(1)外文名称: Zhejiang Province
    (2)中文名称: 浙江省
    (3)内容:
                       Zhejiang Province
    General Introduction
    Zhejiang Province in East China has a landmass of 101,800 sq km. At the end of 1993, it had a population of 43.35 million. Hangzhou is the provincial capital.
    Climate
    Zhejiang has a sub-tropical monsoonal climate, warm, humid and rainy. It has a mean annual temperature of 15°－18°C, decreasing from south to north, and a mean annual precipitation of 1,200-1,800 mm. "Plum rains" occur between May and June and typhoons between summer and autumn.
    Topography
    Hills and mountains make up 70.4 percent of Zhejiang's total area, plains, 23.2 percent and rivers and lakes 6.4, percent. Sloping from southwest to northeast, it covers two topographical zones: one is the northern part consists of the Hangjia Plain north of Hangzhou Bay and the Ningshao Plain south of it. With low, flat terrain, numerous waterways and fertile soil, this area produces grain and silk. The other involves the hills and mountains in the west and south making up the greater part of the province. The Tianmu and Longmen mountains in the west are an important bamboo and tea growing region, while the Guiji, Siming and Tiantai mountains in the east with their many small basins are a grain-producing region. The scenic, tree-covered Xianxia, Dongong, Yandang and Kuocang mountains in the south are interspersed with the small Huangyan and Wenzhou plains. The central part of the province consists of the Jinhua, Quxian, Dongyang and Pujiang basins, which are drained by the middle-upper Qiantang River and its tributaries and have a large concentration of farmland. Zhejiang is the province with the largest number of offshore islands. Of the 2,000 islands, the best-known is the Zhoushan Islands.
    Agriculture
    Zhejiang is a high-yielding agricultural zone, with the Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou and Ningbo-Shaoxing plains noted for their abundance in grain, silkworm cocoons and tea. The areas around the Zhoushan Islands constitute China's top fishing ground. The province is one of China's important producers of tea, natural silk, aquatic products, oranges and tangerines, bamboo-woven products and jute. The Dragon Well tea produced at the West Lake of Hangzhou, the yellow rice wine of Shaoxing and the ham of Jinhua are only some of the local specialties that add to the province's popularity throughout the world, as does the picturesque West Lake.
    Industry
    Zhejiang leads the country in reserves of non-metallic minerals including alumstone, zeolite, pyrophyllite and fluorite. The East China Sea continental shelf off the coast of the province promises good oil and gas potential. Along the province's 160-km coast, there are 26 sites with water deep enough for ports designed to accommodate vessels of 10,000 DWT. As a matter of fact, berths of such a capacity are already in operation at the ports of Zhapu, Zhoushan, Ningbo, Haimen and Wenzhou, and the Beilun harbor zone at the Ningbo Port, one of China's five largest, is capable of handling 50 million tons of cargo a year.