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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:31
Ningbo Customs said on February 6th that since China-ASEAN Free Trade Area was initiated three years ago, trade between Ningbo and this region has grown steadily. ASEAN has become the third largest trading partner of Ningbo Port, only behind the US and the EU.
Since the free trade area came into effect on January 1st, 2010, 90% of the products between China and the 6 old members of ASEAN including Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore have been levied zero tariffs.
As the US and European economy is sluggish and the traditional export market is bleak, newly emerging markets have been thriving. And ASEAN, whose over 7000 products are tariff-free, has attracted the eyeballs of many Ningbo enterprises.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:30
The 3250-meter-long Jinhai Tunnel, located in Chunhu Town, Fenghua, is the longest tunnel in Ningbo. It was started in March, 2011 and opened to traffic on February 7th this year. Thanks to this tunnel, the driving distance between downtown Fenghua and Qiucun, Song'ao was shortened by 20km, reducing the driving time by nearly half an hour.
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:29
As Spring Festival is around the corner, have you “heard” or “smelt” it? Several days ago, Beilun Cultural Center held a fresh and creative activity of volunteers sending their good wishes to the aged in nursing homes with paper-cuts for window decoration. This aroused their old feelings toward the lunar New Year. Those paper-cuts were in the shape of five-peaches which represent longevity, Chinese character “Fu” in various kinds and so on. Seeing all these, Mrs Yang, who is nearly eighty, said with a big smile that: “we no longer worry about food or clothes. We care more about spiritual fulfillment, and now all the feelings about the New Year in my memory spring up again.”
“Spring Festival atmosphere comes from not only adequate materials, but also rich culture.” said head of Publicity Department of Beilun. In order to keep the traditional Spring Festival atmosphere, Beilun has organized a series of new spring cultural activities to benefit the people since New Year’s Day. They elaborately “braised” colorful cultural goods for Spring Festival, encouraged more citizens to go out from their homes, leaving drinking, cards and mahjong behind to have a “cultural new year” and promote traditional Chinese culture.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:24
According to the latest statistics, export of Zhenhai district reached 3.1 billion US dollars, up by 8.02% over the year before. The increase rate ranked No.1 among eleven districts (cities) and three development zones, which surpassed the municipal and provincial increase rate by 7 percentage points and 4 percentage points respectively.
Technological innovation and brand construction are the shining points for Zhenhai to further improve its market competitiveness of export products. In 2012, some key enterprises such as Ningbo ALPS Electric Co.Ltd., depend on technology innovation and high-tech technology force, realized huge increase on export. It is estimated that in 2012, export of high-tech products in Zhenhai reached 210 million US dollars, which increased by 59.93% compared with last year and occupied 6.8% of total export of this district.
Faced with unfavorable situations for export, Zhenhai district optimized its working mechanism, strengthened the policy guidance, accelerated project construction of the service sector, advanced comprehensive experiment units’ reform on tertiary industry, expanded business and capital introduction and service-oriented enterprises cultivation, which boosted service-oriented economy. According to the statistics, the added value of the service industry in Zhenhai reached 13.3 billon yuan, up by 13.7% over last year. The increase rate ranked No.1 in Ningbo, higher than the municipal average by 2.8 percentage points.