The city of Hangzhou is located in the north of Zhejiang Province, one of the smallest, but at the same time the most prosperous provinces of China. Hangzhou has around nine million inhabitants and is home to large companies (for example Alibaba), science institutions and technology parks as well as educational institutions and universities. In addition, the city is a tourist highlight due to its cultural diversity, which attracts several million visitors every year.


Which part of China is Hangzhou in?
Especially in the high-tech areas of biomedicine, computer science and digital new media, the city has an enormous economic power. For Heidelberg, the development of the Patton Barracks conversion area into the Heidelberg Innovation Park (HIP) therefore offers enormous synergy potential for German-Chinese cooperation and the establishment of research-intensive and innovative companies. This is to be regarded as a great opportunity not only from an economic point of view, but also with regard to the intensification of the exchange of know-how and the expansion of intercultural understanding.
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