Few cities carry so many arguments in their skin. Shanghai is one of them. It has been a river city, a port city, a treaty-port city, a revolution city and a money city; at different times, outsiders have praised...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
