About of Hangzhou

The celebrated neolithic culture of Hemudu is known to have inhabited Yuyao

The celebrated neolithic culture of Hemudu is known to have inhabited Yuyao, 100 km north-east of Hangzhou, as

far back as seven thousand years ago. It was during this time that rice was first cultivated in southeast China.

Excavations have established that the jade-carving Liangzhu culture inhabited the area immediately around the present

city around five thousand years ago

Hangzhou was made the seat of the prefecture of Hang in AD 589, entitling it to a city wall which was constructed two

years later. By a longstanding convention also seen in other cities like Guangzhou and Fuzhou, the city took on the

name of the area it administered and became known as Hangzhou. Hangzhou was at the southern end of Chinas Grand Canal

which extends to Beijing

Hangzhou is located in northwestern Zhejiang province, at the southern end of the Grand Canal of China, which runs to

Beijing, in the south-central portion of the Yangtze River Delta. Its administrative area extends

west to the mountainous parts of Anhui province, and east to the coastal plain near Hangzhou Bay. The city center is

built around the eastern and northern sides of the West Lake, just north of the Qiantang River.