Downtown Seattle
Seattle was named after Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. It is is situated on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. The city is hilly, and many boats travel the bodies of water that surround it. The city developed as a technology center in the 1980s. "The stream of new software, biotechnology, and internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by 50,000 between 1990 and 2000." More recently, Seattle has become a hub for "green" industry and a model for sustainable development. Seattle has a population of 3.5 million in its metropolitan area.
West Lake, Hangzhou
Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Province, and has a population of 6.2 million people in its urban area. It has been one of the most renowned and prosperous cities of China for much of the last 1,000 years, due in part to its beautiful natural scenery. Marco Polo visited it about 1300 when it was the largest city in the world with a population of 1 million at that time. The city's West Lake is its best-known attraction. "The [Hangzhou] Hi-tech Zone makes good use of the concentrated superior intelligence in the park zone, relies on Hangzhou city's richly endowed natural environment and depends on preferential investment policies to gradually build a scientifically based hi-tech city --- Paradise Silicon Valley will capture world attention."
Update: Fireworks run amok in Hangzhou, 151 injured
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