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Ningbo ; Wade-Giles: Ning-po; literally "Tranquil Waves") is a seaport sub-provincial city in northeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. Lying south of the Hangzhou Bay, and facing the East China Sea to the east, Ningbo borders Shaoxing to the west and Taizhou to the south, and is separated from Zhoushan by a narrow

The sub-provincial city of Ningbo administers 6 districts, 3 county-level cities and 2 counties.

Ningbo was visited by Portuguese traders as early as 1522, and was one of the five Chinese i opened by the Treaty of Nanjing (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between Britain and China. Foreign influences steadily filtered in thereafter. During the war, British forces took possession of the walled city of Ningbo briefly after storming the fortified town of Zhenhai at the mouth of the Yong River on October 10, 1841. In 1864 the forces of the Taiping Rebellion held the town for six months.

Ningbo was once famed for traditional Chinese furniture production.

Ningpo , or 'tranquil waves', "it has been said of the Ningpo fishermen that, 'no people in the world apparently made so great an advance in the art of fishing; and for centuries past no people have made so little further progress.' " (quote from pg. 174 of THE JUNKS AND SAMPANS OF THE YANGTZE by G.R.G. Worchester, river inspector(retired), Chinese Maritime Customs, ISBN: 087021-335-0)

Baoguo Temple, the oldest intact wooden structure in Southern China, is located in Jiangbei district, 15km north of Ningbo city.

Ningbo is the headquarters of the East Sea Fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. Its sector of responsibility includes Taiwan.

The Hangzhou Bay Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge currently under construction across Hangzhou Bay, will connect the municipalities of Shanghai and Ningbo, and will be the longest trans-oceanic bridge in the world.