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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:06
The Ningbo Branch of Standard Chartered Bank (China) recently entered the online financing platform for Ningbo foreign trade enterprises, being the first foreign bank member of the platform. According to the statistics from Ningbo Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation Bureau, the platform has so far taken in 19000 foreign trade enterprises as corporate members and attracted 272 financing service agencies, and in last year it managed to realize the financing matching with the value of 1.28 billion yuan.
The online financing platform for foreign trade enterprises was jointly established by Ningbo Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation Bureau and Ningbo Center Branch of People's Bank of China. All foreign trade enterprises and financial institutions in Ningbo can become platform users upon free application. It is learned that all users can not only inquire about related financing information through the platform but also submit or undertake financing demands and take out the import and export credit insurance. In 2011, the platform received 152 financing demands from enterprises with a total value of 1.54 billion yuan, and the accomplished value for financing matching reached to 1.28 billion yuan
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Category: Expo 2010 Shanghai
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Published: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:05
The Ningbo Tourism Administration announced the launch of the Ningbo Ningbo Incentive Travel Promotion Center (Beijing) on the afternoon of February 7.
This was a move to cut a larger slice of the conference and incentive travel business across the country.
It is learned that the conference and incentive travel market consist of two parts: conferencing and incentive traveling, which is highly professional, boasting great potentials. It is famed as a golden market by tourism insiders. The Ningbo Tourism Administration says Ningbo boasts premium resources and facilities for the incentive travel business and that the prices are quite competitive.
The promotion center is the first of the kind Ningbo has ever set up outside the city, according to the Administration. For the next move, they will initiate similar promotions in Shanghai and other cities.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:03
Last year, the total retail sales value of social consumer goods in Beilun District has reached 10.55 billion yuan, 19.4% more than that of the year before, ranking the top of Ningbo.
According to the general plan of “triple downtowns”, Beilun combined remodeling with new construction to accelerate the development of business districts, especially those regional consumption centers such as the shopping center in the central downtown, the commercial plaza in Binhai New Area and the commercial center in Binjiang New Area. High-grade centers for shopping, catering and leisure has been built and key projects such as New World Department Store, Howard Gohnson Hotel, World Trade Five-star Hotel and Housing International Home Plaza have been introduced. New business area reached 100 thousand square meters, providing a favorable consumption environment.
According to statistics, of the total retail sales value of social consumer goods, wholesale, retail sale and catering industry cover 0.87 billion yuan, 8.51billion yuan and 1.01 billion yuan respectively, an increase of 66.8%, 16.8% and 15.9%
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:02
The air quality in the urban area of Ningbo will be greatly improved in the near future as some of the buses, taxies, port container trucks are expected to use natural gas rather than petrol as fuel as required by the city government in the Gas-for-Petrol Scheme of Buses, Taxis, Container Trucks in the Urban Area which was released a couple of days ago.
According to the Scheme, by the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan there will be 2500 natural gas buses in the urban area, to account for half of the total, with around 10 supporting service stations. There will be 3500 dual-fueled taxis (petrol and natural gas), accounting for 70% of the total, with 15 to 20 service stations providing two fuels. There will be 500 container trucks using natural gas, accounting for 40% of the total in Ningbo Port, with 3 to 4 service stations providing LNG.
Currently, there are over one million motor vehicles in the city. Emissions by vehicles are responsible for 30% of the air pollutants in Ningbo among which the most frequently used buses and taxis account for nearly a half. All of these constitute a major threat to the quality of the air. It is indicated that emissions of various toxic gases can be reduced by 85%, noise by 40% if natural gas is used. Also, the cost of this fuel is lower than petrol. Natural-gas-fueled buses and taxis are widely seen in cities of Chengdu, Chongqing and Xi'an.
The scheme will be carried out in six districts in Ningbo step by step. The rest places can make some adjustments with a reference to their own situations.
According to the scheme, targeted vehicles for natural gas are buses, taxis and port container trucks in the urban area. LNG( liquefied natural gas) is more suitable for container trucks and passenger buses with heavy weight, big displacement and long-distance drive. CNG (compressed natural gas) is more suitable for cars, taxis and buses. Taking these elements into consideration, buses are expected to rely on both LNG and CNG, taxis on CNG and port container trucks on LNG only.
In response to those changes in vehicle fuels, the construction of LNG, CNG or L-CNG stations will be added to laying-out of bus stations. CNG stations or LNG-and-Petrol stations will be added to urban planning and LNG station added to ports. Presently, the construction of city natural gas station has already been started.