Innovation adds wings to Beilun's economy

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 03 January 2012 14:49

2011 is the first year of the 12th Five-Year Plan Period. During the first 11 months, Beilun's industrial enterprises of/above the designated size have generated an output value of 170 billion Yuan, about 1/6 of that of Ningbo, with the profits reaching near 13 billion Yuan, about 1/4 of that of Ningbo, both hitting a record high. The indexes of industrial investment, actual utilization of foreign capital, imports and exports all rank first in Ningbo. The growth rate on average exceeds the projected target of the 12th Five-Year Plan and the average level in Ningbo.
 “The rise in economic returns is attributed to the progress in the economic restructuring and changes of the growth pattern”, said Chen Lixing, director-general of Beilun government. Thanks to the improved industrial spatial layout, the output value in the 9 important sectors accounts for more than 95% of the total output value in Beilun. And Beilun has been seeing economic growth in its striving to set up 10 leading enterprises, 20 key enterprises and 200 enterprises with strengths by the end of 2012. From January to November of this year, leading enterprises including Ningbo Steel has reached an accumulated output value of 109 billion Yuan with an increase rate of 20.5%, about 60% of the output value of Beilun industrial enterprises above the designated size.
Innovation has been a stimulus in Beilun economic development. During the past 11 months, high-tech industries have attained an output value of 67.7billion with a growth rate of 25%. The output value of new products has been 32.7 billion Yuan with a growth rate of 38.8%, 16.8 higher than the increase rate of that of industrial enterprises above designated size. Now there are 64 high technology enterprises in Beilun with an annual investment in science research and development of 8,540million Yuan, taking up 2.5% of Beilun GDP.
Beilun has been making full use of its port advantage, building itself into the center of foreign capital utilization in Zhejiang province. During the past 11 months, its contract utilization of foreign capital has been 1,155 million Yuan and actual utilization of foreign capital 742 million Yuan, respectively enjoying a rise of 23.1% and 25.9%, the highest in Zhejiang. The 40 new investment projects, 17 out of which have an investment of more than 10 million Yuan, take in a total investment of 2.08 billion Yuan, doubling that of the same period last year. Utilization of foreign capital has further improved Beilun industrial structure.
Energy conversation also contributes to the economic increase. Beilun has launched 142 energy-saving projects this year and invested a planned amount of one billion Yuan in removing the energy-consumption and heavily air-polluted enterprises. It is expected to save 447,000 tons of standard coals this year. With that, Beilun ranks first in investment volume and energy-saving amount in Ningbo.
Beilun leaders have been confident in addressing difficulties in economic development. New giant projects will sustain the upgrading of the port economy. There have been 147 new projects this year, 51 of which having a planned investment amount of 50 million Yuan each and 5 having more than 1 billion Yuan. There are 106 projects listed as the provincial or municipal-level key projects. This year, Beilun’s planned investment is expected to reach 105% of the year’s target, totaling 21 billion Yuan which goes to 76 key projects. Both the number and the investment amount reach a record high

A Village and A Community of Zhenhai Won National Honors

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 20:01

At the commending meeting of national cultural civilization held in Beijing recently, Guangming Village and Houdajie Community of Zhenhai, Ningbo won the title of National Culturally-Leading (Wenming) Village and National Culturally-Leading (Wenming) Unit respectively.
Guangming Village, with an area of 3.2 km2, has 40 enterprises, 18 of which have an annual sales volume of 5 million and 2 of 200 million Yuan. Last year, the per capital income for rural residents was 15,280 Yuan, being the highest in Ningbo. For the past few years, the village has been advocating the fine tradition of respecting the old and loving the young, neighborhood harmony and mutual help. In 2007, the village started a program to set up examples for the villagers and promote a new code of conduct, winning the village such honors as Zhejiang Wenming Village.
Houdajie, the largest and most populated community in Zhenhai, occupies an area of 0.41 square meters, with 13,000 residents. In recent years, the community has been putting people first and taking a strategic method to build a modern and first-class community. And it has been awarded as Zhejiang Provincial Wenming Community and National Youth Wenming Community. The community has 20 groups of literary and arts workers who give performances for the community regularly. Among them, a drum team, reputed to be the best drum team in Ningbo, has won the Shanhua Award, the highest award, in the 2001 China Drum Performance Competition

