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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 29 October 2012 08:57
The 16th Ningbo International Fashion Festival was commenced on Oct, 25. The organizing committee held a press conference the day before and announced the top ten economic and cultural activities on the festival.
Themed at “innovative Ningbo, stylish orient”, the 16th festival is aimed at promoting the research and design abilities of Ningbo’s fashion industry, enlarging marketing channels, raising Ningbo’s market share at the garment market, and promoting industrial transformation and upgrading as well as helping convert Ningbo’s industrial scale into industrial strength. Abiding by the principles of serving fashion industry’s development via this festival, the organizing committee designed the top ten activities.
As the key part of the festival, the 16th Ningbo International Fashion Fair (Iffair) occupies 6 halls of the NICEC with 2,000 booths in total, fifty percent of which are taken up by Ningbo’s local brands and companies, another 25 percent being domestic brands while the last 25 percent being international brands. The fair has also invited 8,500 buyers from home and abroad as well as 100 important trade commissions. In addition, there will be 14 fashion shows and another five shows for rising fashion designers.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 29 October 2012 08:57
Data from the 112th Canton Fair showed that buyers from Russia increased significantly despite of the decreasing total number of the purchasers on the fair caused by the depressing world economy. Experts argued that emerging markets like Russia had become the new profiting land for made-in-china commodities.
Statistics showed that a total of 5,717 Russians checked in on the fair till Oct, 23. In phase one, 4,753 Russian purchasers attended the fair, increasing by 6.64 percent against the same period of the previous time, while the total number of buyers for Phase I dropped off 11.44 percent.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 29 October 2012 08:56
Pingxiang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd Ningbo Branch, one of China Foreign Trade Enterprises Top 500 donated 10,000 yuan to Ningbo Enmei Welfare Center to improve children’s living and learning conditions on Oct 23. The money was originally planned for the company’s tenth anniversary.
Pingxiang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd Ningbo Branch is a great achievement of Ningbo’s attracting investment efforts. In 2002, the company’s headquarters in Hong Kong set up its first branch in mainland in Ningbo’s free trade area. Since then, the Ningbo branch has developed itself into a company with a chain of international trade, finance, logistics, storage and shipping as well as purchasing and selling in a unity relying on its main business of raw iron and steel materials.
Over the past decade, the company has been granted many awards such as Ningbo’s top 100 tax-paying enterprises etc. In 2011, the company imported more than 10 million tones of iron ores and supplied enough materials to iron and steel countries. The annual sales volume broke the threshold of 10 bln yuan, among which import trade volume accounted for 1.1 bln yuan. It ranked the 293rd place in the list of China Foreign Trade Enterprises Top 500, the fourth higher place among all the Ningbo companies on the list.
The manager of the company said that it would keep developing its import-oriented international industrial train and contribute more to the development of Ningbo’s marine economy from this year on.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Monday, 29 October 2012 08:56
It was learned from the Government of Haishu on October 23 that government-invested projects with a total budget of 30 million Yuan or more were to be brought into the scope of audit, the first case carried out in Zhejiang Province.
According to a newly issued regulation, three kinds of government-invested projects should be brought into the scope of audit, including the ones with a total budget of 30 million Yuan or more, the ones has already been included in the annual audit plan or temporary increased projects proved by superior government. The audit covers the area of the level and qualification of the design unit, design plan, drawing, alteration and charge.
A special audit team was set up by the Audit Bureau of Haishu to ensure a more professional and scientific audit work. The team invited several design experts excelling in areas of construction, structure, electricity and water supply and landscape. In the first half of this year, the audit team audited 4 pilot projects and saved governmental investment for 12.87 million Yuan. Next, it will audit 3 projects with a total investment of 4.8 billion Yuan.