A Mysterious Sea of Flowers Appears in Hangzhou
Wukong is Back in the Spotlight! The Story Begins by West Lake
Challenging 17°C in Xin'an River
Summer Romance at Damalong Stall
Thousand-Year Wuyue Kingdom Culture
Wu Yue State (907-978 AD) was one of the ten states during the Five Dynasties period, founded by Qian Liu, a native of Lin'an, Zhejiang. Its capital was Qiantang (Hangzhou), covering an area of thirteen provinces, one army, and eighty-six counties. At its peak, it included the entire territory of present-day Shanghai, Zhejiang, Suzhou, and northeastern Fujian. It lasted for nearly a hundred years from the three dynasties of the Five Kings to the year 978 AD. During the late Tang and Five Dynasties period, the feudal lords were divided and wars were frequent. Qian Liu adopted the strategic policy of protecting the territory and the people, and "resting the army and suppressing the people". He emphasized agriculture, mulberry cultivation, and water conservancy, and developed overseas exchanges with Japan, Korea, and other countries, resulting in the two Zhejiang and North Korea provinces. The land has a relatively long period of stable development.
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.