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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:21
On February 18, MAERSK EDISON, a ship carrying 13102 teus, called Ningbo Daxie China Merchants International Container Terminal. There it unloaded 7,575 TEUs and loaded 568 TEUs. It is the first ship of Maersk that calls Daxie Port, indicating that the AE20 line of Maersk was officially open in Ningbo Daxie China Merchants International Container Terminal. This line will considerably promote the shipping business of Daxie. MAERSK EDISON, of the UK, 141,649 in tonnage, is one of the largest container ships of Maersk.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:20
Statistics of Ningbo Customs show that in January this year, Ningbo's trade to LAS slightly reaches 2.11 billion US dollars, reduced by 1.6% against the same period in the previous year, and covering 11.8% of the total amount of foreign trade via Ningbo Customs. Of the total, the import from LAS is 860 million dollars, reduced by 18.4% against the same period in the previous year; the export 1.25 billion US dollars, increased by 14.8% above the same period of the previous year.
Reportedly, in the month, the imported goods from LAS are mainly oil, liquid chemicals and plastic materials, valuing 680 million, 130 million and 40 million US dollars, dropping by 15.1%, 31.4% and 31.4% respectively against the same period in the previous year. The exported goods are mainly clothes, mechanical and electrical products and shoes, valuing 520 million, 470 million and 50 million US dollars, with the first two rising by 31.2% and 1.06 respectively and the last falling by 3.2%.
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Category: Tourist Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:19
Recently, the list of "2011 national garden cities, counties and towns" was released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development, and Ninghai County ranked among the national garden counties.
In 2007, Ninghai County Party Committee and Ninghai County Government made it an objective to build the national garden county. By the end of 2011, the green coverage had reached 40.1% and the green space area per capita reached 12.6 square meters. The green coverage rate and the compliance rate for urban roads stood at 100% and 83.3% respectively, and the main road green belt area accounted for 29.1% of the total area of the roads.
This year, Ninghai County is to strengthen the construction of major ecological projects, build eight national ecological villages, complete the green area of over 10,000 acres and build 35 forest villages
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Category: On The Campus
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Published: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:18
News came from Ningbo Public Health Conference held on February 21 that in 2012 the overall construction of emergency system will be carried out and the construction of provincial health emergency demonstration counties will be started throughout the city.
In June 2011, the on-site promoting meeting for constructing health emergency demonstration counties was held in Cixi County, and afterwards, Haishu District and Zhenhai District launched the construction of health emergency demonstration counties. So far, Jiangdong District, Jiangbei District, Yuyao County, Fenghua County, Ninghai County and Xiangshan County have all applied as the pilot units for the third round of constructing demonstration counties.
In accordance with the overall requirement of Ningbo Government to establish Ningbo Comprehensive Emergency Rescue Team, five municipal health emergency squadrons, including prevention and control of infectious diseases, poison control, first aid, medical rescue and psychological crisis intervention, have been founded. Meanwhile, such campaigns as major infectious diseases surveillance, food security risk surveillance and network medial public opinion surveillance have been launched systematically, which makes it possible to publish timely alerts and provide references for scientific decision making by early detection of abnormalities and symptoms of trouble. For year, in May last year, the surveillance system played an important role in the early detection and cause investigation of a communitive diarrhea event caused by mussel shellfish. Statistics show that in 2011, the whole city successfully handled 10 emergent public health events.
In 2012, to improve the health emergency capacity, Ningbo is to make efforts to strengthen the overall basic health emergency system construction. Meanwhile, the emergency professionals including disease prevention and control, health monitoring, medical rescue and psychological crisis intervention will be enriched and trained further. Relied on the public health emergency commanding system, the city will attach great importance to the research and development of the infectious diseases surveillance and alert system based on diagnosis and treatment information from medical institutions, aiming at the early detection and report of emergent events and the improvement of the surveillance and alert capacity