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The “Window of Thailand” theme event was held

2024 is the China-ASEAN Year of People-to-People Exchanges, in order to further promote cultural exchanges between Ningbo and Thailand, on July 9, the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ningbo Municipal People’s Government and the Consulate General of Thailand in Shanghai jointly held the “Window of Thailand” theme activity in the new library of Ningbo Library, and set up a Thailand-themed book fair and a Thailand-themed cultural customs photo exhibition.

As an open coastal city with a high degree of economic extroversion and commitment to international development, Ningbo has long adhered to the strategy of mutual benefit and win-win opening-up. Thailand is a key country in Ningbo to carry out international cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative. In terms of economic and trade exchanges, the total import and export volume and two-way investment volume of the two sides will increase steadily in 2023. In terms of people-to-people cooperation, Thailand has long been an important tourist destination in our city, and Ningbo has sent art teams to Thailand many times to carry out cultural exchange activities.

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The positive momentum of trade has been consolidated:

In the first five months, the import and export volume of Ningbo port exceeded one trillion yuan

Since the beginning of this year, the momentum of foreign trade in Ningbo port has been consolidated, and the scale of the three indicators of import and export has achieved positive year-on-year growth. According to the statistics of Ningbo Customs, in the first five months, the import and export volume of Ningbo Port reached 1,006.42 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4%. Among them, the export value was 724.34 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.9%; The import value was 282.08 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10%.

Relying on the continuous improvement of port facilities and unique geographical advantages, more and more enterprises from other places choose to carry out import and export trade through Ningbo port. In the first five months, the import and export volume of non-local enterprises through Ningbo port exceeded 630 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.8%. Among them, the export value was 474 billion yuan, a slight decrease of 0.2% year-on-year; The import value was 160.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.6%.

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Tianyi Pavilion Museum has passed the review

of national key protected units of ancient books

On June 12th, it was learned that the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently released the results of the review of the first to fifth batches of national key protected units of ancient books, and the Tianyi Pavilion Museum in Ningbo successfully passed the review.

In order to strengthen the management of national key protected units of ancient books and ensure the physical safety of ancient books, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism organized a review of 180 national key protected units of ancient books.

Tianyi Pavilion is the oldest private library in China and one of the three oldest family libraries in the world. It currently houses over 300000 volumes of various ancient books

The environmental assessment report for the development

of small and medium-sized enterprises was released:Ningbo ranks 7th among similar cities in China

A few days ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the “2023 SME Development Environment Assessment Report”, focusing on the five dimensions of “market environment, rule of law environment, financing environment, innovation environment, and policy environment”, to evaluate the development environment of small and medium-sized enterprises in 19 cities above the sub-provincial level and 31 prefecture-level cities.

Among them, Ningbo ranked 7th among cities above the sub-provincial level, 1 place higher than the previous year, and the top 6 were Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Nanjing. This is also the fourth consecutive year that Ningbo has entered the top 10 of similar cities in the country.

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Ningbo takes actions to promote equipment updates

On the morning of June 12th, the Ningbo Municipal Government Information Office held a press conference to introduce the overall situation of Ningbo's implementation plan for promoting large-scale equipment updates and exchanging old for new consumer goods. It proposed to adhere to the principles of market leadership, government guidance, standard guidance, continuous improvement, comprehensive promotion, key breakthroughs, optimization of supply, and expansion of the market, in order to achieve practical results in the "dual new" work.

The plan includes four major actions: implementing equipment updates, exchanging old for new consumer goods, recycling and reusing, and improving standards. Along with policy guarantees, it includes a total of five aspects and clarifies 44 key measures.

The plan clearly states that by 2027, the investment scale of equipment in industries such as industry, energy, construction, transportation, and agriculture in our city will increase by an average annual rate of over 7.5%, and the energy efficiency of major energy consuming

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