Located near the picturesque West Lake, Yuhang is a business bonanza for tourism investment and developments. The ancient district has been known as a land of fish and rice, a producer of flowers and fruits, a birthplace of silk and a land of culture. Remotely hugging Hangzhou on three sides, the district has a large region under its jurisdiction. It is located between Shanghai and Hangzhou, one of the busiest tourist routes in China. To its south is Ningbo and far out to its east is Shanghai. The Heavenly Eyes Mountains extend in the west and to the south flows the zigzagging Qiantang River. With its long history, hearty economy and a highly developed transport system, Yuhang is not only a land of landscape for tourism but also a bonanza for investment.

	The grand opening ceremony of the Spring of West Lake, Hangzhou is to be held in Yuhang on 5th March 2001. Yuhang will sponsor the National Travel and Tour Journalists Fun Sports Game in June. Visitors are welcome.

Our tenet for incoming investment is that investors should get their return first. Investors both from home provinces and foreign countries are welcome to visit, conduct field studies, and invest in Yuhang.

　　The Jing Hill Buddhist Temple was first built in the Tang Dynasty and reached its culmination in the Song Dynasty. In its peak years, more than 1000 rooms in the monastery housed over 3,000 monks. The temple gave birth to the Linji Sect of Buddhism and Tea Ceremony in Japan. In the Song Dynasty, the Jing Hill Buddhist Temple topped the 50 leading Buddhist monasteries in the wide areas south of the Yangtze River. Hence the reputation of Number One Buddhist Hill in the regions south of the Yangtze River.

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　　The Tiaoxi Stream near the Double Stream Town of Yuhang district is a paradise for rafting. This section of the stream attracts merry-making visitors with its three major features. The stream is uniquely clear. Floating on a raft on the stream, which empties into the Taihu Lake, enables one to see fish swimming in the water in some sections of the stream. The brook has many rapids. Rafting on the stream, one can fall down some falls, the highest of which is 3 meters in height. In big splashes and thundering noise, the raft surges down the stream, bringing adventurous and thrilling moments. The stream is flanked by bamboo groves heavily and thickly. For ten kilometers along the Tiaoxi Stream are bamboo groves. Moving among the fresh greens, one feels as if it were a paradise.

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Rafting on Double
Stream along
Bamboo Forest

　　 Located within the region under the jurisdiction of Anxi Town, Yuhang, the forest park covers an area of 450 hectares presenting a great variety of wooded landscape enriched by thick vegetation. Strolling through the forest, you would feel as if you are in Shangri-La. Within the park are the sites of the Dongming Buddhist Temple, the Tomb of Shen Kuo, a great scholar of the Song Dynasty, the camellia trees, the osmanthus trees, the mulberry trees still living after centuries. Holiday-makers can fish or go game hunting in the park.

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　　The Liangzhu Cultural Relics are scattered with a 33.8-square-kilometer area across Liangzhu, Anxi, and Pingyao in Yuhang. The relic sites have proved to be the earliest and most representative and most comprehensive leftovers from 5000-year-old Chinese Civilization. Yuhang is therefore regarded as the cradle where the Chinese civilization dawned. The relic site group was shortlisted in 1994 for the preliminary selection of world cultural heritage by UNESCO. The Liangzhu Cultural Relics Museum opened to public in 1994. Jiang Zemin, the Chinese president, inscribed the name for the museum.

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Liangzhu
Cultural Relics

Yuhang is the place where the innocent Cabbage, a fair-skinned village girl, and her young man, became victims wronged in a false case in the Qing Dynasty and died in the hands of some wrongdoing officials. The young lovers' story and the scenes are the most famous attractions for thousands of tourists every year.

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　　The resort is a province-level landscape resort located in the Tangxi Town of Yuhang. The plum blossoms on the Chao Hill are noted for their being ancient, unique and broad. The Chao Hill, alias the 10-li Fragrant Snowy Sea, is one of the three most famed resorts for plum blossoms viewing. Wu Changsuo, a great seal engraver, calligrapher and founder of the Xiling Seal Society, had a passion for plum blossoms. He was buried there among the flowers he loved so much.

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Chao Hill Tourist
Attraction Resort