Gongshu at the Side of the Ancient Canal: an Ecological and Elegant New Urban Area
Night scene at the Gongchen Bridge
Foreign friends also enjoy the Temple Fair of the Grand Canal
The ecological beauty of Gongshu: the mountain shares a scenic hue with the water
Self-cultivate at Gaoting Mountain
Appreciate the beautiful landscape of Gongshu
GongshuDistrict, located at the southernmost of the Grand Canal of China, iswhere Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Hangzhou MunicipalGovernment situate. The canal initiates the rise of Gongshu and endowsit with profound canal culture. The continuous prosperity in businessand culture over the two thousand years makes the canal basin more andmore attractive.“The Grand Canal through the ages, and the new Gongshu in itsultimate beauty.” The Grand Canal’s successful application for the WorldHeritage last year makes the reputation of Gongshu District abroad.Taking the canal as the “medium”, we invite more tourists from home andabroad to Gongshu as the tourist destination.
Here in Gongshu, you can overlook the industrial ruins of moderntimes, experience the authentic daily life, spend your leisure time andhave a taste of the cultures of water transport, warehousing, Zen andfolk houses.Here in Gongshu, you can appreciate numerous historic sites andsplendid cultural heritage, visit a series of national museums such asthe Grand Jing-Hang Canal Museum, China Knife, Scissors and SwordMuseum, China Umbrella Museum, China Fan Museum and Hangzhou ModernIndustry Museum, or stroll in delicate “old places” such as the historicblocks of Xiaohe Street, Qiaoxi Folk Houses and Dadou Road. Walkingthrough the history along the way, you will get the inspiration of time.
“With a river across the city, the whole city is decorated with clearwater and green hills.” There’re 61 watercourses and 105km water withinthis jurisdiction, netting the whole Gongshu as a whole. Banshan Park,the first national forest park in main urban area with an area of 1,000hectares, is ranked as the three large ecological supports of Hangzhoutogether with the West Lake and the Xixi Wetland.Relying on the function of ecological landscape culture of the canal,Gongshu, which possesses “blue sky, clear water and green grasses”, hasrealized the transformation from industrial warehouse zone tocommercial and residential zone and formed athree-dimensionally-distributed radial clustering zone of modern serviceindustry which takes the canal as the axis, the urban function as thesupport and the modern service industry as the key part.
The G20 Summit will be held in Hangzhou next year. This is a greatchance for Gongshu District, the central urban area of Hangzhou, topromote the internationalization level and comprehensively improve theimage.Aiming to be a “prosperous, strong, elegant, culturalized andharmonious new Gongshu”, Gongshu District will keep striding forwardtowards the objective of building a garden-style elegant ecologicalurban area with “blue sky, clear water, green view and quietness”.
The “ten-mile silver Hushu” has been prosperous since ancient times,and new vitality is also contained in the water of this thousand-yearancient canal. Gongshu District has now become the “hot spot” forentrepreneurs and innovator. Old plants and factories have been emptiedfor new businesses. Old urban district has transformed into urbancenter. 100% ecological fortune towns are in the ascendant. Financialindustry, cultural and creative industry, modern service industry andheadquarters economy compete to locate here. Relying on the sections ofCanal Daguan business district, Canal Wulin business area, Canal TiandiCultural and Creative Industry Park, China (Hangzhou) Smart InformationIndustry Park and Canal New Town, the canal three-dimensional businessarea will bring strong power to the industry transformation anddevelopment.Just like composing a song of the development of times with thecanal, Gongshu District will endeavor to build a modernized urbancomplex cluster with international leading standards.
We are proud to hold the G20 Summit here in Hangzhou! “Gongshupeople” will welcome guests from all over the world in our own way andtell a good story of Hangzhou, of Gongshu, of the canal.XU Ming Secretary of Gongshu District
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