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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 08 July 2013 10:11
A batch of major projects started as scheduled with the promotion of investment. It is learned that 46 of the 57 projects that were scheduled to start in the first six months are under construction, including the fast track on Guangdehu Road, the wind farm in Yinzhou District and the Cizhong School. Till the end of May, the investment on the key projects of Ningbo amounted to a record high of 43.6 billon yuan, up by 36 percent against the same period of last year.
It is learned that the investment to the major industrial projects from January to May stood at 20.5 billon yuan, an increase of 44.4 percent. The scale of investment accounted for nearly half of the total investment for major projects. A large portion of the investment goes to the livelihood areas, with many of the projects that concerned the benefits of citizens starting off smoothly, including the Sunshine City household for senior citizens, the welfare home in Jiangdong and Ningbo Culture Square etc. In addition, Pujia public rental housing, Yingjia affordable housing and the Talent Apartment in Xiangshan also progressed in good order, with 1,811 sets of houses completed at present. From January to May, the investment of major livelihood projects in Ningbo added up to two billion yuan, nearly doubled against the same period of last year.
A number of major projects were completed recently, including the Ningbo Section of the Hangzhou-Ningbo high speed railway that is put into operation on July, 1st, the auto project of Shanghai Volkswagen whose first car will be ready for sale in the near future.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Wednesday, 03 July 2013 10:05
THE Shanghai-Ningbo high-speed railway opened yesterday, cutting travel time between the two cities from 180 minutes to 100 minutes.
The line, which has a maximum speed limit of 300 kilometers per hour, is essentially an extension of the Shanghai-Hangzhou line that opened about three years ago.
"The new bullet train lines will help balance economic development in the Yangtze River Delta region," said Sun Zhang, a rail expert with Shanghai Tongji University.
Passengers seemed to agree with Sun's assessment, especially businesspeople.
"Speed is the key," said Zhang Hua, a passenger who boarded G7505, the first bullet train from Shanghai to Ningbo yesterday morning. "The higher ticket prices are not a major concern."
Zhang, who works for a clothing company in Shanghai that has business in Ningbo, said the express service is about 80 minutes faster than previous trains.
Other businessmen told Shanghai Daily yesterday that in the past they would travel a day in advance of meetings, but the bullet trains allow them to travel the same day.
A second class ticket costs 150 yuan (US$24.44) while first class costs 250 yuan per person.
Read more: All aboard bullet trains to Ningbo
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Category: On The Campus
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Published: Tuesday, 02 July 2013 15:22
According to Ningbo Education Commission, Ningbo recently released "Measures on Promoting and Regulating Private Primary and Middle School". This policy stipulates that the government will raise the financial support to the private-funded schools and that the teachers in private schools should enjoy the same social insurances as the teachers in public schools. From this fall on, private primary and middle schools should have one third of the average financial input given to public schools.
The Measures stipulates that teachers in private schools should have the same rights as those in public schools in professional qualification approval, professional training, professional title acquisition, and identification of service years.
The educational department should include the teachers in private school in the teachers training program for the public school teachers.
In addition, the city should do a good job in the medical insurance for teachers and gradually establish a system so that the teachers in private schools should enjoy the same social insurances as the teachers in public schools.
At present, Ningbo has 116 private primary and middle schools, including 23 high schools, 8 vocational high schools, 29 middle schools, and 56 primary schools. These schools have 129,000 students.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 02 July 2013 15:22
According to a related meeting, Ningbo Shopping Festival will open from July 12 to July 28 in Haishu, Yinzhou, Jiangdong, Jiangbei, Zhenhai, and Beilun. The festival will have 224 activities on the three themes of "happy shopping, fashionable life and satisfactory consumption".
The 224 activities will take place in such places as shops, supermarkets, shopping malls, business streets, franchise shops, restaurants and places of interest. Sales promotion will be made of domestic goods, luxury items, cars, jewelry, building materials, and food. During the festival, companies like Beyond, Firs, Beifa Shicuiying will make sales promotions.
For the festival, the organizer will organize eight highlight events like Hong Kong Jewelry Exhibition, Exhibition of Zhejiang Time-honored Brands and Exhibition of Imported Goods.