Study in Ningbo University of Technology

Located midway up the coastline on shore of the East China Sea, facing north to Shanghai from across the Hangzhou Bay, Ningbo is one of the first costal cities in China which are open to the foreign countries. It is a citiy with independent planning and a sub-provincial city with deep historical and cultural connotation. Ningbo covers an area of approximately 9,817 square kilometers and has a total population of 5.74 million people. Travel from Ningbo to Shanghai is approximately thirty minutes by plane, and 2 hours by bus. Ningbo lies in the subtropical zone and is blessed with an oceanic climate with four distinct seasons. Its average temperature is 16.4 degrees Celsius with the highest of 28.0 degrees Celsius in July and lowest of 4.7 degrees Celsius in January.

Accessible by water, land and air, Ningbo has established itself as a world-recognized Chinese port with over 100 billion tonnage of goods passing through it each year. The NingboBeilunPort has shipping links with 518 ports in 84 countries and regions across the world.

As one of the 5 earliest opened port cities in old China, Ningbo was also a starting point of the famous "Silk Seaway." There are still some relics of foreign embassies and churches in this city.

Ningbo is honored a national historical and cultural city, and national civilized city. It won the gold prize for happiest cities in China. It is one of the Chinese mainland cities with best international image, Chinese excellent tourism city, national model city for environmental protection, national garden city, national advanced clean city, one of the 10 best exhibition cities in China and one of the 10 best commercial cities in mainland China.

Ningbo has a treasure of culture and arts with over 225 historical landmarks, a number of which are state protected. The 7,000-year-old Hemudu Cultural Relics are recognized as the cradle of the ancient Chinese civilization. Tianyi Pavilion is the oldest private library in China. The relics of Sakyamuni are well preserved in the Dagoba of the AsokaTemple. The Liang-ZhuCulturalPark is a memorial to the widespread Butterfly Love story of the ancient Chinese "Romeo & Juliet." Xikou, a suburb town of Ningbo, most famous as the native place of Chiang Kai-shek, attracts millions of visitors from all over the world each year.

Cultural Diversity

With its progress of internationalization, Ningbo has developed some cultural and economic activities with its own flavor, Ningbo International Fashion Festival, China Consumer Commodities Expo, China Fishery Opening Ceremony, Xu Xiake Tourist Opening Ceremony, China Liang-Zhu Marital Customs Festival, etc. In addition, Ningbo is famous for its sea food, sweet dumplings, honey peaches, thousand-layer cakes, etc. The renown "Gang of the Overseas Ningbonese" has made great contribution through donation and investment to the development of Ningbo. Ningbo has become a hot land for foreign investment