Zhenhai

Zhenhai is a district and previous county of the sub-provincial town of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province in japanese China. It has a populace of 200,000. The town of Zhenhai grew up at the foot of Zhaobao Hill on a tongue of land at the mouth of the Yong River approximately 12 miles north-east of significant Ningbo. Under the Qing, the metropolis walls protected a circuit of 3 miles and rose to 20 toes. The British captured Zhenhai on 10 October 1841 at some point of the First Opium War, dismantling its former castle. The Zhenhai Coastal Battery changed into the website of the 1885 Battle of Zhenhai throughout the Sino-French War.

In the later 19th century, Zhenhai become included from the ocean through a dike about 3 miles long, made of large blocks of hewn granite. Zhenhai has suffered excessive lengthy-term air pollutants in particular emanating from the Ningbo Petro-Chemical Economic and Technical Development Zone built on its japanese coast. The quarter is home to nearly 200 chemical flora which include Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Corporation, a subsidiary of Sinopec and the most important oil refinery in China, LG-Yongxing, the largest ABS plastic manufacturer in China and Zhenhai Port Liquid Chemical Dock, the most important liquid chemical dock in China.