The administrative divisions of Hangzhou are as follows:
Jurisdiction: 10 municipal district, 2 counties, 1 county-level city.
Street communities: 92 street offices, 75 towns, 23 townships, 597 communities and 807 administrative villages.
Municipal Government: Jiefang East Road 18, Jianggan District, Hangzhou Municipal People's Government.
Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, is located in the southeast coast of China, the north of Zhejiang Province, the lower reaches of Qiantang River and the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It is a sub-provincial city, the political, economic, cultural, educational, transportation and financial center of Zhejiang Province, one of the central cities of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, Greater Bay Area City around Hangzhou Bay, a node city in the Ning Hang eco-economic belt of the Yangtze River Delta, and one of the important e-commerce centers in China.
As of 20 17, Hangzhou is under the jurisdiction of 10 district and 2 counties, 1 county-level city, with a total area of 16853.57 square kilometers (including the waters of Qiantang River, the boundary between Qiantang River and the sea is Haiyan Ganpu-Yuyao West Sanmen), with a permanent population of 946. In 20 17, the per capita disposable income of Hangzhou residents was 49,832 yuan, the total retail sales of social consumer goods was 57 17 billion yuan, and there were 2,844 high-tech enterprises.
Hangzhou has a history of more than 2200 years since the establishment of the county government in Qin Dynasty. It was the capital of Wu Yueguo and the Southern Song Dynasty. Because of its beautiful scenery, it is known as "paradise on earth". Due to the convenience of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and trade ports, as well as its own developed silk and grain industries, Hangzhou was once an important commercial distribution center in history. Later, relying on the opening of Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway and other railway lines and the promotion of Shanghai's import and export trade, light industry developed rapidly. Since the new century, driven by high-tech enterprises such as Alibaba, Internet economy has become a new economic growth point in Hangzhou.
There are many cultural relics in Hangzhou, and there are many natural and cultural landscape relics in and around the West Lake. Among them, West Lake culture, Liangzhu culture, silk culture, tea culture and many stories and legends handed down have become the representatives of Hangzhou culture.
20 18 World Short-course Swimming Championships and 2022 Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou. On June 20 18 and 1, Hangzhou was selected as the first batch of demonstration cities for the construction of social credit system. 20 17 China top 100 cities ranked 7th.