Special supplement: Hangzhou's Xiaoshan district becoming expo hub

Xiaoshan, the most economically developed administrative district of Hangzhou, aims to become the expo center of Zhejiang province by boosting its convention and leisure tourism sectors.

At the south gate of Hangzhou on the bank of the Qiantang River, the 1,420-sq-km district is among the most developed areas of the Yangtze River Delta. It is home to 1.17 million people.

Founded in the second century BC, it was classified as a city in 1988 and in 2001 Xiaoshan was named a new administrative district in the capital Hangzhou.