Since the establishment of Yinzhou Prefecture in the fourth year of Tang Wude (62 1), it has successively been yi county, Yinxian, Mingzhou, Qingyuan Prefecture, Qingyuan Road and Mingzhou. In the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (138 1), in order to avoid the taboo of country names, the original Mingzhou prefecture was changed to Ningbo prefecture, and Ningbo became the city name.
Ningbo has a good industrial foundation, forming an industrial system with light industrial machinery, petrochemical industry and electric power industry as the main body, and electronics, medicine, metallurgy and other industries developing in a coordinated manner. Traditional handicrafts such as bone and wood inlay, ning furniture, gold and silver colored embroidery have unique styles. It is an important producing area of commodity cotton and commodity cotton in China. There are many kinds of cash crops. Straw mats, Fritillaria, peaches, kumquat, bayberry and dried bamboo shoots are all famous local products. Seafood is abundant.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, Ningbo had commercial shipyards with Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Ningbo was one of the three major foreign trade ports in China. 1842 treaty of nanking became a trading port. At present, Ningbo Port consists of Beilun Port, Zhenhai Port and Ningbo Old Port. Among them, Beilun Port has a waterway with a water depth of more than15m, which can be used by shipyards of120,000 tons to150,000 tons. Ningbo Port has 59 berths ranging from 500 tons to 250,000 tons, with an annual comprehensive design throughput of more than 50 million tons. There are regular groceries and container liners from Ningbo to Yokohama, Kobe and Ningbo to Hong Kong. Now it has become one of the four international transit ports in China. Ningbo lishe international airport can fly directly to domestic cities.
Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway has been completed and opened to traffic. Ningbo Economic and Technological Development Zone, located 70 kilometers along the coast of Beilun Port, is a good place to invest and set up industries, an important energy and raw material industrial base in Zhejiang Province and Ningbo City, a large-scale energy and raw material project such as electricity, petrochemical, steel and building materials invested and developed by the state, and supporting basic industries and processing industries. Concord Group, Nissin Corporation of Japan, Mitsui Group of Japan, TCC Universe Co., Ltd. of Thailand, Chia Tai Group of Thailand, Zhongce Investment Co., Ltd. of Hong Kong, CITIC Corporation and other well-known international and domestic large-scale multinational groups have invested heavily in the construction of a large number of cross-century projects along the coast of Beilun Port.
Ningbo is one of the famous historical and cultural cities in China. Key cultural relics protection units 100. There are Hemudu cultural sites in the Neolithic age 7000 years ago; One of the hate sources of China celadon is the ancient Yue kiln site in Shanglin Lake. There is the Tashan weir water conservancy project in Tang Dynasty; Tianyi Pavilion was built at 156 1 to 1566. It is one of the oldest libraries in China, with more than 300,000 ancient books, including more than 80,000 rare books. With a history of nearly a thousand years, Guobao Temple is the oldest and most complete wooden structure in southern China. Its roof, beam frame, bucket arch, caisson and column are all supported by bucket arch, and they are staggered and tenoned layer by layer without a nail. There is the Ashoka Temple where the Sakyamuni relics are treasured; Cao Dongzong has the ancestral temple of Japanese Buddhism; There are also vast Dongqian Lake, scenic Fenghua Xikou, Xuedou Mountain, Qianzhangyan, Ninghai Nanxi Hot Spring, Zhenhai Zhaobaoshan and so on. There are many scenic spots.