Three Rivers and Two Banks
"Ripples mirroring riverside mountains divide Zhejiang into two parts; Three rivers and two banks join hands to achieve common prosperity." The "Three Rivers and Two Banks" that flows eastwards from Qiandao Lake, Xin'an River, Fuchun River through Qiantang River with a total length of 235 kilometers is reputed to be "the Tang Dynasty Poems Road on Water" and is also the actual scene depicted in the famous painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" by Huang Gongwang, a highly-acclaimed painter in the Yuan Dynasty. It has the potential to become a world-class waterfront tourist destination.
Tourism of Digital Intelligence
Known as a leisure city, Hangzhou has now developed into a smart city, thanks to the growing presence of the Internet and high-tech enterprises in the city. As early as 2016, Hangzhou initiated the “City brain”, which makes the city “smarter” through big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technology. The Culture and Tourism System is an integrated system built on the basis of the main center of the City Brain, and is one of the six industrial systems of the City Brain. Through data aggregation, coordinated co-governance and online services, it exerts itself on optimizing the allocation of urban tourism resources, focuses on transportation, attraction admission, hotel check-in and consumption-guided and -promoted fine management, handles the paint points of tourism management such as long queuing line and the low tourism percentage, in doing so, improves the touring experience in Hangzhou from all aspects.
Rural Tourism
In 2003, Hangzhou launched the "Hundred Villages Demonstration and Thousand Villages Renovation" project, to comprehensively renovate a thousand administrative villages in the city and build a hundred key villages of them into all-round well-off demonstration villages. The project has created hundreds of beautiful villages, and fundamentally changed the face of the city's countryside. Now Hangzhou not only has a thriving business scene around the West Lake and towering skyscrapers on the banks of the Qiantang River, but also beautiful villages.