More to the city than e-commerce HQ

Hangzhou's claim to recent fame may be its status as the headquarters of e-commerce giants Alibaba and JollyChic, but the capital of Zhejiang province is fast developing into a springboard for new-age startups.

Zheng Pan, 45, who co-founded MicroTech Medical (Hangzhou) Co Ltd in 2011, will probably agree. He realized his dream of starting his own medical equipment business in Hangzhou.

"At the Dream Village in Yuhang District of Hangzhou, I received great support from the government, which I had never thought was possible before I had returned to China," said Zheng.