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Before the Han dynasty, the area where Ningbo City is located today was sparsely populated. In the Xia dynasty, the location of Ningbo was called "Yin". In the Spring and Autumn period, the area where Ningbo belonged was the Yue State. At that time, the Yue King Goujian built Juzhang City in the present-day Cicheng Town, which became the ...
The Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan is the busiest port in the world in terms of cargo tonnage. It handled 888.96 million tons of cargo in 2015. [1] The port is located in Ningbo and Zhoushan, on the coast of the East China Sea, in Zhejiang province on the southeast end of Hangzhou Bay, across which it faces the municipality of Shanghai.
China has 34 major ports and more than 2000 minor ports. The former are mostly sea ports (except for ports such as Shanghai, Nanjing and Jiujiang along the Yangtze and Guangzhou in the Pearl River delta) opening up to the Yellow Sea (Bo Hai), Taiwan Strait, Pearl River and South China Sea while the latter comprise ports that lie along the major and minor rivers of China. [1]
The history of Ningbo Metropolitan Area dates back to 1726 AD in Qing Dynasty. The Ningshaotai Circuit [ zh ] is a historical political division of China that includes the 4 current cities of Zhejiang Province in China: Ningbo, Zhoushan, Shaoxing, and Taizhou.
Yangsha Mountain is located about 2 kilometers south of Chunxiao Park in Ningbo Economic Development Zone, Chunxiao Town, Beilun District, Ningbo City. Its geographical location is 29°45'3.87" North latitude and 121°54'36.96" East longitude. Yangsha mountain is surrounded by sea on three sides and covers an area of 128 hectares.
Ningbo's Lishe was an auxiliary air force base of the Republic-era Chinese Nationalist Air Force, and was the final launching point of Martin B-10 bombers commanded by Captain Xu Huansheng and Lieutenant Tong Yanbo of the 14th Bomber Squadron of the 8th Bomber Group in their famous transoceanic raid to Nagasaki and other cities in the Empire of Japan on 19–20 May 1938.
see Ningbo Most populous cities in Zhejiang ... the founding location of Tiantai Buddhism; Mount Mogan, a scenic mountain an hour from Hangzhou with many pre-World ...
Ningbo is one of China's oldest cities, with a history dating back to the Hemudu culture in 4800 BC. Once known as Mingzhou (明州), Ningbo was known as a trade city on the Silk Road at least two thousand years ago, and then as a major port, along with Yangzhou and Guangzhou in the Tang dynasty; thereafter, the major ports for foreign trade in the Song dynasty.