了无痕Sky
Zhoushan is located at the southern flank of Yangtze River estuary and outer edge of Hangzhou Bay of China, Zhoushan is a unique port and tourist city. It is well known as “Buddhist Paradise on the Sea” and also famous for its fishery. With a total of 1390 pearl-like islands scattered in the East China Sea, Zhoushan archipelago, endowed with attractive islands scenery, covers a total area of 22,000 square kilometers, of which an area of 20,800 square kilometers is sea. Zhoushan has long been known as the place to go for the benefits of fish and salt, of convenient marine transport and its rich resources and beautiful scenery. With its unparallel nature and special geography adding centuries-old history, Zhoushan has not only various landscapes, such as blue sky and sea, green islands, golden sand, whitecap, wizard peaks and intelligent stones, but also many human landscapes, cultural relics, war remains, old temples and ancient petroglyphies. To date, more than one thousand various landscapes have been developed. Among them, the two location, Mount Putuo----“Buddhist Paradise amidst the Sea and Heaven”, and Shengsi----“Islands with Fine Sands” are the Nationally Ranked nature sites, while Daishan Island----“a fabled abode of immortals in the East China Sea” and Taohua Island----“Fairyland Abroad” are Provincially Ranked nature sites. Moreover, Dinghai----the famous historic and cultural town is unique in China, Shenjiamen fishing port----“Fishery Capital of China” is also very well-known. Zhoushan is one of the richest tourist city in East China.The climate in Zhoushan is type of oceanic monsoon on the flank of sub-tropic, which renders Zhoushan rich of sea products with characteristics of trenchant four seasons and full illumination. Island tourism, with its marine culture, Buddhist mountain, seafood and seashore recreation, is becoming one of leading industries in Zhoushan. The colorful features of islands have attracted many visitors. There are a variety of activities for visitors to Zhoushan, island exploration, water and beach sports, marine science, eating seafood, sightseeing, fishing, living with fisherman’s family, as well as several festivals. It hosts Zhoushan International Sand Sculpture festival, Mount Putuo Nanhai Kwan-yin Cultural Festival, Zhoushan International Sailing Competition and Zhoushan International Sea Fishing Festival. Friends from home and abroad are all welcome in Zhoushan, the largest archipelago in China and a thoroughly enjoyable tourist destination.
安然若水
Zhoushan, the only city of islands in China, is located in the middle part of China coastline ( 121°31′--- 123°25′E and 29°32′ --- 32°04′N ). It is a central hub of sea transport of Shanghai and the Yangtze Delta Ecomomic Zone to the outside world. Zhoushan has as many as 1390 islands with an area of 22,200 square kilometres, 1440 of which of a land area, with a population of 0.98 million. The main island, which is the fourth largest island in China, where the municipal government stands, covers an area of 502 square kilometres. It is the centre of economics, politics and culture of Zhoushan. It has a long history, which can be traced back to Neolithic Age, one the island lived and laboured man. Dinghai, where many historical relics has been discovered, such as ancient culture relics of the New Stone Age, the ruins of ancient battle field of the Opium War, has been named as a famous historical and cultural city by the provincial government. Zhoushan has under its jurisdiction two districts --- Dinghai and Putuo, two counties ---Daishan and Shengsi. In April, 1998, it was approved by the State Council to be one of the coastal economic zones and listed among those first plan and develop in Yangtze River Delta along the sea coast in 1992. Zhoushan, the Fish Storehouse of China, has it's annual aquatic productes over one million tons. It boasts of its fine deepwater coastline and ports for anchoring. Now 9 berths for ships of 10,000 tonnage have been put into use. Its annual loading and unloading is over 1,500 million tons. Zhoushan with fine scenery and simple lifestyle owns two state-level famous scenic spots --- Mount Putuo and Shengsi Islands; two provincial level well-known scenic spots --- Daishan and Peach-flower Islands. They receive more than 3 million tourists every year. Meteorology Zhoushan has a northern subtropical monsoon marine climate with clear four seasons; Leading wind directions are Southeast wind in Summer, Northwest wind in winter. With an annual average wind speed of 3.3m/s; And an average temperature of 15.6℃--16.6℃, and the frost free period reaches 251 --303 days perannum, annual average sunshine time 1941--2257 hours, and the annual preeipitation is 927--1620 mm. Fishery Zhoushan is the most famous fishery area in China. It is famous for big and small yellow croacker, ribbonfish, cuttlefish and other species of economic fish and shrimp. Zhoushan islands has an excellent natural enviroment conditon which is suitable for all the marine creature. To statistic, there are more than 360 fish species, 60 shrimp species and 100 shell species living in the sea area. The main 40 species for catching are ribbonfish, pomfret, mackerel, chinese herring, marine eel, spanish mackerel, rockfish, swimming crab, etc. As the major important ocean fishery processing basis of China, there are more than 100,000 people involved in fishery and related industry, which number is 10% of the whole city population. There are at least 10,000 automobile boats for the fishery industry, among them, there are more than 2,000 steel vessel. Now the catching area is extented as far as the east Africa, Indonesia, both of the south and the North Pacific Ocean.
一览佳肴
Zhoushan is located at the southern flank of Yangtze River estuary and outer edge of Hangzhou Bay of China, Zhoushan is a unique port and tourist city. It is well known as “Buddhist Paradise on the Sea” and also famous for its fishery. With a total of 1390 pearl-like islands scattered in the East China Sea, Zhoushan archipelago, endowed with attractive islands scenery, covers a total area of 22,000 square kilometers, of which an area of 20,800 square kilometers is sea. Zhoushan has long been known as the place to go for the benefits of fish and salt, of convenient marine transport and its rich resources and beautiful scenery. With its unparallel nature and special geography adding centuries-old history, Zhoushan has not only various landscapes, such as blue sky and sea, green islands, golden sand, whitecap, wizard peaks and intelligent stones, but also many human landscapes, cultural relics, war remains, old temples and ancient petroglyphies. To date, more than one thousand various landscapes have been developed. Among them, the two location, Mount Putuo----“Buddhist Paradise amidst the Sea and Heaven”, and Shengsi----“Islands with Fine Sands” are the Nationally Ranked nature sites, while Daishan Island----“a fabled abode of immortals in the East China Sea” and Taohua Island----“Fairyland Abroad” are Provincially Ranked nature sites. Moreover, Dinghai----the famous historic and cultural town is unique in China, Shenjiamen fishing port----“Fishery Capital of China” is also very well-known. Zhoushan is one of the richest tourist city in East China. The climate in Zhoushan is type of oceanic monsoon on the flank of sub-tropic, which renders Zhoushan rich of sea products with characteristics of trenchant four seasons and full illumination. Island tourism, with its marine culture, Buddhist mountain, seafood and seashore recreation, is becoming one of leading industries in Zhoushan. The colorful features of islands have attracted many visitors. There are a variety of activities for visitors to Zhoushan, island exploration, water and beach sports, marine science, eating seafood, sightseeing, fishing, living with fisherman’s family, as well as several festivals. It hosts Zhoushan International Sand Sculpture festival, Mount Putuo Nanhai Kwan-yin Cultural Festival, Zhoushan International Sailing Competition and Zhoushan International Sea Fishing Festival. Friends from home and abroad are all welcome in Zhoushan, the largest archipelago in China and a thoroughly enjoyable tourist destination.