Ningbo, called Yong for short, is located midway on the eastern coast of China, in the South of the Yangtze River Delta and the east part of Zhejiang province(28º51'-30º33’N and 120º55'-122º16’E). It is naturally sheltered by Zhoushan Archipelago in the east, borders on Hangzhou Bay in the north, neighbors on the city of Shaoxing in the west, and faces Sanmen Bay in the south, adjacent to the city of Taizhou.