Tourism Resources

Hangzhou is proud of its rich tourism resources. The golden tourism lines, Qiantang River -- Fuchun River -- Xin’an River ; Thousand Islands Lake -- West Lake -- Tianmu Mountain, are renowned around the world. The West Lake tourism area, covering 60.8 Km2, is one of the top10 landscapes in China. It integrates key points of interest, historic sites, gardens, mountains and waters into one body and therefore was listed by the state for the application for World Natural and Cultural Heritage. In 2002, the reconstruction of the south wing of West Lake was finished and the Leifeng Pagoda was re-erected to reveal the famous landscape “Sunset on Leifeng Hill” in old Hangzhou. In 2003, Hangzhou completed the construction of Yanggong Causeway, New Lakeside Garden and Meijiawu Tea Cultural Village to fulfill the dream of “one lake, two pagodas, three islets, and three causeways”, a landscape that existed more than 300 years ago in ancient Hangzhou. In 2004, the city reconstructed the north side of the lake and therefore the night scene of Beishan Street is much charming now. In 2008 2.21 million international tourists and 45.52 million domestic tourists visited Hangzhou, climbing 6.1% and 10.7% respectively from the previous year. The city’s total income from tourism reached RMB 70.722 billion Yuan, climbing 12.2% from 2007.

Environment Protection

The government of Hangzhou is making a great effort to improve the urban environment under the brand of “residing, traveling, studying and establishing business in Hangzhou”, and to initiate the implementation of Four Projects, namely: Project Blue Sky, Project Green Water, Project Greenness and Project Quietness. Environment quality of Hangzhou keeps improving. In 2008, the volume of chemical oxygen consumption by industrial sectors declined 3.7% and the volume of SO2 emission declined 3.7% as well. The discharge standard rate of SO2 in the industrial exhaust gas and the discharge standard rate of industrial wastewater comparatively reached 98% and 82%. The central wastewater treatment rate reached 83.9%, 3% over the previous year. According to the state standard, in 2008, there were 301 days of excellent air quality in Hangzhou city proper, around the same year 6.09 million M2 of new greenbelt was constructed in the city proper. Up to the end of 2008, the per capita greenbelt coverage of Hangzhou reached 14.1 M2.

Public Facilities

The comprehensive level of public facility service in Hangzhou is being improved continuously. In 2008 alone, 4.566 million KVA was added into Hangzhou electric grid through 35 KV and above transformation projects and 281.14 Km line of 110 KV and above was integrated into the grid. The volume of power supply in 2008 reached 43.018 billion KVH, 4.2% over the previous year. The volume of water supply per day reached 2.86 million M3 in the same year. Also in 2008, the total income of Hangzhou’s telecom sector reached RMB 11.595 billion Yuan, 7.9% over the previous year. The number of wired telephone users reached 4,285,700 in 2008 and the number of cell phone users, 8,801,900. There were 1,396,100 internet users in Hangzhou up to the end of 2008, 15.9% over the previous year. Hangzhou Telecom can not only provide ADSL, LAN, VDSL, VPN, IPHOTEL, optical fiber and other broadband access services but also provide multiple broadband access services, which can basically satisfy the market demands.