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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:40
With the coming of summer, the imported beer is becoming popular. According to updated statistics from Ningbo Customs, from January to April, 484,000 litres of beer has been imported via Ningbo Customs, worth 634,700 US dollars, increased by 650% and 680% year on year. In April alone, the import amounted to 306,000 litres, 17.1 times the figure in 2012 year on year, renewing the record in the history. The import is worth 372,000 US dollars, 18.1 times the figure in 2012 year on year.
It is learned that the import was mainly from Germany. From January to April, the imported beer from Germany amounted to 392,000 litres, increased by 640% year on year, accounting for 81% of the total import in the four months via Ningbo Customs. A related person from a beer importer said that thanks to its mellow taste and the relatively higher alcohol and malt concentration, German beer is quite popular among consumers in Ningbo.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:39
According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Environment Protection, in 2012, Ningbo made a perfect fulfillment of the targets set by Zhejiang Provincial People's Government on the emission of major pollutants. According to the assessment office of Zhejiang, Ningbo reduced COD by 4.86%, ammonia nitrogen by 2.85%, sulfur dioxide by 5.23%, and nitrogen oxides by 5.43%.
The examination by the office shows that Ningbo contributed 30% of the total deduction of emission of air pollutants in Zhejiang, ranking No.1 in the province. The radical reduction of air pollution contributed positively to the improvement of the air environment. According to statistics from Ningbo Environmental Monitoring Center, in 2012 the annual average concentrations of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides reduced by 19.4% and 15.4% respectively.
Since 2012, in key projects, Ningbo has practiced a strict control in coal consumption and further carried out the clean energy strategy for new projects. Ningbo has made great breakthroughs in total coal consumption control and basically no approval has been given to projects with coal-fueled boilers. Meanwhile, Ningbo has made substantial progress in carrying out pollutant discharge in key projects and completed the denitrating program ahead of schedule. Ningbo has put into operation the desulfurization project of Ningbo Steel Plant, the 150,000-kw denitration program of Taiwan Plastics Thermal Power Plant, and the denitration program of Guohua Ninghai Power Plant. The 2nd phase project of the South Sewage Water Treatment Plant, a project with its daily capacity of 80,000 tons, was completed, which further reduced the waste water discharge.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:39
According to a related department of Ningbo, Ningbo is to take another important step in its construction of cultural facilties. The city has decided to spend 240 million yuan to rebuild Ningbo Library in Ningbo Eastern New Town. The preparation has officially started.
Ningbo Library was built in 1927. The present buildings of the library were built in 1988, with the donated fund of 500 HK dollars by Yue-Kong Pao and 5 million yuan by Ningbo Municipal Government. Then the area of the Library was 8,000 square meters. In 2001 Ningbo Municipal Government put in 21 million yuan to renovate the buildings and expanded the area to 12,000 square meters. With the rapid social and economic development and the constant rise of the number of readers, the present facilities of the library are no long capable of meeting the demand of the readers.
In 2011, the new Ningbo Library was listed in the key projects of Ningbo for the 12th Five-Year-Plan Period. In the Government Work Report 2013, it is decided to be an important task of the year, and the project is put in the agenda. The other day, Ningbo Municipal Government held a symposium for this project. It was decided that the new library should be relocated in Ningbo Eastern New Town, with the planned area 1.6 hectares and the floorage about 30,000 square meters. The investment totals 240 million yuan. At the meeting it was decided that the new library should be harmonious with the neighborhood buildings and with distinct Ningbo features and that the construction should be finished in two years.
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Category: Culture Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:38
The other day, Ningbo National Hi-tech Zone released Opinions on Attracting Talents and the Construction of Special Zone for Talents, which specifies that the park will make more support to business establishment, give supporting subsidies to returned scholars in their business establishment, and give greater support in the use of offices and workshops to the returned scholars. As one of the first talents introduced into Ningbo National Hi-tech Zone, Chu Fenglei, PhD of Culturology, is developing his business under the preferential policies. At present, he is applying for a project for the China Global Expert Recruitment Program and Zhejiang Expert Recruitment Program for Cultural Creative Industry.