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Category: Charity Ningbo
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Published: Monday, 05 March 2012 09:49
Ningbo Charity Federation recently started the election of Ningbo Top 10 Charity Stars" and "Ningbo Top 10 Charity Enterprises". In May, the federation will host an activity called the One-day Charity Donation and will commend the stars to be elected.
The candidates for the stars will be those individuals and enterprises that made outstanding contributions to the charity cause in Ningbo between January 2010 and December 2011. The qualified individual candidate should be one who has donated at least 2 million yuan to the charity cause and who is well received by the people. Qualified candidates also include those individuals who are very charitable and persistent in donating and volunteering services with moving deeds and great social influence.
The qualified candidates for the top 10 enterprises should be those trustworthy enterprises that have strong social responsibility, donating over 4 million yuan to the charity cause and making active contribution to the charity cause of Ningbo
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 05 March 2012 09:48
On February 27, a meeting was held in Great Hall of the People in Beijing to commending model units and individuals of the "two supports" (those that make great contribution to the solidarity between the military and the government and between the military and civilians). Before the meeting, Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of P.R.C and Chairmen of the Central Military Commission, met with the all the attendants.
Wen Jiabao, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Prime Minister of the State Council, spoke at the meeting. Xi Jinping, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Vice President of P.R.C and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, met with the attendants and attended the meeting.
At the meeting, Ningbo was honored as a "National Model City of ‘Two Supports'", the sixth time it won the honor since 1994. At the meeting, Xiangshan County, for successively the fourth time, was entitled "National Model County of the "Two Supports".
In recent years, the party committees and governments of all levels of Ningbo have always persisted on supporting the national defense and army and worked actively to explore the way for strengthening the solidarity between the military and the government and between the military and civilians. In doing so, the city has mobilized all grass-roots units of towns, communities, villages, government departments and private enterprises and so on for the work of the two supports. At present, the city over 80 "pairs of the army and civilian unit" and 70% of them have been honored as advanced units
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Monday, 05 March 2012 09:47
According to Yuyao Branch of the People's Bank of China, in the last year, the banking institutions in Ningbo further strengthened their services to the real economic bodies. In the squeezing macro economic situation, they made great efforts to support middle and minor enterprises and contributed to the stable and healthy development of the local economy. By the end of December 2011, the balance of domestic and foreign currency loans of Yuyao amounts to 95.86 billion yuan, 11.89 billion yuan more than the beginning of the year. Of the total, the balance of loans to small and medium-sized enterprises reaches 66.41 billion yuan, 8.44 billion yuan more than the beginning of the year. The total of loans to small enterprises accounts for over two thirds of the total of loans.
In the last year, Yuyao issued "Notice on Improving Financial Services for Middle and Small Enterprises", which provided a policy support for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. In the meanwhile, the city took a series of actions to create a good environment for the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises.
All the financial institutions strengthened the support to the emerging industries. So far, 41 key scientific and technological programs of the city have got loans from the banks, which add up to 5.3 billion yuan. By the end of last year, the balance of loans reached 3.8 billion yuan, increased by 32% above the same period of the previous year, 16.26 points above the average growth rate of loans in the city
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:31
Wang Shu, a Chinese architect known for his ancient-meets-modern designs, is the latest winner of the 2012
Pritzker Architecture Prize, according to Architectural Record.
He is the first Chinese recipient to receive the award--a bronze medal and $100,000.
Wang, 48, launched his architecture firm, Amateur Architecture Studio, with his wife in 1998 in Hangzhou. He
has a master's in architecture from the Nanjing Institute of Technology, and has been the head of the department of architecture at the China Academy of Art since 2000.
His most recognizable works include the Ningbo History Museum (2008), Ceramic House in Jinhua (2006), the Xiangshan Campus at the China Academy of Art (2004, 2007), and the Vertical Courtyard Apartments in Hangzhou (2007).
The Pritzker Prize, which is sponsored by The Hyatt Foundation, was founded in 1979 to honor living architects with talent and vision. The award ceremony this year will take place in Beijing on May 25.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wang-shu-winner-of-the-pritzker-architecture-prize-2012-2#ixzz1nfQi1hcp
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[Wang Shu / Amateur Architecture Studio's Ningbo Historical Museum, Ningbo, China, 2009. Photos © Evan Chakroff ]
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