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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:24
According to the press conference on China Food Expo 2013, China Food Expo is to open in Ningbo International Conference and Exhibition Center from November 15 to 18. Compared with the past years, China Food Expo 2013 is the largest in scale and over 50% of the food on the Expo are imported foods.
China Food Expo this year is jointly organized by Zhejiang People's Government, China Federation of Commerce and China National Light Industry Council. The expo will open in 9 halls, 7 temporary halls and 2 permanent ones. The exhibition area totals 76,000 square meters, with 3,800 exhibition stalls. Besides the food of famous Ningbo local brands, the expo will have foods of leading enterprises from Fujian, Tianjin, Hainan, Guizhou, Chongqing and Changchun.
The Expo will have food enterprises from over 30 countries and regions, including top wine suppliers from 10 countries like France, Italy, Australia, USA and Argentina. A half of Hall 1 will be for imported food, and Hall 2 is completely for imported food, like home appliances, like wine and milk products. 80% of Hall 8 is for food from Taiwan. Together with the exhibits in the two permanent exhibition halls, the imported food will cover over 50% of the food commodities. It is noted that the expo this year will have over 200 Taiwan delegations, with over 2,50 exhibition stalls. The Taiwan exhibition area in the expo is the largest so far in Mainland China.
In the expo there will be a series of economic and trade activities, including the purchasing fair of top 100 enterprises, fair of large chain purchasers, and fair of Ningbo quality farm products. At present, Over 100 enterprises including some top 100 enterprises will come to the expo. And at the same time, During China Food Expo 2013, "China Food Forum" will open. The topic of the forum will be "the digital epoch and the food industry". The forum will release the list of top 100 food enterprises of China. There will be activities like elections of "Most Favored Food Brands of Zhejiang" and Awards of China Food Expo.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:22
The strategy of "rejuvenating the city by industries" of Ningbo is advancing steadily. Since September last year, the industrial operation has maintained a steady growth and in July, August and September this year, the large industries all have their output exceeding 100 billion yuan.
This year, confronted by the severe and complicated international and domestic environment and unprecedented disastrous weather, Ningbo has made its best to maintain economic growth, adjust the structure and promote the transformation. As a result the investment has increased rapidly and the economic efficiency has notably increased. From January to September, the total industrial added value of large industrial enterprises amounts to 165.4 billion yuan, increased by 8.0% year on year; the total industrial output amounts to 922.6 billion yuan, increased by 5.7% year on year. In July, August and September, the monthly output is above 100 billion yuan and it rises month by month.
Owing to the continuous slumping of the export market, the domestic sales of industrial products increased. From January to September this year, the sales of the large industrial enterprises of Ningbo added up to 694.4 billion yuan, increased by 8.1% year on year. Of the 36 industries, 10 industries including the automobile industry increased by 10%.
Thanks to the petrol processing industries, Ningbo had a fast increase in the efficiency of the industrial economy. From January to September this year, the profit tax of large industrial enterprises amounts to 90.5 billion yuan, increased by 24.5% year on year. Of the total, the profit totaled 46.7 billion yuan, up by 38.5% year on year.
From January to September, the industrial investment so far completed added up to 77.72 billion yuan, increased by 24.9% year on year, 6.3 points higher than the increase rate of the total social investment in fixed assets. The industrial investment accounts for 30.1% of the total social investment in fixed assets.
The investment in innovation is growing with the output of new products rising steadily. From January to September, the expenditure of the large industrial enterprises on scientific and technological programs totals 11.04 billion yuan, increased by 9.9% year on year. The output of new products added up to 205.59 billion yuan, increased by 23.1% over the precious year, with the growth rate 17.4 points higher than the same period of the last year. By the end of September, the city has 7,665 patent rights for invention, increased by 26.7% year on year. In the year, the city granted 1,683 patents for invention, up by 11.1% year on year.
