Sentence examples for hangzhou from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A city in eastern China, a former imperial capital and the present capital of Zhejiang province.
The metro has helped to alleviate traffic and pollution, yet Beijing remains one of the world's most jammed and polluted cities; it needs more investment in public transport of all sorts.In Hangzhou the underground is just one way to get to work; above ground, fleets of red buses, often in designated lanes, form a Bus Rapid Transit network to beat the gridlock.
The American economy is motoring again, to the relief of exporters from Hamburg to Hangzhou.
Thousands of small-businessmen travel to Hangzhou to unlock the twin mysteries of computing and commerce in bars and teashops.Alifest's guests assemble at the Zhejiang Great Hall of the People, where some successful members are invited onstage to share their experiences, as if on a TV chat-show.
Although Beijing publicly continues to rally against protectionism, China's provinces are busily erecting internal barriers.Farmers in the city of Hangzhou now get a 13% subsidy if they buy Hangzhou-made refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones and washing machines.
After discovering the web on a visit to America in the mid-1990s, he returned to Hangzhou, the industrial city near Shanghai where he grew up, and founded Alibaba, the online auction site that has turned into the eBay of China.
His grotto is on the sixth floor of an office building in the lakeside city of Hangzhou.
The Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev was reported "shelved" in 2007, too, so its difficulties are not new; compounding them, there is now a separate high-speed (though slightly slower) connection between the two cities.
The opening of the Hangzhou Bay bridge this year will make Ningbo's port all the more accessible to Shanghai.
Though Mr Zheng's son lives in the same city, he does not have time to care for his father, so old Mr Zheng has moved into the Hangzhou City Christian Nursing Home.
"At every board meeting, the CBRC guy is right there taking notes and pounding the table," says Stephen Harner, a former diplomat who now sits as an independent director at Hangzhou City Commercial Bank.The rush for reformAll this has given an urgency to reform efforts.
In June the world's longest sea-crossing bridge, a 36km six-lane highway across Hangzhou Bay, is due to open.
