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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 02 April 2013 10:13
Shenzhen-Ningbo Economy Promotion Association (Chamber of Commerce), founded in 1993, has more than 400 members so far. Since its establishment, with the core concept of integrity, practicality, openness and innovation, it has been making efforts to unite the businessmen and people in other walks of life of Ningbo origin to make great contribution to the economic and social development of Shenzhen. In the past few years, the chamber has organized its members to make contributions to their hometown. In 2012, a total investment with the value of one billion yuan was made by the chamber as a support for Ningbo's development.
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Category: On The Campus
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Published: Tuesday, 02 April 2013 10:12
In the following years, Ningbo will cooperate with famous overseas universities to build four Sino-foreign cooperative colleges in the city.
As is planned, Ningbo University will cooperate with such famous overseas universities as the University of Wisconsin to establish an international joint graduate school, with the aim of educating high-level international talents and achieving joint technological research and development. The initial construction of the school will be completed at the beginning of 2014, and it will enroll 500 students, with over 20% of them being foreign students.
Ningbo University of Technology will cooperate with Tongji University and a German university to establish the Sino-German Automobile College, providing such undergraduate courses as vehicle engineering and automobile services. Zhejiang Textile & Fashion College will cooperate with a British university to establish a Sino-British Fashion College, providing such undergraduate courses as fashion design and cooperating with related enterprises to cultivate internationalized talents and develop technologies.
Meanwhile, based on the TAFE College, co-established by Ningbo City College of Vocational Technology, Ningbo Foreign Affairs School and TAFE College in Sydney, Australia, the Ningbo International Vocational College, with an integration of high-school education and vocational education, will be established to perfect the modern vocational education system up to the international standard. It is reported that the college will be put into use in early 2015, with 2000 students enrolled.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 02 April 2013 10:11
Ningbo, a city dominated by open economy, releases its new round of open-economy goals at the beginning of each year.
At the municipal export-oriented economy working conference held on March 27, the municipal government published the "Government's proposal on speeding up the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade services and building the modern international port city" (hereinafter referred to as the proposal) and proposed that by 2016, the volume of imports and exports via Ningbo Port will reach US$ 320 billion, with US$150 billion being self-managed import-export volume.
According to the proposal, to achieve a better balance between exports and imports, Ningbo will actively develop the import trade while further maintaining and expanding exports. By strengthening the promoting role of imports to the economic balance and structural adjustment, Ningbo will enhance the cultivation of import bodies and carriers, and make the city one of the most important import ports in China. By 2016, the development of the import trade will be accelerated, and the import volume will account for 40% of the city's total foreign trade volume.
In the following years, Ningbo Bonded Zone, already chosen as a national demonstration area for import-driven innovations, will play a more important role in promoting the development of import trade in Ningbo.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 02 April 2013 10:10
It is learned on March 26 from Ningbo Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-rural Development that in 2013 Ningbo will start the building of the affordable housing projects with an area of 1.001 million square meters, and complete the construction of the affordable houses with a total area of 1.1695 million square meters. 8250 sets of affordable houses will be available in market for renting or sale.
So far, the commission has set the target of the construction of the affordable housing. By further improving the system of mainly composed of the public leasing housing and supplemented by other supporting policies, and making clear the existing amount and target amount of the public leasing housing, cheap rent housing, and the placement housing for transformed old housing, the city has set the target for the five-year housing improvement plan and the annual improvement plan, scheduled to achieve the improvement of 25% of the recorded dangerous houses.
Specifically speaking, in Haishu District, the construction of 500 sets of public leasing housing will be completed, and 200 sets of affordable housing will be completed, with 700 sets of public leasing housing for renting and 500 sets of affordable housing for sale. In Jiangdong District, 432 sets of affordable housing will be completed, with 670 sets of public leasing housing for renting and 400 sets of affordable housing for sale. In Jiangbei District, 300 sets of public leasing housing will be put under construction, and 2000 sets of affordable housing will be completed, with 1000 affordable houses for renting.