Yongkang Overview
YongKang, is located in the central part of Zhejiang Province, southeast in the boundary of Jinhua City about 180km away from Hangzhou. It belongs to subtropical monsoon climate, typical of clear-cut four seasons. The annual average temperature is 16℃ - 18.5℃, and the annual precipitation is 1,400mm.
Yongkang has a long history, typical of a gathering of many historical and cultural talents. The good aura of cultural education and the good social civilization have brought up high-quality laborers and entrepreneurs, and have provided all-sided talents for economic construction and city prosperity by science and technology of Yongkang.
The city of Yongkang has always enjoyed the name of the “City of Metals”. With metals and machinery as the flagship, the industries including electric tools, building materials, and automobile/motorcycle accessories, etc have been strengthened without interruption, and the city is a national base for production of electric tools, automobile/motorcycle accessories, antitheft doors, electric bicycles, scooters, and thermal cups.
Yongkang has beautiful hills and rivers, charming and gentle scenery, and rich tourism resources, including the beautiful legend of Emperor Huangdi Casting Tripods; traditional crafts of Swords Cast in the Spring and Autumn Periods; Fangyan Mountain, well-known as the “No. 1 Hill in East Zhejiang” for its majestic and precipitous Danxia landform; the Lingshan Lake Immortal Rock featuring “Ridges and Peaks Resembling a Painting and Sounds of Waterfall Outreaching the Roll of Thunder”; the Wufeng Academy where Zhu Xi and Chen Liang once gave lectures, the Shiguliao Movie & TV Town where more than 100 films and TV series such as “Dragon Oath”, and “Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty”, etc has been successfully shot; the Xijin Bridge, the longest lounge bridge with stone mounds, wooden beams and heavy eaves in the whole country; the Jiushigou Village of Folk Customs and Culture, typical of “Watching Performance of Nine-Lion Picture and Seeking Folk Customs and Culture in Ancient Times”; the Health Building and Leisure Tour at Five-Finger (Wuzhi) Rock characterized by “Five Peaks Towering into the Sky, as if Stretching Hand for Clouds”, and the Metals Featured Tour reflecting “Visiting Famous Enterprises in Famous Park and Buying Metals while Strolling in Famous City”, etc.
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