Yuyao

Yuyao 余姚市
County-level City
The Tongji Bridge over the Yaojiang River in downtown Yuyao.
Yuyao City in Ningbo Municipality
Ningbo in China
Country	China
Province	Zhejiang
Prefecture	Ningbo
Area
• Total	1,336.8 km2 (516.1 sq mi)
Population (2005)
• Total	829,200
• Density	620/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	315400
Area code(s)	0574
Website	http://www.yy.gov.cn/

Yuyao (Chinese: 余姚; pinyin: Yúyáo) is a county-level city in Zhejiang province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Ningbo.

It is located 40 km (25 mi) west of central Ningbo, 120 km (75 mi) east of Hangzhou, bordering Hangzhou Bay in the north. Yuyao covers an area of 1,527 km².

Yuyao [1] has a local population of 400,000 in downtown, within the total 850,000 in the county. However, recently the migrated workers and their families have almost doubled the total population to about 1.6 million, but they do not show up in the official census and other related statistics data.

Yuyao lies in a subtropical monsoon zone, rich in sunshine and rain fall, warm and humid, distinct in the four seasons. The mean annual sunshine is 2,061 hours and the annual rate of sunshine is 47%. The mean annual temperature is 16 degree Celsius and the coldest months perennial are January and February, the hottest are July and August. The mean annual precipitation is around 1,300 millimeters and changes greatly from year to year. The hyetal distribution is also uneven during a year, and the rainfall centers on East Asian rainy season (梅雨) (aka bai-u rainy period) from April to June and typhoon period from July to December.

Yuyao offers a wide variety of landscape from wide open ocean in Hangzhou Bay, rice fields in fertile plains to high spires in Siming Mountains. Yaojiang River originates in Siming Mountains in the south where the Ninth Fantasy world of Taoism is located. Yaojiang River goes through the county and extends eastward into East China Sea as well as Pacific Ocean.