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New urban management model in the eastern new town

From sweeping brooms to GPS sweeping vehicles, from working independently to coordinating between urban management, public security and traffic police, the social management in Ningbo eastern new town makes breakthroughs by reforms and innovations. Recently, the first 37 sweeping vehicles have been put into use in the new town to dynamically maintain the cleanliness of the streets and roads. With 30 more sweeping vehicles to be put into operation, the rate of the area swept by vehicles will surpass 85%.

Besides improving the mechanized operating, the urban management department of Jiangdong District tries to realize the marketization of the cleanliness maintaining mechanism by introducing the third-party inspection organization to supervise the operating. Through open bidding, two cleaning companies were employed to do the cleaning job of the streets and roads. A third-party inspection organization has been introduced to examine the result of cleaning and green conservation.

In the new town, the urban management departments and public security and traffic police departments have adopted the new concept of "co-building and sharing". "Through joint bidding, urban management departments may explore some important spots on-site, and all related departments can co-build the video surveillance system." said a person from the Smart Urban Management Center of Jiangdong District. According to the agreement, under normal circumstances, the urban management departments and public security departments have the same right to use the system. In emergency situations, they can determine the priority in use according to their respective scope of duty.

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Service Month activities for foreign-trade enterprises completed

On the afternoon of August 31, on the third floor of the Imported Goods Center of Ningbo International Convention & Exhibition Center, a meeting was held between the heads of such departments as Ningbo Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau,. Ningbo Development and Reform Commission, Ningbo Bureau of National Land and Resources, Ningbo Customs and Ningbo Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, and representatives from foreign-trade enterprises, in order to solve the urgent problems confronting the enterprises in their development. Vice-mayor Hong Jiaxiang attended the meeting.

From June to August, Ningbo launched the service month activities for foreign-trade enterprises, and the related departments of all levels carried out a series of measures to help the foreign-trade enterprises to attain their goals by attracting more orders and promoting transformation. As the climax of the activity, yesterday's meeting aims to solve the common problems confronting the enterprises and carry out the on-site coordination for such problems as construction land using and export tax rebate for certain foreign-trade enterprises. 

Law Camp

The Zhenhai People's Court organized a summer camp for kids. Some 40 children of the Houdajie went into the court to attend the activity

The China Industrial Designers Association Settled in Hefeng

The Huazhou Creative Design Association has settled in Ningbo under the agreement signed recently by the China Industrial Designers Association (CIDA) and Ningbo Hefeng Creative Square.

The CIDA, founded in 1967 and a member of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), is a corporation with professional industrial designers. The Huazhou Creative Design Association, established by the Professor Liang Youzhao, one of the initiators of the ICSID, aims to provide strategies on innovating market- and consumer-oriented products as well as service of designing and exploring commodities.

The CIDA will undertake the design and creative projects and promote these projects with the Hefeng Creative Square. The Association will also mobilize its members to join in the Ningbo creative industry to promote its transformation and upgrading.

The quality of export good enjoys a remarkable improvement in the first half of this year

Recently, Ningbo Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau has released the Ningbo Import and Export Commodity quality and safety briefing in the first half of the year. It shows that the quality of exported products significantly improved in the first half of 2012.

Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau exported 277,000 batches of commodities in the first half of this year, worth $ 8.97 billion. Inspection and quarantine bureau detected a total of 743 batches of substandard goods, worth $ 15,626,000, reduced by 36.2% and 71.5% respectively. Among them, 709 batches of substandard exports are industrial products, worth $15,041,000. The amount of substandard product has decreased by 40.9% year on year.

The main problem of substandard exports of industrial products is unqualified specifications, mainly related to the exports of clothing, lamps and small appliances and other goods

In addition, the detected substandard food and agricultural products in the first half of 2012 amount to 34 batches, decreased by 50.7% year on year, worth $ 583,000. The main problem of unqualified export food and agricultural products is the unqualified quarantine project, mainly related to the export of nursery stock and other goods.

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