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Yongkang in the middle of Zhejiang Province, Yongkang enjoys the monsoon climate in the subtropical zone. The hilly and half-hilly area is composed of 70% hilly areas, 10% river area and 20% farming lands. The city is sunny and warm and wet with adequate precipitation in four clearly defined seasons. It is rich in natural resources for farming.
Industry, however, plays a dominant part in the local economy. A relatively complete industrial system has taken shape. Leading industrial products are hardware machinery, power tools, vacuum cups, security doors, scooters, chemicals, and building materials. Yongkang is one of China"s most powerful hardware export suppliers. It is also China"s biggest power tools production base. It is the country"s biggest producer of scooters and vacuum cups.
In recent years, the local government has followed the principles of enhancing the farming efficiency and increasing farmers" income. The government has promoted the industrialized farming operations as tools and socialized farming services as assurances to promote boost farming industries and build specialty farming. Fangyang Brand Fangyan Green Tea has won the honor of Zhejiang Province"s first-grade famed tea consecutively twice. Gaoge Brand Goose liver has been well known as the king of food on international markets. Hengkang brand dehydrated vegetables won the golden prize at second China Agriculture Exposition. What is more, also popular on the domestic market are Hulaolao brand soya bean film, Fangyang brand orange, Wangzhiyan ginger, Fangshan persimmon, Gongduan waxberry, Taixian grape, Shizhu sweet taro, Yongxiang pickled bamboo shoots, Baziqiang preseason Peach and Yiyu orange, and green ball brand cooked food.
Yongkang has gorgeous mountains and valleys. Eighteen Butterflies and Nine Lions Formation, folk arts famed both at home and abroad, originated in Yongkang. Known for precipitous peaks, grotesque rocks, strange waterfalls and beautiful landscapes, Fangyan is known as the number one mountain resort in the central Zhejiang.
永康市地处浙江中部， 是一个“七山一水二分田”的丘陵半丘陵地区，永康属亚热带季风气候，四季分明，温暖湿润，日光充足，雨量充沛，农业资源丰富，生产条件得天独厚。
工业是永康的主导产业，现已形成较为完整的工业体系。主导产品有五金机械、电动工具、保温杯、防盗门、滑板车、化工、建材等。永康是中国最大的五金出口供货基地。永康是中国最大的电动工具生产基地。永康是中国最大的滑板车生产基地。永康是中国最大的保温杯生产基地。
近年来，永康市委、市政府紧紧围绕农业增效、农民增收的总目标， 以科技为动力，以农业产业化经营为载体，以农业社会化服务为保障，大力培育特色支柱产业， 特色产业渐趋集聚。方岩牌方岩绿毫茶叶连续两届获省一类名茶称号；高歌牌鹅肥肝在国际市场被誉为“食品之王”，闻名遐迩；风味独特的永康菜干曾获第二届中国农业博 览会金奖。此外，还有胡佬佬牌豆腐皮、方岩牌红桔、五指岩生姜、方山柿子、拱瑞杨梅、唐先葡萄。 石柱舜芋、永祥笋钱、八字墙早桃及伊予柑、绿球牌熟食等系列产品畅销市场。
永康山川秀丽，风光优美，旅游资源丰富，“五金天堂，激情永康，梦圆方岩”的精品旅游线路，年接待游客达100万人。方岩风景名胜区是浙江省首批重点风景名胜区、每五批国家重点风景名胜区，具有峰险、石怪、洞奇、瀑美、谷幽的特色，主要有“方岩居中，游遍浙东”的“浙东第一山”方岩山、“峰峦如画屏，瀑声赛雷鸣”的灵山湖仙岩、南宋状元陈亮读书、朱熹陈亮论理的五峰书院、已成功接待《天龙八部》、《醉拳》等30多疗影视剧拍摄的石鼓寮影视城等，另外还有“观九狮图表演，寻古民俗文化”的九狮沟民俗文化游，黄帝曾“安营扎寨，炼铜铸鼎”的南中国黄帝文化中心石城山访古寻踪游、“远望五峰插天，若人伸手探云”的五指岩健身休闲以及“到名园看生产、逛名城购五金”的五金特色工业旅游等。
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Natural Beauty
Yongkang is steeped in history and boasts a natural beauty of gorgeous mountains. In addition to the long history and natural beauty, it also has many legends and folk stories passed down from ancient times. Among these legends is a story about Emperor Huangdi who came to Yongkang and built Dings, a type of bronze cooking vessels in ancient times. Legends also testify to the age-old local tradition: craftsmen in Yongkang manufactured metal swards in the Spring and Autumn Period, crossbows in the Han Dynasty, and bronze blunderbusses in the Tang Dynasty. The rural areas are characterized by a landscape of rivers and mountains. People hold fast to age-old beliefs and have customs and rituals from ancient times. Yongkang is known as the capital of hardware both at home and abroad. It is also a big tourist destination. At present, Yongkang boasts Fangyan Scenic Zone, a province-grade scenery attraction, and three city-level scenic attractions: White Cloud Scenic Zone, Flying Dragon Scenic Zone, and Stone City Valley Scenic Zone.
