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CRITICAL EYE ON NINGBO
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Around 210 BC, the Taoist court necromancer Xu Fu and his fleet of ships sailed out of Ningbo Harbor to search the uncharted East Sea for the Pearl of Immortality. His boss, Emperor Qin Shihuang, unifier of China and builder of the Great Wall, was not the sort to be particularly forgiving of failure, and Xu Fu wisely vanished. But the geographic logic behind his choice of port at which to build and outfit his fleet remains sound to this day.
Indeed Ningbo, a city of 5.5 million in Zhejiang-a mere 150 km from Shanghai across the Hangzhou Bay-boasts the best natural deep-water harbor in East ...
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