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Hangzhou 杭州 · capital of Zhejiang province

The city where
China went
online

In 1999 Jack Ma started Alibaba in his flat in Hangzhou. Then came Alipay, Geely bought Volvo, and today DeepSeek, Unitree and BrainCo are building the AI and robots here that the world is watching. On hangzhou.be you’ll find the city, its companies and the partners who show you the way.

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Qianjiang New City (钱江新城) by night · photo EditQ, CC BY-SA 4.0

12.7 m
residents at the end of 2025
¥2.30 trillion
GDP in 2025 (approx. $322 bn), 5.2% growth
29.5%
of GDP comes from the core digital economy
25
unicorns: No. 4 in China (Hurun 2026)
16,300
national high-tech enterprises
¥124.9 bn
exports to the European Union in 2025, 11.9% more than in 2024

Sources: Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics (2025 statistical bulletin), Hangzhou Municipal Government, Hurun Global Unicorn Index 2026. As of October 2026, rounded.

The city

From imperial
capital to
digital city

Hangzhou lies at the mouth of the Qiantang, on the southern side of the Yangtze Delta, an hour from Shanghai. It is the capital of Zhejiang province and has 12.7 million residents. In the middle of the city lies West Lake (西湖), a World Heritage Site since 2011.

As Lin’an (临安), Hangzhou was the capital of the Southern Song dynasty. Marco Polo called it Quinsai, the ‘heavenly city’. The Chinese proverb puts it like this: 上有天堂，下有苏杭, in heaven there is paradise, on earth there are Suzhou and Hangzhou.

For a European company, Hangzhou is attractive because this is where China’s platform economy was born: e-commerce, mobile payment and the cloud. Today AI models, robots, smart cameras and electric cars are being added, with Zhejiang University as a breeding ground for talent and a city government that sees itself as a service provider.

Province
Zhejiang 浙江, eastern China
Population
approx. 12.7 million
Getting there
approx. 45 to 60 minutes by high-speed train from Shanghai
University
Zhejiang University, since 1897
Former name
Lin’an 临安
West Lake (西湖) with the stone lanterns of ‘Three Pools Mirroring the Moon’
West Lake (西湖), with the Leifeng Pagoda on the far shore · photo Takashishin, CC BY 4.0

Economy · the Hangzhou model

The government
as waiter

Hefei invests in companies itself. Hangzhou chooses a different role: to be the best service provider. In Zhejiang, the ideal civil servant has been called a ‘店小二’ since 2013, the waiter at the inn: always ready, never intrusive. Hangzhou turned this into a brand, ‘无事不扰、有求必应’: don’t disturb without reason, but respond to every request. The city also deploys large funds and helps pay for AI computing power.

We stick to ‘not disturbing’, but when a company needs us, we respond immediately.

Wang Tao, deputy director of the Yuhang district business service centre, 2026

Hangzhou’s GDP, in billion yuan

More than 800 times larger than in 1978

2.81978191990140200061620101,61120202,3012025
Nominal and rounded · Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics
  1. 1999Alibaba

    Jack Ma and seventeen others start Alibaba in his flat in Hangzhou. Five years later comes Alipay, the foundation of Ant Group and of mobile payment in China.

  2. 2010Geely and Volvo

    Geely, headquartered in Hangzhou, buys Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion. This also brings the Ghent plant into Chinese hands.

  3. 2016One visit at most

    Zhejiang promises that citizens and companies will have to visit a government counter no more than once. The same year, Alibaba Cloud builds the City Brain, which manages traffic in Hangzhou. In September the city hosts the G20.

  4. 2023The ‘3+N’ funds

    The city sets up three parent funds of 100 billion yuan each, with funds for each sector beneath them. By the end of 2025 they amount to more than 300 billion yuan.

  5. 2025Six little dragons

    In January DeepSeek takes the AI world by surprise, and Unitree’s robots dance at the Spring Festival Gala. China speaks of Hangzhou’s ‘six little dragons’. In August 2026 Unitree goes public.

Four pillars: 商 智 视 机

Hangzhou has no fixed slogan like Hefei’s. We sum up the city in four characters: trade, AI, vision and machines.

商

Trade

Alibaba, Taobao and Alipay made Hangzhou the capital of Chinese e-commerce. Cross-border e-commerce was worth 169.1 billion yuan in 2025, 10.6% more than a year earlier.

智

AI

The core AI sector achieved revenue of 460 billion yuan in 2025 (+23.1%). DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen models come from here. The city pays up to 60% of computing power costs through ‘computing vouchers’.

