舟山岛的英文介绍

Zhoushan Island is located in the southeast of Hangzhou Bay and the northeast of Zhejiang Province. It is southeast northwest. It covers an area of about 502 square kilometers. It is about 8.1km away from the nearest point of the mainland. It is the main island of Zhoushan Archipelago. Apart from the narrow alluvial plain around, the main landform of Zhoushan archipelago is mountainous and hilly, and the height is generally 100-400 meters above sea level.

翻译：舟山岛位于中国杭州湾东南方向、浙江省东北部海域。呈东南西北走向。面积约502平方千米。距大陆最近点约8.1千米。是舟山群岛的主岛，该岛除四周局部狭窄的冲积平原外，主要地貌为山地丘陵，高度一般为海拔100～400米。

舟山岛的文化：

舟山岛不仅有较多的历史古迹，而且还有浓厚的海岛文化氛围。著名的有舟山渔民画、舟山锣鼓、渔家小调、民间故事、舟山越剧小百花剧团等等，均是极富海岛渔港情调的。据当地人称，舟山不仅盛产海产品，而且还多出美女。外地人初到舟山，在大街或小巷亦不时可见渔家美女翩然而过。

普陀山是我国四大佛教名山之一，同时也是著名的海岛风景旅游胜地。如此美丽，又有如此众多文物古迹的小岛，在我国可以说是绝无仅有。普陀山位于浙江省杭州湾以东约100海里，是舟山群岛中的一个小岛。全岛面积12.5平方公里，呈狭长形，南北最长处为8.6里，东西最宽外3.5公里。最高处佛顶山，海拔约300米。

普陀山的海天景色，不论在哪一个景区、景点，都使人感到海阔天空。虽有海风怒号，浊浪排空，却并不使人有惊涛骇浪之感，只觉得这些异景厅观使人振奋。

Putuo Mountain, one of the Four Holy Buddhist Mountains, covers an area of 12.5 square kilometers. The highest peak, the Fudingshan Mountain is 300 meters high above the sea level. Temples, monasteries, nunneries are spread all over the mountain. According to the annals of Putuo Mountain, after the construction of "Unwilling-to-go" Guanyin Temple, people began to build up temples in large scales. The remained ten ancient architecture complex and historical sights were built in Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing. Putuo Mountain once had 82 temples, 128 huts, accommodating 4,000 monk and nuns at its heyday. When you walk on the paths, you probably can come across monks in kasaya. The glorious sceneries as well as the glamour concerned with Buddhism make it a sacred mountain.

Puji Temple, Fayu Temple, and Huiji Temple are the three largest in the twenty temples in Putuo. Puji Temple, covering 11,000 square meters, was first built in Song Dynasty, and is the main temple devoted to the Goddess of Guanxin. Fayu Temple was first built in Ming. It sits along the mountain with different layers on it. Numerous large trees stand in the mountain, qualify the temple for a quiet and deep place. Huiji Temple is on the Foding Peak, so gets a name after that, Foding Peak Temple.

Bizarre rocks and queer cliffs can be seen everywhere. The most famous twenty are Qingtuo Rock, Rock of Two Tortoises Listening to Preaching, Rock of Buddhist Heaven on Sea, etc. Along the line where the mountain connects with the sea, many spectacular caves are very attractive. Chaoyin Cave and Fanyin Cave are the two top ones.

Zhoushan, the only city of islands in China, is located in the middle part of China coastline ( 121°31′--- 123°25′E and 29°32′ --- 32°04′N ). It is a central hub of sea transport of Shanghai and the Yangtze Delta Ecomomic Zone to the outside world.

Zhoushan has as many as 1390 islands with an area of 22,200 square kilometres, 1440 of which of a land area, with a population of 0.98 million. The main island, which is the fourth largest island in China, where the municipal government stands, covers an area of 502 square kilometres. It is the centre of economics, politics and culture of Zhoushan. It has a long history, which can be traced back to Neolithic Age, one the island lived and laboured man. Dinghai, where many historical relics has been discovered, such as ancient culture relics of the New Stone Age, the ruins of ancient battle field of the Opium War, has been named as a famous historical and cultural city by the provincial government.

Zhoushan has under its jurisdiction two districts --- Dinghai and Putuo, two counties ---Daishan and Shengsi. In April, 1998, it was approved by the State Council to be one of the coastal economic zones and listed among those first plan and develop in Yangtze River Delta along the sea coast in 1992.

Zhoushan, the Fish Storehouse of China, has it's annual aquatic productes over one million tons. It boasts of its fine deepwater coastline and ports for anchoring. Now 9 berths for ships of 10,000 tonnage have been put into use. Its annual loading and unloading is over 1,500 million tons. Zhoushan with fine scenery and simple lifestyle owns two state-level famous scenic spots --- Mount Putuo and Shengsi Islands; two provincial level well-known scenic spots --- Daishan and Peach-flower Islands. They receive more than 3 million tourists every year.

Meteorology Zhoushan has a northern subtropical monsoon marine climate with clear four seasons; Leading wind directions are Southeast wind in Summer, Northwest wind in winter. With an annual average wind speed of 3.3m/s; And an average temperature of 15.6℃--16.6℃, and the frost free period reaches 251 --303 days perannum, annual average sunshine time 1941--2257 hours, and the annual preeipitation is 927--1620 mm.

Fishery Zhoushan is the most famous fishery area in China. It is famous for big and small yellow croacker, ribbonfish, cuttlefish and other species of economic fish and shrimp. Zhoushan islands has an excellent natural enviroment conditon which is suitable for all the marine creature. To statistic, there are more than 360 fish species, 60 shrimp species and 100 shell species living in the sea area. The main 40 species for catching are ribbonfish, pomfret, mackerel, chinese herring, marine eel, spanish mackerel, rockfish, swimming crab, etc. As the major important ocean fishery processing basis of China, there are more than 100,000 people involved in fishery and related industry, which number is 10% of the whole city population. There are at least 10,000 automobile boats for the fishery industry, among them, there are more than 2,000 steel vessel. Now the catching area is extented as far as the east Africa, Indonesia, both of the south and the North Pacific Ocean.