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Fangyan Scenic Zone
Located in Yongkang and being one of key scenic zones first approved by the provincial government, Fangyan Scenic Zone is famed for natural attractions of peaks and streams in the Danxia landform. The zone covers an area of 92 square kilometers, including eight major attractions such as Fangyan Peak, Five Peaks, Southern Rocks, Stone Drum Hut, Soulful Mountain Lake, Liu Ying Martyr Mausoleum, Five-Finger Rocks, and Lake Peace.
Fangyan allures visitors with its precipitous peaks, odd-looking rock formations, waterfalls and caves. The scenery showcases a magnificent and precipitous charm, harmonizes streams and mountains, and displays the best attractions of rocks. It also displays a long history with a lot of sites of historical interest and cultural heritage. Fangyan Peak is the centerpiece of the scenic zone, famed for its magnificent and steep cliffs. Fangyan presents the best developed and most salient features of the Danxia Landforms. These features are well comparable with similar rocky features of the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian Province. Fangyan Peak towers at 400 hundred meters in height, with a circumstance of about 3,000 meters. The peak stands alone in a level ground, with perpendicular cliffs looking as if shaped by axes. The area at the top is nearly equal to the peak"s foundation. The peak resembles a huge rocky square pillar propping up the sky, hence the name, which means a square rock in Chinese. A plank road with a bridge is built to cling to the cliffs, making the climb breathtaking. At the end of the flying bridge stand two huge rocks facing each other, which looks like a gate and is known as the heavenly gate. The peak displays rich tints in the rock surface, and the large-spots on the cliffs show clear structures with goffers one layer upon another.
With services improved and tourist infrastructures developed and perfected over years, the zone offers a full range of service facilities, satisfying visitors" needs for food, accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, shopping and recreation. Fangyan has become a preferred place of tourists to appreciate the Danxia Landform and pay homage to ancient sages who once lived there.
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White Cloud Scenic Zone
Located in the suburbs and three kilometers away from the city proper of Yongkang, the White Cloud Scenic Zone covers an area of 15.3 square kilometers.
The natural scenery of the zone is defined by arrays of mountains and verdant forest. The Stone City Hill boasts odd-looking rocks and perpendicular cliffs. Some rock formations miraculously resemble real things in life such as a general, a stepping stone for one to get on the horseback and a frog. The clear White Cloud Lake is embedded in the mountain, an ideal spot for leisure and water sports.
The centerpiece of the White Cloud Scenic Zone, the Rock City Hill boasts a rich history and cultural heritages. Presumably, it is the very center of the culture in the southern China during the reign of Emperor Huangdi. According to the Book of Mountains and Seas, Emperor Huangdi made Dings in the Rocky City Hill where sites of his past activities can still be seen. Local people regard the emperor"s ding-making work as the very origin of the hardware industry in Yongkang.
