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Category: Health News
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Published: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:37
The seasonal influenza is less harsh that the previous year, said Ningbo City Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this Tuesday.
According to Yi Bo, director of CDC's Department of Communicable Disease Prevention, Ningbo's hospitals at municipal-level received more outpatients with upper respiratory tract infections in recent days, but the number is below the level of the same period in 2012. The monitored hospitals received a daily average of 600 flu patients recently. The number usually fluctuates between 400 to 600 while it reached 1,200 during the peak period last year.
Data released by influenza surveillance stations show that the number of patients with influenza symptoms does not increase over the same period in the previous two years. The CDC so far hasn't discovered influenza virus from the specimens of influenza yet.
The local CDC suggested the public, particularly the elderly and children, keeping their houses well ventilated and avoiding crowd whenever possible during the flu season. The CDC also urged children, the elderly and medical workers to get vaccinated for the upcoming flu season
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:36
Statistics from Ningbo Airport show that it handled 5,267,000 inbound and outbound passengers and 44,900 aircraft movements in 2012, a year-on-year growth of 5.1 percent and 2 percent respectively.
In 2012, the Ningbo Airport opened flight routes to Yinchuan, Hohhot, Guilin, Zhuhai, and Fuyang, and restored the once-suspended routes to Harbin, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, and Zhangjiajie. In addition to the existing routes to Singapore, Cheju, Siem Reap, and Bangkok, the airport also opened up international routes to Seoul and Phuket. Currently, the airport is negotiating with a number of international airline companies on the opening of freight routes to Japan, the United States, Mexico and other countries.
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:36
With the Spring Festival drawing near, local businesses owners in Shanxia Sub-district of Beilun District, together with their chiefs of the trade unions, went to Ningbo East Railway Station and booked group train tickets for their migrant workers for the coming Spring Festival.
It is reported that Shanxia Sub-district has 137 companies employing more than 10,000 migrant workers. Every year the migrant workers would face the difficulty of buying train tickets for Spring Festival travel. Now, the community and trade union will put joint efforts to give a hand for migrant workers in buying train tickets. The considerate move made many migrant employees feel warm.
Over a hundred local companies in the sub-district has collected ticket information of their migrant employees and assigned a different number of tickets booking tasks to their managing staff. The related personnel timely informed their workers of the ticket booking information through QQ and microblogs. They will strive to make it convenient for migrant workers to get tickets during the coming Spring Festival.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:36
Ningbo exported 3,275 batch of cosmetics (37,200 tons) in 2012, worth US$57,191,000 (equivalent to over 350 million yuan), up 8.95 percent, 31.70 percent and 21.03 percent on year-on-year basis. The products are exported to 78 countries and regions. The top importers (over US$1million) are the United States, the United Kingdom, China's Hong Kong, Australia, Brazil and Canada, with total importing volume accounting for 63.70 percent of the total figure.
In the face of the negative impact of the global economic slowdown in recent years, Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau took a series of measures to help local cosmetics exporters to secure more orders amid the gloomy global market. Through field research, they helped local exporters to discover problems and weakness in the inspection and supervision section. By stepping up regulations on the inspection and quarantine of exporting cosmetics, Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau offered training programs for the inspecting departments in local companies. They required registration of export of cosmetics production enterprises and carry out s risk factor surveillance to export cosmetics, and strengthen inspection and quarantine on the raw material of cosmetics manufacturers. They also offered training to working staff in the companies. These measures were proved effective in enhancing the sense of responsibility and management level. After four years of effort, Ningbo's cosmetics export saw the momentum of rapid growth. The exporting volume soared from US$10 million in 2009 to over US$5700 million in 2012.