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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 23 April 2013 08:49
On April 12, along with the inspection of the latest batch of yew podocarpus import, the total number of the trees has broken the 3000 mark. Since January 2012, when Meishan Port obtained approval for yew podocarpus import, 3087 trees in 119 batches, with a total value of US$1414.838 million, have been imported. With the import number accounting for about 80% of the imports in China, Ningbo Port has become the biggest import port for yew podocarpus in China.
According to reports, along with the urbanization process, the domestic market has a great demand for large-scale landscape plants, including such trees as yew podocarpus. The import via Ningbo port has increased dramatically. In the first quarter, 1471 yew podocarpus in 56 batches were imported, contained in 308 TEUs with a total value of US$7.001 million, which has surpassed the import volume of that of the whole year of 2012.
It is reported that the related inspection and quarantine organizations have made great efforts to promote the import of special plants and flowers. While taking strict precautions against the of overseas epidemic situation brought by the plants, they carried out a series of convenience measures including the "zero waiting" system and protective treatment of imported plants, which were well received by related enterprises. At present, Ningbo has attracted a dozen of import enterprises from such places as Guangdong, Shaanxi and Shanghai to conduct their transactions.
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 23 April 2013 08:49
It is learned from Ningbo Meishan Island International Container Terminal Co. Ltd. that in the first quarter this year, container throughput of the port amounted to 249,000 TEUs, up by 83% over the same period last year.
According to the person in charge of the company, with the frequent flight changes, shipping container capacity increased and container throughput reached a record high. It is reported that the No.3 and No.4 berths of the Meishan port area have been built, and the No.5 berth is expected to be completed in the middle of this year. The operation of the three new berths will keep the port container throughput on a high level, and the total container throughput this year is expected to be more than 1.25 million TEUs
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 23 April 2013 08:48
On April 17, it is learned from Ningbo Municipal Office of SAT that in the first quarter of 2013, the tax income of the whole system of SAT reached 25.949 billion yuan, an increase of 5.9%. In terms of varieties of taxes, domestic VAT reached 14.371 billion yuan, domestic consumption tax, 5.873 billion yuan, corporate income tax, 5.016 billion yuan and vehicle purchase tax, 689 million yuan.
Since the beginning of this year, Ningbo's state taxation departments have vigorously optimized the tax services, by making good use of the preferential tax policies to boost the city's economic restructuring and transformation of economic development mode, and the vigor and vitality of the economic development have been greatly promoted. In the first quarter, the city's state taxation departments handled export refund (exemption) taxes valued 11.301 billion yuan to help the foreign trade development.
In the first quarter, Ningbo's tax revenue demonstrates a significant feature of local revenue growing much faster than the central government revenue. With the pilot of levying VAT on originally tax dutiable items and putting it into local revenue, the increase rate of local revenue is much higher than that of the central government revenue, and the state revenue has made a greater contribution to the local finance
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 23 April 2013 08:48
On April 17, the rebuilding project of Damin School to the east of West Ring Roadwas completed and it is expected to be put into use in the autumn semester this year. It is the first major livelihood project that has been completed in Haishu district since the beginning of the "urban construction year" activities. In 2013, Haishu district plans to spend 9 billion yuan in promoting the 50 major projects, with a social investment of 11 billion yuan in fixed assets, an increase of over 15%.
Besides the previous annual demolition area of over 2.4 million square meters in five consecutive years, Haishu District is to build about 20,000 sets of housing with a total area of over 2.4 million square meters, including public rental housing, affordable housing and resettlement housing. Among them, the 1298 sets of resettlement houses in Xujiachao Village will be delivered in October. Meawhile, 11 public service projects, including the Guang'an Home for the Aged and the district sports center, will be built and completed. So far, the major construction of the Guang'an Home has been completed, and more than 500 beds will be available. Haishu District Sports Center, with an area of 26,000 square meters, integrating the functions of sports, book reading and art gallery, will fill the gap of a large-scale comprehensive sports site in the district,
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