Ningbo Lishe opened in 1984. In 1990 it became the first entirely civilian used airport of Zhejiang Province. Nowadays it has links to Taiwan, Macau, Seoul, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Osaka and other major destinations in Asia.
All major airlines are represented at the airport, including: Air China, Air Macau, Beijing Capital Airlines, Chengdu Airlines, China Eastern, China Southern, Chongqing Airlines, China United, Donghai Airlines, Dragonair, EVA Air, Hainan Airlines, HK Express, Lucky Air, Mandarin Airlines, Okay Airways, Shandong Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, Sky Angkor Airlines, Spring Airlines, Thai AirAsia, Tianjin Airlines, Tigerair, Uni Air, Vietnam Airlines, West Air China, Xiamen Airlines.
Runway 13/31 is 3200 m long and 45 m wide. In reality, gates 1 to 7 are fitted with a Visual Docking Guidance System. In P3D they and windsocks are not functional.