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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:51
In this good season of spring, the citizen of Beilun District are very enthusiastic to plant trees. From this month, the district has organized various programs for voluntary tree planting and the citizens are encouraged to plant trees for better life.
According to the plan, by 2015, the district will basically have built an afforestation network. In 2012, the district passed the acceptance check as a provincial forest city. In 2013, the district will put 450 million yun in the construction of the green web that is as much as 3 million sq meters. This plan is met with enthusiastic response from all circles of the society. Beilun Forest Fund and Beilun Carbon Stock Fund, two public welfare funds, were established in 2011. Since then, they have received donations of over 40 million yuan from over 40 enterprises in the district. 7 enterprises have agreed to undertake afforestation projects of 156,000 sq meters, involving investment of 21,500,000 yuan.
“To mobilize the society to participate in the construction of the green web not only effectively expand the financing channels but also raise the environmental awareness of the public,” said Liu Xinhua, director of the leading group of the green web construction of Beilun. The diversified investment mechanism has made initial results. In recent three years, the district has put in 22 million yuan as subsidies for the village and township funded afforestation projects, which add up to 50 million yuan. The enthusiasm of the citizen of Beilun District to plant trees keeps rising. The donations by Haitian Company, Tenglong Company, Qiuguan Company and Ridi Company add up to 7.3 million yuan for green belts of 80,000 sq meters.
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:51
According to a meeting on the work of tourism, the project of the "three-river-and-six-bank" waterside recreational belt will start this year in an overall way. The project of the "three-river-and-six-bank" waterside recreational belt aims to link all the scenic spots on the Yuyao River, the Fenghua River and the Yongjiang River.
In addition, the city will start the making of the Plan for the Development of Recreational Streets of Ningbo to further upgrade a number of historic streets including the Drum Tower and Town's God Temple. It will start the construction of a number of recreational projects including the 2nd phase of Nantang Old Street and Lianqiao Street. The construction of business and recreational district of Laowaitan will be started. Yuehu Shengyuan Shopping Center and the boating service program will be upgraded.
According to a related authority of Ningbo Municipal Tourist Administration, in 2012 Ningbo ranks the 2nd position in terms of the indexes of the tourism industry in Zhejiang, the 6th place of the 15 quasi-provincial cities in China for the total income in tourist. The total investment for the 98 tourism projects reaches 124.289 billion yuan. The investment completed in 2012 in these projects amounts to 11.551 billion yuan, covering 4% of the total social investment in fixed assets.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:50
In recent years, the hi-tech enterprises in Zhenhai District are developing rapidly, becoming leaders in the regional economic transformation and upgrading. The district pays great attention to the role that the hi-tech enterprises play in promoting the regional scientific innovation. On the base of the "Detailed Rules on Accelerating Scientific Innovation", the district has released 8 documents of auxiliary policies for the promotion of regional innovation capacity.
Statistics show that in 2012, the district increased 14 hi-tech enterprises, and the total added up to 53. The output of the hi-tech industries of the district amounts 32.11 billion yuan, covering about 38.7% of the total output of the large industrial enterprises of the district. Scientific and technological innovation has become an important way for the industrial restructuring and upgrading.
"Though our output in 2012 is less than 2011, our profit increased by 1/3," said Zhu Hongguo, General Manager of Ningbo Xinhong Hydraulic Co., Ltd. Ningbo Xinhong Hydraulic Co., Ltd wad approved to be a national-level hi-tech enterprise in the last year. The company has only 80 employees and about one fourth of them are engaged in R&D. Since 2010 the company has worked to turn itself into a hi-tech enterprise and now it has over 30 patents. At present, the company is applying for the support of the national scientific innovation fund of SMEs for its CA hydraulic motor project.
The district is going to implement the "236 science navigator project" and the "100 high and new enterprise project, to give greater support to the hi-tech industries and enterprises
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:50
Ningbo will build a safety traceability system of wholesale meat and vegetables that cover all the 100 circulation nodes in all the 9 types of vegetable markets and standard vegetable markets. According to the meeting on the vegetable basket project, apart from adequate supply in the market, in 2013 Ningbo will take various measures to ensure the food safety for the public health of the citizens.
The control of the circulation of meat and vegetables is an important part for the food safety. From 2011, Ningbo took the lead in China to construction the food safety traceability system. So far the system has covered over 200 circulation nodes. In 2013, Ningbo Municipal Government takes the construction of the traceability system as one of the serving-the-people programs. It will have the food safety traceability system cover 100 circulation nodes in the live pig butchering factories, wholesale vegetable markets, supermarkets, vegetable logistic companies, and municipal-level food basket bases.
Related statistics show that in 2012 the city made persistent pesticide tests of 109 samples of vegetables, and the acceptance rate reaches 99.6%. It made clenobuterol hydrochloride tests of 24,000 samples of live pigs, and the acceptance rate reaches 99.9%. After the "100 day meat safety program" organized by Zhejiang Provincial Government, the rate of designated butchering in urban areas reaches 100%. The rate in rural area reaches 95%.