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The 5th China Household Appliance Fair opened in Yuyao

On the morning of November 7, the 5th Household Appliance Fair, jointly hosted by China Association of Import and Export of Electromechanical Equipment, China Household Appliance Association and Yuyao Municipal Government opened in the International Conference and Exhibition Center of China Plastics City in Yuyao.

Chen Yijun, Vice Mayor of Ningbo, announced the opening of the fair. Zhang Yujing, President of China Association of Import and Export of Electromechanical Equipment and Xu Dongsheng, Secretary-general of China Household Appliance Association attended the opening ceremony. The 3-day fair takes as its theme "Yuyao, the manufacturing base of home appliances. It has 400 exhibition stalls with the exhibition area amounting to 8,000 square meters. The number of companies to the fair reached 118.

Reportedly, with the development in the past 30 years, the home appliances industry has become a largest and most promising industry of Yuyao with distinctive features of the city. So far, Yuyao has over 3,000 enterprises engaged in the industry and related industries, with the annual output exceeding 40 billion yuan. Yuyao has become a quite competitive and influential manufacturing base of home appliances in China

Ningbo promoting integration of migrant workers

On November 4, Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Ningbo Municipal Government released “Opinions on Strengthening Service and Administration of Migrant Workers”. According to the Opinions, Ningbo should promote the construction of the six system of education, public services, protection of rights, housing, public security and integration. With the Opinions, Ningbo aims to promote the harmonious development of the migrant workers with the enterprises, the industries, and the society.

The main contents of the six systems in the Opinions are: to build a vocational training system that fits for the adjustment of industrial structure, to build the public service system that has a wide coverage, to build a perfect system for the protection of the rights and interests of the migrant workers, to form a multi channel housing security system, to build an efficient public security system, and to further improve the system that promotes the integration of society.

The Opinions also sets six targets in the work of service and administration of migrant workers in the 12th Five-Year-Plan Period

Yinzhou Business Projects Fair opens

To encourage the students, people from the countryside, farmers whose land is requisitioned and the unemployed people to establish their businesses, on the morning of November 5, Yinzhou Business Projects Fair, organized by Yinzhou Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, the Youth League of Yinzhou, opened in Yinzhou District Human Resource Market. Compared with the last year, the fair this year has more visitors and more projects.

On the fair, over 70 projects are proposed, and they range from retail sales, restaurants, gifts, toys to housing, all featured for “small investment, easy operation and fast return”. Many visitors are very impressed by the wide range of choices of the projects proposed. On the fair, over 1740 people reached intent agreements and 261 people showed their interest in the projects

Ningbo has obtained more patents than last year

According to Ningbo Bureau of Science and Technology, In the first three quarters this year, Ningbo has obtained 27,480 patents, 40.0% more than the same period of the previous year. Of the patents, the patented rights of invention amount to 1,218, increased by 47.3% above the same period of the previous year, the fastest growth rate of all patents obtained.

Statistics show that in the first three quarters this year, Ningbo applied for 36,037 patents, increased by 99.6%% above the same period of the previous year. It has been granted 27,480 patents, including 1,218 patents for invention, 9, 845 patent rights for utility model, and 16,417 design patents, increased by 47.3%%, 22.0% and 53.0% respectively against the same period of the previous year. In the first three quarters this year, the patents Ningbo has obtained outnumbers the whole of the last year. The invention rights covers 4.43% of the total.

2 billion company bonds approved for Ningbo Port Co. Ltd.

On October 31, the issuance examination committee of the CSRC verified and approved the application by Ningbo Port Co. Ltd. to issue publicly the company bonds valued 2 billion yuan, according to the notice released by Ningbo Port Co. Ltd. on November 2.

On September 14 last year, the corporation passed the IPO examination and the net amount of fund raised was 7.213 billion RMB yuan. By June 30, 2011, 6.892 billion yuan of the raised fund had been used and still another 321 million yuan had remained unused.

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