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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 28 May 2013 08:26
The 2nd Entrepreneurship and Innovation Cooperation Forum for young businessmen from Ningbo, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, jointly organized by Ningbo Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and Kuomintang Youth League, was held in Kao Hsiung of Taiwan on May 25. Over 200 young Chinese businessmen gathered at the forum to discuss and negotiate with each other for friendship and development. Hu Modun, Vice-director of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, made the opening speech for the forum.
Themed on "innovation, cooperation and mutual benefits", the forum strives to promote the ties and friendship between the young businessmen from the four areas and strengthen their cooperation. Through such activities as the theme forums, exchange and discussion of corporate culture and negotiations for cooperation on industrial and technological projects, the forum aims improve the development of enterprises and promote the exchange and cooperation between the four areas on the basis of mutual benefits and win-win situation.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 28 May 2013 08:26
Recently, the municipal committee of the China Communist Youth League makes a survey for 18 local colleges for their situation of innovation and start-up. In three years, college students in Ningbo win a total of 930 national patents. However, the average conversion rate of these patents is low, which reaches 5.6% only.
A student has over 80 patents without one conversion
Lin Ruibie, a senior student of Ningbo Dahongying University, gets over 80 national patents in campus, two of which are patents for invention.
With a hope to converse his ideas to useful products, he visits several enterprises, but none of them show any interest in his patents.
Shen Zehan, a junior student of Ningbo Institution of Technology, Zhejiang University and a famous inventor in campus, suffers the same problem with Lin.
Director of municipal committee of the China Communist Youth League pointed out that the enthusiasm of municipal college students for innovation and start-up booms and more works of innovation emerge. However, the average conversion rate of these patents is still low.
A channel needs to be built between colleges and enterprises for innovation.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 28 May 2013 08:26
The foreign trade promotion meeting of the 2013 Nanjing-Ningbo Week was staged on May 23. Ningbo’s import zone, exhibition and commodity were favored by Nanjing enterprises and supermarkets.
At the meeting, Qian Jiguang, Chief of the Ningbo import commodity exhibition and trade center, made an introduction on the location and trade advantage, rent and tax preferential policies. Some Nanjing enterprises expressed strong interest in the 2013 China Zhejiang import commodity fair to be held on June 8.
In addition, Ningbo Shipping Exchange which went into operation since September last year also attended the promotion meeting. Some middle and high-end shipping service agencies and departments including shipping companies, freight forwarding enterprises, foreign trade companies, shipping colleges, headhunting and consulting companies and maritime law companies participated in it actively.
It was learned that Nanjing port and Ningbo port started their friendship ever since 2006. Both of their management departments were co-sponsors of the joint session of the port management department of the Yangtze River Delta. Ningbo port Co., Ltd., leading enterprises of Ningbo port, has already made investment in Nanjing port and conducted joint transport between sea and river. Today, while both the two ports are planning to enlarge and enhance their services, they have a lot of “common language” with each other.
Read more: Ningbo Week Put on in Nanjing
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 28 May 2013 08:25
Ningbo Branch of the Import-Export Bank of China signed a strategic cooperation contract with the People’s Government of Yinzhou, planning to invest no less than 8 bln yuan to support Yinzhou’s key enterprises and enterprises that go global.
According to the contract, Yinzhou government will recommend and provide information about the eligible enterprises and going global projects to the bank. And the latter will provide privileged financing support to those enterprises. The projects now under examination and approval include: high and new technology products and apparatus, overseas investments contracted by enterprises, and foreign projects contracting etc.