Rooted in beauty.
Shaping what’s next.
West Lake and Longjing. E-commerce and AI.
A city where culture, enterprise and new ideas meet.
A landscape to live by. An economy to learn from.
Discover the people and ideas shaping both.
The spirit of Hangzhou
In Hangzhou, landscape is something people live with: a path beside the lake, a hillside worked for tea, a place to sit and share a cup. Start with these small encounters. Then follow the same curiosity into a different kind of exchange: livestream commerce, businesses reaching overseas, digital city systems and AI moving into everyday work. The landscape and the economy are both part of the city’s story.
01 / Life by the water
A famous lake and a quieter wetland offer two ways into Hangzhou: one shaped as a cultural landscape, the other opening a conversation about how a city lives with nature.
At West Lake, bridges, causeways and wooded shores frame a succession of views. Walk slowly enough to notice the people within them: a pause beneath the willows, a boat crossing the water, the pleasure of taking the long way round.
Read West Lake with MIC
At Xixi, channels, vegetation and village traces invite closer observation. Look at how water connects habitat and daily life, and how conservation and a growing city share the same ground.
Explore Xixi Wetland
02 / The world in a cup
Longjing, or Dragon Well, is a green tea rooted in Hangzhou’s landscape. Follow it from the growing slopes to hand processing and tasting. The pleasure is in the details: the leaf, the warmth of the pan and the attention given to a cup.
There is more to discover at China’s National Tea Museum, where tea opens into agriculture, trade, objects and the rituals of sharing.
What can a cup tell you about the place it comes from?
03 / A city of ideas
Hangzhou rewards a second look. Objects reveal earlier ways of living; today’s streets offer questions about mobility, resources and the choices a city makes.
Archaeology & ways of knowing
Liangzhu brings an earlier urban world into focus through jade, settlement and water engineering. At Zhejiang University’s Museum of Art and Archaeology, objects offer another starting point for asking how we learn about the past.
Explore material evidence
Mobility & everyday choices
A row of shared bicycles makes a city-wide idea tangible. Use everyday transport, energy and public spaces to ask how lower-carbon choices become part of ordinary life.
Explore low-carbon city life04 / Industry, economy & future innovation
Hangzhou’s other landscape is one of platforms, entrepreneurs and connected businesses. Explore how a livestream becomes a sale, a local seller reaches another country, and digital systems and AI change the way people work.
E-commerce & livestreaming
In livestream commerce, product discovery, demonstration and conversation happen together. Follow the questions behind the screen: how does a host earn trust, how does a team choose what to sell, and what happens after someone clicks “buy”?
MIC’s Hangzhou E commerce & Livestream Immersion provides a starting point for exploring the people, platforms and operations behind this economy.
Explore e-commerce & livestreamingCross-border e-commerce
Hangzhou is home to China’s first cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone. Look beyond the storefront to the connected work of localising listings, taking payments, clearing customs and getting an order to its destination.
Follow the question: what does it take to sell across borders?
Digital Hangzhou
City Brain, Cloud Town and smart manufacturing open a wider conversation about data: how it supports public services, connects infrastructure and informs decisions on the factory floor.
Follow the question: how does data become a useful decision?
AI & future industries
AI is entering the practical work of trade, from product listings and multilingual customer service to marketing and logistics. Use these applications to ask how new capabilities become useful tools—and how people judge the results.
Follow the question: where does AI create value in the real world?
A closer look / Smart logistics
In a Hangzhou warehouse, mobile robots move goods through a connected logistics workflow. It is a tangible example of digital systems moving from the screen into daily operations. Bring the same curiosity to the city’s emerging industries: what is being tested, what is already in use, and what still needs to be proven?
Explore future industriesMake it relevant to your work
For business teams, university groups and curious travellers. Tell MIC which questions matter to you; we will explore suitable hosts, formats and visit opportunities.
Digital Hangzhou and Future Industries are research-led proposals with access still to be confirmed. Featured locations and the logistics example illustrate the city’s economy; they are not guaranteed itinerary stops.
05 / Make the city personal
Start with what draws you in. These MIC experiences are starting points for a journey shaped around your interests and pace.
9 experiences to explore
West Lake · Local life
See how landscape, poetry and everyday public life meet around the lake.
Discover this experience
Longjing · Tea & taste
Follow the leaf from growing slopes through hand processing to a shared tasting.
Discover this experience
Xixi · Ecology & community
Explore the relationship between wetland ecology, villages and urban growth.
Discover this experience
Liangzhu · Archaeology
Read an early urban society through jade, water engineering and archaeological evidence.
Discover this experience
ZJUMAA · Art & learning
Ask how objects become evidence for stories about technology, belief and exchange.
Discover this experienceCity systems · Sustainability
Make energy, mobility and everyday resource choices visible at different scales.
Discover this experienceCommerce · Platforms & people
Explore livestream commerce and the operations connecting a seller, a platform and a customer.
Discover this experience
Digital economy · City systems
Follow data into public services, cloud infrastructure and manufacturing. Proposed visit; access to be confirmed.
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Future industries · Applied innovation
Explore the questions connecting frontier research, AI and practical applications. Proposed visit; access to be confirmed.
Explore this proposalRequest first. MIC confirms access, hosts, timing and quotation before an experience becomes part of your final itinerary. Seasonal activities and specialist visits depend on availability.
Explore all Hangzhou experiencesContinue the conversation
Your Hangzhou starts here
A lakeside morning. Tea in the hills. A conversation about commerce or the future of AI. Let’s shape a Hangzhou journey around you.
Build Your JourneyExisting MIC product photograph. Original photographer and publication rights remain to be confirmed.
Product sourceCurrent MIC Longjing product photograph. Original photographer and publication rights remain to be confirmed.
Product sourceFrom the current gallery for MIC’s Hangzhou E commerce & Livestream Immersion. Original photographer and commercial publication rights remain to be confirmed.
Product sourceFrom the same existing MIC product gallery. The screen identifies Hangzhou International Youth Entrepreneurship Park and China (Hangzhou) Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Area. Original photographer and publication rights remain to be confirmed.
Product sourcePhoto credited to WeChat account chcecpa in the Hangzhou city English portal. The original is 600 × 400 pixels, shown as a small editorial illustration. No open reuse license was found; publication permission remains to be confirmed. This is context, not a promised visit activity.
AI Powers cross-border trade as Hangzhou builds digital trade hubPhotograph by Danielinblue. Used as context for the digital economy, not a commitment to campus access.
Current MIC Future Industries product image. Retained as city context; this photo is not evidence of a confirmed AI campus or institutional visit. Original upload rights remain to be confirmed.
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