视

Vision

Hikvision, Dahua and Uniview make Hangzhou the ‘valley of vision’. In 2025 the cluster for image recognition and cameras reached output of more than 500 billion yuan.

机

Machines

Unitree delivered more than 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025. Deep Robotics, BrainCo and Hikrobot are helping to build the sector. Industrial robot production in Hangzhou rose by 38.6% in 2025.

And the next wave

Electric cars

Geely and Leapmotor are headquartered in Hangzhou. The city’s production of new energy vehicles in 2025 was almost five times higher than in 2024 (+383%).

Brains and machines

BrainCo reads muscle and brain signals without surgery and sells robotic hands to dozens of robot makers. In January 2026 it raised 2 billion yuan and filed for a listing in Hong Kong.

Smart glasses

Rokid sold more than 300,000 AI glasses in 2025. In the first half of 2026 it accounted for 41% of all AI glasses with a display worldwide.

Companies

Six names
to know

Six of the hundred companies and institutions in our company directory, each with an extended profile and a film. The films are narrated in Dutch, with Dutch subtitles.

E-commerce, cloud and AI, started in a flat in Hangzhou

Alibaba Group阿里巴巴

1999founded by Jack Ma and seventeen others
¥1,024 bnrevenue in the financial year to March 2026
131,462employees (March 2026)

Alibaba began as a platform on which Chinese SMEs traded with the world. Then came Taobao, Alipay, the logistics network Cainiao and Alibaba Cloud. Today the group is going all in on AI: in early 2025 it pledged to invest at least 380 billion yuan in AI and cloud over three years, and its open Qwen models are among the most downloaded in the world.

Europe and Belgium

In 2018 Belgium became the first European country to sign an eWTP agreement with Alibaba. Since 2021 Cainiao has been sorting parcels for the whole of Europe at Liège Airport, in a 30,000 m² hall.

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Narrated in Dutch, Dutch subtitles · 4:59 min

The car group behind Volvo Cars

Geely Auto吉利汽车

4.12 mcars sold by the Geely group in 2025
56%of them electric or plug-in hybrid
¥345.2 bnGeely Auto revenue in 2025 (+25%)

Li Shufu started out in 1986 making parts for refrigerators and switched to cars in 1997. In 2010 Geely bought Volvo Cars from Ford. Today the group also includes Zeekr, Lynk & Co, Polestar, Lotus and half of smart, and is headquartered in Hangzhou’s Binjiang district.

Europe and Belgium

Volvo Car Gent, Belgium’s last car plant, with some 6,500 employees, has been part of Geely since 2010. Since April 2025 Ghent has also built the electric EX30. Zeekr and the Geely brand itself came to Belgium in 2026.

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Narrated in Dutch, Dutch subtitles · 5:00 min

Robot dogs and humanoids, from student project to stock market

Unitree Robotics宇树科技

5,511humanoid robots delivered in 2025
¥1.7 bnrevenue in 2025, more than four times that of 2024
688836stock code on the STAR Market, since 19 August 2026

Wang Xingxing built his first robot dog as a master’s student and started Unitree in 2016 in a small 50 m² office in Hangzhou. The company makes almost all its parts itself, which keeps the price low. At the 2025 Spring Festival Gala its robots danced for an audience of millions; in August 2026 Unitree became the first humanoid robot company to be listed on the Chinese mainland.

Europe and Belgium

More than 40% of revenue comes from abroad, with Europe as an important market. In May 2025 a delegation from the province of West Flanders visited Unitree in Hangzhou.

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Narrated in Dutch, Dutch subtitles · 5:02 min

Brain-computer interfaces and bionic hands

BrainCo强脑科技

2015started at Harvard; in Hangzhou since 2018
¥2 bnraised in January 2026 (approx. €240 m)
35+countries where BrainCo sells

Han Bicheng started BrainCo as a PhD student at Harvard. In 2018 Hangzhou brought the company to Future Sci-Tech City. BrainCo reads muscle and brain signals without surgery and uses them to control bionic hands and legs, at a fraction of the price of Western prostheses. Dozens of robot makers, including Unitree, buy its robotic hands.

Europe and Belgium

Around 30% of revenue comes from abroad. The bionic leg carries a CE marking and the Revo 3 robotic hand is on sale online in the EU. Top athletes such as Jannik Sinner train with the FocusCalm focus headband.

