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Awarding Ceremony of Chinese Kindness and Filiality Festival held

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:33

On the evening of September 28, the awarding ceremony of the 3rd Chinese Kindness and Filiality Festival opened in Ningbo Grand Theatre.

Wang Huizhong, Member of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, announced the opening of the Festival.

At the ceremony, Song Wei, Member of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, and Director of Publicity Department of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, said, the culture of kindness and filiality is an important part of the traditional Chinese culture, and a mental tie of the Chinese home and abroad. In recent years, Jiangbei District has made great efforts to promote this culture and substantially promoted its regional influence. At present, Chinese Kindness and Filiality Festival has become a great event for the traditional culture and a platform for economic and cultural cooperation.

At the awarding ceremony, Jiangbei District Fund of Kindness and Filiality, a fund of 50 million yuan, was officially established. This fund is divided into 21 special sub-funds, aiming to help the poverty-stricken people in Jiangbei District and other public welfare projects.

Ningbo to cooperate with Nottingham University

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Category: On The Campus
Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:31

On September 27, on behalf of Ningbo Municipal Government, Yu Hongyi, Member of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor of Ningbo, signed a memo of scientific and technological cooperation with Nottingham University. According to the memo, the two parties should establish a coordinating group of scientific and technological cooperation for the promotion of innovation and industrialization of scientific and technological results.

According to the memo, From 2011 to 2015, Nottingham University shall establish a technological transfer institution in Ningbo, which should be committed to recommend and transfer promising scientific and technological projects to enterprises in Ningbo.

In addition, according to the agreement signed before, Ningbo Municipal Government and Nottingham University should speed up the establishment of the "International Creativity Center of Doctors" and the United NMR Laboratory. The International Creativity Center of Doctors shall be jointly invested by Ningbo Education Commission, Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology, Ningbo Nottingham University and UK Nottingham University, which should invest 170 million yuan in the coming 6 years. The center aims to bring up 100 creativity-oriented talents with international perspectives.

According an authority of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology, the memo says that the two parties should establish a coordinating group of scientific and technological cooperation as a coordinator of routine affairs and decision making. In the near future, the two parties should work together in such fields as digital economy, marine technology, energy technology, manufacturing and environment technology.

Ningbo gives priority to quality

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:27

Ningbo recently released "Measures on Ensuring Quality for the Future Development of Ningbo". The documents decides that the city should stick to the strategy of intellectual property rights, the strategy of standardization, the strategy of brands and the strategy of management and that it should establish a quality guarantee system, a quality technological support system, a quality credit system and a quality assessment system. It says that the city should give priority to quality in such aspects as products, construction projects, services and environment. With all these measures, Ningbo should attach greater importance to the quality of development so as to turn itself from a city powerful in manufacturing to a city powerful in quality.

According to the Measures, by 2015, the acceptance rate of the Ningbo-made in national quality checks should be among the highest in the country, and the rate in checks by the municipal-level sampling checks should be above 90%. To be specific, the Ningbo-made food, drugs and agricultural products should be above 98%, 95% and 96% respectively. The rate of adopting international standards in large enterprises should be over 80%, and over 40% of enterprises should have quality and environment certificates.

By 2015, the environment should be distinctly improved. To be specific, the reaching standard rate of drinking water resources should be 100%, that of water quality in water functional areas above 70%, and that of air quality above 90%. With regard to the ecological environment, Ningbo should be among the best in China, meeting the standard as a national-level ecological city.

Ningbo to build a highest skyscraper of Zhejiang

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Category: Ningbo News
Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:24

According to the news conference of Firs Group held on September 23, Firs Group and Itochu Cooperation will jointly invest 9.7 billion yuan on a 400-m high building "Ningbo Center" in the core area of the Eastern New Town of Ningbo. The building is expected to complete in 2017. The Ningbo Center is to be the highest building in Zhejiang.

Reportedly, Ningbo Center will be a house for modern international shopping centers, super five-star hotels, high-end offices and all-service apartments.

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