Summer Weekend Getaway !
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- Category: Ningbo Business
- Published: Monday, 29 July 2013 13:44
have fun and enjoy
have fun and enjoy
The hot summer has always been a hard season for recruiting workers. As a result, companies all put out tantalizing conditions in their recruitment announcements to attract or retain workers, including providing central air-conditioners, gyms, wifi, tourism activities etc.
Companies were used to only provide information about job opportunities, gender, educational background, age and treatment while recruiting workers. Nowadays, their information become more and more specific and information about workers’ benefits are all highlighted with salient letters.
On the recruitment notice of Wahl Home Products, the company not only promises to provide free city buses but also build gyms for playing badminton and table-tennis and other sports activities for workers living in the company’s dorms. Wifi is also available in the dorm area, so as to satisfy the need of surfing the internet of young workers. Jiangxin Micro Motor Company also promises to provide central air-conditioners in factories in summer besides other benefits such as high salaries, free accommodation and dining as well as buying social insurance. Besides, the company also organizes tourism activities for workers to go away for the summer.
IKEA, the biggest general merchandise store for household goods in the world, opened its store in Ningbo a few days ago, the first outlet of the company in Zhejiang and the 14th in China. The latest statistic from Ningbo Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation Bureau showed that a total of 39 world’s Top 500 enterprises have set 95 companies in Ningbo, whose investment stood at 9.2 billion US dollars.
The departments on introducing foreign investment has targeted at world’s Top 500 companies and leading enterprises of all industries since the beginning of 2013. Just at the beginning of July, the environmentally friendly iron oxide red paint factory, invested by LANXESS, one of the world’s Top 500 enterprises, began to build. Not long before this, MGM Resorts Group agreed to build a Diaoyutai • MGM “China Holiday” project in Hangzhou Bay New Area.
Strategic emerging industries represented by auto companies and modern service industries continue to be the major areas for investment from world’s Top 500 businesses. Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New Area Beidou Electric Motor Co. Ltd, a joint venture invested by Bosch, the second largest automobile technology supplier in the world, attracted 135.3 million US dollars of contracted foreign investment in less than one year after its establishment. Tesco invested 70.3 US dollars to build a supermarket in Yinzhou District of Ningbo. As a matter of fact, the newly settlements of projects invested by world’s Top 500 companies from Jan. to June, 2013, stood at six projects, adding 402 million US dollars to the total investment amount, and the contracted foreign investment totaled 199 million US dollars.
Research showed that investment from such countries as Japan and South Korea regained its strength. From Jan. to June, the contracted funds from Japan were 82.47 million US dollars, and 49.92 million US dollars has already been in place, an increase of 11.27 times and 1.62 times respectively. And the contracted funds from South Korea were 51.05 million US dollars, and 50.16 million has already been in place, increasing by 4.67 times and 2.3 times respectively.
Statistics showed that 205 foreign-invested projects have been approved from Jan. to June. The contracted funds amounted to 2.906 billion US dollars and the amount in actual use stood at 1.798 billion US dollars, an increase of 7.9 percent and 17.9 percent respectively.
News from Ningbo Economic Cooperation and Communication Office indicated that the newly introduced projects launched by Zhejiang entrepreneurs totaled 133 projects in just half a year, making an actual investment of 7.039 billion yuan. As the funds of previously settled projects were in place in succession, the total amount of funds that was in place from Jan. to June, 2013 stood at 23.854 billion yuan, accounting for 86.7 percent of the year plan, an increase of 74.6 percent year on year.
Driving by the investing heat aroused by Zhejiang entrepreneurs, Ningbo’s domestic fund raising career also boomed. The actual funds poured into Ningbo in the first half of this year stood at 39.711 billion yuan, accounting for 74.9 percent of the year plan, increased by 27.1 percent against the same period of the previous year.