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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 16 April 2013 10:36
In 2012, the major economic indicators in Meishan Bonded Port Zone (Industrial Cluster Zone) almost doubled. The applications for the specialized port for car import and the specialized port for living plants import were both approved. Such feature industries as finance and trade logistics made great breakthroughs. The development pattern of integrating production and the city has initially come into being.
The zone takes initiative in making breakthroughs in developing systems and mechanisms by taking the lead in developing exploration and opening-up strategies. With the implementation of the national strategies of broadening horizon and making innovations, the zone aims to build a national pilot zone for reform and opening-up practice, with its goal of constructing a free-trade park and developing more dynamic, more efficient and more open systems.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 16 April 2013 10:36
It is learned from Ningbo Smart-city Construction Office on April 12 that by the end of 2013, the fiber-optic network will cover 2.8 million household users in Ningbo, with a coverage rate of over 78%. The goal of building Ningbo into an optical network city will be achieved one year in advance.
In 2012, the "Three-year Plan for 'Fiber-optic Network City' Construction" was launched. At the end of 2012, the city’s users with broadband access to the Internet reached 2.21 million. With the fiber-optic network covering over 1.85 million households, Ningbo realized the entire coverage of fiber-optic network in the urban area. Users of 3G network came up to 2 million households, an increase of 42.8% over the same period last year. The 3G wireless broadband network has covered the whole urban area.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 16 April 2013 10:35
According to the statistics from Ningbo branch of foreign exchange transaction center issued on April 7th, the aggregated amount of foreign exchange transaction in Ningbo reaches 347.8 billion dollar, up 35.9 percent over the year before. The transaction volume ranked No. 3 in the country, right after Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The aggregation amount included more than 160 billion dollars of cross border transaction and people’ abroad annual net income reaches more than 30,000 yuan (the number of permanent residents is 6 billion).
With the increasing demand for foreign exchange transaction from enterprises and individuals, more and more foreign exchange and financial institutions are settled in Ningbo in recent years. By the end of 2012, there are 44 designated foreign exchange banks. The outlets and institutions for exchange settlements and sales exceeded 870 with more than 20 kinds of foreign exchange products, which fully covered exchange settlements and sales, options, guarantees, financing and so on.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 16 April 2013 10:35
Recently, Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau signed a strategic agreement with Beilun district to help Zhejiang Geely Automobile Co.,Ltd apply for qualifications to exempt the export inspection and provide the company with a series of tailor-made strategic services for car export, such as distribution supervision, self-monitoring packing and paperless inspection.
Exemption from inspection for export commodities is one of China’s policy for excellent and strong enterprises to encourage exports and promote the development of foreign trade. Enterprises to get the export exemption certificate means “Green pass” for export and “Gold pass” in the international market. After got the certificate, the export of Geely’s Imperial car is able to enjoy the special supervision system of “free inspections, no charge , arrive and pass” , which further speed up customs clearance and reduce the export costs. It is estimated that the customs clearance duration is shortened to 2 to 3 days with million yuan for annual inspection and quarantine being directly saved.
This is a new implementation from Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau to further strengthen innovation-driven development strategy so as to speed up economic transformation and serve local economy development. Some other measures include setting special warehouse inspection for Geely export cars on auto parts procurement and distribution and implementing matched inspection mode for export purchased parts.
With the continuous rise of Geely's overseas sales, the demand for auto parts for follow-up maintenance and repair keeps increasing. According to the conventional origin inspection mode, exports of auto parts need to be inspected in the local inspection and quarantine authorities of the manufacturers. After testing, the slip of inspection and quarantine will be sent to the vehicle manufactures for customs inspection, after which the auto parts will be transported to oversea after-sales service agencies. The entire export process takes a long time, which is not conducive to open up overseas markets.
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