Ningbo gives priority to quality

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:27

Ningbo recently released "Measures on Ensuring Quality for the Future Development of Ningbo". The documents decides that the city should stick to the strategy of intellectual property rights, the strategy of standardization, the strategy of brands and the strategy of management and that it should establish a quality guarantee system, a quality technological support system, a quality credit system and a quality assessment system. It says that the city should give priority to quality in such aspects as products, construction projects, services and environment. With all these measures, Ningbo should attach greater importance to the quality of development so as to turn itself from a city powerful in manufacturing to a city powerful in quality.

According to the Measures, by 2015, the acceptance rate of the Ningbo-made in national quality checks should be among the highest in the country, and the rate in checks by the municipal-level sampling checks should be above 90%. To be specific, the Ningbo-made food, drugs and agricultural products should be above 98%, 95% and 96% respectively. The rate of adopting international standards in large enterprises should be over 80%, and over 40% of enterprises should have quality and environment certificates.

By 2015, the environment should be distinctly improved. To be specific, the reaching standard rate of drinking water resources should be 100%, that of water quality in water functional areas above 70%, and that of air quality above 90%. With regard to the ecological environment, Ningbo should be among the best in China, meeting the standard as a national-level ecological city.

Yuyao and Cixi listed in top tens of China

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:25

On September 23, Forbes released the Top 25 Counties of Mainland China for 2011, in which Yuyao and Cixi respectively rank the 8th and the 10th. Kunshan, Changshu and Zhangjiagong stay on their positions as the first three on the list.

This is the third time the Chinese Edition of Forbes releases the Top 25. According to Zhou Jian, Editor-in-chief of the magazine, the list is based on the eight indexes of intelligent resources, scale of the city, management cost, consumption capacity, economic activity, creativity, passenger and cargo transport. The list aims to be a measurement of the investment value and development potential of county-level cities of Mainland China as a reference for the investors of the world. Jiangsu Province has 8 on this year's list, more than other provinces, and Zhejiang comes the next, having 7: Yiwu, Yuyao, Cixi, Haining, Zhuji, Shangyu and Wenling.

Jia Qijia's calligraphic exhibition opened in Ningbo Arts Gallery

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:26

On the morning of September 2, the exhibition of the works of Jia Qijia, a modern calligraphic artist, opened in Ningbo Arts Gallery. Chang Minyi, Vice Chairman of Ningbo People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the opening ceremony. In the opening ceremony, Jia Qijia donated some of his works to Ningbo Arts Gallery.

Jia Qijia, known as Yantian for his pen name, was born in Xiaxian County in Shanxi Province in 1953. In July 2004 he was entitled one of "Top Ten Modern Chinese Calligraphists". The exhibition, of 80 of his calligraphic works, will last to October 9.

Ningbo to build a highest skyscraper of Zhejiang

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:24

According to the news conference of Firs Group held on September 23, Firs Group and Itochu Cooperation will jointly invest 9.7 billion yuan on a 400-m high building "Ningbo Center" in the core area of the Eastern New Town of Ningbo. The building is expected to complete in 2017. The Ningbo Center is to be the highest building in Zhejiang.

Reportedly, Ningbo Center will be a house for modern international shopping centers, super five-star hotels, high-end offices and all-service apartments.