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Narrated in Dutch, Dutch subtitles · 5:02 min

AI glasses with a display in the lens

Rokid灵伴科技

2014founded by Misa Zhu, formerly of Alibaba
300,000+Rokid Glasses sold in 2025
41%of all AI glasses with a display, first half of 2026

Misa Zhu sold his first company to Alibaba in 2010 and started Rokid in 2014. After smart speakers and industrial AR helmets came the Rokid Glasses at the end of 2024: 49 grams, with AI and a display in both lenses for subtitles, translation and navigation. Users choose their own AI: ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek or Qwen.

Europe and Belgium

On sale in Germany since April 2026, then in France and the Benelux. In Belgium, Coolblue sells the Rokid Glasses.

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Narrated in Dutch, Dutch subtitles · 5:05 min

Jack Ma’s foundation, for rural teachers

Jack Ma Foundation马云公益基金会

2014founded with Jack Ma’s own wealth
1,101rural teachers supported since 2015
¥100,000per teacher, plus three years of mentoring

Jack Ma taught English in Hangzhou for six years before founding Alibaba. His foundation mainly supports education in rural China: teachers, head teachers and boarding schools. Since 2025 the teachers have also received AI training. Outside China it runs Africa’s Business Heroes, with $1.5 million in prize money every year for African entrepreneurs.

Europe and Belgium

In spring 2020 the foundation donated 300,000 face masks to Belgium, via Alibaba’s hub at Liège Airport.

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Narrated in Dutch, Dutch subtitles · 4:17 min

Also in Hangzhou

DeepSeek (AI language models), Ant Group (Alipay), NetEase, Hikvision and Dahua (cameras), Leapmotor (electric cars, partner of Stellantis), Deep Robotics and Manycore (two more ‘little dragons’), Wahaha and Nongfu Spring (drinks) and Zhejiang University.

Go to the full company directory: 100 companies and institutions

Figures from annual reports, stock exchange prospectuses and company information, as of September–October 2026.

Opportunities

Four opportunities
for European
companies

E-commerce to Europe

Cross-border e-commerce from Hangzhou grew by 10.6% in 2025. Parcels for Europe go through Cainiao in Liège, and cargo planes fly directly between Hangzhou and Liège.

Supplying AI and robotics

Robot makers such as Unitree and Deep Robotics are growing fast and are looking for parts, sensors, software and applications in factories, logistics and healthcare.

Cars and parts

Geely and Leapmotor are headquartered in Hangzhou. If you already supply Volvo in Ghent, you know the group. Leapmotor is building up its European sales with Stellantis.

A city that responds

Hangzhou wants to be the fastest service provider. Rokid received a subsidy of 3 million yuan eight minutes after submitting its application online.

And the other way round

Companies from Hangzhou are looking for distributors, integrators and customers in Europe. European companies are looking for suppliers, partners and acquisition targets in Hangzhou. On hangzhou.be they find each other.

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The Belgian connection

From Rubens
to Ghent

Nicolas Trigault
Nicolas Trigault · Peter Paul Rubens, public domain
Volvo EX30
Volvo EX30 at the Brussels Motor Show · photo Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0
  1. 1617

    A Jesuit from the Low Countries

    Nicolas Trigault (金尼阁), born in Douai in the Spanish Netherlands, seeks support in Europe for the mission in China. Peter Paul Rubens draws him in Chinese dress. Trigault dies in Hangzhou in 1628.

  2. 2000

    West Flanders and Zhejiang

    The province of West Flanders establishes friendship ties with Zhejiang. In May 2025 a delegation led by Governor Carl Decaluwe visits Unitree and Dahua in Hangzhou.

  3. 2010

    Volvo, and Ghent

    Geely from Hangzhou buys Volvo Cars. This also puts Volvo Car Gent, Belgium’s last car plant, in the hands of a company from Hangzhou.

  4. 2021

    Alibaba in Liège

    Cainiao, Alibaba’s logistics arm, opens a 30,000 m² hub at Liège Airport for parcels to the whole of Europe.

  5. 2025

    Built in Ghent

    The first Volvo EX30 from Ghent rolls off the line. Until then the electric car had been built in China.

People and culture

A city of
poets and
entrepreneurs

Hangzhou honours two kinds of heroes: the poets who shaped West Lake, and the entrepreneurs who brought the city online.

Su Dongpo

Su Dongpo苏轼

1037–1101

Poet and administrator. As prefect of Hangzhou he had West Lake dredged and used the silt to build the Su Causeway.

Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi白居易

772–846

Tang-dynasty poet and prefect of Hangzhou from 822 to 824. He had an embankment built to hold lake water for the fields.

Jack Ma

Jack Ma马云

b. 1964

Born in Hangzhou, English teacher, founded Alibaba in his flat in 1999.

