Shaoxing Brief

The city of Shaoxing covers 8256 square kilometers. It has six administrative divisions, Yuecheng District, Shaoxing County, Shangyu City, Shengzhou City, Xinchang County, and Zhuji City with a population of 433,000,000, including 620,000 citizens.

It has a tropical and subtropical humid monsoon climate; it has a rainfall of 1300 millimeter annually. It is north of Qiantang River with meandering Chao'e River across it, and is a famous watery region in south China. Shaoxing is situated in the south corner of Yangtze River delta, only 30 kilometers to Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, 120 kilometers to famous Beilun Port, and 230 kilometers to Shanghai.

Shaoxing is the hometown of many celebrities in Chinese history. In Shaoxing’s history, there have been many celebrities, like Lunxun, a famous novelist who has a very important status in cultural history of China, and there are also many scientists.

There are many kinds of operas in Shaoxing which are very famous in China. So it has a big part in Shaoxing culture history which includes Yue opera,Shaoxing opera.Yue opera is the second largest one in China. These operas are very popular to local residents.These operas are very popular to local residents.

There are plenty of flavor and specialty in Shaoxing, such as sugariness rice wine, Pingshui gunpowder tea, Shaoxing baked rice cake, Shaoxing fermented bean curd, Sun-dried vegetables, Aniseed flavored bean, freshwater fish, and crisp and fragrant Fengqiao Xiangfei what is only produced in China, Xinchang's Baishu, Xiaojingsheng peanut, tea of great Buddha dragon well, Erdu waxberry, Gaibei grape, Zhuji ginkgo, Shengzhou sweet orange, Shangyu crystal bayberry , Keqiao dried bean curd, Shaoxing sheldrake, Shaoxing Muzi soy sauce, celadon from Yue klin, Shengzhou bamboo handcraft, Kuaiji Yue ink stone, Shaoxing black terai, Shaoxing orchid, Songxia fermented pieces of bean curd, in here, you not only can feast your eyes on, but also feast your stomach on.

Shaoxing is one of five Chinese cities famous for wines. Shaoxing has a history of about 2,500 years making yellow-colored rice wine, which is labeled as Zhuangyuanhong (The Top Red), Jiafan (Rice Plus), Shanniang (The Excellence) and Xiangxue (Fragrant Snow). Crowned "The Best Wine in Asia", the Shaoxing wine in the brand of (ju Yue Long Shan is now included in the wine list of state banquets hosted by central government leaders. The leading producer and exporter of rice wine in China, Shaoxing makes 250,000 tons of wine a year.