The 2016 Ningbo Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament (for men) and part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ningbo, China.

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
AUS	John Millman	74	1
TPE	Lu Yen-hsun	79	2
AUS	Jordan Thompson	99	3
UKR	Sergiy Stakhovsky	119	4
JPN	Go Soeda	129	5
KOR	Chung Hyeon	140	6
USA	Stefan Kozlov	156	7
KOR	Lee Duck-hee	157	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of 10 October 2016.^[1]

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Zhang Ze
• Wu Yibing
• Sun Fajing
• Wang Chuhan

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Jimmy Wang
• Shuichi Sekiguchi
• Sadio Doumbia
• Yannick Hanfmann

The following player entered as a lucky loser:

• Cheong-eui Kim

• Yen-hsun Lu def. Hiroki Moriya, 6–3, 6–1.

• Jonathan Eysseric / Sergiy Stakhovsky def. Stefan Kozlov / Akira Santillan, 6–4, 7–6^(7–4).