Hangzhou Bay

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Hangzhou Bay or the Bay of Hangzhou is an inlet of the East China Sea, bordered by the province of Zhejiang and the municipality of Shanghai. The Qiantang River flows into the bay.

It lies south of Shanghai, and ends at the city of Hangzhou. Hangzhou Bay contains many small islands collectively named as Zhoushan Islands.

The bay is known for hosting the worlds largest tidal bore, being up to 9 metres (30 ft) high, and traveling up to 40 km (25 miles) per hour. The tidal bore is especially high during the Mid-Autumn Festival when several thousand tourists come to watch the magnificent Qiantang Tidal Bore.^{[citation needed]}

Local people have been surfing on the tip of those tsunami-like tidal waves for thousands of years.

The bay is spanned by the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, which was linked up on June 14, 2007. The second longest bridge in the world, it will cut the trip between eastern Zhejiang and Shanghai from 400 to 80 kilometres (250 to 50 miles) when it opens in 2008.