Ningbo
Ningbo (simplified Chinese: 宁波; traditional Chinese: 寧波; pinyin: Níngbō; Ningbo dialect: gnin² poq⁷ [ɲìɲ.póʔ], Standard Mandarin pronunciation: [nǐŋ pwó] ⓘ), formerly romanized as Ningpo, is a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Ningbo is the southern economic center of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis. The port of Ningbo–Zhoushan, spread across several locations, is the world's busiest port by cargo tonnage and world's third-busiest container port since 2010.
Ningbo
宁波市 Ningpo | |
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Clockwise: Ningbo city god temple, Yinzhou District Government of Ningbo, Tianfeng Pagoda, Dongqian Lake, Tianyi Pavilion Museum | |
Ningbo City in Zhejiang | |
Ningbo Location in China | |
| Coordinates (Tianyi Square): 29°52′08″N 121°33′14″E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Zhejiang |
| County-level divisions | 11 |
| Township divisions | 148 |
| Municipal seat | Yinzhou District |
| Government | |
| • Type | Sub-provincial city |
| • Body | Ningbo Municipal People's Congress |
| • CCP Secretary | Peng Jiaxue |
| • Congress Chairman | Yu Hongyi |
| • Mayor | Qiu Dongyao |
| • CPPCC Chairman | Xu Yuning |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level & Sub-provincial city | 9,816.23 km2 (3,790.07 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,461.8 km2 (950.5 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,461.8 km2 (950.5 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 150 m (488 ft) |
| Population (2022 census) | |
| • Prefecture-level & Sub-provincial city | 9,618,000 |
| • Density | 980/km2 (2,500/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 7,585,000 |
| • Urban density | 3,100/km2 (8,000/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,033,000 |
| • Metro density | 830/km2 (2,100/sq mi) |
| GDP (2022) | |
| • Total | CNY 1570,43 billion (USD 233,479 billion) |
| • per capita | CNY 163,911 (USD 24,369) |
| • Growth | 3.5% |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 315000 |
| Area code | 574 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-ZJ-02 |
| Vehicle registration | 浙B |
| City trees | Camphor Laurel Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Sieb. |
| City flowers | Camellia |
| Website | ningbo.gov.cn |
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"Ningbo" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 宁波 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wu | ⓘ (locally) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Tranquil Waves" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ningbo is the core city and center of the Ningbo Metropolitan Area. To the north, Hangzhou Bay separates Ningbo from Shanghai; to the east lies Zhoushan in the East China Sea; on the west and south, Ningbo borders Shaoxing and Taizhou respectively. As of the 2020 Chinese national census, the entire administrated area of Ningbo City had a population of 9.4 million (9,404,283).
Ningbo is one of the 15 sub-provincial cities in China, and is one of the five separate state-planning cities in China (the other four being Dalian, Qingdao, Xiamen, and Shenzhen), with the municipality possessing a separate state-planning status in many economic departments, rather than being governed by Zhejiang Province. Therefore, Ningbo has provincial-level autonomy in making economic and financial policies.
In 2022, the GDP of Ningbo was CNY 1570,43 billion (US$233.479 billion), and it was ranked 12th among 293 cities in China. Moreover, Ningbo is among the wealthiest cities in China; it ranked 8th in terms of average yearly disposable income in the year of 2020. As of 2020, Ningbo has global headquarters and registered offices of over 100 listed companies, and many regional business headquarters. In 2021, Ningbo featured the seventh most listed companies of all cities in China. Furthermore, Ningbo was among the top 10 Chinese cities in the Urban Business Environment Report released by the Chinese state media China Central Television (CCTV) in 2019.
As a city with rich culture and a long history dating back to the Jingtou Mountain Culture in 6300 BC and the Hemudu culture in 4800 BC, Ningbo was awarded "City of Culture in East Asia" by the governments of China, Japan, and Korea in 2016. From 1842, Ningbo was one of the first five treaty ports opened up to the West. Ningbo is one of the top 200 cities in the world by scientific research as tracked by the Nature Index.