brief introduction
Ningbo, referred to as Ningbo for short, is a sub-provincial city and a city with separate plans, the fourth largest port city in the world, a larger city with the right to formulate local laws and regulations, one of the top 100 cities in Chinese mainland1500, one of the five regional centers of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, the economic center in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta and the economic center of Zhejiang Province. It has been a national civilized city for four consecutive years, the hometown of famous academicians in China, and the cultural capital of East Asia on 20 16.
Ningbo is located in the southeast coast, in the middle of Chinese mainland coastline, in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta, with Zhoushan Islands as a natural barrier in the east, Hangzhou Bay in the north, Shengzhou, Xinchang and Shangyu in Shaoxing City in the west, Sanmen Bay in the south and Sanmen and Tiantai in Taizhou.
Ningbo has a profound cultural background and a long history and culture. It is a typical water town and seaport city in the south of the Yangtze River. It is the southern end of China's Grand Canal and the eastern origin port of the Maritime Silk Road. Among them, Ningbo Port, the most representative port in Ningbo, was rated as "the top five ports in the world" by Container International, an authoritative magazine of international ports and shipping. 20 17 1 1 month, and it was confirmed that the honorary title of national civilized city would continue to be retained.
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Since the Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of important officials have appeared in Ningbo. The Shishi family in Yinxian, which produced three prime ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty, came from Ningbo. In the Ming Dynasty, Fang Xiaoru, a famous minister, was known as "the descendant of studying in the world", and many other ministers, including Shen, Xiong Rulin and Shen, were present in Ningbo. Jiang Zhongzheng and Jiang Jingguo, two presidents in the history of the Republic of China, were both from Ningbo, while Hu Zongnan and Yu Jishi were important military and political officials in the Republic of China. [32]?
Ningbo business gangs rose in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, represented by Le Xianyang, who founded Tong Ren Tang. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, Ningbo merchants landed in Shanghai and became important commercial and social forces. The representatives of this period are Li, Zhenhai Fangjia, Yan Xinhou, Ye Chengzhong, etc. Sun Yat-sen once commented: "Every port in China has a career of brave people, that is, European countries have many business footprints and their ability is second to none." After World War II, Ningbo businessmen moved to Hong Kong, North America and other places. At this time, Wang Kuancheng, Li Dasan, Cao Cursor, Ying Changqi, and Zhao An were the representatives. Since 1980s, a number of business celebrities have emerged in Ningbo, including Ding Lei and Zhuang Sihao.
Wang Shouren, a philosopher in the Ming Dynasty, Huang Zongxi, Huang Zongxi, Huang Zongxi, Huang Quanquan, Yao Xie, a writer, and Mei Baozhen, a calligrapher, are all celebrities in Ningbo's cultural and scientific circles. During the Republic of China, Chen Bulei, Lin Handa, writers Rou Shi, Yin Fu, Tang Tao, calligrapher Sha Menghai and master of Chinese painting Pan Tianshou all appeared in Ningbo. Contemporary cultural celebrities in Ningbo include Yu, a drama theorist and cultural scholar, British writer, Yang, president of Nottingham University, Han Qide, director of Peking University Health Science Center, Jiang Menglin, former president of China Academy of Sciences, modern educator, geologist Weng, biologist Tong Dizhou, geneticist Tan, osteopath Chen Zhongwei, father of replantation of severed hand, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and online writer Anne Baby (Li Jie). ? In addition, the total number of academicians of the two academies who were born in Ningbo and whose ancestral homes are in Ningbo exceeds 100.