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Flying Dragon Scenic Zone
The zone is located in the suburbs of the city of Yongkang. Seven kilometers away from the city proper, the zone is easily accessible through a well developed road system.
The Flying Dragon Scenic Zone is marked by peaks and tall stalagmites, cascading waterfalls, and thick woods. Legend has it that Liu Xiu, the first emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, once hid there from a massive manhunt staged by Wang Mang, prime minister of the dying Western Han Dynasty. This legend adds a cultural and historical touch to the natural beauty. For this reason, the zone is regarded as a fine example of combining natural beauty with historical heritages. It is an ideal site for leisure and sightseeing, therefore an ideal weekend resort for urban residents from Yongkang city.
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Stone City Valley Scenic Zone
Only 1.5 kilometers away from the city proper of Yongkang, the valley is an excellent attraction for a summer visit. The urban maddening noises are gone once people reach the bottom of the valley. In the summer, camphor trees and pine trees quiver in the breeze, and keep the glaring sun away. It is also regarded as a natural place for oxygen intake.
Wufeng (Five-Peak) Academy
The Wufeng Academy is located in the Fufeng scenic spot in the Fangyan Scenic Zone. It is known for its gorgeous beauty, crisp air and quietude. It has been a preferred gathering place of scholars, painters and calligraphers since ancient times. In the southern Song Dynasty, prominent scholars such as Chen Liang, Zhu Xi and Lu Donglai wrote their books and developed their theoretical systems in the academy. Though known as Wufeng Academy collectively, the name is actually shared by separate academies scattered among the area where five peaks stand. These academics are the Chong Building, the Lize Temple, the Xueyi Library, and the Wufeng Academy.
The Wufeng Academy is structure built in a natural rocky cave. The academy leans against the northern cliff and faces the south. The academy has three front doors side by side located in a square area. The cave is 12.75 meter wide and 11.3 meters deep, covering an area of 175 square meters. The academy is a two-story structure, with 18 round pillars inside, each being 37 centimeters in diameter. The pillar bases are of the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty. Despite all the years of ups and downs, the academy is still very sturdy due to the protection and support provided by the cave.
Master Xu"s Memorial Temple
The temple is an ancient structure typical of the Chinese national style and local features. One of Yongkang"s best preserved memorial temples built in the Qing Dynasty, the temple is located in the Wuyi Lane in the city proper of Yongkang. The extensive temple encompasses 1,512 square meters. The temple is composed of the front, central and back halls, with each hall having five front doors side by side. The three rooms in each hall have lifted beams. The central door of the front hall is a structure of three-story archway. The wall is made of water-rubbed blue bricks. There are two oblong horizontal tablets, framed with patterns of lotus flowers and grapes. On the side of the fake door on each side of the front wall is a stone sculpture carved with four Chinese characters of Qin and Chess, Painting and Calligraphy, traditional arts for scholars in ancient China. The wall on the either side of the front door has three layers of walls and flowers. The top of the wall has dribbles made of eave tiles. The fa?ade looks magnificent and grandiose in a fine workmanship. The purlins on front and back eave columns in the front and central halls are carved with patterns of human figures, birds, animals, and flowers.
West Ford Bridge
Located in the southwestern part of the city of Yongkang, the West Ford Bridge crosses the Yongkang River, like a dragon sleeping on the waves. The bridge is one of the best tourist attractions in the city proper. According to the Yongkang County Annals, the West Ford Bridge was constructed in 1718, the fifty-seven years of the Kangxi Period of the Qing Dynasty. In the first year of the Yongzheng Period, the bridge was renovated from the wood structure to stone piers on which a corridor bridge was erected. And the corridor bridge later underwent several renovations over years. Now the West Ford Bridge enjoys a national reputation as the longest corridor bridge in China.
The bridge is 166 meters long and 4 meters wide. It has 12 piers and 13 spans. Before it was reconstructed, the bridge measured 206.3 meters in length sitting on 15 piers with 16 spans. The piers are higher than the banks, thus enabling boats to sail through from under.
