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Ningbo volunteers serving the 8th National Para Games

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Monday, 17 October 2011 15:55

The setting-out ceremony for volunteers to the 8th National Para Games was held on October 9 on the campus of Ningbo University.

Ningbo ranks No. 6 in the Forbes list of "2011 Best Cities for Business"

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Monday, 17 October 2011 15:22

The Forbes list of "2011 Best Cities for Business in the mainland China" was released on October 10. Thanks to its "six-quickening" policy and its advantage in private economy and port logistics, Ningbo ranks No. 6 in the list, up by 2 places over the last year. As is known, this is the 8th successive time for Ningbo to rank among the top 10 in the list.

The list is produced by Forbes China, the Chinese version of Forbes, one of the world famous finance media. The top ten of the best cities for business include Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Ningbo, Wuxi, Suzhou, Beijing and Tianjin.

According to an official from Development Research Center of Ningbo Government, the better position for Ningbo in the list is due to the enhancement of its capacity of both passengers and freight transporting. Among the 654 cities included, Ningbo ranks No. 8 in passenger transporting index and No. 5 in freight transporting index. In addition, faced with the great challenge of scientific and technological innovation and information trade, Ningbo is making every endeavor to build a "smart city". This emphasis on smart development inevitably helps enterprises to cut their operating costs, which leads to the city's rise in place in the list.

It can be found that Yuyao and Cixi , the two county-level cities, are also listed among the top 100 Best Cities for Business, with the places of No. 67 and No. 76 respectively

Cloud computing construction making significant progress

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Category: Ningbo Business

Published: Monday, 17 October 2011 15:20

It is learnt from the Ningbo Branch of China Telecom that after 5 months' intensive construction, the standard computer room for the IDC, located in the Zhuangshi Street in Zhenhai District, is now ready for operation. It aims at providing such services as host administration, virtual host, IDC value-added service and application outsourcing for international enterprises, large enterprises, and governments and financial institutes with special demand for data security. It is said that the investment in the IDC, with an area of 1700 square meters, a scale of 500 frames and an outlet bandwidth of 80G, amounted to 73.65 million yuan.

"This year, the branch has invested over 200 million yuan in the construction of the IDC and increased the outlet bandwidth by 200G, making Ningbo the important supplement for the provincial and national data centers." said the official in charge of Ningbo Telecom. The newly built IDC will enhance its services for cloud computing by providing more value-added services such as the statistical analysis of flow rate and the application system, the backup and recovery of data and network security. It will also strengthen its cloud computing construction in terms of the network management, user authentication and accounting, large capacity storage equipment and network security.