Southern Song Deshou Palace Site Museum [Photo by Xinhua]

Hangzhou has focused on development and pushed ahead with common prosperity in recent years. Cultural confidence has been an important part of the city’s effort in exploring the road to modernization with Chinese characteristics. 

With a civilization history of 8,000 years and a city history of 5,000 years, Hangzhou is a renowned national historical and cultural city. Kuahuqiao Culture, Liangzhu Culture, Wuyue Culture and Southern Song Culture have been three peaks of Hangzhou’s history of civilization and have boosted Hangzhou’s confidence in unleashing its potential and going global. 

History and culture have endowed the city with the peculiar charm and recorded the ethos of the era. At present, Hangzhou is making efforts to take advantage of its culture to bring benefits to the people and invigorate the industries and is trying to set an example in the practice of common prosperity.