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87 villages listed as ancient villages in Ningbo

Eight-seven villages have been listed as ancient villages in Ningbo this Tuesday after an investigation conducted by Ningbo Municipal Planning Bureau.

A typical ancient village usually enjoys a relatively long history. Rich in traditions and historical, cultural, scientific, artistic, social, and economic values, they should be protected. "Different from the title of Famous Historic and Cultural Town, ancient villages belong to a larger category," according to an official of the Municipal Planning Bureau. To win the title of ancient village, a village should meet one of the following four standards: Firstly, it exhibits typical traditional architectural style; Secondly, it maintains traditional characteristics in terms of location and layout; thirdly, it keeps intangible cultural heritage intact. Fourthly, it highlights local color with significant traditions or landscapes. "A village may be qualified to be an ancient village as long as it meets one of the above standards, "said the official of Municipal Planning Bureau.

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Cixi seeks to strengthen elderly care system

Cixi's first high-quality elderly care demonstration project, Golden Heights Nursing Home, was dedicated on Monday. The project indicates that the government has successfully guided private capital into senior care industry. The nursing home will serve as a model for local nursing agencies and further strengthen Cixi's elderly care system.

"The keynote report to the 18th National Congress of the CPC pointed out that the policy makers should actively deal with the aging of the population and improve the elderly care services. In response to the report, Cixi government prioritized elderly care system improvement in an effort to benefit more elderly citizens," said a top official of Cixi municipal government.

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Cixi Juexi Industrial Park entitled Domo Park of Circular Industrial Economy

At the meeting recently held on circular industrial economy of Zhejiang, Cixi Juexi Industrial Park was honored as Zhejiang Provincial Demonstrative Park of Circular Economy, the only industrial park in Ningbo that got the honor.

Juexi Industrial Park is one of the four largest industrial parks of Cixi County, and it consists of three parts: the eastern park, Juying Textile Park and Beitang Textile Park. The area designed for the area amounts to 10 sq km. At present, the park has over 500 industrial parks of various kinds, about 430 textile enterprises, including 60 enterprises whose capital each is over 20 million yuan, and 13 ones whose sales value each is over 1.3 billion yuan. The park has 54 enterprises with the power of independent export. The park is industrial economy oriented and features for its knit and clothes manufacturing. In 2011, the total industrial output value reached 10 billion yuan, the profit 160 million yuan, and the tax 210 million yuan.

In recent years, the annual industrial wastes discharged reached 54,702 tons. of which 53,881 tons were comprehensively circulated, with the circular rate reaching 98.5%. The recycle rate of industrial waste water is over 60%, the water consumption per 10,000 yuan of production output dropped by 6%, and the water consumption per 10,000 yuan of added value of industrial output dropped by 9.4%.

Ningbo passed acceptance check of grain functional areas

The standardized construction project of 14,000 mu of grain production functional area has recently passed the acceptance check by Ningbo Municipal Agricultural Bureau and Ningbo Financial Bureau. This is the first grain production functional area in Ningbo that has passed the check. This year, Ningbo started the standardized construction project of 14,000 mu of grain production functional area in Jiangkou and Xiwu. With an investment of 14 million yuan, over 160 cement irrigation channels were built, totaling 31,329 meters; 74 drainage ditches were built, totaling 28,896 meters; 14 ploughing roads were built, totaling 8,670 meters; the underground pipes of 3,700 meters were built. All these facilities notably improved the production of agriculture. This year, the late rice had a good harvest in the newly built grain production functional area. The per-mu yield reaches 480 kg. The per-mu yield of single cropping late rice is above 70 kg, 50 kg over the yield of regular fields.

Ninghai established strategic projects valuing 5 billion yuan

On the afternoon of December 1, the "Sports and Urban Construction 2012" program resulted in cooperative intent valuing 16 billion yuan. Of the results, Ninghai County and China Sports Newspaper and China Cultural Academy reached cooperative intent, involving strategic projects valuing 5 billion yuan.

This project in Ninghai is an outdoor sports and tourism project, with the area designed amounting to 25 square km. Wirth the ecological resources of Huchen Harbor, this project takes tourism as its core, including such facilities as outdoor sports, ancient town protection, conference and recreation, so as to turn east Ninghai into a zone that integrates facilities of tourism with the natural and cultural resources. The total investment of the project reaches 3 billion yuan. Another project is Ninghai Sports and Cultural Complexity, and the land for the project is 300 mu. This large urban sports and cultural complexity will integrate such functions as sports, cultural innovation, artistic training and tourist shopping. The total investment of the project is estimated to be 2 billion yuan.

After the agreements are signed, Ninghai County will make plans for a series of large sports and cultural projects. It will integrate existing sports and cultural resources, establish special funds, and devote itself to the development of the projects and make them classic ones with distinct Ninghai features.

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