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- Published: Monday, 18 June 2012 09:27
The import of rice from Vietnam has overridden that from Thailand and Vietnam became the largest rice exporter in Ningbo, despite the fact that rice from Thailand once accounted for over 90 percent of the total imported volume of the city.
Statistics shows that Ningbo Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau accepted 15 times of rice inspection appliances, involving 5,080 tones of rice worth of 2.49 mln dollars till the end of May. Among which 9 times are rice from Vietnam, having 4,400 tones worth of 1.74 mln dollars. These three figures soared by 8 times, 28 times and 24 times respectively and accounted for 60.0 percent, 86.6 percent and 69.9 percent of the total figures respectively.
The flood last year curtailed the output of rice in Thailand. In addition, the exchange rate and the intervention measures Thailand government adopted made the rice price higher than other exporters, leaving it incompetent with the price of Vietnam rice. Moreover, the rising of China’s price level made Vietnam rice even popular in China. Statistics showed that China had become the largest importer of Vietnam rice, with the export volume rising by 4.4 times and export value 4 times, reported by a Vietnam newspaper.
The press conference for a theatrical performance for the opening ceremony of Cixi Red Bayberry Festival was held in Cixi Platinum Hanjue Hotel on the afternoon of June 13.
The press conference said that the opening ceremony was scheduled to be held in Cixi Stadium on June 20. Many celebrities such as Leon (Lai Ming), Nicholas Tse (Xie Tingfeng), Han Hong would show up on the gala. And ZJSTV would broadcast the whole process of the gala, through which citizens in Cixi could have a feast of culture via red bayberry.
A series of activities including the ceremony for the opening of Minghe Ancient Town, the National Invitation Tournament for leisure and health-building exercises as well as the one-day-long countryside tourism and red bayberry picking activity will also be launched during the festival.
It is learned the festival has gone through 23 years and has not only helped to increase the income of red bayberry growers, but also help to boost the economical development in Cixi.
Cixi e-commerce industrial park, having five online businesses, three logistics, one education and training institution as well as 6 enterprises, was set up in a 5,500 m2 large building in Cixi a couple days ago. It is the first one of its kind in Ningbo. Given its profound manufacturing experience and sound geographical location, many Cixi-made products such as small household appliances, garments and baby supplies were rather suitable to sell online, said Yu Xuehui, Chairman of Cixi E-business Association. “The set up of the industrial park have many advantages for development. For example, the charge of sending a 9kg package from Cixi to Beijing is 50 yuan, while it can be lowered to 25 yuan if it is negotiated in the name of the industrial park. Another example is that talents needed to conduct e-commerce could be cultivated through Cixi Campus of Taobao University rather than employing with high salary from other places”, added him.
As one of the founders of the park, Yu has benefited a lot at the time when e-commerce just emerged. In 2000, he sold heaters made in his father’s factory in Alibaba, the largest online B2B marketplace, and received an order of 1.07 mln yuan. In just a few years, he increased the annual output value of his father’s factory from 50 mln yuan to almost 1 bln yuan. Because of this, he won the title of “the Top Ten Online Businessman” and the e-commerce lifetime achievement award issued by Alibaba.
Yu also said that the development of e-commerce was amazingly fast. Therefore, he took the initiative to found the industrial park. At present, the first phase of the park has already opened, and the second phase project is under construction. The total park covers an area of 22,500 square meters. Yu was very confident with traditional industries to practice the e-commerce mode. “I hope in the future we could gather more online businesses and build a larger building, attracting more online businessmen to settle in Cixi and also promoting the online sales of local enterprises. It is also an important strategy to the transformation and upgrading of local enterprises”, said Yu.
Amidst the joint development of members of the E-business Association, Cixi Municipal Bureau of Commerce also made a series of policies to encourage the development of e-commerce, providing rewards to newly-opened e-commerce businesses and e-commerce industrial parks and funds to e-commerce talents training institutions.