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.
