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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:10
According to the authoritative data issued by Ningbo Survey Group of the National Statistics Bureau, in 2011, the rural per capita net income stood at 16518 yuan, up by 15.8% over the previous year. While the urban resident per capita income reached 34058 yuan, up by 12.9%. With the rural income achieving double-digit growth for eight consecutive years, the urban-rural income ratio is further reduced to 2.062:1.
Promoting the steady increase of rural income is the starting point and ultimate goal of the new rural construction. Ningbo has made great efforts to construct the long-term system of rural wealth accumulation by implementing the favorable policy to agriculture. On the one hand, industries, populations and producing elements are guided to assemble in towns to promote the famers to transfer to the second industry and third industry. On the other hand, a group of professional farmers with techniques and business skills are cultivated and encouraged to gain more benefits through capital and technology investment. Taking the scarce jobs and high-skill training that are in great demand in markets and industries as a breakthrough, the city focused on the transfer skills training of the farmers. At the same time, the "one training for one industry" approach was adopted to train the subjects of modern agriculture business. In 2011, about 118,700 rural laborers were trained, among which 29,500 were trained in transfer skills and 52,000 were trained in migrant workers' job skills. About 23,000 rural laborers achieved transfer employment after training.
The leading agricultural enterprises, the specialized farmers cooperatives and the agritainments promote the continuous increase of rural income. In 2011, the leading agricultural enterprises in Ningbo took in 150,800 rural employees and about 898,200 rural households were affected. 1700 specialized farmers cooperatives in the city affected 350,000 rural households. While working in enterprises, a large number of rural workers set up some new forms of industries such as intermediary services, chain business, rural community services and agritainments. In 2011, the "agritainments" received 11.918 million tourists and achieved a business income of 1.13 billion yuan, up by 31.6% and 41.1% respectively over the previous year. In terms of the structure of the income, the salary income continued to growth rapidly and reached 9667 yuan per capita, up by 19.0% over the previous year, contributing 68.3% to the increase of the net income.
With the development of the rural housing reform and rural joint-stock reform, more and more famers benefit from the soaring of property income and dividend income. In 2011, a total investment of 12.991 billion yuan was put into the reconstruction of 78,100 rural houses, of which the construction of 48,100 houses with a total area of 6.53 million square meters has been completed. So far, as there have been 548 rural economic cooperatives, the total dividend for farmers reached 1.33 billion yuan or 198.2 yuan per capita. Some farmers even become landlords or share holders by selling or letting their extra houses. All the above elements promoted the increase of the non-business rural net income, which amounted to 2937 yuan, an increase of 46.6% over the previous year, contributing 41.4% to the increase of the net income.
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Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:10
The light snow of the Chinese New Year's Eve made little impact on the vegetable supply during the Festival. On January 23, with the weather turning clear, wholesalers from all over the country poured in Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market, and the total transaction of vegetables reached over 1380 tons, an increase of 7.3% over the same period last year. Of over one hundred varieties of vegetables, only three to four kinds rose in price while others all maintained the same price level as before the Festival.
Although it is the Spring Festival, there are still lots of citizens purchasing vegetables in supermarkets. In the Jiangdong shop of CRV supermarket, the prices of such vegetables as broccoli, celery, cabbage and radish remain the same as days before, and some vegetables are even on membership sale. According to a person in charge of the supermarket, they have reserved about ten kinds of vegetables, including 15 tons of broccoli, 15 tons of bamboo shoots and 10 tons of celery, which not only ensures the adequate supply of vegetables during the Spring Festival period but also guarantees the same price level as that before the festival.
On the noon of January 23, in Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market, large trucks loaded with vegetables and purchasing tricycles and pickups can be seen now and then. A person in charge of the purchasing department of Sanjiang Supermarket said that their purchase had completed two days before. But considering the citizens' need for fresh vegetables would surely increase after January 25, they were making further reservations these two days as the weather was fine. It is learned that on January 23, the total transaction of vegetables of the wholesale market reached over 1380 tons and there were about 100 kinds of vegetables involved, both increased slightly compared with the same period last year.
"Since one week ago before the festival, we have completed the 5000 tons of dynamic reserve of vegetables, which can guarantee one week's need of the public." said a person in charge of the transaction sector of the wholesale market.
Apart from the vegetables, the wholesale for the meat and poultry and the aquatic products decreased by about 15%. According to a related person, that is because the demand for these two kinds of products is small as the consumers have made adequate purchase before the festival, and it is estimated that the demand will return to the normal after the Lantern Festival
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Category: Culture Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 09:47
By James Baquet
THE morning after my return from Putuoshan Island, my friends and I headed out by private car. We traveled west from Beilun, toward central Ningbo, but then turned south into some of Zhejiang’s wild mountains to find Tiantong Temple, the “Temple of the Heavenly Child.”
Founded in the year 300, Tiantong is a huge complex, with dozens of ochre-colored plaster and red-painted wood buildings marching up the mountainside. It is also a major destination for pilgrims, especially those from Japan.
That’s because around 1225, a Japanese monk named Dogen Zenji arrived here, and ended up studying with the great monk Rujing of the Caodong sect of Chan (Zen). Two and a half years later, Dogen returned to Japan and founded the Soto Zen sect (“Soto” is the Japanese pronunciation of “Caodong”), which today claims millions of followers in Japan and throughout the world.
Aside from the main compound, the temple has two “tayuan,” or “pagoda compounds,” located on another part of the mountainside in lush bamboo forests. One of these evocative cemeteries contains the remains of Rujing himself. We had a hard time finding the compound, and ended up having our driver take us up to it in the car.
As with all mountain temples, Tiantong Temple is a bit hard to reach. If you’re not fortunate enough to have a friend who hires you a car, try going to Ningbo’s East Bus Station and taking bus 362-3 for Tiantong Temple stop.
2012-January-30 08:53 Shenzhen Daily