Fenghua's pneumatic industry allies for upgrading

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 20:03

We found a couple of days ago on the desk in the office of Zhang Jialun, secretary-general of the Fenghua Pneumatic Industry Association a work plan, which had the Sono’s proportional electrovalve project, JELPC’s automatic testboard project, both of cutting-edge technologies. “This is the schedule after the technical innovation alliance was founded. It will be for the hard-nut problems for the pneumatic enterprises and higher institutions to work out”, said Zhang.
As a national demo base of pneumatic industry clustering and the export base of pneumatic components, Fenghua has stepped on a road to agglomeration. The pneumatic association has 150 member companies, with the exports taking up half of the total of the trade in China. But due to the lack of input for innovation, technical foundation and slow restructuring, the overall competitiveness has been hampered. To make things worse, it has to face crushing from competitors in the world market.
To realize an agglomerative development of the industry, the Association has collaborated with a dozen higher institutions of China, like the national pneumatic product quality control and testing center, the Qinghua University, and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and formed an innovative pneumatic industrial alliance. Through integrating resources of the industrial chain, the enterprises and the universities join hands in development of key technologies, general and core technologies, trying to make breakthroughs in upper stream, mid-stream and downstream industries and application terminals and forge an upper-stream to downstream industrial chain possessing leading core technologies.     
To achieve the upgrading, the Alliance has made a road map for development for the enterprises. It plans in coming five to ten years, it will be able to cultivate one or two international famous companies, five to six influential companies, and meanwhile develop a number of knock-out products. It aims to make Fenghua an important distribution place of pneumatic products in China and Asia at large.
It is learned that despite the severe overall economic situations, from January to November this year the large pneumatic enterprises in Fenghua have generated output of 1.5 billion yuan, up 23% over the same period last year

Xiangshan County on the list of counties powerful in construction industry

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 20:00

At the meeting held in Hangzhou on the development of construction industry of Zhejiang, Zhejiang provincial government commended a number of cities, counties and enterprises powerful in construction. Xiangshan County is on the list of the counties. Longyuan, Hongrun and Huafeng companies are entitled by Zhejiang provincial government “Enterprises of Zhejiang Powerful in Construction”. Lai Zhenyuan, Zheng Hongfang, Wang Zhikuang are entitled by Zhejiang provincial government “Entrepreneurs Making Outstanding Contributions to the Construction Industry of Zhejiang.”

With the efforts made in the past 30 years, the construction industry of Xiangshan has undergone rapid development and now it is a leading industry of the county. There have appeared a number leading enterprises. Over the past 10 years, Xiangshan has always been in the front of Ningbo in construction industry. In 2010, the output of construction industry of Xiangshan reached 50 billion yuan.

Now, Xiangshan has 10 construction enterprises undertaking construction projects in foreign countries. In the 11th five-year plan period, the production value of the construction industry of Xiangshan in foreign countries is among the best in Zhejiang.

The construction industry of Xiangshan has become an industry that contributes most to the local revenue. With a labor force of 230,000 people, the construction industry is an important one for the labor force in the countryside and it has promoted a large number of related industries.

This year, the construction industry of Xiangshan is estimated to be over 70 billion yuan and the tax revenue is likely to reach 500 million yuan. The targets of the construction industry of Xiangshan for the 12th Five-Year-Plan Period are: the annual growth rate of the industry should be 13%; by 2015, the output value of the industry should reach 120-140 billion yuan; the profit tax should be above 5 billion yuan; the industry should contribute more to the economic and social development of the country.