Hangzhou is Zhejiang’s capital, one of China’s best-known cities and its capital of e-commerce, but it does not rely on fame alone. It has old water, new money and a city centre that has learned how to stay polished without losing its sense of...
Famed across Zhejiang for its port, its entrepreneurs and its old cultural bones, Ningbo does not rely on one identity alone. It is coastal, commercial and surprisingly layered; a city where shipping, manufacturing, literature and old street life still sit side by side.
宁波因港口、企业家精神和深厚的文化底子而闻名浙江，但它并不只靠一种身份立足。这里临海，经商气息浓，也有很强的层次感；航运、制造、书香和老街生活至今仍并存于这座城市。
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Wenzhou is one of Zhejiang’s best-known cities, but it is not famous by accident. It has long been a place of family firms, overseas links, hard-edged manufacturing and a coastline that has pushed the city outward rather than inward.
温州是浙江省最知名的城市之一，但它的名气并非偶然。这里长期以家族企业、海外联系、硬核制造业和向外延展的海岸线而著称，城市的发展始终带着一种向外生长的劲头。
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Canals, train lines and conference halls have all had a hand in Jiaxing’s rise, but the city still starts with water. South Lake gave it national memory; silk gave it trade; and Wuzhen later gave it a place on the digital map.
嘉兴的气质，先从水开始。运河、铁路和会展中心都参与了它的成长；南湖给了它国家记忆，丝绸给了它商贸底色，而乌镇后来又把它送上了数字时代的地图。
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Huzhou is one of those Zhejiang cities easy to underestimate from a map and hard to forget once you know it. Set on the south shore of Lake Tai, it has long lived off water, silk and trade; today it is adding rail links,...
Few Zhejiang cities carry such an easy first impression and such a complicated life beneath it. Shaoxing looks like a place of canals, wine jars and old scholars; in practice it is also a hard-working commercial city that still knows how to make money.
绍兴是浙江少数几座既容易留下第一印象、又不那么容易被一句话说尽的城市之一。它看上去像一座有运河、黄酒和旧书卷气的地方；但实际上，它也是一座务实而能赚钱的商业城市。
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Jinhua is one of Zhejiang’s most useful surprises. It does not shout like Hangzhou or lean on a single headline-grabbing industry. Instead, it runs on markets, hardware, film sets and a stubbornly practical commercial culture that has made the city matter far beyond central...
Tucked into western Zhejiang and touching Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui, Quzhou is a city that has always lived by geography. Its old streets, river valleys and border position still shape how it trades, travels and thinks about itself.
衢州位于浙江西部，紧邻福建、江西和安徽，是一座从地理位置开始塑造自身的城市。它的老街、水系和边界位置，至今仍在影响这座城市的贸易、出行和自我认知。
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Far off the Zhejiang coast, Zhoushan feels less like a single city than a working archipelago. Sea, shipping and salt air shape everything here; from the fishing docks to the temples on Putuo Mountain, the islands are still doing the heavy lifting.
远离浙江海岸的舟山，看起来更像一座运转中的群岛，而不是一座单独的城市。海洋、航运和咸湿的海风塑造着这里的一切；从渔港到普陀山上的寺院，这些岛屿至今仍在承担主要的城市功能。
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Taizhou is one of Zhejiang’s most practical cities, but it is also one of its most varied. It has long coastlines, island chains, deep mountain valleys and a private economy that has helped shape its place in the province’s story.
台州是浙江最务实的城市之一，但同时也是变化最多的城市之一。它拥有漫长海岸线、岛屿群、深山峡谷，以及一套塑造了其省内地位的民营经济。
The city does not rely...
High in the mountains of southwestern Zhejiang, Lishui does not try to look flat or easy. Here, forested slopes, river headwaters and scattered settlements mean distance has shaped habit and habit has shaped character; less polished perhaps, but more distinctive.
中文版本浙江西南的群山深处，这并不是一座试图显得平坦或轻松的城市。这里有林坡、河源和分散的聚落，距离塑造了生活方式，生活方式又塑造了城市性格。这让它没有沿海大城那样光鲜，却更有辨识度。
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