Introduction: The Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal has a history of more than 2,500 years. It is the world’s longest and oldest canal, and China’s 46th UNESCO World Heritage Sites. On this tour, journalists will enjoy the natural, historic and cultural sites along the Hangzhou section of the waterway, experiencing distinctive food, clothing, and folklore from across the country.
Highlights: Wulin Gate (taking a pleasure boat), the historical area to the west of the Gongchen Bridge (Gongchen Bridge, Zhijie Street to the west of the bridge, Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum, Workmanship Demonstration Pavilion, Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum)
Introduction: This tour reflects important developments in the “Internet plus.” Hangzhou’s innovative enterprises embody China’s booming Internet economy and its passion for innovation. Hangzhou witnessed the birth, growing, and prospering of Alibaba Group, the leading internet company in China, even in the world. Meanwhile, Dream Town nurtures a substantial group of pioneering startups. As these areas attest, Hangzhou continues to provide fertile ground for “mass entrepreneurship and innovation.”
Highlights:Xixi Park of Alibaba Group (with the theme of Business Ecosystem & Globalization of Alibaba, visit and exchange involved will be arranged centrally) 、 Dream Town
Introduction: The West Lake is China’s only lake to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Jiangyangfan Ecological Park, once a mountain of mud created by dredging from the Lake, has been transformed into a beautiful environmental haven. Yuhuang Shannan Fund Town, next to the park, is a new centre for finance-themed tours. The town plays an important role in boosting supply reform, mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and building a wealth management center in Hangzhou.
Highlights:Jiangyangfan Ecological Park、Yuhuang Shannan Fund Town
Introduction: Developing an information economy is Hangzhou’s most important goal. In the first half of 2016, the added value of the city’s information economy was 119.376 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.2 percent, accounting for 23.8 percent of Hangzhou’s gross domestic product (GDP). The added value of the cloud computing and big data industry was increased by 35.4 percent year on year, and that of the software and information service industry 31.4 percent. Two enterprises, HIK Vision and New H3C Group have exemplified Hangzhou’s rapid progress in these fields.
Highlights:HIK Vision、New H3C Group
Introduction: In recent years, traditional manufacturing accelerating industrial upgrading has been the theme of Hangzhou’s traditional industrial development. Under the new normal of Chinese economy, Hangzhou's manufacturing accelerates the deep integration between a new generation of information technology and traditional manufacturing, seizing the new opportunities of “Internet + ”, pading the enterprise’s short boards with the integrated innovation of information technology, reduces the production cost and accelerates the promotion of traditional manufacturing to intelligent, green and high-end. This itinerary taking two traditional old private enterprises, Transfar Group and Wanxiang Group, as the typical, highlights the newly-shaped sample of Hangzhou’s manufacturing transformation and improvement for steady growth, structural adjustment and transformation.
Highlights:Transfer Group、Wanxiang Group
Introduction: The new countryside construction plays an important role in contemporary China, especailly for the construction of Beautiful Village and Beautiful China. This tour takes ancient village in Tonglu County, as a miniature and has a taste of tangible cultural heritages in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which helping to achieve an understanding of various intangible cultural heritages like folkways and custom, traditional festivals and legendary crafts. Also, through the field studies of living environment improvements, ancient architectural complexes protections and redevelopments as well as village civilization inheritance, this tour perceives the pulse of China's new countryside construction, experiences the accelerating rise of the new operational type of village tourism represented by homestay and farmers' transition into the main body of the rural new economy.
Highlights:Jiangnan Town in Tonglu County(Dipu Village、Jiangnan Town in Tonglu County( Huanxi Village)
Introduction: Although the average annual growth rate of the traditional foreign trade is lower than 10%, China’s E-commerce has maintained an increase rate of over 30%, proving to be a new engine of foreign trade growth. Among the first Cross-Border Trade E-Commerce Services Pilot Cities, Hangzhou is the first Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Area (CBECCPA) countrywide. Hangzhou’s path is demonstrated in this tour, in which the city has been promoting the construction and development of the CBECCPA as well as driving growth in foreign trade through pioneering exploration and innovation, marching towards the golden age of cross-border trade.
