Human Geography
Hangzhou is an important center city of the Yangtze River Delta, 180 kilometers away from Shanghai. Hangzhou has a subtropical monsoon humid climate with four distinct seasons and a pleasant climate. The average annual temperature in the city is 16.2℃ and the average annual precipitation is 1,453 millimeters.
Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Province and one of the 16 sub-provincial cities in China. Hangzhou has a total area of 16,596 square kilometers and a population of 6,368,100 people. The city has 8 urban areas, namely Uptown, Downtown, Xihu, Gongshu, Jianggan, Binjiang, Xiaoshan and Yuhang, and 5 counties (cities), namely Fuyang, Jiande, Lin'an, Tonglu and Chun'an. The city area is 3068 square kilometers, population 3,870,100 people.
Hangzhou has a long history, more than 2,200 years since the county was set up in the Qin Dynasty, and is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. As early as more than 4,700 years ago, there were human beings flourishing here, and produced the Liangzhu culture, which is known as the dawn of civilization. In the 10th and 12th-13th centuries A.D., Hangzhou was the capital of the Wu-Yue State and the Southern Song Dynasty respectively, making Hangzhou a famous historical and cultural city and one of the seven ancient capitals of China. The unique environment endowed by nature and thousands of years of cultural accumulation have shaped Hangzhou's famous natural and humanistic landscapes.
Life and Living
Hangzhou is one of the most livable places in the world. The beautiful West Lake, the beautiful Qiantang River, Fuchun River and Xin'an River, the 10,000-quantity Qiandao Lake, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which runs through the north and south of the city, form Hangzhou's unique natural landscape. As early as 1824, Italian traveler Marco Polo said in his travelogue that Hangzhou is "the most beautiful and noble city in the world". Hangzhou's green, quiet and beautiful living environment, good social security and perfect living facilities have been recognized by the United Nations with the UN Habitat Award, the highest international award for habitat improvement. International schools in Hangzhou provide a range of educational services for investors' children. Tourist resorts, golf courses and safari parks are located in the suburbs of the city, providing investors with a good place to relax and have fun after work.
Environmental Facilities
Hangzhou is committed to creating an international garden city and eco-city with blue sky, blue water, green and quiet. At present, the green coverage rate is over 35%, the rate of harmless treatment of domestic garbage reaches 100%, the coverage rate of smog control area reaches 100%, and the air cleanliness reaches the national level standard.
Hangzhou has sufficient water sources, with a daily water supply capacity of more than 1.5 million tons, which ensures industrial and domestic water supply, and the water quality of drinking water sources meets the standard of 100%. The installed capacity of electric power reaches 2.26 million kilowatts. The gasification rate of the city reaches 95.7%. Communication facilities are advanced and developed, ranking the leading level in the country. The telephone penetration rate in the city has reached 69 per 100 people, and the mobile and data communication networks are sound. Telecom broadband network and cable broadband network throughout the city.
Hangzhou is an important transportation hub in southeastern China, crisscrossed by railroads and highways, with a modern first-class port airport, initially forming a transportation network centered on Hangzhou, with high-grade highways, railroads, water transportation and aviation as the backbone.
Air: There are direct flights to and from Japan and Hong Kong every day, and there are also routes and charter flights to Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Macau. There are also chartered flights to Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Macau. 40 cities are served.
Highway: The Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway has been fully opened to traffic, with a total length of 296 kilometers, and it takes only one and a half hours' drive to Ningbo Port and two hours' drive to Shanghai Port. Hangzhou-Quzhou Expressway. Hangzhou city bypass highway has been completed, Hangzhou 1 ? hour highway circle will soon be completed, the urban area to form a half-hour metropolitan rapid transit circle, and planning for the construction of urban rail transit (subway).
Railway: With Hangzhou as the hub, Shanghai-Hangzhou, Zhejiang-Gan two double lines and Xuanhang line as the main trunk, Xiaoyong line, Jinqian line, Hangzhou-Changsha line and its supporting. There are daily shuttle buses to Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming, Xiamen, etc., and the freight can reach all the railroad stations in China.
Industrial base
Hangzhou is one of the most dynamic cities in China's southeast coastal economy. Hangzhou has more than 60,000 industrial enterprises and nearly 700,000 industrial workers. It has a strong capacity for technological research and development, with many national and provincial and municipal technology centers. In addition to the traditional machinery, textile, food, medicine and other industries, the information industry, bio-engineering, optical mechatronics and other high-tech industries are also more developed, forming a comprehensive industrial system with a complete range of categories and varieties.
