Hangzhou City Facts and District Guide

Hangzhou is the capital city, as well as the political, economic and cultural center of Zhejiang Province. With its famous natural beauty and cultural heritages, Hangzhou is one of China's most important tourist venues.

The sub-provincial city of Hangzhou has eight districts and two suburban counties with a total area of 16,596 square kilometers, including an area of 3,068 square kilometers in the urban area. The population density of the whole city is 393 persons per square kilometer, of which the urban population density is 1,309 persons per square kilometer.

Xiacheng District has jurisdiction over 6 sub-districts, 1 town, 67 communities and 4 administrative villages. To achieve the overall objective of forging the Central Business District, it actively carried out the policy of "Flourishing the Tertiary Industry, Optimizing the Secondary Industry and Adjusting the Primary Industry" and forged hard the service industry around Hangzhou Bay Industrial Belt.

The square economic circles are centered at Wulin Square and the West Lake Cultural Square, and the exhibition economic zone is centered at Peace International Exhibition Center and the featured economic belt is highlighted by Wulinlu Fashion Dress Street and Xinhualu Silk Street.

Jianggan District has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 5 sub-districts, 49 administrative villages and 69 communities. According to the overall requirement for advancing urbanization, constructing the central district and developing new Jianggan, the district persisted in the strategy of developing metropolis-oriented service as the top priority, developing metropolis-oriented industry in an intensive way and developing metropolis-oriented agriculture with adjustment. It laid stress on the integration and upgrading of the market. The featured Sijiqing Clothing Street was rated as one of the ten provincial featured commercial streets and the famous car corridor at Genshan Road (East) developed with a dynamic momentum.

Gongshu District

Gongshu District has jurisdiction over 4 towns, 6 sub-districts and 64 communities with a total area of 88 square kilometers and a registered population of 292,700. The district emphasizes on auto sales, modern goods flow, commerce, trade, etc. and is actively developing the service industry. Its tertiary sector grew with a powerful momentum. With upgrading industrial innovation and competitiveness, its scientific, technological and economic zone began to take shape.

Xiacheng District has jurisdiction over 6 sub-districts, 1 town, 67 communities and 4 administrative villages. To achieve the overall objective of forging the Central Business District, it actively carried out the policy of "Flourishing the Tertiary Industry, Optimizing the Secondary Industry and Adjusting the Primary Industry"and forged hard the service industry around Hangzhou Bay Industrial Belt.

The square economic circles are centered at Wulin Square and the West Lake Cultural Square, and the exhibition economic zone is centered at Peace International Exhibition Center and the featured economic belt is highlighted by Wulinlu Fashion Dress Street and Xinhualu Silk Street.

Xihu District

Xihu District has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 2 townships, 7 sub-districts, 104 communities and 71 administrative villages. The metropolitan agriculture developed quickly and the standardized bases for the West Lake Dragon Well Tea, flowers, plants, seedlings, aquatic products and vegetables were basically constructed. The four pillar industries in IT, machinery and transportation equipment manufacture, electronic communications and bio-medicine also developed in a quick manner.

Hi-Tech (Binjiang) District

Hi-Tech (Binjiang) District has jurisdiction over 3 sub-districts, 7 communities and 28 administrative villages. Hi-Tech (Binjiang) District is the most influential scientific and technological innovative base and hi-tech industry base in Zhejiang Province. It has five hi-tech industries in modern communications equipment manufacture, software technology, photo-electro-mechanical integration, bio-medicine and new materials and traditional backbone industries in architecture and building materials, machinery and hardware, refined chemical engineering, and so on.

Xiaoshan District

With an area of 1,163 square kilometers on the southern bank of Qiantang River and a registered population of 1.1574 million, Xiaoshan District has jurisdiction over 22 towns and 4 sub-districts. Rapid progress has been made in its economic and social development since the reform and opening-up. A new pattern has been formed with agriculture as the foundation, industry as the domination and an all-round development in the primary sector, the secondary sector and the tertiary sector. The district shows obvious advantages in the key industries in chemical fiber and textile, machinery and auto fittings, clothing and eider down, steel structure and network frame, chemical engineering, printing and dyeing.

Yuhang District

Yuhang District has jurisdiction over 14 towns, 1 township and 4 sub-districts with an area of 1,222 square kilometers and a registered population of 801,200. Led by its exemplary hi-tech agricultural center, it cultivated the featured agricultural zone and sight seeing zone and energetically developed green, safe, harmless and brand farm products with 26 leading agricultural enterprises at the district level and up and 205 registered farm products. The leading Linping Industrial Zone and key regional urban zones were constructed in a quick way and the five pillar industries in textile and clothing, machinery and electronics, building materials, medicine and chemical engineering, food were formed.

Tonglu County

Tonglu County has jurisdiction over 12 towns and 11 townships with an area of 1,780 square kilometers and a total registered population of 393,700. Fuchun River and Fenshui River run their ways through the county with beautiful ecological environment. The county has persisted in the strategy of making "the county progressive with industry and strong with environment".

Chun'an County

Chun'an County has long been reputed as a famous land with beautiful hills, water and literature with an area of 4,452 square kilometers in the west of Hangzhou, a total registered population of 451,400 and a history of 1,800 years. The well-known Qiandao Lake in the hinterland of the county is one of the first national key sceneries authorized by the State Council, and also the largest national forest park in China. It is also a land for China's organic fish and China's hickory nut.