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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Monday, 15 October 2012 09:08
According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs,by the end of last year, 600,000 aged people in urban and rural areas enjoyed various home-based caring services; over 90% of the communities and 43% of the administrative villages offer home-based caring services; 269 communities and 1146 villages have home-based caring service stations; Ningbo has over 2,100 full-time and spare-time nurses for the aged, whose services cover physical care, household services, nursing, entertainment and so on. Some home-based aging service centers have dining halls for the aged. All the home-based caring service centers are non-profitable and they are financed by the governments or the village.
In September this year, Ningbo released "Opinions on Improving Social Old Age Service System", which has several policies in favor of home-based old age caring services. With this document, Ningbo took the lead in China to establish a system of subsidies for the operation of home-based old-age caring institutions.
Before other cities in China, Ningbo established a system that the government pays for the home-based caring services for the poverty-stricken aged people. At present, Ningbo has over 7,000 poverty-stricken aged people enjoying the caring services paid by the government or the village. The 81890 service platform offers 24-hour sos services for the aged people by the telephones installed for free for some of the aged people. At present, the city has over 20,000 aged people benefitted by the policy. Ningbo now has about 30,000 volunteers and over 60,000 aged people get one-to-one services by the volunteers
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Monday, 15 October 2012 09:08
In Damuwan New Town in Xiangshan, there will appear a large aquatic park and a nationwide regimen regimen center. The other day, the Administrative Committee of Damuwan of Xiangshan County signed agreements on the investment and construction of the two projects, whose contract value reaches 3.5 billion yuan.
Reportedly, the aquatic park, whose investment totals 3 billion yuan, will have two parts: the indoor aquatic part and the outdoor aquatic part. It will have a theme park, a water playground, an amusement park, a wharf, restaurants, and a shopping center. Within two years, the project expects to complete by 60% and put into operation. The daily reception of visitors is about 30,000
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Published: Monday, 15 October 2012 09:08
To help export enterprises solve the problem in accepting orders and to strengthen the market, the other day, Ningbo Municipal Government and China Export Credit Insurance Company signed an agreement on deepening cooperation. Vice Mayor of Ningbo Hong Jiaxiang and Vice Manager General of China Export Credit Insurance Company New Qingshan signed the agreement.
This year, Ningbo strengthened the support to the credit insurance for export trade. By the end of September, the export with credit insurance reaches 9.46 billion US dollars, increased by 23.7% year on year. The penetration of credit insurance for export is close to 20%, 4 points higher than the end of 2011.
According to the agreement, Ningbo Municipal Government shall strengthen the policy support to the credit insurance for export, create insurance platforms and guide foreign trade enterprises to insure. China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation shall give full support to Ningbo in establishing the risk management system for foreign trade enterprises. It will take more active insurance policies to meet the demands of credit granting for the key export markets and key export enterprises. In the meanwhile, it will raise the tolerance for risks so as to satisfy the insurance demand of the foreign trade enterprises that have orders and export business
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Published: Monday, 15 October 2012 09:05
Each day of the National Day holiday week, the Farmer's Inn in Shadi Village of Dingtang Town of Xiangshan received s400-500 guests from Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities. Zheng Jingzhi, Secretary of the Party Committee of the village he said, "In the village, there are 40 families engaged in business of farmer's inns. 7 families are preparing to open their farmers inns in the end of this year. The city people like to come to our village, for the beautiful environment, convenient traffic and reasonable prices of our services."
Reportedly, in the past six years, Ningbo has been in the front rank of Zhejiang in the integrated urban and rural development and 2009 it entered the "phase of complete integration", the first city that entered the phase.
After the agricultural taxes were rescinded in the country, before other cities in the country, in 2005, Ningbo issued the Outline of Balancing the Development of Urban and Rural Areas of Ningbo Municipality. In this Outline, major tasks are set in the balanced development of urban and rural areas in the six fields as urban and rural plan, industrial development, employment, social security, social undertaking and infrastructural construction. The Outline also specifies the "six projects" concerning the construction of the new countryside, the training of farmers, the transfer of population and social security. In response to the outline, every year, Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Ningbo Municipal Government released related policies and all social sectors were enthusiastic in participating in the projects.
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