Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Hangzhou is a prefecture-level city, provincial capital, sub-provincial city, mega-city, economic, cultural, scientific and educational center of Zhejiang Province, one of the central cities of the Yangtze River Delta, the core city of the Hangzhou Bay Bay Area, and the center of the G60 Science and Technology Corridor, under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province. As of 2019, the city has 10 municipal districts, 2 counties and 1 county-level city under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 16,850 square kilometers and a built-up area of 648.46 square kilometers. By the end of 2021, the resident population of Hangzhou was 12,204,000, and in 2021, the city achieved a regional GDP of 1,810.9 billion RMB.
Hangzhou is located in East China, downstream of Qiantang River, southeast coast, north of Zhejiang Province, and south of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, with geographical coordinates between 29°11′-30°34′ N latitude and 118°20′-120°37′ E longitude. There are many cultural monuments in Hangzhou, and a large number of natural and humanistic landscape relics in and around the West Lake, including the West Lake culture, Liangzhu culture, silk culture, and tea culture.
Hangzhou is the birthplace of Chinese civilization, the first batch of national historical and cultural cities, and is known as the "famous county in the southeast". Excavations at the Cross Lake Bridge site have shown that humans flourished here more than 8,000 years ago. The Liangzhu culture, which dates back more than 5,000 years, has been called the "dawn of Chinese civilization. Hangzhou has been the capital of the Wu-Yue Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty for more than 2,200 years since it was established as a county during the Qin Dynasty.
Hangzhou is known as "Paradise on Earth" because of its beautiful scenery. Thanks to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the convenience of commercial ports, as well as its own well-developed silk and grain industries, Hangzhou has historically been an important commercial distribution center. Since the new century, the Internet economy has become a new economic growth point for Hangzhou, driven by high-tech enterprises such as Alibaba.
The 2016 G20 Summit, the 2018 World Short Course Swimming Championships, and the 2022 Asian Games were held in Hangzhou. 2020 ranking of China's top 100 cities ranked Hangzhou at No. 5.

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