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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 03 December 2012 09:10
On November 26, at the 3rd Bamboo Township Leisure Festival held in Shaoxing, Ninghai County and Fenghua County signed a tourist cooperation agreement with the tourism bureau of Xinchang County of Shaoxing, symbolizing the beginning of the practice of the joint "package countryside leisure tour" to promote the regional tourism development.
At the launching ceremony that day, three towns and four scenic areas from the three counties reached agreements. Specifically speaking, the three towns are Shenzhen Town of Ninghai County with its forest spring attractions, Happy Valley Skiing Resort and ancient streets, Dayan Town of Fenghua County with the health care center, the flower-watching and photographing base and the mountaineering and camping base, and Qiaoying Town of Xinchang County with its famous "ten scenic spots".
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 03 December 2012 09:10
It is learned from Ningbo Trade Bureau on November 27 that in the first ten months this year, the accumulated volume of retail sales of social consumer goods in Ningbo reached 98.46 billion yuan, up by 11.6% over the same period last year, and the volume of October reached 10.22 billion yuan, up by 7.9%. Under the influence of the gloomy macro-economic environment, the growth of retail sales of social consumer goods has slowed down. However, after about one year's structural adjustment, the consumption structure has improved significantly and the sales have shown a trend of stable rising.
In October, after nearly one year's adjustment, as well as the flourishing of housing and wedding market in the second half of the year, the sales of furniture and construction & decoration materials increased by 223.1% and 109.9% respectively. In October, the sales of daily necessities increased by 19.7%, with sales of food, beverage, tobacco and liquor increasing by 12.4% and sales of garment, shoes and hats, and textiles increasing by 30.6%. Inflation factor considered, the growth is similar to that of 2011. In addition, in the first ten months, the retail sales of cars increased by 3.3%, and those of the petroleum and related products increased by 19.1%, showing a bouncing-back trend of consumption of automobiles and related products.
Read more: Consumption structure improved...
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Monday, 03 December 2012 09:09
On November 27, the signing ceremony for major investment projects in Yinzhou District was held, and six entity economic projects with a total investment of 15 billion yuan were signed to settle down in the district, covering such fields as rail transportation, equipment manufacturing, intelligent development and research platforms.
At the ceremony, Yinzhou District Government signed an agreement with CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd. to build the new-type tramcar operating line in downtown Yinzhou District. According to the plan, the two sides will set up a project construction platform to deal with the design, construction and trial of the line.
Read more: Tramcar line to be built in Yinzhou
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Monday, 03 December 2012 09:08
The 7th International Symposium of China Urban Water Development and New Technological Equipments Expo will be held from November 29 to December 1 in Ningbo. On November 26, Ningbo Urban Management Bureau held a news briefing to release the related plans of the conference.
It is reported that this year's session is jointly hosted by China Urban Studies Society, China Urban Water Association, Zhejiang Provincial Housing and Urban-rural Construction Department and Ningbo Municipal Government. With the theme of "to curb water pollution and to safeguard water safety", the conference attracted over 1500 related experts and scholars from home and abroad.
There will be a comprehensive forum and 17 sub-forums, focusing on the development and surveillance of urban water affairs, urban waters planning and landscape designing, water quality monitoring warnings and emergency technology, new technologies and applications of sewage treatment and water-supply piping network transformation and operation. Experts from home and abroad will also visit the achievements of Ningbo in water supplies, water eco-systems and water-saving and environmental protection.