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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:58
Mei Xuejun, a farmer in Yuyao city, no longer need worry about selling out his Jiaobai (wild rice stem) ever since it was labeled the trademark of “Yuyao Jiaobai”. Moreover, its price is also several times higher than other unlabeled ones.
Trademark to identify places of origin of agricultural products is only a miniature of the achievements that Ningbo has made in building itself into a trademark demo city. Ningbo’s trademark construction developed rapidly with the national preferential policy in building trademark demo cities. News from Ningbo’s Industrial and Commercial Bureau showed that the total number of Ningbo’s registered trademarks increased by 52.8 percent, among which 7,625 were international ones and ranked the first in Zhejiang province. The number of trademarks to identify places of origin were 21, resulting in relative farmers’ annual income increasing by 30 percent averagely.
In May, 2010, Ningbo became the first group of demo cities to carry out the trademark strategy. The construction work won great attention from the government. For one thing, all the enterprises enjoy “green channels” in trademark registration cycle, international trademark application, and protection of well-known trademarks. For another thing, the Municipal Party Committee and the government launched ten policies in relevance to the trademark strategy, aiming at promoting companies’ independent innovation, and the trademark building and managing of small and medium - sized and micro enterprises. In addition, all county (town) level governments also carried out many rewarding policies.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:57
The eighth meeting of the Singapore - Zhejiang Economic and Trade Council (SZETC) was held in Ningbo on Nov. 20, and it is learned that Ningbo is hopeful to embrace more commercial opportunities as Zhejiang plans to strengthen its cooperation with Singapore in marine economy, trade and internationalization, environment protection and port logistics as well as other service industries in 2013. Officials attended the meeting included Gong Zheng, a member of the Provincial Standing Committee, and Fu Haiyan, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of Singapore. The latter is also the second minister of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources and second minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The SZETC was formed in 2003 and has played an important role in promoting the bilateral economic and trade cooperation between Singapore and Zhejiang. Singapore has also become an important trade partner of Ningbo. From Jan. to Aug. in 2012, Ningbo’s imports from Singapore stood at 489 mln US dollars, an increase of 72.2 percent over the same period of the previous year. The cooperation increased significantly as Ningbo held the Singapore-China (Ningbo) Import & Export Fair for four consecutive years since 2009. The fair of this year has attracted over 3,000 Singapore purchasers and businessmen, and made a turnover of 40 mln US dollars.
Read more: Zhejiang to strengthen partnership...
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:56
Statistics from Ningbo’s Human Resources and Social Security Bureau showed that, till Nov. 15, Ningbo government has already delivered 307 mln yuan of small-sum secured loans to help over 4,300 people to start their own businesses and create nearly 20,000 new jobs.
With the aim to encourage self-employment and support the development of micro and small businesses, employment management agencies of all levels carried out the key policy of promoting entrepreneurship and employment through small-sum secured loans. To be specific, they simplified loan application procedures, lowered loan threshold, and provided door-to-door services and other measures to help people start their own businesses. Statistics show that the government has already delivered 105 mln yuan of loans since the beginning of this year, an increase of 85 percent. It has fulfilled the goal of delivering 100 mln yuan of loans in a year ahead of schedule, and has supported 752 people to become self-employed and created 4,917 jobs at the same time.
The measure of simplifying application procedures and lowering threshold provides applicants easier ways. Qualified applicants include unemployed people, college graduates, demobilized soldiers, and rural residents who hold Ningbo’s city residence and have reached the legal working age. They can take relative materials to the human resources and social security service stations in the districts or towns where their residences are registered to apply for the loan. Once they are proved qualified, they could complete the formalities within five to fifteen working days.
Read more: 300 mln secured loans given to small...
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:56
News from national tax department showed that the simulation run for the pilot reform of replacing turnover tax with value-added tax (VAT) was finished and the preliminary work for the pilot reform came to an end. Half a month later, the reform will be launched officially.
It is learned that the collection and management system of the national tax department has already registered 12,666 businesses till Nov. 8, among which 3,700 businesses are in the transportation area while the rest are in modern services industry. In those companies, 2,093 have been identified as general taxpayers, with 562 being in the transportation area and 1,531 in modern services industry.
Counties and towns also measured the influences brought by the pilot reform. For instance, Haishu District affirmed that 2,141 pilot taxpayers would change to pay VAT rather than turnover tax, and the VAT reform was expected to lead to reduction of about 200 mln yuan of turnover taxes, while Beilun affirmed 1,367 taxpayers and saw a decrease of 30 percent in tax burden rate. Investigations conducted previously showed that 95 percent of Ningbo’s pilot enterprises might saw a decrease in their tax burden during this reform.