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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:04
Customs statistics show that the Ningbo Free Trade Zone imported a total of US$ 39.83 million of food from January to November, a year-on-year increase of 6.2 percent. At least 70 percent of the imported food are reported to have entered the downtown markets of Ningbo.
Ningbo imported 7,169,000 liters of wines, worth US$ 38,490,000, 90, increased by 4.4 percent over the same period last year. The average import price was US$ 5.4 per liter, up 8 percent over the same period last year. The top three wine exporters are France, Spain and Chile, with a respective export volume of 3.703 million liters, l, 1.23 million liters and 686,000 liters, adding up to 78.4 percent of the total wine imports for the same period. Spain is the fastest-growing wine exporter to Ningbo, with an increase of 1.1 times over the same period last year. Ningbo imported 205,000 liters of beer, worth US$ 312,000, a year-on-year increase of 4.8 times and 4.3 times, respectively. The biggest exporter is Germany who exported a total of 193,000 liters to Ningbo, an increase of 6.8 times over the same period last year, accounting for 94 percent of the total beer imports over the same period.
In addition, Ningbo imported 175 tons of olive oil, valued at US$ 913,000, an increase of 62.3 percent and 74.1 percent, respectively. The top three olive exporters to Ningbo are Spain, Australia and Tunisia, with export volumes of 88.9 tons, 36 tons and 27 tons respectively. Olive imports from the three countries account for 86.8 percent of total import volume. Australia is the fastest growing olive exporter to Ningbo with an increase of 2.6 times over the same period last year. No imports from Tunisia were reported last year.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:04
Ningbo's Jiangbei District started to build the first 'smart halfway house' in Zhejiang Province on Monday. The effort aims to help people with disabilities toadjust to and reenter society after receiving medical treatment.
Aimed to assist the disabled to adapt family and social life, the halfway house serves as a rehabilitation agency with a home life experience center, an aids and equipments center, and an information service platform. It is reported that the halfway house will be located in the Ningbo Ninth Hospital with an area of480 square meters.
An official of Jiangbei District said that the halfway house distinguishes from others by an intelligent information service system, which offers intelligent information service by means of communications networks, intelligent call, Internet of Things (IOT) and other high-tech resources
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:03
Cixi's first high-quality elderly care demonstration project, Golden Heights Nursing Home, was dedicated on Monday. The project indicates that the government has successfully guided private capital into senior care industry. The nursing home will serve as a model for local nursing agencies and further strengthen Cixi's elderly care system.
"The keynote report to the 18th National Congress of the CPC pointed out that the policy makers should actively deal with the aging of the population and improve the elderly care services. In response to the report, Cixi government prioritized elderly care system improvement in an effort to benefit more elderly citizens," said a top official of Cixi municipal government.
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