Jiaxing Attractions

Jiaxing is situated in the extreme north of the province of Zhejiang, northeast of the provincial capital Hangzhou, in the middle of a fertile rice-growing area. Jiaxing can be reached by rail from Hangzhou in two hours, from Shanghai in three.

The great age of the town can be demonstrated by a document from the Qin era (221-206 BC). At that time it was known as Youquan, its present name going back to the period of the Three Kingdoms (AD 220-280). In 1921 the founding of the Communist Party of China was proclaimed from a ship on Lake Nanhu. Jiaxing has been an important rice and silk trading-center for centuries.