Hangzhou is a historical, cultural, and commercial center in China. For thousands of years, from Bai Juyi to Su Dongpo, from West Lake to the Grand Canal, Hangzhou's long history and cultural legends are fascinating. Hangzhou is a city of innovation and vitality, e-commerce is booming, and the whole world is connected with the click of a mouse in Hangzhou. Hangzhou is also the capital of ecological civilization, with beautiful mountains and rivers, good weather and strange rains, soaked in the charm of the south of the Yangtze River, and condensed with generations of ingenuity.

I have worked in Zhejiang for 6 years, and I am familiar with the landscape, vegetation, customs and customs here, and have participated in and witnessed the development here. In China, there are many cities like Hangzhou, which have undergone great development and great changes in the past few decades, and many ordinary families have changed their lives with their hardworking hands. This little bit of change, taken together, is a majestic force, promoting China's development and progress, reflecting the great process of China's reform and opening up.

-- "A New Starting Point for China's Development and a New Blueprint for Global Growth – Keynote Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the G20 Business Summit" (September 3, 2016)

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"The southeast shape wins, the three Wu capitals, and Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times." Hangzhou is one of the six ancient capitals of China, and was the capital of Wuyue during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Liangzhu culture, Wuyue culture, Southern Song Dynasty culture and Ming and Qing culture have formed a complete series of cultural development here, which not only left countless places of interest and historic sites, but also achieved many literati and artists. Bai Juyi wrote more than 3,600 poems in his life, including more than 200 poems about the landscape of West Lake. He defended the lake and dredged the lake, and dredged six wells, so that the citizens could live close to the lake and live and work in peace and contentment, and also laid the pattern of "three clouds and mountains and one city" in the West Lake. Su Dongpo not only left the delicacy "Dongpo meat", but also left the famous sentence "If you want to compare the West Lake with Xizi, it is always appropriate to apply light makeup and heavy makeup", but also made good use of the grass and silt to build a long causeway across the north and south. Six bridges and nine pavilions were built on the embankment, and peach willow hibiscus was planted all over, making Xizi Lake beautiful. The history of Hangzhou is a history that became famous because of the West Lake, and it is also a history that flourished because of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Due to its convenient position of maritime and inland waterway shipping, Hangzhou has prospered in commerce and trade since ancient times, and has developed into a megacity with a population of more than one million during the Southern Song Dynasty. Today, it has become one of the central cities of the Yangtze River Delta, the economic center, cultural center, and science and education center of Zhejiang Province.

In 2002, Xi Jinping began to govern Zhejiang. In the next nearly 5 years, he formed an indissoluble bond with Hangzhou. It can be said that Xi Jinping is not only a witness to the changes in Hangzhou, but also a promoter of Hangzhou's great development. In 2003, not long after Xi Jinping became the secretary of the provincial party committee, he went to Hangzhou to conduct special research and asked to promote the construction of a major cultural province. Subsequently, in the special column of "Zhejiang Daily" - "Zhijiang Xinyu", he published an article "Strengthening the Protection of West Lake Culture" under the pen name "Zhexin", pointing out that "around the West Lake, there is history everywhere, and there is culture step by step", emphasizing that "Hangzhou should play a leading role and do better in protecting cultural relics, continuing the urban context, and promoting history and culture". After the West Lake was opened for free, he made suggestions to the West Lake management department three times: first, the public toilets by the West Lake should be open 24 hours a day; Second, rubber tires should be added to the bow of the cruise ship to avoid damage to the bridge when the cruise ship passes; The third is the layout of the scenic benches, which should maintain a certain spacing. He considered that "there are many lovers by the West Lake, and if the chairs are too close to each other, the lovers will feel uncomfortable." Xi Jinping's careful investigation and research of Hangzhou can also be seen from this.

"He who heals the sick will heal where he is sick; Those who are good at rescuing the evil will stop the source of the evil. When the world economy enters the era of "new mediocrity", how can we reactivate this "pool of spring water"? At the opening ceremony of the G20 Business Summit, Xi Jinping used Hangzhou as an example to talk about China's great development and changes, which not only gave the world a "reassurance", but also sent a message to the G20 that "little by little changes are a majestic force", and only by joining hands can we "let growth and development benefit all countries and peoples".

If the G20 Antalya Summit in 2015 was to take the pulse of the world economy, then the Hangzhou Summit in 2016 was to prescribe a comprehensive prescription for the world to treat both the symptoms and the root causes. In this regard, Xi Jinping put forward four key words: innovation, openness, linkage, and inclusiveness. The reason why this "China Plan", rooted in China's reform and opening up practice, has boosted the confidence of the world economy and won broad consensus in the international community is as Xi Jinping pointed out: the new mechanism and new initiative advocated by China "are not to create their own back garden, but to build a hundred gardens shared by all countries".