Shaoxing is a prefecture level city of Zhejiang province, located in the central north of zhejiang province and the south bank of hangzhou bay. It is a cultural and eco-tourism city with the characteristics of jiangnan water township. The coastline is 40 kilometers long and the land area is 8273.3 square kilometers, with a population of 2.161 million (November 2013 data).
1. Long History
Shaoxing has a history of about 9000 years since the small yellow mountain culture in the middle of neolithic period. The ancient capital of Vietnam was built in 490 BC, and it is nearly 2500 years old. Xuantong three years (1911), the mountain Yin, kuaiji merged into shaoxing county. In May 1949, the whole territory of shaoxing was liberated. In June, set up the tenth zone of zhejiang province. In January 1952, the shaoxing special area was revoked. The former shaoxing, zhuji, xiaoshan three counties and shaoxing city are directly under the provincial government. By December 2010, the administrative division of wuxian county (city) in shaoxing city had not changed. Shaoxing has 79 towns, 15 townships, 24 streets, 488 neighborhood committees (communities) and 2188 administrative villages. In October 2013, the state council agreed to revoke shaoxing county and set up a shaoxing heqiao district. To revoke the shangyu city at the county level and set up the shangyu district of shaoxing city. In the original shaoxing county, the town of sunduan, taoyan town and fusheng town are under the jurisdiction of shaoxing city yuecheng district.
2. Economic Development
In 2007, shaoxing's GDP ranked fourth in zhejiang province, second only to hangzhou, ningbo, and wenzhou, with a total GDP of 28 in the domestic cities and 7 in prefecture-level cities. The average annual income of urban residents reached 17,140 yuan, ranking second in zhejiang province. Shaoxing textile industry, small motor, energy-saving lighting, biological brewing is extremely rich, textile exports accounted for 60% of the world's textile fabrics turnover, shaoxing China textile city is the world's largest textile market. On the macro level, the shaoxing economy is dominated by private industry, with some state-owned telecom, chemical and machinery manufacturing industries. Food production has been stable, the pace of new high-tech agricultural industrialization has been accelerated, and more than 1,000 agricultural leading enterprises in high-tech eco-agriculture and export economy have been established. The construction of professional market continues, and the real estate industry develops rapidly, and the transportation, communication, information and logistics industry are constantly expanding.
3. Profound Culture
As one of the first 24 cultural and historical cities in China, Shaoxing has a history of over 2,500 years, known as “a historical museum without walls”, a city of waters, a town of bridges, a land of wine, and the home of celebrities. An awning boat, a wool-felt hat; Social drama, shaoxing opera, yue opera, these are the cultural elements of the ancient city shaoxing. In 2010, shaoxing successfully held the sixth world chorus competition, economic transformation and the city "interaction" celebration of 2500 Shanghai world expo BBS, construction and other major festivals activities, successful bid to host the fifth lu xun literature prize presentation ceremony. By the end of 2010, there were 21 national "intangible heritage" projects in shaoxing. Shaoxing has six art performing groups, 125 museums and cultural centers.
4. Climate
The city is in the subtropical monsoon climate zone, the monsoon is significant, four seasons, mild climate, humid and rainy. In spring, winter and summer monsoon alternate, solar radiation enhancement, temperature rise, warm air activity frequent, rain increase, wind direction variable, the weather changes big. The plum rains fall in the middle of June, and may in early July. Rainfall is relatively concentrated, often accompanied by heavy rain. Rainfall is relatively concentrated, often accompanied by heavy rain, the autumn air was fresh. Winter is controlled by the winter risk control system, with the north wind, cold, dry, the weather is stable.
5. Tourism Attractions
There are 43 natural reserves and communities in shaoxing, one of which is a provincial nature reserve, covering an area of 5071.10 hectares. In 2012, the total number of tourists received by shaoxing was 348.872 million, and the total tourism revenue was 318.4 billion yuan, up by 20.5% and 26.2% respectively. At the end of the year, there were 94 foreign-related hotels, including 7 five-star hotels, 16 four-stars and 43 three-stars. In that year, the new increase of 1 new zhejiang province tourist economy strong county, 2 province tourism strong town, 9 tourism characteristic village. There are 4 National forest park, namely lanting national forest park, the five drainage national forest park, nanshan lake national forest park, torreya national forest park. Some famous sights include Lu Xun's residence, Sanwei School, Tomb of Yu the Great, East Lake and so on.
Population: 5.01 million
Temperature: average 16.5 °C(61.7℉)
