One-day trip guide to Shaoxing from Hangzhou by subway

First take Metro Line 5 in Hangzhou to Girlqiao Metro Station, then transfer to Shaoxing Line 1 at the same station and get off at Lu Xun’s Hometown Station.

Shaoxing City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, is a city in the central area of ??the Yangtze River Delta, a core city in the Greater Bay Area surrounding Hangzhou Bay, and a sub-central city in the Hangzhou Metropolitan Area. It is located in East China, north-central Zhejiang Province, The southern shore of Hangzhou Bay is between 29°13′35″ and 30°17′30″ north latitude and 119°53′03″ and 121°13′38″ east longitude. It is connected to Ningbo City in the east and Taizhou City and Jinhua City in the south. , bordering Hangzhou City to the west and Jiaxing City across the Qiantang River to the north, with a total area of ??8274.79 square kilometers.

Shaoxing City has a history of more than 2,500 years. It is a cultural and ecological tourism city with Jiangnan water town characteristics in China. It is one of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities, a United Nations Habitat Award city, a cultural capital of East Asia, and an outstanding city in China. It is a tourist city, a national forest city, the city with the most dynamic private economy in China, a national civilized city, and a national sanitary city. It is also a famous water town, bridge town, wine town, calligraphy town, and celebrity town.

Topography

Shaoxing City is located at the junction of three major landform units: mountains and hills in western Zhejiang, hills and mountains in eastern Zhejiang, and plains in northern Zhejiang. The terrain is higher in the south and lower in the north, forming a cluster. The landform features are surrounded by mountains, contained in basins, and concentrated in plains. The terrain skeleton is in the shape of a "mountain". The landform can be summarized as "four mountains, three basins, two rivers and one plain". In terms of area distribution, it is expressed as "six mountains, one water, three "Dividing Fields", the entire terrain slopes down from southwest to northeast, with the highest point being Dongbai Mountain, the main peak of the Kuaiji Mountains located in Zhuji with an altitude of 1194.6 meters.

The lowest point is the Zhuji "Hutian" area with an altitude of only 3.1 meters. The central part is mostly hilly land and tableland with an altitude of less than 500 meters. The surface landform of the northern plain is relatively monotonous, but the underground space is relatively complex and the distribution is developed. The more complex silt layer, soft soil layer and hard soil layer provide various construction foundations for surface buildings.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Shaoxing City