Hangzhou Bay zone revitalizing the region

Driving around Hangzhou Bay New Zone, with its large areas of factory facilities, high-rise office buildings and residential properties dotted among a network of far-stretching highways, it is hard to imagine that just a few years ago this was little more than a foreshore that drew scant outside attention.

Now the wild seaside area has been transformed into a national-level development zone, and a growth engine for Ningbo, in the northeast of Zhejiang province.

But all this would not have been possible without the completion of the Hangzhou Bay Cross-sea Bridge, which now crosses the bay that separates the southern bank of Shanghai from the northwestern edges of Ningbo.