Briefly introduce the city of Ningbo.

Ningbo is located on the coast of the East China Sea, in the south wing of the economically developed Yangtze River Delta, adjacent to Shanghai and Hangzhou. It is one of the first coastal cities, cities with separate plans and one of the 15 sub-provincial cities in China. It is also a national historical and cultural city, a national garden city, a national excellent tourist city and a national civilized city. The sea area of the city is 9,758 square kilometers, the land area is 9,365 square kilometers, and the total population is 5.64 million, of which the urban area is 2,56 square kilometers and the urban population is 2.158 million. The city has jurisdiction over two counties, Xiangshan and Ninghai, and three county-level cities, Yuyao, Cixi and Fenghua. There are six districts in the urban area: Haishu, Jiangdong, Jiangbei, Zhenhai, Beilun and Yinzhou.

Ningbo has a long history. It is the birthplace of Hemudu culture with a history of 7, years of civilization, and has been an important port for China's foreign trade since ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou and Guangzhou were called the three major foreign trade ports in China, and in the Song Dynasty, they were listed as the three major foreign trade ports with Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and were turned into one of the "five-port trade" ports after the Opium War. Ningbo is a famous port city in Chinese mainland. It has Beilun Port, one of the four international deep-water ports in China. It is deep in water, small in waves, free from freezing and silting, and has a wide land area. In 26, the port cargo throughput reached 31 million tons, an increase of 15.2%, ranking second in mainland coastal ports and fourth in the world. The container throughput was 7.68 million TEUs, an increase of 35.7%, and it remained the fourth coastal port in mainland China and the top 2 container ports in the world. The throughput of foreign trade goods was 15 million tons, up by 15%, and the throughput of international ocean trunk lines accounted for 9% of the total container throughput.

Ningbo is an important economic center city and heavy chemical industry base in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta, and an important advanced manufacturing base in East China. Since the reform and opening up, Ningbo's economy has developed continuously and rapidly, showing great vitality and potential, and has become one of the most active regions in China. In 26, the city's GDP reached 286.45 billion yuan, an increase of 13.4% over the previous year. Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 13.95 billion yuan, an increase of 4.4%; The added value of the secondary industry was 157.59 billion yuan, an increase of 12.4%; The added value of the tertiary industry was 114.91 billion yuan, up by 15.9%. Industry is the mainstay of Ningbo's economic and social development. In 26, the city achieved a total industrial output value of 751.7 billion yuan, an increase of 22.% over the previous year. Among them, industrial enterprises above designated size achieved a total industrial output value of 597.43 billion yuan, an increase of 23.4%; The production and sales rate of industrial enterprises above designated size is 98.2%. The total retail sales of social consumer goods was 88.25 billion yuan, an increase of 16.1% over the previous year; The city's general budget revenue was 56.12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.3%, of which local fiscal revenue was 25.74 billion yuan, an increase of 21.2%. The per capita disposable income of urban residents and the per capita net income of rural residents reached 19,674 yuan and 8,847 yuan respectively, up 13.3% and 13.% year-on-year.

Ningbo is an important coastal city and foreign trade port in China. In 26, the total import and export volume of foreign trade was US$ 42.21 billion, up by 26.%, of which US$ 28.77 billion was exported and US$ 13.44 billion was imported, ranking third among 15 sub-provincial cities, with an economic extroversion of 118% and an export dependence of 81%. The newly approved contracted foreign capital was US$ 4.43 billion, and the actually utilized foreign capital was US$ 2.43 billion, both increasing by 5.2% over the previous year. The contracted domestic capital was 22 billion yuan, and the actual domestic capital was 12.1 billion yuan, up by 22.2% and 29.3% respectively over the previous year. At present, five national development zones, including Ningbo Economic and Technological Development Zone, Bonded Zone, Export Processing Zone, Daxie Development Zone and High-tech Industrial Park, as well as a number of industrial parks, industrial clusters and characteristic industrial parks, have become an important window for Ningbo to open to the outside world and a hot spot for attracting investment.

Ningbo is an ideal tourist destination with four distinct seasons, pleasant climate, beautiful mountains and rivers, and rich humanities. There are 11 national key cultural protection units, including the earliest official kiln "Yue Kiln Secret Porcelain" in China-the Yue Kiln Site Group in Shanglinhu, Cixi, the oldest library in China, the oldest wooden structure building Baoguo Temple south of the Yangtze River, the national Xikou Scenic Area and Chiang's former residence.

Ningbo has great development potential. The whole city is actively promoting the "four breakthroughs" in port development, science and education development, opening to the outside world and urbanization, implementing the strategy of "building a city by industry", speeding up the planning and construction of three industrial belts along the coast, along the bay and along the road, and further establishing the position of the economic center of the southern wing of the Yangtze River Delta, and striving for building a well-off society in an all-round way, basically realizing modernization in 22 and building a modern international port city.