Ningbo:
Ningbo is a seaport sub-provincial city with a population of 1,219,900 in northeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. Lying south of the Hangzhou Bay, and facing the East China Sea to the east, Ningbo borders Shaoxing to the west and Taizhou to the south, and is separated from Zhoushan by a narrow body of water.

Ningbo was one of China's oldest cities with a history dating back to 4800 B.C. the Hemudu culture. Ningbo was known as a major trading port along with Yangzhou and Guangzhou in the Tang dynasty; thereafter, the major ports for foreign trade in the Song dynasty. Ningbo was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanjing (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between Britain and China. During the war, British forces took possession of the walled city of Ningbo briefly after storming the fortified town of Zhenhai at the mouth of the Yong River on October 10, 1841. In 1864 the forces of the Taiping Rebellion held the town for six months.

Ningbo was once famed for traditional Chinese furniture production.

Zhejiang Wanli University:
Zhejiang Wanli University (ZWU), situated in Ningbo Higher Education Zone, covers a total area of 951,809 square meters and consists of Huilong Campus and Qianhu Campus. ZWU has a vey beautiful campus that is well--equipped, widely recognized by people from the education circle. In ZWU, there are Junior College, Business School, Law School, Faculty of Culture and Media, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Art and Design, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology as well as World College, Adult Education College, with 27 specialties of undergraduate (4-year program) and 30 specialties offering associate degree (3-year program), which contains such disciplines as economics , law, literature, science, engineering, agriculture and management. At present, the total number of full-time students at ZWU is over 16,000.

There are about 900 qualified teachers, among them there are 60 professors, 230 associate professors, which is fairly proportional in professional titles and educational background and age.

For higher education internationalization, ZWU has established relationship with many universities from the UK, USA, Canada, Japan and Australia, France, Korea and Ukraine. Most of the majors have already linked with the relevant faculties in these sister universities. Further more, ZWU has a partnership with the University of Nottingham, and has set up a new cooperative university, the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, which follows the educational system of the University of Nottingham, UK. This is the first of the top foreign 200 universities ever to establish a campus independently on the Chinese mainland.