Hangzhou
Province
Hangzhou (杭州Chinese, Pinyin Hangzhou, code杭) is the capital of China's Zhejiang province, and is also the center of the metropolitan area of Hangzhou. The actual city region has over eight million inhabitants and is situated at the mouth of the Qiantang River. The formed by the estuary called Hangzhou Wan.
In Hangzhou Grand Canal, an important link in the north of China begins. Hangzhou is still a major production and commercial center for Chinese silk.
- 3.1 museums of national importance in Hangzhou
- 3.2 Museums of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou
- 3.3 West Lake
- 3.4 Six Harmonies Pagoda
- 3.5 Hu Qingyu Pharmacy
- 3.6 tea plantations
- 3.7 silk
- 3.8 Paris ( dummy )
Geography
Location
Hangzhou is located about 190 km south- southwest of Shanghai. The administrative area of the sub- provincial city has an area of 16,596 km ² and approximately 6.83 million inhabitants ( end of 2009). In urban compacted space living from about 4.3 million inhabitants.
Administrative Divisions
At county level, Hangzhou sets of eight districts, two counties and three independent cities together. These are:
- Municipality Shangcheng (上 城区/上 城区= " Upper Town " ), 18.3 km ², 362,000 inhabitants;
- Municipality Xiacheng (下 城区/下 城区= " Lower Town " ), 31.46 km ², 405,000 inhabitants;
- Municipality Jianggan (江干 区/江干 区), 210.22 km ², 404,000 inhabitants;
- Municipality Gongshu (拱墅 区/拱墅 区), 87.49 km ², 288,000 inhabitants, the seat of the city government;
- City Xihu District (西湖 区/西湖 区), 308.7 km ², 628,000 inhabitants;
- City District Binjiang (滨江 区/滨江 区), 72.02 km ², 131,000 inhabitants;
- City District Xiaoshan (萧山 区/萧山 区), 1420 km ², 1,177,000 inhabitants;
- Municipality Yuhang (余杭 区/余杭 区), 1223.56 km ², 832,000 inhabitants;
- Tonglu county (桐庐 县/桐庐 县), 1825 km ², 395,000 inhabitants;
- Circle Chun'an (淳安 县/淳安 县), 4427 km ², 453,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Qiandaohu (千岛湖 镇);
- Jiande City (建德 市/建德 市), 2321 km ², 508,000 inhabitants;
- Fuyang City (富阳 市/富阳 市), 1831.2 km ², 628,000 inhabitants;
- Lin'an City (临安 市/临安 市), 3126.8 km ², 519,000 inhabitants.
Climate
History
Hangzhou is one of the cradles of Chinese civilization, the Liangzhu culture can be demonstrated until 4700 years. The documented history of the town dates back to the year 221 BC. Hangzhou was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty ( 1132-1276 ). The China traveler Marco Polo had described the city as "the most beautiful and magnificent city in the world ". In his time, in the 13th century, the city had the largest port in the world. Today there is no longer a port city because over the centuries silted up the bay.
It is believed that the city in the middle of the 13th century could have had a population of up to one million people. The majority of these would have been that it was standing there as a result of the Mongol invasion of refugees and soldiers. This Hangzhou would have been the largest medieval city in the world from Baghdad.
Culture and sights
Museums of national importance in Hangzhou
Museums of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou
West Lake
The main attraction in Hangzhou is located west of downtown, approximately 500 -acre West Lake with over 60 different attractions. This lake was chosen for its beauty throughout China and Japan several times, sometimes by artificial impoundment copied. In the West Lake, there are three small pagodas that apply in China as a symbol of the lake and are shown on the back of the one- yuan note. In June 2011, UNESCO has declared the West Lake and the surrounding area a World Heritage Site.
Six Harmonies Pagoda
The south of the city near the 1937 finished Qiantang Jiang Bridge located Six Harmonies Pagoda was first built in the late 10th century as protection against flash floods and as a lighthouse. After it was destroyed in 1122, was looking for a spring tide, the home city of Hangzhou, which is why the pagoda was then built. The brick core of the pagoda dates from the Song Dynasty, while the now highly visible wood paneling from the end of the 19th century came from. Inside, the pagoda frescos on from the time of its construction.
Hu Qingyu - pharmacy
In the pedestrian zone Hanghai -Lu, the building of the Hu - Qingyu Pharmacy is a museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Built in 1874 the building still contains today a pharmacy for traditional Chinese medicines and can be considered as an architectural example of a large trading house of the late Qing Dynasty.
Tea plantations
Hangzhou is known in China as tea growing area. The most famous green tea in China, the Dragon Well tea (Chinese龙井茶/龙井茶, Pinyin Lóngjǐngchá ) is grown in Hangzhou.
Silk
Hangzhou is known from ancient times as the " City of Silk ". There are several silk factories and also a silk market. Here there is one of the largest silk museums, the National Museum of China for silk. In the west of the West Lake nearby mountains is the Lingyin Temple, which is dedicated to the silk deities.
Paris ( dummy )
With the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe to be imitated in Tianducheng, a suburb of Hangzhou, the flair of Paris.
Education and Research
For some time arise in Hangzhou new school complexes or whole " college towns " on the Western model. Some of these schools have with German secondary schools since 2005 partnerships. A focus will be on reciprocal exchange visits of students.
- Zhejiang University
- Zhejiang Polytechnic University
- University of Electrical and Electronics Hangzhou (杭州 电子 科技 大学/杭州 电子 科技 大学)
- Chinese Academy of Metrology (中国 计量 学院)
- University of Science and Technology Zhejiang
- University of Industry and Trade Zhejiang (浙江 工商 大学/浙江 工商 大学)
- Shuren University, Zhejiang
- Chinese University of the Arts
The city has with Zhejiang University on a university that ranks among the best in the country. It maintains partnerships with a number of German universities and colleges. The Chinese University of the Arts, with about 7,000 students, the largest art school in China and also one of the best in the country. It cultivates partnerships including with the UDK Berlin.
Economy and Transport
Hangzhou is located on the Hukun highway ( G60 ), which runs from Shanghai to Kunming in southwest China.
The 6 -lane Hangzhou Bridge, which leads 95 km east of the great Hangzhou Bay, was opened after around 10 years of planning and construction, on 1 May 2008. It is officially 35.673 km length Coll About the longest sea bridge in the world. Difficult was the foundation of the pillars, because the tidal range in the shallow bay of up to 6 m and the little contribution solid ground posed a major challenge. The larger of the two passages has a pylon span of 448 m, the passage width is 408 m. Thus, the road distance between Shanghai and Ningbo shortened by 120 km. The construction of the cable-stayed construction began in November 2003 and cost 11.8 billion yuan ( 1.1 billion euros ). The new bridge has led to a relief of the highways in the eastern area of Hangzhou.
On 26 October 2010, the 202 km long high-speed line from Shanghai to Hangzhou was put into operation. It should be part of that designated as Hukun route high-speed line between Shanghai and Kunming.
In Hangzhou is the international airport of the province, the airport Hangzhou Xiaoshan. It is measured by passenger traffic of China's tenth largest airport.
Since 2007, the Hangzhou Metro is under construction. On 24 November 2012, the first 48 km long line was opened, two other lines are under construction. The long-term planning looks to 2050 a 375 km long network with 13 lines.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Maryam Agischewa, Actress
- Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba.com / Taobao.com
- Sun Baoqi, politician, served both in the Chinese Empire and the Republic of China
- Sun Yang, float
- Tang Wei, Actress
- Wu Man, pipa player
- Ye Shiwen, swimmer
Twin Cities
Twinning consist, inter alia with the following cities: