Western Quzhou boasts dramatic mountains and rippling lakes. [Photo/WeChat account: quzhoufb]

More than 70 percent of Zhejiang province is mountainous and hilly and it has the longest coastline in China with a wealth of marine resources.

Quzhou, located in southwestern Zhejiang province, has long been known as a thoroughfare between four provinces: Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Anhui. Throughout its thousands of years of history, its natural resources have been used in a variety of productive ways.

In addition to the construction of the Hangzhou-Quzhou high speed railway and high-speed rail station in Quzhou, an urban integration pattern between Hangzhou and Quzhou will be formed.

It will become a strategic node of the Greater Bay area, a core "big-garden" city in Zhejiang, the gateway to western Zhejiang province, and a "green" metropolis.

Quzhou also plans to create a central leisure area focusing on vitality, industry and culture to showcase the city's personality and image, with the construction of a Xin'an Lake island at its core.

The city is currently focusing on reducing carbon and becoming more ecofriendly, opening up, participating in "mountains and oceans collaboration" and improving people's living standards.