Let's get cool
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Monday, 11 July 2011 09:14
On the hot morning on July 3, some foreign kids were playing in the cool water at Heyi Avenue.
On the hot morning on July 3, some foreign kids were playing in the cool water at Heyi Avenue.
Ningbo will once again open the direct flight line to Singapore. On July 6, Jetstar Airways announced that from September 9 it will open the round flight between Ningbo and Singapore for three flights every week. This will be the first international direct flight line opened after Ningbo was updated to be an international airport.
The line will officially open from September 9. The 3K836 flight will depart from Ningbo Lishe Airport at 17:20 on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, and the flight will take 5 hours. The 3K835 flight will depart from Singapore at 11:25 on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday. According to the plan, after October 31, in addition to the above flights, one flight will be added on Thursday, and so the regular flights will be 4 every week.
The Ningbo-Singapore flight line opened in 2004. Then Ningbo Airport was not an international airport, and then it was only a transfer airport for the Dalian-Singapore flight by the Southern Airlines.
Hua Dong, General Manager of Ningbo Lishe International Airport said that quite a few air companies are now talking with Ningbo Airport about the opening of international lines. So, Ningbo will for sure open more international lines.
Shao Daoliang, director of the market development of Ningbo Municipal Tourist Administration, said, Singapore is a hot tourist destination in the Southeast, and more and more people of Ningbo would like to go to Singapore. So far, they can only take the flight at Hangzhou or Shanghai. In the near future, travel agencies will promote the travel to Singapore, as well as other countries in Southeast countries.
According to Ningbo Administration for Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine, in the first six months this year, the export of mechanical and electrical products by Ningbo numbers 148,255 lots, valuing 5.01 billion US dollars, increased by 2.1% and 16.7% respectively over the precious year. This is a breakthrough of the export of mechanical and electrical products of Ningbo after the monetary crisis breaking out in 2008. Home appliances, lamp fittings, and cables are still the major part of the export. In the past six months, the exports of these products value respectively 1.54 billion, 0.59 billion and 0.5 billion US dollars, respectively covering 30.7%, 11.8% and 10% of the total of the exported mechanical and electrical products. The export of the cables has the fastest growth rate, increased by 17.3% over the same period of last year, and the home appliances come the next, increased by 15.3% above the same period of the previous year. The export of the mechanical and electrical products of Ningbo is still to Europe and America. To USA, the export reaches 880 million dollars, covering 17.6 % of the total; To Germany and UK, the exports value reaches 310 million and 220 million dollars, covering 6.2% and 4.4% of the total. Cixi, Yuyao and Yinzhou are the major exporters of the products. The export by Cixi reaches 1.81 billion US dollars, covering 36.1% of the total; The export by Yuyao and Yinzhou reaches 870 million and 810 million dollars.
On July 7, Ningbo held a meeting coordinating the disposal of the key proposals of Ningbo People's Political Consultative Conference, and the focus was on the disposal of the key proposal "Vice Mayor Wang Renzhou, Vice Chairmen of Ningbo People's Political Consultative Conference, Wang Jiankang and Zhang Minghua were present at the meeting. "The proposal submitted by the Ningbo Committee of China Democratic National Construction Association is in line with the scientific outlook on development and the designed urban function of Ningbo and therefore it is beneficial to the long-term development of Ningbo. Related departments of Ningbo government should adopt this proposal and implement it," said Wang Renzhou at the meeting. At the 5th session of the 13th Ningbo People's Political Consultative Conference, Ningbo Committee of China Democratic National Construction Association collectively put forward a proposal "Suggestion on Accelerating Construction Ningbo Imported Commodity Transaction Center." The proposal says that based on the advantageous positions including its ports, Ningbo should accelerate constructing a commodity transaction center, that by means of rational planning and layout, the city should make full use of Ningbo Free Trade Zone and Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone, so as to improve its commodity transaction system.