Highlights:Cross-Border Trading Town(Cross-Border Bonded International Street, Exhibition Center of China(Hangzhou) Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Area, Makerspaces)
Introduction: The Liangzhu Sites is a solid proof of China’s 5,000 years of civilization. Dating back to 5,300 to 4,300 years ago, it was a contemporary of ancient civilizations as Egypt, Sumer and Harappa. Through a display of the extensiveness and profundity of the Liangzhu culture as well as an investigation of the creativity settlement and new type of community built based on the sites, this tour aims at showing the participants a pan-tourism town integrating eco-landscape, cultural attractions, leisure and entertainment as well as green living, and nevertheless, the harmonious fusion of arts and nature as well as history and modernity.
Highlights:Liangzhu Museum,Liangzhu Culture Village
Introduction: Anji County in Huzhou City, which covers an area of 1,886-square-kilometer, located in the northwest of Zhejiang Province with a population of 460 thousand. It is the only one county which wins the UN Habitat Scroll of Honor in China, the earliest County of Ecology in China, the earliest owner of the prize for ecological civilization. The environment of Anji is always scenic, for the government thinks highly of the ecological protection and the conversion of dividends. Also, Anji County is the birthplace of the significant idea ‘Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.’ and also, it is the place where ‘Chinese Beautiful Village’ originated.
Highlights:Gaojiatang Village、Majialong Village、Yucun Village、Spring Alpha Resort
Introduction: As the permanent venue for the World Internet Conference, Wuzhen, which in Tongxiang City, takes full advantage of the amplification effect of the summit and seizes the opportunity of construction of the first National Comprehensive Pilot Reform of Tourism County, the provincial featured Internet town and Wuzhen Internet Innovation and Development Comprehensive Experimental Area.The government vigorously promotes tourism and Internet development in parallel. This tour enables visitors to experience the unique charm of the ancient town under the combined influence of the traditional Chinese cultural and modern technology by going through Wuzhen Internet Hospital, Wuzhen Smart Elderly Care Service System and Wuzhen Scenic Area (Xizha).
Highlights: Wuzhen Internet Hospital、Wuzhen Smart Elderly Care Service System、Wuzhen Scenic Area (Xizha)
Introduction: Regarded as one of “Top 4 Summer Resorts” in China, Mount Mogan Scenic Area is located in Deqing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and it enjoys a reputation as “Cool World”. Inside the scenic area , lots of hotels and guesthouses operated by foreign investors have become exotic eco-tourism products in rural lodging. As the portal of the scenic spot,Yucun Village becomes representative village of Shanghai customs and culture with its fusion of Chinese and Western styles and enchanting style of the Republic of China.
Highlights:Mount Magan Scenic Area、Hill Stations in Mount Mogan、Yucun Village
Introduction: Yellow Rice Wine is one of the three most famous traditional wines in the world. Renowned as the “Home of Yellow Wine in China”, Shaoxing has a long wine-making history. In recent years, under the “One-Town(Shaoxing Yellow Wine Town)-Two-District(Yuecheng District and Keqiao District)” pattern proposed by Shaoxing Municipal Government, the construction work of Shaoxing Yellow Rice Wine Town focuses tightly on the theme of “Shaoxing Yellow Rice Wine”, regarding the culture of Yellow Wine as its soul, and extends to Yellow Wine-based characteristic tourism and Yellow Wine culture creative industry. The Town is now promoting the close integration of Yellow Wine industry with culture and tourism, digging deeply into and exploiting the historical cultural resources of Yellow Rice Wine.
Highlights:Dongpu Yellow Rice Wine Town、China Yellow Rice Wine Museum