AboutHuzhou

About Huzhou

Nanxun Ancient Town

Lingering charm of residential community.
The glory of Expo Gold Award.
World cultural heritage.

Longwang Mountain

Longwang Mountain boasts the highest peak in Northern Zhejiang and the Yangtze River Delta region. The mountain is endowed with vcrdant forests, numerous brooks, gullies and pools.

Mogan Mountain

Mogan Mountain is listed as one of the best four summer resorts in China and is known for its 'three charms' - bamboo, clouds and spring.

Bamboo Exhibition Garden

The garden is the world's biggest bamboo garden and displays over 300 varieties of bamboo. The garden is also dotted with pavilions, corridors and fountains.

Main Attractions of Huzhou

History of Huzhou

Among the cities around Taihu Lake, Huzhou is the only one that is named after the water of the lake. Huzhou has a history of over 2, 300 years. It was firstly named Gucheng when it was built as a prefecture in 248 B.C. and renamed as Huzhou in 602 A.D. for its location by Taihu Lake. During the period after the liberation of our country, Huzhou headquartered the first special district of Zhejiang Province, Jiaxing Special District and then Jiaxing District. In the October of 1983, Jiaxing District was Pided into two administrative regions: Huzhou City and Jiaxing City.

Transportation of Huzhou

Located in the center of the Yangtze River Delta, Huzhou serves as the hinterland of Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing, three mega cities in this area, as well as a major node city connecting the southern and northern parts of the Yangtze River Delta and linking Eastern China and Central China. It’s only 75 kilometers, 130 kilometers and 220 kilometers away from Hangzhou, Shanghai and Nanjing respectively. Huzhou boasts the country’s stellar railways, roadways, intermediate ports within inland waterway network; 3 railways run through Huzhou, namely Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway, Shangqiu-Hefei-Hangzho High-Speed Railway (under construction) and Xuancheng-Hangzhou Railway.

Huzhou has an easy access to 2 national and 3 provincial expressways, namely National G25 Changchun-Shenzhen (Hangzhou-Nanjing section) Expressway, National G50 Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway (Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui section), Provincial S12 Shanghai-Jiaxing-Huzhou Expressway, Provincial S13 Lianshi-Hangzhou Expressway and Provincial S14 Hangzhou-Changxing Expressway; in terms of road and water transportation, National No. 104 Highway, National No. 318 Highway, and Changxing-Huzhou-Shanghai Canal, aka. “the Oriental Rhine”, all provide the convenient transportation.