Spring in Yushan island
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- Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:56
A survey on the purchasing managers of 47 manufacturing enterprises made by the Survey Office of the National Bureau of Statistics in Ningbo show that in March, 40.4% of the manufacturing enterprises increased in production, up by 9.3% over the previous month. And only 6.4% of the enterprises decreased in production, a sharp drop of 24.7% over the previous month.
According to the survey, the production order for manufacturing enterprises in Ningbo increased in March, compared with the previous month. 47 enterprises maintained the finished products inventory. 47.8% of the surveyed enterprises saw an increase of orders in March, up by 17.9% over the previous month. 41.6% of enterprises maintained their order number. Only 10.5% of enterprises witnessed a decrease of orders, down by 13.8%. Of all the orders, export orders account for 29.8%, up by 16.5%. The growth of the orders of the manufacturing enterprises indicates that Ningbo’s manufacturing economy has returned to the rising track under the background of the shrinking demands from abroad with the slowdown of the economic growth of such leading economies as the United States and the Euro area.
On the afternoon of April 8, over 10,000 urban management volunteers carried out the beautifying activities of tidying the fences and cleaning up the green belt garbage in cross-river bridges, green fields in riverside parks and major streets and parks in all the towns and districts. It is learned from Ningbo Urban Management Bureau that in the near future the related departments will launch the urban streets cleaning campaign to make a cleaner Ningbo.
"There are over 6,800 sanitation workers doing cleaning jobs every day in the city. Anyway, it is far from enough to keep the whole city in constant tidiness. Joint efforts made by the public is indispensible in the city-beautifying campaign." said Luo Wei, Director of Ningbo Urban Management Volunteers Association. He hope that the action of the volunteers can have a subtle influence on more citizens.
According to the urban management departments, besides the above-mentioned beautifying activity, a special fund of 70 million yuan will be set up to be used in the year-long street-cleaning campaign. It is hope that through this campaign, the sweeping rate by machine will increase from 45% to 75%, thus reducing greatly the labor intensity of the sanitation workers. The garbage on road will be cleaned up within 15 minutes. The property management departments, sanitation workers and residents will work together to take responsibility for the cleaning job of all the areas.
Statistics from Ningbo Economic Cooperation Office show that in the first quarter of this year, Ningbo introduced 54 business projects by returned Zhejiang entrepreneurs from outside the province and from abroad, with a total agreed capital of 15.473 billion yuan and actual capital of 2.605 billion yuan. Together with the 2.912 billion yuan from 48 carry-over projects, the total capital available has reached 5.517 billion yuan.
At the beginning of the year, Ningbo made a specialized plan for the introduction of returned Zhejiang and Ningbo entrepreneurs: introducing a group of quality business projects by relying on such activities as the first session of "World Ningbo Group Conference" and "Shanghai – Ningbo Week". All the towns and districts carried out various kinds of introducing activities in response to this plan.
Xiangshan County is the "pioneer" of introducing returned entrepreneurs. In March, a promotion meeting for investment and cooperation by outside entrepreneurs of Xiangshan origin was held in Shanghai, resulting in the signing of 18 projects with a total investment of eight billion yuan, which drew the curtain of introducing business by returned Zhejiang and Ningbo entrepreneurs.
The newly introduced enterprises are facing new opportunities of development with their industrial focus returning to Ningbo. Tenglong Group, with its headquarters in Beilun District, established production-oriented enterprises in South Korea, Shandong Province and Jiangsu Province a few years ago, under influence of such factors as land and labor. Now, Chen Peijun, President of the enterprise, decided to transfer the developing focus to Beilun, where a project of over 1.5 billion yuan will be accomplished in October this year. It is estimated that the annual output value of the enterprise will reach 10 billion yuan.
According to an official from Ningbo Economic Cooperation Office, in 2012, the focus of the business introduction will be on headquarters economy, entity economy, marine economy, modern industry and cultural and creative industry. The target areas will involve the Yangtze River economic circle with Shanghai being the leading city, the Bohai economic circle with Beijing and Tianjin being core cities and the Pearl River Delta economic circle with Guangzhou and Shenzhen being the centers.