宁波是我国有着七千年古老文明的河姆渡文化的发源地,鸦片战争后成为最早通商口岸之一。1854年,出版了由外籍传教士创办的宁波近代史上第一份中文报刊——《中外新报》,它比上海创办的第一份近代中文报刊《六合丛谈》(1857年)早了整整三年。此后在宁波又创办了《甬报》、《德商甬报》等外籍报刊,均各有特色。虽然宁波近代外籍报刊在规模与影响上不能与上海、香港、广州相比,但也有值得研究与借鉴的地方,是中国近代新闻史中重要的组成部分。 Ningbo is the birthplace of China’s Hemudu culture, which has a history of seven thousand years of ancient civilization. After the Opium War, Ningbo became one of the earliest ports of commerce. In 1854, the first Chinese newspaper in modern history of Ningbo, “Sino-Foreign Newspaper,” founded by foreign missionaries, was published three whole days earlier than the first modern Chinese newspaper “Liuhe Cong Tan” founded in Shanghai (1857) year. Since then Ningbo has also set up a “Ningbo Daily”, “German Business,” and other foreign newspapers, have their own characteristics. Although the modern foreign newspapers and periodicals in Ningbo can not compare with those in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou in terms of scale and impact, there are also places worthy of study and reference. They are an important part of the modern Chinese news history.