Xiaocao'e () (

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: xiǎo Cáo É) is a town located in the administrative territorial entity of

Yuyao Yuyao () is a county-level city in the northeast of Zhejiang province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the sub-provincial city of Ningbo. It is located west of central Ningbo, east of Hangzhou, bordering Hangzhou Bay in the north. Yuyao ...

Ningbo Ningbo is a sub-provincial city in northeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the Eas ...

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province,

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, established in 1949 and named after

Cao E Cao E () (130–143) was a young girl from Shangyu District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in China. She was the daughter of the shaman Cao Xu. The girl died in the year 143 while trying to save her father from drowning. In the year 151 ...

(130-143), the

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daughter who drowned when she tried to save her father. Xiaocao'e has a densely populated area of 33.4 square kilometres with a population of 40400 (2017) and the town contains eight administrative territorial entities, one of them is Cao'ecun (Cao E village). The town is situated approx 50 km from the harbour of Ningbo and is known for her industry, fruit, honey, mustard, pepper and cotton. In October 2021 this town was chosen to one of the 1000 top towns in China at place 553.

Climate

The region around Xiaocao'e has a warm and temperate climate without a dry season but with a lot of rain in the hot summers, a climate classification Cfa according to

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. The average humidity is between 70-80%, with the highest humidity in June and the lowest in April. The average annual precipitation is 1778 millimetres. The wettest month is June, with an average of 285 mm of precipitation, and the driest month is January, with 60 mm of precipitation. The average temperature is between 5 degrees Celsius in winter (January) and 28 degrees Celsius in the middle of summer (July), with occasional peaks. Hours of sunshine range from 5 hours/day in winter and 10 hours/day in the summer.

Notes and references

Yuyao Township-level divisions of Zhejiang {{Zhejiang-geo-stub