Zong Qinghou

Zong Qinghou宗庆后

1945–2024

Started in 1987 with a small school shop in Hangzhou and built it up into the drinks group Wahaha.

Wang Xingxing

Wang Xingxing王兴兴

b. 1990

Founded Unitree in 2016, in a 50 m² office in Binjiang.

Liang Wenfeng梁文锋

b. 1985

Studied at Zhejiang University and founded DeepSeek in 2023.

Three World Heritage Sites

West Lake (2011), the Grand Canal (2014) and the 5,000-year-old city of Liangzhu (2019) are all on the UNESCO list.

Longjing tea 西湖龙井

Green tea from the hills around West Lake. The best leaves are picked before the Qingming festival, in early April.

Lin’an 临安

Under this name Hangzhou was the capital of the Southern Song until 1276. Marco Polo later described the city as Quinsai.

Doing business in Hangzhou: advice from our partner ChinaConnect

The city helps, if you ask

In Hangzhou the government sees itself as a service provider. It does not impose itself, but those who know the way get a quick answer. Make sure your story fits what Hangzhou wants to build.

The relationship carries the deal

Guanxi cannot be forwarded in an introduction email. Whoever holds the relationship has to be in the room. That is why ChinaConnect travels with you and Jun Jiang sits at the table herself.

A first meeting can be slow

A month of silence is rarely a no. ChinaConnect keeps both sides informed until the relationship stands on its own feet.

At the table

Expect plenty of toasts with 干杯 (gānbēi). If you don’t drink alcohol, say so in advance and toast with tea.

Food

What to order
in Hangzhou?

Hangzhou cuisine (杭帮菜) is a branch of Zhejiang cuisine (浙菜), one of China’s eight great cuisines: fresh and tender, sweet rather than savoury, with fish from the lake, shrimp from the river and bamboo shoots.

Dish中文What is it?
Dongpo pork东坡肉Pork belly, slowly braised in rice wine, rock sugar and soy sauce. Named after the poet Su Dongpo.
West Lake fish in vinegar sauce西湖醋鱼Poached carp under a glossy sweet and sour vinegar sauce.
Longjing shrimp龙井虾仁River shrimp, briefly fried with fresh Longjing tea leaves.
Beggar’s chicken叫化童鸡Stuffed chicken in lotus leaves and clay, slowly cooked.
Sister Song’s fish soup宋嫂鱼羹Thickened soup with fish, bamboo, shiitake and egg, dating from the Song dynasty, according to tradition.
Pian’erchuan noodles片儿川Noodle soup with pickled mustard greens, bamboo and pork.
Longjing tea西湖龙井The famous green tea from the hills around West Lake.

Classic places to go: Louwailou (楼外楼) on Gushan Island in West Lake, for the vinegar fish and the beggar’s chicken. Zhiweiguan (知味观), since 1913, for soup dumplings and ‘cat’s ears’ (猫耳朵). And for noodles: Kuiyuanguan (奎元馆), since 1867.

Dongpo pork
Dongpo pork · photo Sjschen, CC BY-SA 3.0
West Lake fish in vinegar sauce
West Lake fish in vinegar sauce at Zhiweiguan · photo Windmemories, CC BY-SA 4.0
Longjing tea
Longjing tea · photo Difference engine, CC BY-SA 4.0

Visit

Explore and
get lost

West Lake lies in the middle of the city. You can see a lot between two meetings.

West Lake

West Lake西湖

Free and always open. The walk around the lake is about 12 km; take the Su Causeway for the finest stretch.

Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lingyin Temple

Lingyin Temple灵隐寺

Founded in 328, according to tradition. On the Feilai Feng rock next to it are more than 470 Buddhist sculptures.

Photo: 猫猫的日记本, CC BY-SA 4.0
Leifeng Pagoda

Leifeng Pagoda雷峰塔

On the southern shore, known from the Legend of the White Snake. The old pagoda collapsed in 1924; the new one opened in 2002.

Photo: David290, CC BY-SA 4.0
Gongchen Bridge

Gongchen Bridge拱宸桥

Stone arch bridge from 1631 at the southern end of the Grand Canal, a World Heritage Site since 2014.

Photo: Legolas1024, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hefang Street

Hefang Street河坊街

Pedestrian street at the foot of Wu Hill, with old shops such as the Hu Qing Yu Tang pharmacy.

Photo: HoweyYuan, CC BY-SA 4.0
Liangzhu

Liangzhu良渚

Museum by David Chipperfield near the remains of a 5,000-year-old city, a World Heritage Site since 2019.

