🇨🇳 Yuyao is a county-level city in the north-east of Zhejiang province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the sub-provincial city of Ningbo.
It is located 40 km (25 mi) west of central Ningbo, 120 km (75 mi) east of Hangzhou, bordering Hangzhou Bay in the north. Yuyao covers an area of 1,527 km² (590 sq mi).
1Demographics Its built-up (or metro) area includes the county-level city of Cixi largely conurbated. Recently the migrated workers and their families have increased the total population, but they do not show up in the official census and other related statistics data.
1Geography Yuyao offers a wide variety of landscape from wide open ocean in Hangzhou Bay, rice fields in fertile plains to high spires in Siming Mountains. Yaojiang River originates in Siming Mountains in the south where the Ninth Fantasy world of Taoism is located. Yaojiang River goes through the county and extends eastward into East China Sea as well as Pacific Ocean.
1History Yuyao is well known for its rich heritage of civilization. The Neolithic Hemudu culture formed in Yuyao about 5,000 B.C. is one of the earliest sites of human civilization on earth. The material and ethical relics revealed large-scale rice plantation and other agricultural activities, hurdle style architecture, paddling and boating and respecting birds and sun.
Yuyao also produced many famous scholars in history—for example, Yan Zi-Ling during the Han dynasty; Yu Fan during the Three Kingdoms period; Yu Xi during the Jin dynasty; Yu Shinan during the Sui and Tang dynasties; and Wang Yangming, Zhu Shunshui, and Huang Zongxi during the Ming dynasty. Wang Yangming and Huang Zongxi were ranked among China's top 10 ideologists. Yuyao was then named as "the Most Famous County" and "the Famous State on Literature". During the Anti-Japanese War, Yuyao was one of China's 19 bases against Japanese invaders and was the centre of anti-Japanese bases of eastern Zhejiang province.
1Administrative divisions Subdistricts: • Lanjiang Subdistrict (兰江街道), Ditang Subdistrict (低塘街道), Fengshan Subdistrict (凤山街道), Langxia Subdistrict (朗霞街道), Lizhou Subdistrict (梨洲街道), Yangming Subdistrict (阳明街道).
Towns: • Dalan (大岚镇), Dayin (大隐镇), Huangjiabu (黄家埠镇), Hemudu (河姆渡镇), Lubu (陆埠镇), Liangnong (梁弄镇), Linshan (临山镇), Mushan (牟山镇), Mazhu (马渚镇), Simingshan (四明山镇), SImen (泗门镇), Sanqishi (三七市镇), Xiaocao'e (小曹娥镇), Zhangting (丈亭镇).
The only township is Luting Township (鹿亭乡).
1Economy Yuyao is known as a place for rice and fish. Its economy has been booming as private enterprises dominate after the economic reform began in late 1970s. In 2007, GDP will reach RMB 34 billions, with double digit annual growth rates over the past 20 years. It ranked as one of the top-20 counties in terms of comprehensive economic strength out of all the 2100 counties in China. The industry products are mainly electric appliances, plastic moulding, machinery and textiles. High-tech industries such as materials, optical, electro-mechanical integration and fine chemical industry are developing rapidly. The main agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry products of Yuyao are tea, fruits like waxberry and mandarin orange, bamboo, silkworm, fowl, livestock and fish. Fresh produce is available in all seasons.
1Transport The Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway and China National Highway 329 and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway go through Yuyao. The world's longest trans-oceanic bridge – the 36 km (22 mi) Hangzhou Bay Bridge – was recently completed construction near the northern border of Yuyao. It reduced the cross bay traffic to only 80 km (50 mi) from the current 420 km (260 mi) section of Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway around Hangzhou Bay.
1Yuyao has a population of over 1,254,000 people. Yuyao also forms one of the centres of the wider Ningbo metropolitan area which has a population of over 9,400,000 people.
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🇨🇳 Shangyu 120.867,30.017 d: 27.6
🇨🇳 Ningbo 121.542,29.875 d: 42.3
🇨🇳 Fenghua 121.417,29.65 d: 51.1
🇨🇳 Haiyan 120.95,30.517 d: 55.6
🇨🇳 Shaoxing 120.583,30.051 d: 54.7
🇨🇳 Xinchang 120.904,29.5 d: 65.4
Antipodal to: Yuyao -58.849,-30.048
🇦🇷 Goya -59.25,-29.133 d: 19906.2
🇦🇷 Reconquista -59.933,-29.233 d: 19876.6
🇦🇷 Concordia -58.033,-31.4 d: 19845.7
🇺🇾 Salto -57.95,-31.383 d: 19843.5
🇧🇷 Salto -57.963,-31.396 d: 19842.9
🇧🇷 Uruguaiana -57.08,-29.772 d: 19841.8
🇦🇷 San Justo -60.583,-30.783 d: 19829.8
🇦🇷 Colón -58.133,-32.217 d: 19764.5