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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:12
The Xiangshan Hilton hotel design conference was held March 13. Representatives from 11 well-known design companies gathered in Xiangshan, making design plans for the Xiangshan Hilton. Quan Shiyong, vice president of WATG and chief designer of the Xiangshan Hilton hotel and Deputy Magistrate of Xiangshan Qiu Jinyue attended the meeting.
The Xiangshan Hilton Hotel is the first Hilton Hotel & Resort Hotel in Ningbo, with a total construction area of 109,800 square meters, and a total investment of 1.1 billion Yuan. As one of the three renowned hotels to settle in the East China, the Xiangshan Hilton Hotel will be put into operation in 2014. The hotel has a health spring center, 316 sets of full sea view suites and Ningbo’s largest banquet hall with 1200 square meters. After its opening, the hotel will the second Hilton hotel which is run by its owner but managed internationally by Hilton Group just as the example of the Hilton Shanghai hotel.
When asked about the design philosophy, Quan Shiyong said that we should integrate Xiangshan’s unique sea scenery and culture into the design, making each corner a feeling of surprise
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:10
The production crew of CCTV made a trip to Beilun recently, to make an interview on Beilun’s construction of public rental housing by enterprises themselves.
Beilun is the first district in Zhejiang where migrant population exceeds the local population. The district pays high attention to the housing problems of migrant workers. In the recent years, Beilun government has put into great efforts to improve the housing security system with the building of public rental housing as its main part while investing funds in constructing low-renting houses. Last October, Beilun authority carried out the trial policy for the constructing public rental housing and firstly launched the construction of houses with enterprises’ capital, the act of which won appreciation from Zhejiang Provincial leaders.
In the two-day interview, CCTV interviewed Beilun officers who are in charge of the program, mainly centered on topics that where to arrange land resources and how to engage needy enterprises into this program etc. At the same time, they also made spot interview at the construction sites of Ningbo Steel Co., Ltd. and Shenzhou Knitting Co., Ltd
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:09
On the morning of March, 10th, residents and 99 enterprises, the largest number ever, signed agreements of “adoption” with the Ningbo Urban Greening Commission, Municipal Landscaping and Gardening Bureau and the Chengguan Bureaus of the six districts to get their protection share of 250 hectares of green land and 2,324 trees. Residents brought children with them to attend the signing ceremony at Zhongshan Square, hoping that they could learn to protect green land and trees.
It was learned from the Municipal Gardening Bureau that as a major model for protecting the green, Ningbo started the practice of cooperating with enterprises to protect the green in 2004. At that time, only 16 enterprises participated and 21 hectares of green land was adopted. In 2009, 160 hectare of green land found protectors of 60 enterprises and in 2011, 227 hectare of green land were claimed for protection by residents and 92 enterprises
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:09
The city’s PPI in February dropped by 0.76% over the same period last year, and climbed by 0.43% as against the previous month, according to a survey released on March 12.
Analysts say that this trend is attributed to two factors: the high base price last year and the rise of prices of product oil and non-ferrous metals.