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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 08 July 2013 10:14
The construction of another large-scale tourist center started on June 28 in Fenghua, with the aim to better serve the visitors.
Having been listed as one of the major projects in the service sector within the Twelfth Five Year Period, the center will host an investment of as much as one billion yuan and is scheduled to be completed in three years. The project covers a floor space of 81.5 mus on the northeastern side of the crossroad of Xihe Road and Dacheng Road in Fenghua, becoming the largest tourist center in Ningbo that is equipped with sound facilities.
The center is planned to provide one-stop transportation services that includes all the vehicles like buses, cars, trains and even planes. Tourists who need to travel by plane can buy the ticket and consign their luggage in the center and then be transported directly to the airport for security check and boarding.
In addition, the center itself will be a tourism site of Fenghua, housing such attractions as tourism culture square, a street decorated with republican style, shopping area, restaurants and hotels. As many as 32 tourism agents will open offices there, and they will co-build an exhibition area for over 3,000 kinds of Fenghua’s specialties and souvenirs.
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Monday, 08 July 2013 10:13
It only takes you 15 minutes drive from Ningbo to downtown Fenghua as the road section from Ningbo’s Jichang Road to Fenghua’s East-ring way became available on June 28, shortened the distance to half of the original. Not long before this, the fast track from downtown Fenghua to Chunhu Town and Binhai New Area was ready for operation. From now on, it only takes Ningbo citizens 30 minutes to get to Binhai area of Fenghua from Jichang Road.
It is a long-cherished wish of Fenghua to join Ningbo city. Since the Eleventh Five Year Period, Fenghua has invested some four billion yuan on the construction of highway network. The traffic network connecting Fenghua and Ningbo now includes eight highways such as Longxi Highway and Xining Highway and coastal railways as well as such fast track as Ningbo-Jinhua Highway etc.
“The convenient traffic from Fenghua to Ningbo has not only shortened traffic time, but more importantly, it has narrowed the psychological distance between the two places, which will definitely cause the “same city” effect between Ningbo and Fenghua”, says officials of Fenghua Government. Fenghua boasts many advantages as it is functioned as a core area for southern Ningbo’s development. It will speed up its development and boosts itself as an enlarged industrial area for Ningbo’s modern city and a top choice for leisure and entertainment in Ningbo.
Fenghua has been strengthening its efforts to optimize its layout productive forces, building an economic system and spatial pattern that integrate into Ningbo and realizing industrial interaction and functional complementation with Ningbo City. It is planning to promote the construction of the four plates: city core functional area, eastern marine economic area, western tourism area and northern industrial area. It has also made a scientific layout for such industrial integrating area as Sunshine Bay, Binhai New Area, the Bamboo Industrial Park and Shangqiao New Area etc in advance, all of which has evolved into hot choices for quality projects given to their conspicuous advantages. Many large-scale projects such as Yintai Shopping Mall, Ningnan Trade and Logistics Area have settled or will be settled in such areas.
With its sound ecological environment and its state of adjoining Ningbo City, Fenghua has become the best living place for people who work in Ningbo.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 08 July 2013 10:12
Statistics from Ningbo Customs shows that the value of import and export between Ningbo and Hong Kong from January to May reaches one billion yuan, up by 20.4 percent against the same period of 2012. The figure accounts for 2.5 percent of Ningbo’s total value of trade of the same time span, ranking the first among the ten trading partners of Ningbo in terms of its increasing rate.
It is learned that the import and export activities between Ningbo and Hong Kong were rather robust in the first five months. The value of import was 56.75 million US dollars, down by 24.6 against the same period of 2012, while the value of export increased by 940 million US dollars, up by 24.9 percent. The active trade balance stood at 880 million US dollars, an increase of 30.3 percent. As the major trade pattern, processing trade made its value at 630 million US dollars, up by 38.9 percent and accounting for 63 percent of the total. Foreign-invested enterprises, the leading force, had a trade value of 770 million US dollars, an increase of 28.1 percent and accounting for 77 percent of the total. The major merchandises are mechanical and electrical products, LCD panels and textiles and apparels.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 08 July 2013 10:12
The rainy weather in recent days has largely shortened the time-span of waxberries in the market. While catching up the last train of the waxberry season, Dashan Village of Cixi City, the best-known hometown of waxberry in China, benefited a lot from the newly-built modern agricultural park.
Dashan Village is located on the southern end of Cixi City, and both sides of the road leading to the village are planted with waxberry trees and bamboo trees.
Cars can go directly into the waxberry forest through a road to the mountain top. Mr. Hu, a farmer who makes a living on waxberry planting introduced that the cement road and steps made the forest easily accessible comparing to the previous muddy road that kept cars from entering, which left a myriad of waxberries rotten on the ground. Huang Shiwen, an officer on the agricultural work said that the project of building a demo area for waxberry industry with an investment of 6.8 million yuan was started in December of 2012 and till now some basic programs including the 8,750 meters long road had been finished.
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