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Ning·bo

 (nĭng′bō′) also Ning·po (-pō′)
A city of eastern China south of Shanghai on Hangzhou Bay. It was a treaty port following the Opium War (1839-1842).
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Ningbo

(ˈnɪŋˈpəʊ) or

Ningpo

n
(Placename) a port in E China, in NE Zhejiang, on the Yung River, about 20 km (12 miles) from its mouth at Hangzhou Bay: one of the first sites of European settlement in China. Pop: 1 188 000 (2005 est)
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Ning•bo

or Ning•po

(ˈnɪŋˈboʊ)

n.
a seaport in E Zhejiang province, in E China. 1,090,000.
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"Why, then," says the old man, "you should go to Ningpo, where, by the river which runs into the sea there, you may go up within five leagues of the great canal.
Description of a collection of fishes made at Chusan and Ningpo in China, Dr.
(32) The couple took a six-week honeymoon, which was spent largely with the missionary community at Ningpo. It was Caroline's first break in four years and followed a year of intensive work and study.
When he first arrived in China in 1854, Robert Hart (1835-1911) was a nineteen-year-old student interpreter in the British Consular Service and was assigned to Ningpo, a commercial town in Chekiang with a foreign community of about twenty-five consular officials, merchants, and missionaries.
The largest is a fishing junk from Ningpo (literally meaning peaceful waters) in Zhejiang province on the Yong River in East China.
(90.) Letter, 'The residents of rue de Ningpo," 21 August 1941, File U38-5-1638, SMA.
Zhejiang is one of the hottest spots in China's booming growth, and the drive down from the port of Ningpo took us past a succession of towns dominated by factories that turn out everything from shirts and ties to playing cards--by the million.
China Netcom will implement the solution in eight cities in Sichuan province as well as Wuxi in the Jiangsu province and Ningpo in the Zhejiang province.
The humiliating Treaty of Nanjing followed, opening five ports - Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghai - to foreign trade.
We have direct evidence that twelfth-century Jewish communities flourished in several Chinese cities: Kaifeng, Ruoyang, Dunhuang, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Ningpo, Peking, probably Quanzhou, Ning-xia, Yangzhou, and Nanjing.
The ministry also said that China has built a deep-water wharf on a small island off Ningpo, Zhejiang Province, for exclusive use by the two destroyers, which are China's most advanced naval vessels.
In China, the company has stakes in ports in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Xiamen and Ningpo.