Hangzhou adds a 2,243-year-old place name to its city map as it remodels for the future

Source: South China Morning PostThe Chinese city of Hangzhou, the hometown of Jack Ma and the city chosen by President Xi Jinping to host the 2016 G20 leaders summit, has made a sweeping change to its administrative map by adding a new district called Qiantang, an old name that was given to the city by China’s first emperor in 222 BC, or 2,243 years ago.Hangzhou, a city of 10 million residents, will merge four old districts into two and set up two new districts on its outskirts, namely Linping and Qiantang, as the city…Read More

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