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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:31
On the Auto Fastener Expo Shanghai (AFE) held last month, a kind of cold header with the capacity to produce 250 nuts and bolts per minute attracted huge attention from businessmen attending the fair. This fastest cold header was produced by Ningbo Sijin Machinery Co., Ltd with the support of Shanghai University. It has been listed as a special innovative project of the national key technical equipment (2012).
Ningbo Sijin Machinery Co., Ltd is one of the 2000 private companies benefited from the technologies transfer centers of colleges and universities. Till the end of June, 2012, Ningbo R&D Park has already had 13 technologies transfer centers including those from Fudan University and Zhejiang University and another five working offices for academicians. These entire help lead green technology to the laboratories in colleges and universities.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:30
The first report on assessing city and county level brand competitiveness was made known in Cixi, which provides samples for raising soft power of Cixi economy in the new era.
The year of 2012 is the first year of the 12th five -year plan, and Cixi is now amidst the integration process of new industrialization and new urbanization, as its modern service industry is accelerating its development. Therefore, brand strategy is crucial to the transformation and upgrading of the regional economy. Yet how to make use of the brand strategy to serve such purposes as promoting brand name products, brand enterprises and even the brand of a city remains a question.
From July, 2010 to the end of 2011, the Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau Cixi Branch has entrusted Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Brand Promotion Center to form a team to assess and promote the brands in Cixi, evaluating the competitiveness, finding out their strong points so as to gain more confidence in revitalizing Cixi's economy, said Hu Xiaofeng, director general of the Industrial and Commercial Branch in Cixi.
The Brand Research Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University is one of the earliest and the most authoritative institutions that conduct researches on brand strategy and public relation. Its present director, Professor Yu Mingyang, is the executive vice president and the director of the Academic Committee of China Public Relations Association. Besides, he is also the secretary-general of Shanghai Brand Promotion Center. Being the first person in China who got his doctor's degree as well as finished his post-doctor research by studying brands and also the first head of a brand research institute and the first director of a brand research center, he participated in the development of the first university-level public relation major. The brand research center he worked for had successfully planned out
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:30
The number of employees working in Ningbo's small and micro-sized firms amounted to 84.05 million in the first half year, an increase of 8.0 percent over the first quarter, according to a recent statistics issued by Ningbo survey team of the National Statistics Bureau (NSB).
The NSB data show that local small and micro-sized firms are still facing a labor shortage of 2.71 million now, although the shortage is 38.6 percent smaller than the first quarter. A questionnaire reveals that 48.6 percent of small and micro-sized firms do not intend to hire new staff currently, representing 7.5 percentage points increase over the previous quarter. Another 28.3 percent of small and micro-sized firms reported that they had not recruited enough employees they needed or could not recruit any employees at all. The figure means the labor shortage decreased 1.6 percentage points over the previous quarter. The statistics reveals that the labor shortage of small and micro-sized firms has eased in the first half year. However, the average monthly salary of Ningbo's small and micro-sized increased 9.6 percent year on year to 2,181.32 yuan, a 190.74 yuan rise over the same period last year. 38.4 percent of the local firms believe that the rising labor cost will leave them facing a dilemma
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:29
The Asian Junior Figure Skating Challenge 2012/2013(AJFSC) will be held from August 1 to 3 in the Century Star Skating Club in Ningbo's Yinzhou District. Sixty athletes from 11 teams from China, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and other countries and regions will participate in the competition. About 10 athletes are from Ningbo.
The AJFSC is an international figure skating competition series hosted by the Chinese Skating Association (CHN), Hong Kong Skating Union (HKG) and Figure and Speed Skating Association of Thailand (THA) under the authorization of the Asian Skating Union. The AJFSC this year consists of four events in Shenzhen (April 6 -8), Bangkok ( May 18-20), Ningbo (August 1-3), and Hong Kong (October 3-5).