Four ancient towns in Ningbo

Cicheng, Minghe, Shipu, Qiantong.

1. Cicheng, historically known as "Juyu", "Juzhang" and "Cixi City", is the central old county town of Cixi County. It is located in the northwest of Jiangbei District, Ningbo City, about 10km from the center of Ningbo. 15 kilometers. Cicheng has been awarded "national" honors such as a famous historical and cultural city in China, China's first hometown of kindness and filial piety culture, the hometown of Chinese rice cakes, a national civilized town, a national characteristic town, and the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Protection Honor Award. Cicheng has both the elegance of a thousand-year-old city and the openness of a modern city. Cicheng is one of the satellite cities of Ningbo City and one of the small city cultivation pilot projects in Zhejiang Province. It enjoys some county-level economic and social management authority. Cicheng New City (Cicheng New District) houses the Ningbo Metro Line 4 station and the northern campus of Ningbo Women and Children's Hospital. Zhejiang Qianyang Economic Development Zone (Qianyang E-Commerce Town) is named after Qianyang Village under the jurisdiction of Cicheng Town.

2. Minghe Ancient Town is located in the south of Guanhaiwei Town, Cixi City, Ningbo City. Minghe is a thousand-year-old ancient town with abundant resources and outstanding people. It is the only provincial-level historical and cultural town in Cixi City. Minghe Ancient Town was built in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,200 years. It is known as "the scenery of Hegao is as good as that of Suzhou". The origin of the name Minghe is related to the famous local Yu family in the early Tang Dynasty. Yu Jiugao, the grandson of the great calligrapher Yu Shinan of the Tang Dynasty, was named Minghe.

3. Shipu, Xiangshan County, an ancient fishing port city with more than 600 years of history, is located in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Center, on the coast of central Zhejiang, on the shore of Shipu Port in the south of Xiangshan County, Ningbo City, with mountains facing the port and total land. It covers an area of ??119.5 square kilometers, including 176 coastal islands and reefs. Shipu prospered because of fishing, and also because of fishing, making it an important fishing port, commercial port and military port along the middle coast in history. The marine culture and fishing culture scattered on the islands and harbors, behind the houses and in front of the courtyards, after tea and dinner, have also become a home-made brew in the port city that has gone through the years. Shipu is one of the earliest birthplaces of marine fisheries in China. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, ancestors lived here fishing and hunting. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Shipu became a well-known fishing trading port, a coastal defense fortress, and an important town on Zhejiang Middle Road. Today, Shipu is a national second-class open port, the first fishery town in the country, and one of the first batch of historical and cultural towns in Zhejiang Province.

4. Qiantong Town is located in the southwest of Ninghai County, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, adjacent to Yuelong Street in the east, a town in the southeast, Shaliu Street in Sanmen County, Taizhou City in the south, and Sangzhou Town in the southwest. , near Chalu Town to the west. The town has a land area of ??66.81 square kilometers and a registered population of 25,781 at the end of 2019. Qiantong Town has jurisdiction over 1 neighborhood committee and 17 village committees, and the town government is located at No. 5 North Street. In 2019, the total industrial and agricultural output value was 2.324 billion yuan, the fixed asset investment of the whole society was 410 million yuan, and the fiscal revenue was 82.59 million yuan. Qiantong Town is rich in tourism resources. It has two major tourist attractions, Qiantong Ancient Town (4A level) and Lianghuang Mountain (3A level), as well as cultural and natural landscapes such as Shijing Jingshe, Fuquan Temple, and "Zhejiang No. 1 Camphor". The Qiantong Lantern Festival Guild, which has a history of more than 500 years, was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list. Qiantong Town has been rated as a famous historical and cultural town in China, a famous historical and cultural town in Zhejiang Province, and a tourist town in Zhejiang Province. It was selected into the list of beautiful town construction models in Zhejiang Province in 2020. The town government is located at No. 5 North Street. The current party secretary Wu Jisheng and the deputy party secretary and town mayor Lu Huaqian.