Highlight the Blue Ocean Strategy Developing Yiwu Intelligent Industry

In recent years, the "smart city" has gradually become a hot topic, give the public a expectation on better future city life. In the international arena, has been more than 200 "smart city" projects are being implemented. Some dom...

China pledges to step up construction of water facilities

The Chinese government has pledged to intensify construction of water facilities, an urgent effort to enhance grain safety and fight drought and floods. China will prioritize water projects in its infrastructure construction and take irrigation an...

Weather forecast for 17 cities in China

The China Central Meteorological Station at 17:00 today gave the following forecasts for 17 major Chinese cities for 24 hours to come, 15 to 16 September 2010 at 20:00 (Beijing time): Temperatures observed Cities Weather Wind (strength) (Degree...

China calls for international cooperation in the fight against climate change

The Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday that the international community should work together to overcome the challenges of climate change. Li Keqiang made the remarks during his meeting with Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary...

A cold front will hit the north-west China

A cold front will sweep the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (northwest) on Sunday, bringing strong winds and lowering temperatures in northern China. Within three days, temperatures will drop by 8 to 12 degrees in Xinjiang and western Gansu prov...

China: Typhoon Meranti kills three people in Fujian

Three people were killed and more than one million others affected in Fujian province (east) by Typhoon Meranti, the tenth tropical typhoon to hit China this year, officials said Saturday authorities. Three people were killed after their homes wer...

Tropical storm heads Fanapi south-east China

The south-east China is witnessing a flood warning and emergency services are preparing for the onslaught of Tropical Storm Fanapi, which should hit the region early next week. Fanapi, the 11th tropical storm to hit China this year formed Wednesda...

Thai exports hit 22-month high in May

Thailand's exports rose to a 22- month high at 42.1 percent last month, the Bangkok Post's website reported Friday, citing Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai. The exports' value in May was 16.55 billion U.S. dollars, while the imports' value was 1...

HK's exports to mainland for outward processing soar 35 pct in Q1

HK's exports to the Chinese mainland in the first quarter this year for outward processing were worth 106 billion HK dollars (13.6 billion U.S. dollars), up 35 percent from a year earlier, the city's Census and Statistics Department said Friday. V...

Canadian minister highlights importance of free trade

Canadian Minister of International Trade Peter Van Loan said on Friday that global prosperity depends on free trade and investment, not protectionism. "A core message from Canada at the G20 Summit will be to open doors to free trade around th...

Brazil minister backs delay of trade sanctions against U.S.

A senior Brazilian official welcomed Friday Brazil's decision to postpone trade sanctions against the United States over its cotton subsidies. The two countries reached a preliminary agreement Thursday that Brazil would not apply WTO-sanctioned re...

Foreign trade in East China province up 50%

Foreign trade in economically-developed Jiangsu Province in eastern China totaled 174.29 billion U.S. dollars in the first five months of the year, a 50 percent year-on-year increase. Exports amounted to 98.71 billion U.S. dollars, up 42.7 percent...

Google says it generated $54 bln for U.S. economy

Google, owner of the world's most popular search engine, says it generated 54 billion U.S. dollars in economic activity in 2009 as businesses turned to online advertising amid the economic slowdown. In a report released today Google said it help...

Thai GDP estimated to grow about 5% this year

Thailand's gross domestic product (GDP) for 2010 is estimated to grow in a range of 4.3 percent to 5. 8 percent year on year, Bank of Thailand (BOT) Governor Tarisa Watanagase said Thursday. The country's growing exports are expected to boost the ...

Boeing CEO says China to continue to be U.S. major market, partner

China will continue to be both major market and partner to the United States, supporting thousands of U.S. jobs and contributing significantly to the U.S. balance of trade, said CEO of a Fortune 100 company in Chicago on Wednesday. James McNerney ...

Euro sinks on report about China's holdings

The euro fell against major currencies on Wednesday on a report that China was reviewing its euro holdings. The Financial Times, without citing sources, said China was reviewing its holdings of eurozone debt in the wake of the crisis that has swep...

OECD predicts 2.7% area growth in 2010

The whole year growth for total OECD area is foreseen at 2.7 percent in 2010 and 2.8 percent in the coming 2011, whereas euro area may record a growth of 1.2 percent in 2010 and 1.8 percent in 2011, the Paris-based OECD said Wednesday in its Economic...

Italian gov't approves austerity budget to stabilize finance

The Italian government on Tuesday approved the 2011-2012 budget which heavily cuts down on public expenditures in a bid to stabilize the country's finance and sustain its weak economic revival. Major cuts concern public administration costs, minis...

EU proposes to levy banks for resolution funds

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to establish a European Union (EU) network of national bank resolution funds with a new levy to ensure banks would pay for their own failure. "We need to build a system which ensures that the fina...

Tighter credit in Europe tied to stock market turmoil

Instability in Europe and the fall in the value of the Euro are creating ever growing concerns in global financial markets. There are increasing fears that Europe could even face a full-blown financial crisis, which in turn may potentially damage ...

Late plunge takes Dow below 10,000

A late-session plunge took Wall Street to negative territory on Wednesday, with the Dow ending below 10,000 for the first time since February, showing market sentiment was fragile at the moment. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 69.30, or 0.69...
Highlight the Blue Ocean Strategy Developing Yiwu Intelligent Industry

In recent years, the "smart city" has gradually become a hot topic, give the public a expectation on better future city life. In the international arena, has been more than 200 "smart city" projects are being implemented. Some domestic cities are taking positive action, Shanghai put forward that take advantage of urban wisdom to building a smart city, Wuhan in October last year, has taken substantive steps to construct smart city, Ningbo in September 2010 to make a decision on building a smart city, then introduced five-year Action Platform for the smart city construction. The city has also been classified as hubs of the province to build a central hub "smart city system. Conform to the wave of smart city, develop intelligent industry in the city to promote the construction of “two districts six cities ", the first to build a moderately prosperous society of a higher level to benefit the whole people, should play an active role.

An "intelligent life", and "smart city" is closer to us

Last year, two reports on Zhejiang may not seem like much, but let us smell the atmosphere of "intelligent life", see the dawn of the "smart city".
The first report: Ningbo held the first China Intelligence Fair, provincial ministries tripartite signed a "smart city" pilot cooperation agreement. September 2, 2011, China's first smart city Expo - 2011 China Smart City technology and application products Exposition "held in Ningbo. Three days exhibition, 310 enterprises participate in the exhibition, 16 total investment of 6.5 billion smart city cooperation projects located in Ningbo.