2010, the total volume of imported wine in NFTZ reached 4.888 million liters. During the first ten months of this year, it reached 6.694 million liters, up 79.3% over the same period last year. The total volume of the whole year is predicted to exceed 10 million liters

Food Expo had 64,000 visitors

According to statistics from the organization committee, 64,000 people, businesspeople included, came to the Food Expo on December 3. The number of visitors increased considerably when compared with the first day.
The Expo opened at 9 am. Among the exhibition halls, the Famous Brand Hall, the China Hall, the Zhejiang Hall and Ningbo Hall were the most popular ones. In the Brand Hall, people could buy famous wines from all over the world. In the Zhoushan Hall and Ningbo hall, aquatic products especially tuna sold very well. In Ningbo Hall which was supported by the Agricultural Production Co-operatives, agricultural and sideline products of various kinds sold very well.
Another attraction for Ningbo people was that they could taste various kinds of delicious foods in the Expo, including the snacks from South Korea and Japan, Xinjiang mutton barbecue, Taiwan snacks and Huzhou steamed dumplings.
According to the organizer, 16,000 tickets of the Food Expo were sold on December 3, nearly 10,000 tickets more than the previous day. The sales of the tickets would last until 2 pm and all halls would be closed at 4 pm

China Food Expo to unveil on Nov. 30

The China Food Expo of 2011 (CFE hereafter) will be held at Ningbo Conference and Exhibition Center on Nov. 30, according to information from Ningbo Board of Trade released at Nov. 15. Special pavilions will be prepared for exhibitors from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, which will be the first time ever in the history of the event. It is also learned that overseas foods will account for over 30% of the total.
It is learned that a new exhibition hall will be set up for imported food. The No.1 Hall and the pavilion for red wine perennial hall will exhibit imported red wine.  The No.2 Hall will be reserved for exhibitors from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. At the same time, the organizing committee will invite a large number of overseas multinational retailers and professional buyers, such as retail giants of METRO, TESCO, E-mart, Auchan, and Carrefour and so on.
The pavilions will be set up according to different categories of foodstuffs such as meat products, dairy products etc. as well as different origins of the food such as marine products, imported food and local specialties of China, etc., for the convenience of purchasers. In addition, the visiting time for purchasers will be intentionally separated from that for the public for convenience of professional buyers. The organizing committee is striving to further improve its service system to provide buyers with more convenient and better service. For example, some value-added services such as tourism, expressage and insurance etc. will be available in the exhibition halls. Meanwhile, platforms for online- purchasing will be set, too, which shall further broadens purchasing and trading channels and combines online deals with offline ones

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