Q&A with Xu Liyi

As a city with a rich cultural and historical heritage, Hangzhou has vowed to become a world-famous metropolis. How will Hangzhou push ahead its comprehensive social and economic development to realize this target?

Over the past few years, Hangzhou has witnessed skyrocketing development and change, especially after the G20 Summit in 2016. We've been fully utilizing our advantages in innovation, cultural development and ecology to stabilize a leading role in all-around development in Zhejiang province, with the city's strategic role in China rising significantly, and its international influence growing all the while.

Special efforts have been made in the following five areas: