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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 24 June 2013 10:29
Recently, with an astonishing price of 6000 yuan, a well-known entrepreneur in Zhejiang Province booked a giant "space" pumpkin to celebrate his father's 85th birthday from Siming Lake Modern Agricultural Garden. It is reported that the “space” pumpkins in the demonstration garden weigh over 50 kilograms each, and a dozen of them have been booked so far.
In the Siming Lake Modern Agricultural Demonstration Garden, there are now more than 30 giant "space" pumpkins, as well as bunches of green cherry tomatoes one the two-meter-tall vines. "All the 'space' vegetables in this garden are remarkable." said Yuan Weiyue proudly, the person in charge of the garden. "For example, an ordinary eggplant may change color after being cut, while our 'space' eggplant will not get oxidized within 24 hours."
In August last year, Yuyao Runfeng Agriculture Development Corporation reached a cooperation agreement with the Space Breeding Center of China Ministry of Agriculture to establish the first and only one demonstration base for space vegetables and fruits. Among the introduced over 140 kinds of "space seeds", 24 kinds have entered the trail stage.
Read more: "Space seeds" bear fruits
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Monday, 24 June 2013 10:28
A bottle of wine can usually be kept fresh for no more than three days after being opened. However, a kind of intelligent wine preservation device produced by Heart & Heart Group, a private company in Cixi County, can keep the opened wine for 30 days. Recently, the product has been included in the first batch of new industrial products for trial production in Ningbo in 2013. With an investment of 10 million yuan, the output value of the product can reach 160 million yuan .
Recently, 46 new products developed by 17 enterprises in Cixi County have been included in the trial production program for new industrial product, involving such fields as new equipments, energy saving, automobile and parts, and new materials.
Zhejiang Haoyuan Group was established in 2006, and although very young, it has gone a long way in research and development of new products. For example, with regard to the carbon fiber products, the company has invested 20 million to 30 million yuan annually. Recently, the carbon fiber composite wire developed by the company, the high-voltage transmission wire with the world's most stable performance, has been put into mass production, and it is estimated to achieve an annual output value of one billion yuan. Currently, the project has been submitted to the national "863 program".
Read more: New products prosper in Cixi County
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Monday, 24 June 2013 10:28
Recently, the 21st session of the AU Summit was held in Addis Abeba, the Ethiopian capital. "The Summit focuses on the African Renaissance, and China signed a cooperation agreement with the AU at the meeting. This poses us a real opportunity for doing business in Africa." said Shi Zengchao, President of Ningbo Jinsheng Star IMP & EXP Co. Ltd., as well as the Chairman of the Sino-African Chamber of Commerce in Nigeria.
Jinsheng Star is one of the earliest Ningbo enterprises to invest in Africa. Since its first batch was opened in Benin in March, 1999, the company has established seven branches in six countries in Africa, with over 800 local employees. Currently, the "CheTex" textiles, the independent brand of the company, are available in every country in Africa. By the end of April, Ningbo had approved 100 enterprises' investment in Africa, with a total volume of $99.04 million. Five of the enterprises were approved in 2013, with a total investment volume of $21.1 million.
Read more: Capital "going-out" helps enterprises...
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 24 June 2013 10:27
It is learned from the press conference held by Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau on June 17 that in the first 5 months of this year, the pass rates for imported food and imported agricultural products stood at 90.9% and 89.4% respectively, and all the substandard products have been banned from being imported to Ningbo.
From January to May, there are 1317 batches of imported food, with a total value of $86.901 million. The imported food mainly includes wine, fruit and vegetable products, food products, and vegetable oil. Every batch of food has been tested by the inspection and quarantine departments, among which 120 batches were found substandard, accounting for 9.1% of the total.
From January to May, there are 2,815 imported agricultural products with a total value of $496 million. The imported produce mainly includes legumes (dried), timber, animal skins, food products, animal hair, and feed additives. 297 batches of the produce are substandard, or a failure rate of 10.6%, down by 3.8%.