Majishan is an island part of

Shengsi County Shengsi County is a county in the northeast of Zhejiang province in China consisting of an archipelago islands located to the east of Hangzhou Bay. It is under the administration of Zhoushan City and is the easternmost county-level division in ...

Zhoushan Zhoushan is an urbanized archipelago with the administrative status of a prefecture-level city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. It consists of an archipelago of islands at the southern mouth of Hangzhou Bay off the mainland c ...

Zhejiang ) , translit_lang1_type2 = , translit_lang1_info2 = ( Hangzhounese) ( Ningbonese) (Wenzhounese) , image_skyline = 玉甑峰全貌 - panoramio.jpg , image_caption = View of the Yandang Mountains , image_map = Zhejiang i ...

, China. Geographically it is one of the

Shengsi Islands The Shengsi Islands or Archipelago () are part of the Zhoushan Archipelago and located south of the mouth of the Yangtze (east of Hangzhou Bay). They comprise 394 islands, each with an area larger than , but of which just 18 are inhabitable. The ...

. The island has an area of 1.491 km², including 0.467 km² of land reclaimed during the construction project of Baosteel's ore transit base starting in 1997. It was originally an isolated island, after Zhoushan City implemented a relocation project of the island, most of the population on the island was moved to Maguan village on Shengsi Island just north. Most of the land is now used by the Baosteel ore transfer base, which opened in 2004. A bridge has been built to connect the island with Shengsi island. In 2006, the

MS Berge Stahl MS ''Berge Stahl'' was a bulk carrier. Until the delivery of MS ''Vale Brasil'' in 2011 she was the longest and largest iron ore carrier in the world. She was registered in Comoros. Before that, she was registered in Douglas, Isle of Man, Sta ...

, one of the largest ships at the time, visited the port of Majishan.''"Largest bulk cargo ship in the world comes to China"''
– CNSPhoto.com – 7 September 2006

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{{PRChina-geo-stub Islands of Zhejiang Shengsi Islands