Photo: Siyuwj, CC BY-SA 4.0
Longjing and the Tea Museum

Longjing and the Tea Museum中国茶叶博物馆

Tea hills south-west of the lake, with the National Tea Museum among them.

Photo: Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 4.0
Liuhe Pagoda

Liuhe Pagoda六和塔

A 60-metre pagoda on the Qiantang. Every autumn the world’s largest tidal bore rolls past here.

Photo: Windmemories, CC BY-SA 4.0

And also

Xiaohe Street小河直街

Restored lanes along the canal, reachable by water bus.

Qianjiang light show钱江新城

Some 40 towers along the river form one giant LED screen. Watch from the City Balcony.

Imperial Street南宋御街

The processional way of the Song emperors, now a pedestrian street.

Practical

How to get
to Hangzhou

Visa

Belgians can travel to China without a visa until the end of 2026, for stays of up to 30 days. Check the rules with the Belgian FPS Foreign Affairs before you leave.

Train

From Shanghai Hongqiao, the high-speed train reaches Hangzhou East in about 45 to 60 minutes. From Hefei the journey takes about 2 hours, from Beijing just over 4 hours.

Air

Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport (HGH). From Belgium you usually fly via Shanghai, Beijing or another hub.

Metro

Twelve lines and more than 500 km of track. Pay with the QR code in Alipay or WeChat.

Payment

Alipay, a Hangzhou company, and WeChat Pay work with a foreign bank card. Bring some cash as well.

Weather

In October, about 16–24 °C on average. Summers are hot and humid, winters are cool.

Three words

你好nǐ hǎo (hello)
谢谢xièxie (thank you)
杭州Hángzhōu

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Partners

Experts who
know Hangzhou

hangzhou.be works with partners who know the city and its companies up close. They get a permanent, visible place in the sections where their knowledge makes the difference.

Domain partner · business between Europe and China

ChinaConnect was founded in Antwerp in 2017 by Jun Jiang and connects European and Chinese companies. In Hangzhou it guides entrepreneurs in their dealings with companies, the university and the city, and helps from the first question to the signed contract. In the other direction, it brings Chinese companies to Europe.

1988Jun Jiang in Belgium
10+years as head of HRD Antwerp in Shanghai
2017ChinaConnect founded
3offices: Antwerp, Shanghai, Beijing

Jun Jiang, founder

Jun Jiang was born and educated in China and has lived in Belgium since 1988. She worked as a sworn interpreter for the Belgian courts and ran HRD Antwerp’s Shanghai office for more than ten years. That network is the foundation of ChinaConnect, together with partners in China and the UNIDO ITPO office in Beijing.

Jun’s Chinese wisdom and excellent network will help you move forward.

Wu Fenghua, managing director, TTF Haute Joaillerie

Prefer to see for yourself first? A Discovery Trip takes you to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hefei and Beijing in one journey, with visits to the companies that matter.

How ChinaConnect works

  1. First conversation

    You explain what you are looking for. ChinaConnect tells you honestly whether Hangzhou is the right place for it, and what will not work.

  2. Study and shortlist

    A market study that ends in something you can act on: an action plan and a shortlist of three to five companies, with their strengths and weaknesses.

  3. Visit to Hangzhou

    ChinaConnect plans the meetings, travels with you and interprets, including with the city and in the innovation zones.

  4. Negotiation

    ChinaConnect sits at the table with you and translates intentions as well as words.

  5. Follow-up

    After the visit ChinaConnect keeps both sides informed until the partnership stands on its own feet.

Contact ChinaConnect directly

Email
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Sources and image credits

Figures

Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics (2025 statistical bulletin) and Hangzhou Municipal Government (population, GDP, digital economy, exports, funds, metro) · Hurun Global Unicorn Index 2026 · Xinhua, China News Service, China Daily and SCMP (the Hangzhou model, the six little dragons) · annual reports, stock exchange prospectuses and company information from Alibaba, Geely, Unitree, BrainCo, Rokid and the Jack Ma Foundation · Volvo Cars, VRT NWS and The Brussels Times (Volvo Car Gent) · Liège Airport and Cainiao (Liège) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Nicolas Trigault) · Province of West Flanders (friendship ties with Zhejiang) · UNESCO (World Heritage) · Belgian FPS Foreign Affairs (visas). As of October 2026, figures rounded.

Photos

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Films

Animation by Edge.be, commissioned by ChinaConnect for the business delegation of October 2026. Voice created with AI (Gemini TTS). Music: original composition. Narrated in Dutch, with Dutch subtitles.