Prize giving ceremony for Technology Business Plan Competition held

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Published: Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:19

The prize giving ceremony for the Technology Business Plan Competition was held in Ningbo Innovation Port on the afternoon of Sept. 22. A total number of 105 awards worth of 7.9 mln yuan were unveiled on the ceremony. The more exciting news was that 23 business plans on the competition had successfully raised fund of 340 mln yuan.
The competition was jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ningbo Municipal Government. Since its launch in March and especially since the special report of building Ningbo into an angelic city written on June, 14, the authority had endeavored to encourage more private capitals to invest in Ningbo and more talents to start businesses here. In answer to the government’s appeal, many departments and offices such as the Municipal Personnel Office and Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau went to Beijing and Shanghai and held advertising activities there. What’s more, they also sent invitations to over 200 overseas students’ organizations via Overseas Students Association and Chinese Professional Association and other agents. At the beginning of this month, Wang Huizhong, the Party Secretary led a team to Silicon Valley and New York and held talks with overseas talents, appealing them to start businesses in Ningbo.
In the meantime, the competition made changes on the reward mechanism, setting up a special award to overseas talents who start businesses in Ningbo. Among which two are awards for overseas elites, each with a sum of one mln yuan. And the winners of these two awards were announced on the spot, being the program leaded by Dr. Dai Junhui and the program of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology respectively.
Zhai Lixin, Deputy Director of the Department of Policy, Regulations and Reform of the Ministry of Science and Technology made his congratulation on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Technology and expressed his sincere hope that Ningbo could be built into an angelic city, an innovative city as well as an entrepreneurial city. 

Close-End Fair of Top Grade Innovative Talents to open

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Published: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:16

More than 700 jobs, with maximum annual salary of 3 million RMB yuan... According to Ningbo Human Resource and Social Security Bureau, Close-End Fair of Top Grade Innovative Talents, a part of 14th Talents Conference is to be held on Sept. 22 ed, at which 700 high-end vacancies of 120 big companies from Zhejiang and other provinces are available. 
It is reported that participants to the fair include large companies such as Yinyi Group, Ningbo Jintian Copper (Group) Co., Ltd, Wuxi Hongdou Group Co., Ltd, Wenzhou LED Co., Ltd. Six of the companies have their registered capital amounting to more than 500 million RMB yuan each. The job positions available include CEO, vice president, general manager, deputy general manager, R&D director, technology director and trade manager. Yinyi Group is going to employ 24 middle-level and high-level talents with maximum annual salary of 3 million RMB yuan, and there are 10 positions, including CEO, vice president, general accountant, chief auditor, chief economist, etc, whose annual salary exceeds 1 million yuan.

Ningbo's universities see more female students

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Published: Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:15

As a new semester begins in most Ningbo schools last week, many local universities and colleges saw an increase in female students.

In Ningbo Institute of Education, the students are predominantly female in recent years. In 2012, the number of female students in the school accounts for 88 percent, a record high. The school enrolled 1,015 new students in 2012, including 893 females and only 122 males. They enrolled more than 200 pre-school education majors, but only six are male students.

And it's not just vocational schools that are seeing a rise in female students. The same situation happened in some comprehensive universities in Ningbo. Ningbo University enrolled a total of more than 8,000 freshmen this year, and the gender ratio was 45:55 (male to female). Women students definitely dominate such majors as languages study.

Zhejiang Wanli University enrolled 4,989 freshmen, including 2,256 boys and 2,733girls, or 45.2 percent male students and 54.8 percent female students, remaining a similar gender ratio with Ningbo University.

Even science and engineering-based universities like Ningbo University of Technology tend to see higher female enrollment. The school enrolled a total of 3,353 new students this year, with boys accounting for 58.66 percent and girls 41.34 percent. Girls dominate the liberal arts majors, especially language majors. The Japanese language program recruited 51 girls and only 10 boys. Another example is the Chinese Language program, which attracted 70 girls but only 11 boys.

However, many employers in Ningbo prefer male applicants when hiring employees, which makes female graduates more difficult to find jobs and less opportunities to get promotion than their male counterparts.

2012 Ningbo Week of Talent, Science & Technology to be held

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Published: Tuesday, 11 September 2012 09:35

It is learned from the related press conference that the 2012 Zhejiang Ningbo Week of Talent, Science & Technology will be held from September 21 to 25. During the period, the organizers will launch four main campaigns including talents and intelligence introduction, cooperation in science and technology projects, high-end intelligence tour to Ningbo and docking of talents and capital markets, and the comprehensive agreement-signing ceremony will also be held.

There will be three main activities for talents and intelligence introduction campaign, namely, the high-level talents introduction fairs, the entrepreneurship tour for overseas Chinese talents and China Science and Technology Business Plan Contest. There will be two high-level talents introduction fairs. One is an open fair for the matchmaking of 7000 graduate students to graduate in 2013 from 100 universities or colleges throughout the country and 8000 posts provided by 700 enterprises or institutions in and outside Zhejiang Province. The other one is a closed fair exclusively for over 200 enterprises and well-known talent intermediaries from home and abroad, and 1000 job posts with an annual salary of 150,000 yuan will be provided in the closed fair.

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