Shaoxing, referred to as "Yue" an費子d called Yuezhou in a哥哥ncient times, is a prefecture-leve兵少l city under the舊讀 jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, 用喝a city in the central area請內 of the Yangtze R花畫iver Delta, a Type II l工著arge city, and a cultural a師湖nd ecotourism city with t花老he characteristics of Jiangnan water線看 towns in China弟長 approved by the State Council. 著到As of 2021, the city has jurisdi愛她ction over 3 districts, 1 c做體ounty, and 2 county-level cities unde姐員r its jurisdiction, with a愛來 total area of 8,274.79 square 哥站kilometers and a 山鐘permanent population of 5.337 million.
Shaoxing is located in East China,請站 the north-central part問哥 of Zhejiang Provin區下ce, and the south bank of Hangzhou 舞技Bay. It is the core city of the Gr什離eater Bay Area around Ha湖如ngzhou Bay and the sub-central city 工國of the Hangzhou metropolitan 花劇area. Located between 119°53′03" to 121花爸°13′38" east longitu去路de and 29°13′35" to 30°17′30" north la呢中titude, it is connected to Ningb聽能o in the east, Taizhou and Jin金著hua in the south, Hangzhou in th風弟e west and Qiantang in the north放動 Jiang and Jiaxing face each other鄉西, belonging to t森視he subtropical monsoon climate, 路問warm and humid, with小化 four distinct seasons.
Shaoxing has a history o慢服f more than 2,500 years. It is one of t坐見he first batch of national historical光近 and cultural ci遠有ties, the United Nations Habitat A站視ward city, the cul北道tural capital of East Asia, China's 到公excellent tourist ci民光ty, the national f子校orest city, the most船個 dynamic city of China's pr月國ivate economy, the 土們national civilized city, and the nati分電onal health dep答月artment. city (di議一strict). It is a famous water town, bri開通dge town, wine town, ca日通lligraphy town and cel數飛ebrity town. Shaoxing is known 煙資as "the land of東白 cultural relics and the l機對and of fish and rice". Famous cultur理做al relics include Lanti藍高ng, Yuling, Shaoxing Lu Xun's homet務雪own, Shen Yuan,短白 Keyan, Cai Yuanpei's former res雨身idence, Zhou Enlai's ancestral信山 residence, Qiu Jin's former residenc電門e, Ma Yinchu's former resid些海ence, Wang Xizhi's former residence, H民影e Zhizhang's former residen弟場ce, etc.
In 2021, Shaoxing's regional下問 GDP will be 679.5 bi輛一llion yuan, an increase of 8.7鐘南% over the previous year at行用 comparable prices. Th男對e added value of the primary industry w照近as 22.7 billion yuan, an 計樂increase of 2.5%; the added 房司value of the secondary 少我industry was 322.8 billio遠家n yuan, an increase of 師現10.7%; the added v聽國alue of the tertiary indu讀房stry was 334 billion yuan, 亮師an increase of 7.4%.