Hangzhou's booming economy provides huge business opportunities for investors. The government encourages investment in key industries and areas of electronic information, new materials, biotechnology, electromechanical integration, new energy, energy-efficient environmental protection, fine chemicals, high-grade highways, modern agriculture and so on. The use of advanced science and technology to transform the traditional silk, textile, light industry, machinery and other processing industries are also welcome.
At present, Hangzhou city in the field of strong investment in the "two ports": the port of new drugs, information port; "five areas": Hangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, Hangzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Jiangdong Industrial Zone, Linping Industrial Zone, Hangzhou Higher Education Park. Hangzhou is the national software industrialization base and integrated circuit design industrialization base, or national informatization pilot city, national e-government pilot city, national e-commerce pilot city and national high-definition television pilot city, and is the key city of national manufacturing informatization project, these areas and bases for investors to provide great opportunities for development. With China's accession to the WTO, Hangzhou will fully open its doors to investors in the fields of tourism, finance, insurance, logistics, commerce, intermediary and science, education, culture and health. The development of Hangzhou has constructed the prototype of a metropolis, which requires hundreds of billions of dollars of investment and construction funds every year, with huge investment projects and opportunities.
Talent resources
Hangzhou education industry is developed. 34 general colleges and universities, 224,100 students. After the completion of Xiaosha, Binjiang, Xiaohuashan Higher Education Park, Xiaoshan Jiangdong, Yuhang Cangqian and Zhejiang University Foundation, in 2010, the scale of enrolled college students can reach 400,000 people. In Hangzhou's famous institution of learning, Zhejiang University is a wealth of talent, strong research power. In order to promote economic development, Hangzhou launched to encourage talent to Hangzhou entrepreneurship policy, talents from all over the country have to Hangzhou to find opportunities. Good human resources, a large number of talent market can provide investors with all kinds of talents needed to meet the demand for talent resources.
Entrepreneurial parks
Hangzhou has four state-level development zones and one export processing zone, which were approved by the State Council and enjoy various preferential policies stipulated by the state. They are:
Hangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone Established in 1993. Located in the eastern part of the city, the planned control area is 104 square kilometers. At present, it has formed five pillar industries, including electronics and machinery, biomedicine, textile and chemical fiber, light industry and food and high-tech chemical industry. The development zone is committed to become a demonstration base for Hangzhou's technological innovation and scientific and technological transformation, a pioneer base for the combination of industry, academia and research and reform, an industrial base for the close combination of traditional industries and high-tech industries **** with the development of the industrial base, and a scientific and technological service base that is compatible with the market economy and the knowledge-based economy.
Hangzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone was established in 1993. There are Zhijiang Science and Technology Industrial Park, Xiasha Science and Technology Industrial Park, Software Industrial Park, International Students Venture Park, Multinational Corporations Science and Technology Park and other specialized parks in the development zone. Taking full advantage of the intellectual density of the zone and relying on Hangzhou's unique geographic environment and favorable investment policies, the Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone is gradually building a new city of science and technology based on high-tech industries and the world's attention of the Heavenly Silicon Valley. The district focuses on the development of five high-tech industries, namely, information microelectronics, biomedicine, new materials, optoelectronic integration, and computer and application. There are nearly 1,000 enterprises in the district.
Hangzhou Zhijiang National Tourism Resort was established in 1992. Total area of 9.88 square kilometers. The resort is located in the southwest of Hangzhou, south of the Qiantang River (Zhijiang), north of Wuyun Mountain, is the West Lake and the "two rivers and one lake" (Fuchun River, Xin'an River, Qiandao Lake) scenic spot the best combination. Leisure, tourism and real estate are its pillar industries.
Xiaoshan Economic and Technological Development Zone was established in 1993. The scale area is 18.8 square kilometers. Textile and garment, electronic machinery, construction materials, daily-use chemical industry are the pillar industries in the zone, and there are Japanese Jinggang Industrial Mission, Taiwan Machinery Industrial Park and High-tech Venture Center.
Hangzhou Export Processing Zone, Zhejiang Province, established in April 2000, is the only export processing zone in Zhejiang Province. It is the only export processing zone in Zhejiang Province, with a total area of 2.92 square kilometers. The zone is independently supervised by the Customs and implements closed management, enjoying a series of national preferential policies of "inside and outside the customs".
Hangzhou also has six provincial-level development zones, which were approved by the provincial government, they are:
Nanyang Economic Development Zone was established in 1994. The development zone is located on the south bank of the Qiantang River, belonging to the planned inner ring road area of Greater Hangzhou, with an area of 7.88 square kilometers. The development zone is surrounded by the river and mountains on one side, with a unique environment. The first phase of the 2 square kilometers of industrial zone blocks, for the Xiaoshan District fine chemical industry area. Along the river, the development of the Qianjiang River tide sightseeing tourism and other projects.
