Ningbo

Ningbo (宁波, Hanyu pinyin Níngbō, sometimes transcribed Ningpo ) is a port city located at the North-East of the province of the Zhejiang in China. It has the statute of under-provincial city. Located at the south of the Bay of Hangzhou, the port gives on the Eastern China Sea. The population exceeds the 5,5 million inhabitants. Ningbo is the economic center of the province of Zhejiang and attracts a considerable number of migrant worker of the other Chinese provinces, mainly of the Dongbei, Sichuan and Anhui.

A suspended bridge connecting Ningbo to Shanghai and spanning bay of Hangzhou is in the course of construction. Work is programmed until 2008. Once completed, it will be about the longest bridge ever built (36 km), making it possible to reduce half time of way between the two economic capital, avoiding the turning by the town of Hangzhou.

The mayor of Shanghai, Chen Liangyu, which belongs to the political office of the central committee of the party, there was born.

Ningbo is the seat of a prefecture of: 9397 km ². One speaks the dialect there about Ningbo of the group of the dialects of Taihu of the wu.

Economy

The town of Ningbo, profiting from a deep water port, experienced a very significant development during the ten last years. It became one of the main ports of trade of China and the world, entering in competition in harbor terms of infrastructures with Shanghai. The development of the traffic is related to the most dynamic sectors of the economy provinciale : the light industry and consumer goods. In the basin of the port of Beilun, a large quay is intended for the loading of the ore.

In the Years 1980, an airport and an exchange central office were built there.

In 2005, total GDP was of 244,9 billion Yuan S, and the GDP per capita of: 44156 yuans.

Twinning

Ningbo is twinned with

Administrative divisions

The under-provincial city of Ningbo exerts its jurisdiction on eleven subdivisions - six districts, three city-counties and two counties :

the district of Haishu - 海曙区 Hǎishǔ Qū ;
the district of Jiangdong - 江东区 Jiāngdōng Qū ;
the district of Jiangbei - 江北区 Jiāngběi Qū ;
the district of Beilun - 北仑区 Běilún Qū ;
the district of Zhenhai - 镇海区 Zhènhǎi Qū ;
the district of Yinzhou - 鄞州区 Yínzhōu Qū ;
the town of Cixi - 慈溪市 Cíxī Shì ;
the town of Yuyao - 余姚市 Yúyáo Shì ;
the town of Fenghua - 奉化市 Fènghuà Shì ;
the county of Ninghai - 宁海县 Nínghǎi Xiàn ;
the county of Xiangshan - 象山县 Xiāngshān Xiàn .

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