As the oriental departure port of the ancient "Maritime Silk Road" and "the China Road", Ningbo is praised as the "Living Fossil" recording the history of the ancient Silk Road by General Secretary Xi Jinping. Since its integration, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has become one of the world's most important container ocean line ports and national main hub ports, which is an important domestic iron ore transfer base and crude oil transfer base, liquid chemical storage and transportation base, and also an important coal and grain storage and transportation base in East China. Ningbo Zhoushan Port owns more than 260 international routes of all kinds, connecting with over 600 ports in more than 100 countries and regions in the world, outlining the shipping network of "A Gateway to the World".

• The third largest port city in the world
• "Maritime Silk Road"; the oriental departure port
• Ningbo Zhoushan Port:Cargo Throughput in the world for "13 consecutive times"

As one of the most open cities in China, Ningbo has established investment and trade relations with more than 220 countries (regions) and sister city relations with more than 100 foreign cities in the world. Nationwide, Ningbo is the eighth city with foreign trade exceeding USD 100 billion, the first city with annual cross-border e-commerce import turnover exceeding RMB 10 billion, and the fourth sub-provincial city with overseas investment of more than USD 10 billion, the ninth city with accumulated foreign investment actually utilized exceeding USD 50 billion. In recent years, Ningbo has been deepening its opening-up and cooperation with central and eastern European countries and "the Belt and Road" countries.

In 2021, 564 foreign investment projects were newly approved, with a total investment amount of USD 12.93 billion, contracted foreign investment of USD 8.64 billion and actual foreign investment of USD 3.27 billion. Ningbo owns 153 investment projects from 69 overseas Global Fortune 500 enterprises, with a total investment amount of USD 24.26 billion.

• China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone Joint Innovation Area
• China (Ningbo) Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Area
• China-CEEC National Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Zone
• Comprehensive Experimental Zone for the Construction of "the Belt and Road" Initiative

Ningbo's private economy is vigorous, based on the special new "Little Giant", it has been encouraging enterprises to forge ahead and taking the road of small & beautiful, small & specialized, small & strong, small & long as well as small & fine. Ningbo spares no efforts to build a single champion city in manufacturing industry. Up to 2021, the total number of Ningbo National Specialized New "Little Giant" enterprises has reached 182, it ranks the third among all cities in China, and the number of national manufacturing champions has reached 63, ranking first among all cities in the country.

At the same time, the innovation and transformation of Ningbo manufacturing enterprises have been promoted in solid. Emerging industries are growing rapidly, the added value of the artificial intelligence industry, the core industry of digital economy, the new material industry, the high-tech manufacturing industry and the equipment manufacturing industry increased by 21.3%, 17.5%, 16.6%, 16.1% and 16.1% respectively.

• One of the first batch of National Demonstration Zones of Transfer and Transformation of Technological Achievements
• National Self-dependent Innovation Demonstration Zone
• National Airport Economy Demonstration Zone
• National Marine Economic Development Demonstration Zone

Ningbo is a national forest city, garden city and environmental protection model city;Ningbo is bordered by the sea in the east and boasts abundant rivers and mountains. The three major rivers crossing the city is Yao River, Fenghua River and Yong River, enabling Ningbo having the characteristics of water town and coastal city in the south of the Yangtze River Delta. In addition, Ningbo also has many characteristic tourism resources, such as Siming Mountain National Forest Park, Dongqian Lake National Tourist Resort and Hangzhou Bay National Wetland Park. In the recent years, Ningbo has further strengthened its ecological protection force, with a greening coverage rate of 37% in the urban area,the proportion of days with good air quality reaching 95.9%, and the water quality standard rate of centralized drinking water sources above county level reaching 100%.

Ningbo is also one of the six cities in China and the only city in China featuring "six consecutive times" in the building of civilized cities, being very suitable for living. In Ningbo, we can feel the beauty of the city constructed by clean streets, quality communities and beautiful rural construction, the beauty of the connotation highlighted by civilized education, high-quality public service, rule of virtue and law, and the spiritual beauty of Ningbo people's civilization and love.

• Famous Historical and Cultural City of China
• National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Zone
• China's Most Well-being City for 11 Consecutive Times
• National Civilized City for 6 Consecutive Times