Shaoxing County lies on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay and northwest of Ningshao Plain. The total area is 1177 square meters. Shaoxing County has 15 towns and 4 streets, with household registration population 710000 and flowing population 10000. The county location---Keqiao is 28 km away from Hangzhou International Airport, 230 km from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, and 150 km from Ningbo Bay. Keqiao has the advantage on its location: two expressways of Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo and Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou, and No.104 state road.
Shaoxing County has 9 listed enterprises such as “China Textile City Group”. The domestic production output in 2006 was 45 billion yuan. GDP per capita was nearly 8000 dollars, and the fiscal revenue was 5.21 billion yuan. The county ranked as one of the top 10 counties on comprehensive economic strength for 5 consecutive years, and 11 town and streets was listed in a thousand powerful towns all over the country.
Shaoxing County is located in the area where the city is so open and private economy develops in a very high degree. As China textile base, the county has an obvious effect on textile industry cluster. The output of textile industry accounts for 70% of the total economic amount of the county. The whole county annually produces 42.5 billion meters, which accounts for 1/4 of the country. The production capacity of printing and dyeing cloth is 11.5 billion meters, which is 30% of the country. Therefore, Shaoxing County is entitle as “powerful economic county on a cloth” .
As one of the first group of 24 historical cultural cities in the country, Shaoxing County is well-known as water place, bridge place, liquor place and the hometown in which many celebrities were born. In its boundary, there are a 4A national tourist district---Keyanjian Lake, a national heritage conservation place---the emperor tomb of the ancient Yue state in Yin Mountain, the ancient tracker road and Xialu town which is the national historical cultural town in Anchang and one of the top 500 global eco-cities approved by United States. The county has excellent habitat environment, and has 33 middle schools and 190 primary schools. It provides the convenience for the enrollment of investors’ children. It possesses a cultural center, a library, a museum and a pearl plaza, and three A-class hospitals, large-scale supermarket, office buildings, featured restaurants and golf field.

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