Located in Shanghai economic zone that is most dynamic in China, Zhejiang province enjoys a developed export oriented economy and the abundant tourism resource s. Zhejiang is one of the best-known tourist provinces in China. There are several golden tourist routes and a great number of attractive scenic sports, such a s the route of Hangzhou-One Thousand islands Lake-Mount. Huangshan, the charming West Lake in Hangzhou known throughout the world, the fascinating Qiantan River Tide, the famous buddhist Temple at Mount. Putuo and the magnificent Mount, Yandang, etc.
In Zhejiang Province, there are 11 scenic spots at state level and 35 ones at provincial level, 28 cultural relic spots protected at state level and 322 ones a t provincial level, 55 state level and provincial level forest parks, one state level and 10 provincial level tourist resort areas. In 1999, some 948,000 overseas tourists and 51 million domestic tourists visited Zhejiang province with the revenue of 40.8 billion RMB yuan, which was listed on the top of the whole country.
The transportation for tourists in Zhejiang Province has been developed rapidly. Zhejiang has seven airports located at Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Yiwu, Huangya n, Quzhou and Mount Putuo respectively with an annual transportation capacity of 3.5 million passengers, and two new airports in Jinhua city and Lishui city tha t are under the construction. The Hangzhouª²Shanghai, Hangzhouª²Jiangxi doubleª² track railroads and the Jinhuaª²Wenzhou railroad have been put into operation. T he regular passenger or cargo ship lines stretch from Ningbo, Jiaojiang and Wenz hou to Japan and Hong Kong. The Shanghaiª²Hangzhouª²Ningbo Expressway was open t o traffic completely in 1998.
There are 400 hotels for the overseas visitors with 50,000 rooms, including 39 joint venture hotels in the whole province. 4,000 limousines and buses, and 280 tourist boats are available to the overseas visitors in the province; among which there are 3 joint venture tourist boats.
The rich tourism resources and the increasingly growth of overseas and domestic tourists in Zhejiang province have created the broad prospect for the foreign businessmen who come to invest the tourist projects and to develop the tourist resources and the tourist facilities in the form of wholly foreign owned, joint venture or cooperation.