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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 13 May 2013 10:03
According to Ningbo Municipal Economic Cooperation Office, the 2013 "Ningbo Week" activity will be held in Nanjing in late May. A series of activities including investment promotion, industrial docking and talent recruitment will be organized to further publicize Ningbo to attract businessmen of Zhejiang or Ningbo origin to return for investments.
Since the beginning of this year, in order to promote economic transformation and upgrading, Ningbo has increased contact with the outside businessmen of Zhejiang and Ningbo origin through a variety of ways. The city gives full play to their advantages in the capital, social relations and networks by providing platforms and improving services, and thus has gained great achievements in attracting investments from returned entrepreneurs. Statistics show that in the first quarter, Ningbo has newly introduced 34 returned projects with the actual funds of 2.896 billion yuan. The fund in place reaches 7.16 billion yuan (including 4.264 billion yuan from the 88 carry-over projects last year), up by 27.8% over the same period last year.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 13 May 2013 10:03
With the popularization of the 3G network and various application software, the mobile phone industry in Ningbo grows dramatically in 2013. Statistics from Ningbo Customs show that in the first quarter, Ningbo exported 688,000 mobile phones, up by 350% over the same period last year. With the total value of US$9.941 million, an increase of 93.4%, the average price of the mobile phones stood at US$14.4, down by 57.3%.
Reportedly, the major target markets for mobile phone export include India and Hong Kong, with the volume of 324,000 and 267,000 respectively, up by 1510% and 210% respectively over the same period last year. In addition, the number of exported mobile phones to the EU reached 96,000, up by 473.4 times. According to the statistics, the increasing competition in the market forced the mobile phone enterprises to adopt the low-price strategy to gain more international market shares, resulting in the significant drop of average prices of exported mobile phones.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 13 May 2013 10:03
During the May Day holiday, on the Ningbo site of Shanghai Volkswagen project, workers took the initiative to work hard for the early completion of the automobile city in the Hangzhou Bay New Zone.
On the site of the Shanghai Volkswagen Supplier Park, project vehicles, pile drivers and cranes were seen everywhere. After the settlement of the first 10 projects in June last year, the park started construction in September. Only six months later, four 20-meter high steel-structure factories are now standing on the site where it used to be a tideland with an area of 465 acres.
Not long ago, Ningbo Yifeng Automotive Components Co. Ltd. became the first enterprise to settle down in the Park. "We put into operation a thermoforming line and it has provided a number of automobile parts for the trial production of whole-vehicle project of Shanghai Volkswagen." said Zhou Guanting, Deputy General Manager of the company. The construction of the plant was started on September 7, and it took less than seven months to start the production line, three months earlier than the previous projects.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 13 May 2013 10:02
Recently, the State Council approved and announced the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units (with a total number of 1943) and those that are combined with the existing ones (with a total number of 47), of which nine new units and two combined ones are from Ningbo. So far, there have been 31 national key cultural relic protection units in Ningbo.
It is understood that the new units include such ancient relics as Tianluo Mountain relic in Yuyao County (dating back to the New Stone Age), Zishan Mountain relic in Yuyao County (dating back to the New Stone Age), Tashan Mountain relic in Xiangshan County (dating back from the New Stone Age to Zhou Dynasties) and the ancient barrack site of Hua'ao Island of Xiangshan County (dating back from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty), such ancient buildings as the Erling Pagoda in Yinzhou District (dating back to Song Dynasty) and the Ancient Lins' Mansion in Haishu District (dating back to Qing Dynasty), and such representative contemporary buildings as the ancient Jintang School site in Cixi County (dating back to 1909). In the meantime, the various coastal lighthouses (dating back to the ROC period) in Zhehai District, Beilun District , Xiangshan County and the Dinghai District of Zhoushan are collectively named "coastal lighthouses of eastern Zhejiang area", and the Ningbo section of the grand canal is collectively named as "Grand Canal" together with those sections in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Province, Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, Shandong Province and Henan Province (dating from the Spring and Autumn Period to the founding of the People's Republic of China).
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