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Sent: 13/Jul/2016
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Hangzhou: is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang
Province in east China. It sits at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates
Shanghai and Ningbo. Hangzhou grew to prominence as the southern terminus of
the Grand Canal and has been one of the most renowned and prosperous cities in
China for much of the last millennium, due in part to its beautiful natural
scenery. The city's West Lake is its best-known attraction.
Hangzhou is
classified as a sub-provincial city and forms the core of the Hangzhou
metropolitan area, the fourth-largest in China. During the 2010 Chinese census,
the metropolitan area held 21.102 million people over an area of 34,585 km2
(13,353 sq mi). Hangzhou prefecture had a registered population of 9,018,000 in
2015.
In September 2015,
Hangzhou was awarded the 2022 Asian Games. It will be the third Chinese city to
play host to the Asian Games after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. On November
16, 2015, paramount leader Xi Jinxing announced that Hangzhou would host the
eleventh G-20 summit on September 4–5, 2016.
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