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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 11:04
According to a meeting held in Ningbo on April 2 to address climate change, Ningbo will use market forces, make carbon exchange pilot experiments, build the trade platform for carbon emission exchanges, and develop the market for regional carbon exchanges.
Vice Director of the National Development and Reform Commission Xie Zhenhua made a keynote speech. Speakers at the meeting include Gong Zheng, Member of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor of Zhejiang, and Liu Qi, Vice Secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Ningbo. Shou Yongnian, Member of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Executive Mayor of Ningbo, and Wang Jianshe, Secretary-general of Ningbo Municipal Government, were present at the meeting.
At the meeting, a review was made of the work that China had done in the previous five years in response to the climate change, an analysis was made of the present situation and tasks, and arrangements were made for active steps to address the climate change problem and to promote low carbon development.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 11:04
According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Environment Protection, from April on Ningbo is to make pilot dustfall monitoring in the urban areas in Haishu, Jiangdong, Jiangbei and Yinzhou, where 24 monitoring posts will be set up. This step aims to have timely data of the dustfall pollution and the results of anti-pollution measures for the future treatment of dustfall.
An expert of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Environment Protection said that dustfall refers to the particulate matter with particle size above 10 microns. In our daily language, dust is the open polluting resources caused by winds and other human activities and it is the major constituent of suspending particles in the air.
Since 2013, Ningbo has had an obvious increase in the number of class-3 or above polluted days and an tendency of increase in PM10 and PM2.5. Analysis of State Environmental Protection Administration shows that dustfall is one of the major pollutants of the air.
Reportedly, The places to be monitored are the districts, large construction sites and roads. A monitoring post will be set up in each of the four districts, and the construction sites larger than 5,000 square meters. According to the plan of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Environment Protection, one monitoring post will be set up in the construction site of the south railway station and one at Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Environment Protection and another at the entrance to the Panhua Highway.
At present, cities like Shanghai and Nanjing have started the dustfall monitoring. According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Environment Protection, if the monitoring works well, the city will carry out the monitoring in the whole city in 2014
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 11:03
Recently, the General Administration of Customs released the list of top 200 foreign trade enterprises of China in 2012. Ningbo Qimei Electronics and Shenzhou Textile are listed in top 200 export enterprises, ranking 118th and 172nd respectively. Ningbo Qimei Electronics, Zhejiang Yisheng Petrochemical and China-Base Ningbo Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. are listed in top 200 importers, ranking 83rd, 142nd and 153rd respectively. Ningbo Qimei Electronics Ningbo Zhonglin Foreign Trade Co. Ltd. have been in the list for successively five years. Shenzhou Textile has been in the list for successively four years.