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A milestone year for a thriving Yuhang as innovation bears fruit

By Yang Yang | 00:05 UTC+8 November 7, 2019 | Print Edition

This year has been a milestone year for Yuhang District of Hangzhou City as the area was honored as a “holy land for culture,” and its economic innovation and vibrancy continues to advance.

On July 6, the archeological ruins of Liangzhu in Yuhang were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a cultural site. The heritage site includes city ruins with palace and altar remains, 11 early-stage dams and high-level cemetery sites.

It is the core of the ancient Liangzhu Civilization, the earliest civilized state in China, which covered today’s Shanghai, and Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.

The ruins, on a grand scale and of complex varieties, are highly valued for its historic palace (built around 3300-2300 BC), the surrounding hydro system, hierarchical cemeteries and altars, and jade wares and other utensils unearthed from the site.

All these suggest that the beginnings of a regional state, supported by a rice farming agriculture and with a unified faith and an obvious hierarchical society, were taking shape in the circum-Taihu Lake area of the Yangtze River Delta region dating back to the late Neolithic Age, according to experts.

The site’s layout of a palace (covering 39 hectares), an inner city (about 280 hectares) and an outer city (about 351 hectares) forms a centripetal triadic structure reflecting hierarchical social order and a highlight on power.

Its “city of water” construction technology and urban design also reflect ancient Liangzhu people’s ability to build cities and architectures in wetland environment. The surrounding hydro system, remarkable in project scale, design and construction technology, displays the high scientific level mastered by Liangzhu people and their achievements in rice farming agriculture 5,000 years ago.

In addition to worldwide recognition for its cultural relics, Yuhang also saw its economy turn a new page in 2019.

The roots of Yuhang’s economic expansion and growth date back to as early as 2008 when Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, located its Taobao City in the district.

So far the district has a talent resource of more than 300,000 people. The added value of the digital economy, its key industry, amounted to 103.1 billion yuan (US$19 billion) in the first three quarters of this year, up 17.9 percent from a year earlier and accounting for 59.9 percent of the district’s gross domestic product. The growth rate is 2.5 percentage points higher than the half-year figure.

Yuhang, covering the main urban area of Hangzhou from the east, west and north sides, is a bridgehead connecting Hangzhou with Shanghai and the other Yangtze River Delta cities.

The district has five key industry platforms: the Yuhang Economic and Technological Development Zone and Linping New City in the east, Liangzhu New City and the Qiangjiang Economic Development Zone in the center, and Future Sci-tech City in the west.

Future Sci-tech City is strenuously building its Nanhu Science Center and Hangzhou West Railway Station traffic hub center with high standards. In May, the sci-tech city took the initiative to introduce 5G technology in its China (Hangzhou) 5G Innovation Park. The first batch of 32 platforms and projects were based in the park, creating an embryo of a 5G industrial cluster.

The Yuhang Economic and Technological Development Zone is quickening its steps in building a biomedicine high-tech park, a robot industry park and a home textile complex. In April, Zhejiang Windey Co, a wind turbine manufacturer, went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, becoming the 11th listed company in the economic development zone.

Linping New City is promoting its fashion industry and producer service sectors. In March its e-Fashion Town joined hands with South Korea’s Pusan Design Center to expand its involvement in the global fashion world.

Liangzhu New City focuses on digital economy, life technology and cultural innovation sectors. It recently reached a strategic development agreement with Fortune 500 company Cedor Holdings to locate the Cedor Digital Economy Headquarters in the new city. Meanwhile, it is making efforts to develop the headquarters economy and the building economy and evolve into an innovative place of origin of Zhejiang merchants’ headquarters.

The Qianjiang Economic Development Zone in the center of Yuhang is relying on its provincial-level economic development platform to focus on the development of the new equipment, new energy and new material sectors.

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