Hangzhou

American

[hahng-joh] / ˈhɑŋˈdʒoʊ /

(Older Spelling) Hangchow

noun

Pinyin.

a seaport in and the capital of Zhejiang province, in eastern China, on Hangzhou Bay.

Hangzhou British

/ ˈhæŋˈdʒəʊ /

noun

a port in E China, capital of Zhejiang province, on Hangzhou Bay (an inlet of the East China Sea), at the foot of the Eye of Heaven Mountains: regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world; seat of two universities (1927, 1959). Pop: 1 955 000 (2005 est)

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Hangzhou is a good home for Honghub because it is an e-commerce and AI hot spot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Hundreds of micro-enterprise incubators, some supported by the government, are popping up in tech hubs like Hangzhou and Shenzhen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Tech hubs across the border in mainland China, such as Alibaba's hometown of Hangzhou, are expanding far faster, spurred by AI investors such as Deepseek and Unitree Robotics.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Better known as Faker, he was part of the South Korea team that won gold in League of Legends at the 2023 Asian Games in China's Hangzhou.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

On February 6, 2006—a year and a week after he’d crossed the frozen Tumen River into China—Shin arrived in Hangzhou, a city of about six million in the Yangtze River Delta.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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