In the Yuan period, the southeast city of Hangzhou, a prosperous economy and beautiful scenery, was the Italian Marco Polo praised tourism as "the world's most beautiful days of the city classified." To the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hangzhou socio-economic and cultural development is still the national forefront.
Since the establishment of The People's Republic of China, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province Council is the province's political, economic and cultural center and transportation hub of the West Lake Scenic Area has also been an unprecedented large-scale repair and become world-famous scenic tourist city.
Hangzhou last year received 510,000 overseas tourists trips, tourism and foreign exchange earnings from 210 million yuan; received 1.21 million domestic tourists trips, domestic tourism income of 14.6 billion. Hangzhou was awarded the first batch of "China Excellent Tourism City" title, the West Lake Scenic Area has been named as the National 10 and civilized demonstration one of the tourist