Yuhang Economic Development Zone was established in 1993. The first phase of the planning area of 5.32 square kilometers, the vision of the development area of 12 square kilometers. The development zone is industry-oriented, integrating trade, warehousing, finance, commercial and residential, tourism, entertainment, multi-functional all-round development in one, with complete infrastructure such as water, electricity, steam, communication, sewage, etc., and complete supporting institutions such as customs, finance, insurance, etc., the implementation of the "tax-free zone" and the systematic pro-business service system is committed to providing the best space for investors to develop their business. The company is committed to providing investors with the best space for entrepreneurial development.
Tonglu Economic Development Zone was established in 1992. Development Zone is located in the picturesque south bank of the Fuchun River, close to the 320 National Highway, 80 kilometers away from Hangzhou, the development zone planning control area of 21.5 square kilometers. Industry, foreign trade, commerce, tourism and vacation four functional districts have begun to take shape. In order to further give full play to the comprehensive environmental advantages of the development zone, the development zone to implement closed management, and with more favorable conditions and excellent service to welcome foreign investment.
The Qiandao Lake Economic Development Zone was established in 1993. With a planning area of 28.38 square kilometers, it is located in Qiandao Lake Town, 150 kilometers away from Hangzhou in the east and 166 kilometers away from Huangshan in the west. The development zone has water supply, power supply, finance, post and telecommunications, culture and education, medical and health care, catering and entertainment, and it implements the efficient and effective system of "a window to the outside world" and "an official seal to take effect" for all the projects in the zone, as well as providing investors with reliable legal protection. The company also provides investors with reliable legal protection.
The Fuchun River Economic Development Zone was established in 1992. The development zone is adjacent to Hangzhou, with a superior geographic location and convenient land, water and air transportation. On the basis of basically completing the construction of 8 square kilometers of the original Silver Lake, Gaoqiao, Fuchun Bay, Farmer City, the development zone is based on the advantages of location and resources, and newly opened 13 square kilometers of the main block, of which the High-tech Industrial Park covers an area of 300 hectares and, according to Hangzhou's "one district with multiple parks" strategic concept, is subordinate to Hangzhou High-tech Zone and enjoys the preferential policies of national-level high-tech zones. The preferential policies of the state-level high-tech zone.
Lin'an Economic Development Zone was established in 2001. The control area of the zone is 20 square kilometers, with a planning area of 10 square kilometers, close to the Hangzhou-Huizhou Expressway. It is adjacent to Hangzhou. The zone is well-equipped with transportation, communication, power supply, water supply, gas supply, sewage disposal and other infrastructures, and has the ability to carry large-scale, high-tech projects. Investors can enjoy preferential measures such as tax subsidies after paying taxes on imported equipment and the provision of loan guarantees.
In order to encourage investment in high-tech industries, Hangzhou also has six science and technology economic parks in the urban areas, they are uptown science and technology economic parks, downtown science and technology economic parks, Jianggan district science and technology economic parks, Gongshu district science and technology economic parks, Xihu district science and technology economic parks, Binjiang district science and technology economic parks.
Legal system construction
Hangzhou strives to create a good open, fair and just market competition environment, reduce the administrative approval of the project and content, and gradually improve the WTO-compliant policies and regulations to improve the transparency of the policy, so that the investors have a law to comply with, and the legitimate rights and interests of the investors are safeguarded. The Hangzhou Municipal Government has formulated the complaint handling methods for foreign-invested enterprises and enterprises from abroad investing in Hangzhou, effectively protecting and safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of investors, helping to solve legal disputes and providing legal aid, so that investors can start their businesses without any worries.
Service Institutions
Hangzhou City and all counties (cities) and districts have foreign investment service management institutions and investment project centralized processing centers. The center carries out the openness of examination and approval contents, examination and approval conditions, examination and approval procedures, and examination and approval time limit, which makes it convenient for investors to do business, and each investment service department can also provide investors with full services, saving the time of dealing with specific matters, and completing all the formalities required for the opening of business in the shortest possible time.
In order to support investors to start a business in Hangzhou, Hangzhou has introduced a series of preferential policies in the tax, capital, land use, the introduction of talent and other aspects of the investor to maximize support for special projects can also be a matter of discussion, to give special concessions. Hangzhou's comprehensive investment costs are relatively reasonable, enabling investors coming to Hangzhou to obtain maximum benefits with minimum cost input. 37 of the world's top 500 companies have invested in Hangzhou, has achieved considerable benefits.