The Riverside Landscape Avenue in Zhenhai
1 min readThe Silk Road at Sea generally refers to the way through which trade and cultural communication were carried out between the East and the West.Silk and chinaware enjoy a high popularity around the world and were disseminated to the west through the transportation means both by seaway and landway before Christ.
Zhenhai is located in the middle of the coastline of the East China Sea.China traded its goods mainly to Korean Peninsula and Japan in ancient times through Zhenhai Port in a very convenient and easy way with the assistance of sea wind and tidewater.Zhenhai Port is also endowed with well-developed inland river transportation network.
In ancient times，Zhenhai Port was one of the most prosperous harbors in the trade on the sea of Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province.It was called the first port because it was also the throat of all the ports in Mingzhou（today’s Ningbo）.The superiority ofZhenhai port can be seen from the glimpse of such reputation of“backbone of the south-east of China，the throat of Zhe jiang Province.”
During the long course of the development of the Silk Road at Sea，Zhenhai is lucky owing to such conditions as its privileged geographical location，the advantages of wide inland，the profound sailing culture，and the well-developed social environment.All the privileges mentioned above also imply the necessity of Zhenhai port as an important port of the Silk Road at Sea.
