Recently, there was a wonder of the sea of clouds in the Ningbo Qianwan New Area. Looking down from in the air, the sea of clouds churned like a dream and fantasy, which was very spectacular.Recently, there was a wonder of the sea of clouds in the Ningbo Qianwan New Area. Looking down from in the air, the sea of clouds churned like a dream and fantasy, which was very spectacular.

Hangzhou Bay New Zone was located at the south rim of south subtropical and is in the area of monsoon climate. With four distinctive seasons, winter and summer are a bit long while spring and autumn are slightly shorter. the average annual sunshine hour is 2038 hours and the annual sunshine percentage is 47%. The annual average temperature is 16 ℃ with adequate rainfall and the annual average rainfall is 1272.8 millimeters, the average annual runoff volume is 512.2 million cubic meters. The peak month of rainfall is September during which takes 14% of the annual rainfall. The average humidity is 80.9% (relative humidity). Northwest to north wind prevails in winter and east to southeast wind prevails in summer. East wind dominates throughout the year with annual average wind speed of 3 m/s, and the average days with strong wind is 9.6 days per year and no major natural disasters have happed during a hundreds of years.

In November 2001, with the construction of Hangzhou Bay Cross-sea Bridge, Zhejiang Cixi Economic Zone, the precursor of Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New Zone, started its initial development. In June 2005, the State Council approved to establish Zhejiang Cixi Export Processing Zone in Cixi Economic Development Zone. In November 2009, the strategic decision of speeding up development of Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New Zone was made by Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government. On February 23th, 2010, Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New Zone Development and Construction Administrative Committee was formally established on the basis of integrating the original Administrative Committee of Cixi Export Processing Zone and Administrative Committee of Economic Development Zone, which opened a new historical progress of New Zone’s development.