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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:33
In the current critical phase of economic growth and development, to promote the campaign of “robots replacing humans" not only helps to improve productivity and accelerate the “new industrialization” process of Zhejiang Province, but also serves as an important measure of dealing with crisis, seizing the opportunities, and laying out for the “new industrial revolution”. Specifically speaking, the process has three points of significance.
Firstly, it can relieve the pressures due to the environment, the population, and the rising cost of lands. According to the population status and trend in Ningbo and Zhejiang Province, population ageing and labor shortage will be the two major problems that will pose constraints on sustainable economic growth. The dependence on the four kinds of traditional dividend (the demographic dividend, export dividend, reform dividend and resource dividend) becomes insufficient. The “robots replacing humans” campaign will bring “technology dividend” and reproduce new cost advantages.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:32
According to the latest statistics from Ningbo Customs, for the first half of this year, the foreign trade volume of import and export via Ningbo Port reaches $100.28 billion, up by 3.3% over the same period last year. To be specific, the export volume stands at $62.27 billion, up by 3.6%, and import volume, $38.01 billion, up by 3%.
The import and export volume of private companies ($51. 68 billion, up by 5.4%) accounts for 51.5% of the total, with the growth rate being 2.1% higher than the average rate.
An increasing number of non-Ningbo enterprises choose Ningbo Port to conduct their import and export transactions. In the first half of 2013, the total volume of import and import for non-Ningbo enterprises reaches $62.87 billion, accounting for 62.7% of the total volume via Ningbo Port. Beijing, Shaoxing and Taizhou are the top three cities among others to conduct foreign trade by means of Ningbo Port.
The major imports are crude oil, liquid chemicals, and machinery and electronic products, accounting for 68.9% of the total if combined.
The main commodities for export are machinery and electronic products, and there is a stable growth rate for the export of labor-intensive products. The export volume for machinery and electronic products amounts to $29.68 billion, 47.7% of the total export via Ningbo Port, while that for seven other categories of products, including textile, clothing and clothing accessories, footwear, furniture and parts, small home appliances, plastic products and lamp, stands at $ 23.37 billion, 37.5% of the total.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:32
After nearly a year of preparation, 2013 Ningbo Shopping Festival will be held on July 12. On July 10, Ningbo Municipal Government held a news conference to announce the themes of the activities of the festival. With all the six districts involved in the organization of the festival, and the characteristics of being internationalized, branding, market-oriented and intelligentized, this year’s session will consist of 224 activities. As businesses offer significant concessions, consumers are sure to enjoy the largest favor in shopping, tourism, and leisure.
With so many businesses involved in the festival, and so many activities, the festival demonstrates such distinctive characteristics as being more fashionable, more culturally profound, and more Ningbo-featured.
At the press conference, Ningbo Tourism Bureau released the printed coupons for this year’s shopping festival. Over 70 scenic spots, hotels and catering enterprises offer their discount coupons. Citizens can log on www.gotoningbo.com or scan the official 2-dimensional barcode to get the coupons, or obtain the paper coupons from Night City on River and the Tourism and Shopping Center of Shanjing Outlet Plaza.
From July 12 to 28, the financial sectors will provide 500 gold bars and a 250,000-yuan car as rewards for the consumers using their bank cards. All the squares, departments and specialty shops will give discounts, while supermarkets and convenience chains will carry out sales and redemption. In the meanwhile, such activities as “convenient vegetable baskets” will also be launched during the festival period.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:31
The list of “2013 Top 100 Ningbo Businessmen” was released on July 9, and Ding Lei continues to rank No.1 with his assets being 18.85 billion yuan.
It is reported that the ranking is made according to the annual reports of the listed companies, reports on authority media, local papers of industry and commerce and papers of the enterprises, on the basis of the list of last year.
The list mainly covers three types of people: entrepreneurs born in Ningbo and starting a business in Ningbo, entrepreneurs born in Ningbo but starting a business elsewhere, and entrepreneurs born elsewhere but starting a business in Ningbo.
The threshold for this year’s list increases from 350 million yuan last year to 400 million yuan, and the total wealth value of the 100 businessmen rises to 221.4 billion yuan, an increase of 12.9%. This year, not only the wealth value has increased, but the gap has narrowed, with the difference between No.1 and No. 100 reduces from 23.2 billion yuan (last year) to 18.45 billion yuan.
It is worth mentioning that compared with the list of 2012, the top five of the ranking remains the same, namely Ding Lei, Shen Guojun, Ma Jianrong family, Xiong Xuqiang and Zhang Jingzhang family.
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