Social Life

In Hangzhou,you can buy vegetables at an agricultural products market; you can get a Chinese medical acupuncture or massage at a traditional medicalhospital; you can experience Chinese high-level education at Zhejiang University or National Academy of Art; you can learn tea ceremony and tea art at the tea museum; you can visit a social district or stay in a citizen’s family, etc. Since January 1, 2005, Hangzhou has promoted 100 international visiting sites of social resources to the international market, which cover several aspects of social culture, politics, industrial and agricultural production spots and citizens’life The rich social resources in Hangzhou are collected together and result in some typical tours of social resources such as “the tour of fi nding the secret of Chinese medicine” consisting of Guangxingtang, Qingchunbao and Chinese Medicine Museum, “the tour of life of the public” consisting of agricultural products markets and visit to social districts. A real Hangzhou, a living heavenly paradise, details of a happy city, a normal citizen’s life are presented to you as they are. Ancient and modern Hangzhou shows itself from all directions and at different levels, to international tourists. In 2005, Hangzhou was selected as the “Europeans’ Favorite Chinese Tourist City”, when agricultural products markets together with West Lake become one of the reasons why international tourists like Hangzhou best.