Ningbo Movie ＆ TV Zone gets nod

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Category: Ningbo Business

Published: Wednesday, 02 May 2012 09:20

According a planning meeting held last Thursday, Ningbo plans to build a Movie ＆ TV Zone in Xiangshan, which incorporates movie and TV culture and tourism.
 
With its unique functionality and charms, Xiangshan as a movie shooting base dates back to 1930s. In 1934, the acclaimed film director Cai Chusheng and famous composer Nie Er shot their classis movie Song of the Fisherman in Xiangshan, making it the first Chinese film to win an international prize. In recent years, Xiangshan has invested 460 million yuan(US$73 million) to build venues, attractions and supporting facilities for film shooting, with a total area of 1091 Chinese mu (72.7 hectares). Since its official opening in 2005, the movie base has received over 140 film and TV screws and 3.8 million visitors. The movie base has been honored as one of China's top ten film bases and the designated movie and TV shooting base in China. It also becomes a well-known scenic spot in Zhejiang Province. In 2011, Xiangshan was among the list of top ten major supporting industrial agglomeration regions in Ningbo. It is also the key cultural construction project in the 12th Five- year period, and a modern service industry base in Ningbo. In addition, it has been approved by China National Tourism Administration as a 4A grade tourist attraction.

On the meeting, experts and advisors approved the program after a careful discussion and demonstration. They said that the program is different from the general urban planning with its creative and exploratory nature. The whole program is in line with the national requirements with its complete specification and clear functional layout. Meanwhile, experts and advisors suggested local authorities further improve the functionality and supporting infrastructure of the base, and highlight local color of Xiangshan.

Increase of combined sea and railway transport

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Category: Ningbo Business

Published: Wednesday, 02 May 2012 09:16

Ningbo is maintaining a good momentum of growth in the combined sea and railway transport, especially the container transport market out of Zhejiang. According to statistics from Ningbo Customs, in the first quarter of this year, the combined sea and railway transport via Ningbo customs reaches 6,466 TEUs, including 4,642 ones from other provinces, which accounts from over 70% of the total and increases by 80% year on year.

Jiangxi Province is now the largest market of Ningbo for the combined sea and railway transport. In the first quarter of this year, Ningbo handled 4,632 TEUs from many cities of Jiangxi Province like Nanchang, Yingtan, Shangrao, Xinyu, Jingdezhen and Pingxiang.  "The combined sea and railway transport can cut the cost for about 500 yuan for each container. In the economic depression on the international market, it can make us more competitive," said Wei Li'na, Manager of Jiangxi Zhongjie Kitchenware Company. In the first three months, she company exported 50 containers of goods through the combined sea and train transport, an increase of 32% year on year.

To promote the combined sea and railway transport, Ningbo Customs has strengthened the coordination with customs of other cities and it offers speedy customs clearance services of "one-stop declaration", "one-stop inspection", and "one-stop release." According to Xu Danli, director of the logistic monitoring center of Ningbo Customs, the customs clearance takes only five minutes on average for each parcel lot at Ningbo Customs.

Ningbo turns over 1.2 billion dollars at Guangzhou Fair

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Category: Ningbo Business

Published: Wednesday, 02 May 2012 09:18

The 111th Canton Fair closed the other day. At the fair, the turnover of the Ningbo Delegation totals 1.2 billion US dollars, leveling the total Ningbo made in the last year. The total turnover the fair makes this year drops down by 3.5%. The top four markets for the fair are East Europe, South America, the Middle Eastern countries and India. The top four merchandise closed for export is home electric appliances, hardware tools, lighting devices and electronic appliances

Oulin and Zhejiang University established strategic partner relations

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Category: Ningbo Business

Published: Wednesday, 02 May 2012 09:15

The intellectual support of institutions of higher learning is absolutely necessary for enterprises of Ningbo in their development. Last week, Oulin Group and Zhejiang University signed an agreement on strategic partner relations and with it, Oulin is the first company in Zhejiang that has the strategic partner relation with Zhejiang University.

Oulin Group will cooperate with the Human Intelligence Institute of Zhejiang University on four fields of kitchenware production, production management and so on.

In the past 18 years, Oulin has always attached great importance to the commercialization of research findings. With cooperation with research institutes and colleges home and abroad, Oulin expects to make introduce the findings in science and technology, arts and concepts in environment protection to its customers. Its need for the human intelligence and the concepts of health and environment friendliness just matches the advantages of Zhejiang University in these fields.

The strategic cooperation of the two parties is a new way for upgrading industrial enterprises and revitalizing real economies. Xu Jianguang, President of Oulin Group said, the cooperation with Zhejiang University will help Oulin to innovate the intellectual properties and technologies of Oulin, and raise its core competency by technological innovations. He believed that the cooperation in optimizing the production and management technologies will improve the systems of the supply chain, the smart storage and the production and greatly raise its capacity as a top international kitchenware manufacturer with a comprehensive solution to the informationized management.