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Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:53
Ningbo Customs has made a good start in foreign trade in 2013. The import and export kept rising in January and February. ASEAN has become the 3rd biggest trading partner for Ningbo Customs.
According to Ningbo Customs, From January to February this year, the import and export via Ningbo Customs to ASEAN totals 2.05 billion, increased by 31.3% year on year. In 2012, ASEAN ranked the 4th place among the trade partners of Ningbo Customs. In February alone, the import and export trade to ASEAN totals 800 million US dollars, increased by 28.1%.
In the trade via Ningbo Customs to the ASEAN countries, the top three are Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. With Indonesia, the import and export reaches 590 million, increased by 58.2%. The import and export to Thailand amounts to 470 million, increased by 10.3%. The import and export to Malaysia amounts to 350 million, increased by 41.9%. The sum of imports and exports to the three accounts for 68.8% of the total. In the two months, the import and export to Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma and Laos amounts to 220 million US dollars, increased by 31.8%.
Statistics of Ningbo Customs show that The imports from ASEAN are mostly plastic materials, crude oil, coal and brown coal. The exports are mainly electromechanical products, textile products and processed oil.
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Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:53
The other day, The low-carbon ecological city project of Damuwan has made initial progress in its application for the Global Environment Facility. The donation amounts 550,000 US dollars. This is the first donation the Global Environment Facility has granted to a overall pilot construction of a city. The project will start in June 2013.
Reportedly, the Global Environment Facility is an international financial institution of the UN, which aims to give financial support to the benefit countries in their projects concerning climate change, biological diversity, international waters and ozone layer loss. The goal is to improve the global environment and promote the sustainable development of the benefit countries.
In 2012, Beijing and Ningbo got the grants. Damuwan New Town in Xiangshan is a part of the Ningbo project. The subproject is to make overall pilot experiments in urban spatial planning, smart traffic and smart city pattern.
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Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:52
On March 14, Sandy Gupta, Chief Technical Officer of Greater China Group of Microsoft, and his attendants paid a visit to Ningbo, for a talk about the cooperation in the construction of smart city.
At the meeting, Microsoft agreed that it will support Ningbo in the informationization construction in capital, technology and human talent, so as to promote the local software development environment and information industry. To be specific, Microsoft will support Ningbo in the construction of public service platforms of education, smart community and SMEs. It will cooperate with Ningbo in the planning, construction and popularization of projects of cloud technology applications so as to promote the sustainable development of the smart city program and cloud computation industry.
Ningbo and Microsoft have had good cooperation. As early as in 2007, Ningbo Municipal Government and Microsoft (China) started their strategic cooperation and in the year Microsoft Technical Center was founded in Ningbo. Before the meeting, Chen Zhongchao, Vice Mayor of Ningbo Municipality, met with Sandy Gupta and his attendants.