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Ningbo to become "strong design city"

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Wednesday, 15 January 2014 06:57

The "3-year action plan for Ningbo's creative and design industry" has been put forward recently to foster and develop a creative and design industry that fulfills the international standards and has strong Ningbo characteristics, and to create the industrial and city brand of "designed in Ningbo".

Creative and design industry is one of the eight key strategic emerging industries of the city. According to the action plan, based on the reality of industrial development, Ningbo will focus on the development of such key areas as industrial design, advertising media and architectural design. Efforts will also be made to develop the design of such industrial products as electronic appliances, automobile and parts, equipment manufacturing and medical devices, promote the advertising planning, creativeness, design and production of new media, and create such design integration as smart home and interior design of public space.

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Ningbo to speed up city internationalization

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 06 January 2014 22:45

Recently, the "program of action for Ningbo to speed up city internationalization" has been jointly launched by Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Ningbo Municipal Government. Nine short-term or mid-term action plans will be carried out to realize the new round of comprehensive opening driven by city internationalization and to enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of the city. In the following decade, great efforts will be made to build Ningbo into the regional center of the city cluster in the Yangtze River Delta area, and by 2030, Ningbo will have become an influential international city in the Asian-Pacific area.

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15,000 public bikes available for rent

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 06 January 2014 22:27

According to Ningbo Municipal Traffic and Transport Committee, the public bike program, one of the key serving-the-people programs of Ningbo for 2013, was completed successfully. 15000 public bikes are available for rent, indicating the initial formation of the slow traffic network of public bikes.

So far, over 50,000 rent cards for the bikes are issued, the rents amounts to over 1 million with the daily rents amounting to over 28,000.

According to the plan, the city should have 15,000 bikes for rent in the first year and this is the largest number in Zhejiang and it is one of the largest in the country. With the joint efforts of related departments and districts, the program advanced rapidly. In May, the company for public bike rent was established. On August 6, the construction of the first public bike station in Yinzhou started. On September 22, World Car Free Day, the first 800 bikes in 32 stations were available for the public.

In management, a two-level system of the distributing center and the district distributing branches is adopted which ensures the balance of the bikes in all the stations. At present, the 24-hour service is available in all the rent stations and the rent and return may be done at any of the stations in all the six districts.

According to the plan, the city should put in 30,000 public bikes for rent and it will steadily advance the new traffic program of public buses plus bikes, and light rail transit plus bikes. With this, the city expects to improve the urban public traffic system and effectively solve the problem of traffic jam in urban areas.

Grand Canal to be renamed Jing-Hang-Yong Grand Canal

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 06 January 2014 22:38

On December 31, the Ningbo section of the Hang-Yong Canal opened. With the Shaoxing section that had opened earlier and the Hangzhou section, the whole Hang-Yong canal opened completely.

The Hang-Yong Canal runs through Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, along the Qiantang River, the Xixiao River, the Cao'e River, the Yaojiang River and the Yongjiang River, 239 km long. The Ningbo section is 94 kms long, starting at the Aanjia Ford in Yuyao, along the Yaojiang River and ends at the Yongjiang River through the Yaojiang Lock.

The history of the Hang-Yong Canal is longer than the Jing-Hang Grand Canal. It was built by the Yue Kingdom as early as the late period Spring and Autumn Period. The renovation of the Hang-Yong Canal started in 2000, and the main project basically completed by the end of 2007.

The Canal is not only a link of Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Ningbo, but also a link of the waters in east Zhejiang, north Zhejiang and the main shipping network of the country. The Hong-Yong Canal links to the Jing-Hang Grand Canal at Hangzhou, This means that the Jing-Hang Grand Canal extends about 200 kms to the east and that the longest man-made canal in the world is linked to the port of Ningbo.

According to the calculation of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Port Administration, the cargo shipping volume of the Hong-Yong Canal is equal to that of 4 or 5 Xiang-Yong Railway or the transport volume of the Hang-Yong Expressway. In other words, the daily cargo shipping volume of the Hong-Yong Canal is equivalent to that of 12,000 or 14,000 10-tonnage trucks.

Reportedly, with the opening of the Hong-Yong Canal, the Jing-Hang Grand Canal is to be renamed Jing-Hang-Yong Grand Canal.

Ticket price for Ningbo-Shenzhen high-speed train to be RMB388.5

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Monday, 30 December 2013 14:41
Ningbo Railway Station
The new Ningbo Railway Station will be put into use on 28th, December.
 
The new Ningbo Railway Station is scheduled to open on 28th December, 2013. It will operate 96 pairs of trains, and launch a new pair of high-speed bullet trains to Shenyang North, a new pair to Nanchang West and six new pairs to Shenzhen North. 

According to the new train operation diagram, the Ningbo Railway Station will dispatch its first train heading for Xiamen North Railway Station at 7:00 am on December 28th. However, K847 Regular Train will be the first train to enter into the station at 4:06 am. 

Ticket information released reveals that ticket prices will be RMB 388.5, RMB 334 and RMB 769.5 for second-class seats from Ningbo Railway Station to Shenzhen North Railway Station, Nanchang West Railway Station and Shenyang North Railway Station, respectively. 

In addition, prices for second-class seats on northbound high-speed trains will be lowered by RMB 1.5 or RMB 2.5, while the price for southbound bullet trains will rise by at least RMB 6. The station will raise the ticket price to RMB 238, RMB 85.5 and RMB 15.5 to Xiamen North, Wenzhou South and Fenghua, respectively.
 
SOURCE: WON Team

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