The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China (UNNC) is a campus of the University of Nottingham, UK situated in the city of Ningbo in the coastal province of Zhejiang, near Shanghai. The campus is a joint venture partnership with the Wanli Education Group. It is one of the first Sino-Foreign universities in China with approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education. It also receives support from Ningbo Educational Bureau. The land on which university buildings (libraries, lecture halls, administration and residence halls) are situated is under the jurisdiction of Yinzhou district. Their uses vary (equally or not) between Wanli Education Group and the University of Nottingham. The campus has some open fields and big gardens with an environmentally-conscious building called CSET (Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies) opened in September 2008. It can take up to 8000 students. It is often referred as a branch or satellite campus of the University of Nottingham.