Hangzhou lies in the southeast part of China, and in the lower valley of Qiantang River, to be exact, it is merely 180 km away from Shanghai, the largest city of China. Hangzhou has got a population of 597 million and an area of 16600 km².

Hangzhou is not only an internationally noted city for its scenic touring, but also an important industrial town on the southern flank of the Yangtze Delta. At present, there are more than 63,000 industrial enterprises in the whole city, and there are other 6,700 or so industrial enterprises belonging to the townships, or to the departments above the townships. in 1996, the city's total economic output (the total domestic production value) ranks 7th of all the big and medium-size cities in the country, and comes 2nd of all the provincial-seat cities. Industry is the backbone of the city's economy. The large-scale machinery and set-up equipment, automobile and parts, household electric appliances, electronic communication, fine chemicals and medicine, and chemical fibres are the city's six mainstay industries. From the ancient time on Hangzhou won the laudatory title of "the Home of Silk". Up to now it is sill one of the chief national silk industrial bases. The machinery industry has got the powerful strength: the large-scale air-separating equipment, the industrial steam turbine, serial heat-left boilers, the gear box for ships and automobiles, the high-precision surface grinding machines, the electricity-generating equipment, and so on, are quite competative both in the domestic and foreign markets. The automobile and parts industry grows quickly, the batch process of the heavy-load trucks and passenger automobiles are being steadily expanded, the automobile engines, the universal-joint fix-up, etc. are being further consolidated to set up with those of the large group corporations and main machine factories. The household electric appliance industry newly arises after the reform. Goldfish-National Brand full automatic washing machines, West Lake Brand colour TV sets, Xiling Brand and Huari Brand refrigerators, Dongbao Brand air-conditioners, Huamei Brand ice boxes, etc. have got the certain scale and benefit. In the electronic communication industry the movable communication and multi-functional Chinese-character processing system become the set-up products for the national Three-Gold program, they're now growing into the city's newly arising industries. The fine chemical and medical industry owns such well-known enterprises both at home and abroad as Zhongce Rubber (Stock) Corporation, Ltd., Hangzhou Electric & Chemical Works, Hangzhou Oil Refinery Factory, Zhengda Qingchunbao Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., Sino-American Huadong Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., Mingsheng Pharmaceutical Factory. In the chemical fibre industry the chemicals such as the artificial stuck filament the long dacrom filament, the polyamide fibre, etc., have got the further development. The traditional products turned out by Huqingyutang Pharmaceutical Factory, Zhangxiaoquan Scissors Works, Dujinsheng Brocade Factory have experienced constant renovation and revolution on the basis of inheritance so as to be further adapted to the market needs. Today the Ninth Five-Year Plan for Hangzhou's National Economy Development and the 2010 Year Program depict the blueprint of Hangzhou Industry in the 21st century. As a result the priority should be given to the development of hi-tech industries to make the traditional industries to be excellent, and the attention should be paid to the creation of the special and adventageous products to make the traditional product, to be excellent. Through adaptin