On the stone piers are wooden beams, which are covered by the wood floor. On the floor are 58 bridge rooms. In the center of the bridge is a pavilion with a double eave roof. The roof is constructed in a way that wind and rain cannot invade. On either side of the pavilion are wood windows, from which people can look into the distance. Between bridge columns are seats for pedestrians to sit. The unique thing about the West Ford Bridge is that it curls like a bow in the direction of the upper stream. The unorthodox design of the curled bridge enables people to have a panoramic view. This design rebels against the traditional bridge engineering concept that a bridge must be straight no matter how a river zigzags. This idea adds an extraordinary appeal to the bridge.
The Dragon-Tiger Pagoda and the Phoenix Pagoda
The sites of the two pagodas are situated to the western of the city of Yongkang. According to historical records, the two pagodas were first erected in the Five Dynasty Period (907-960AD). The Dragon-Tiger Pagoda collapsed towards the end of the Qing Dynasty. The Phoenix Pagoda, which was ruined in the Ming Dynasty, was rebuilt. However, it was ruined again in 1932. The two sites can still be seen today.
The Dragon-Tiger Pagoda was generally called the Upper Pagoda. It stood on the top of the Snake Hill near the Qianshantou Village to the west of the city. The pagoda overlooked the river and stood face to face with the Phoenix Pagoda across the river. The twin pagodas resembled a lock. The 7-storied pagoda stood on the block-stone basis which covered area of 150-180 square meters. The brick pagoda had a stairway inside leading to the top. The panorama from the pagoda top was breathtaking: the river was flanked by hills, and the river vanished into the horizon and became one with the sky above. Beside the pagoda stood a Buddhist temple, entitled Upper Pagoda Temple. Now two buildings of the ancient temple still stand and the pillars have blue dragons engraved in relief. The stone sculpture displays a fine workmanship and is very valuable. Eastern to the pagoda site is a cliff on which are three Chinese characters: Dragon-Tiger Hill, handwritten by Wu Tingkang, a local magistrate of the Qing Dynasty.
The Pearl Pagoda was generally known as the Pagoda, located on the top of the Turtle Hill eastern of Xikou Village in the southern part of the city proper. The hill faces the east and the river. To the south is the small-sized Nanyuan plain, and to the west stretches an anti-flood dike and a belt of trees, and to the north is the Yongkang River. The hill looks like a magic turtle, swimming against the tide with something on its back. The hill displays gentle and open slopes, with trees and farming fields stretching in the distance. Eastern of the pagoda are a Buddhist temple and a nunnery, respectively entitled Pugao Nunnery and Dragon King Temple. There is a building of Buddhist Sutras in the nunnery.
The two pagodas used to be venues for sightseeing, cultural activities, and religious rites.
Hardware Technology Zone
Scheduled to cover a total area of 16 square kilometers, the zone plans to take in 350 enterprises which will eventually produces goods and services worth 20 billion yuan and yield 400 million yuan in taxes per year. The zone is scheduled to become China"s hardware powerhouse for research and development, production, and export. It is also planned to be a center of foreign capital and investment. When completed, the zone will become a leading model industrial zone which features high-tech planning, a full range of functions, powerful advantages, efficient operations and a beautiful environment.
The total area of the top ten key industrial zones in Yongkang is planned to be 20 square kilometers, home to 800 enterprises which will generate the industrial output value of 10 billions and 200 million of tax per year, thus forming an economic structure in which one zone plays a leading role and ten zones grow together.
Movie and TV Studio in Stone Drum Hut Scenic Zone
The Stone Drum Hut Scenic Zone is characterized by the rural scenery of verdant mountains and crystal-clear streams. Upon stepping into a stone staircase toward the Golden Gong Temple, tourists can see a stone lion, a stone elephant, a stone drum, and a stone bell. These natural stone formations are lifelike and vivid. At the entrance to the zone are a lion looking upward and a youthful-looking elephant. They tower in a spectacular way as if guarding the gate. On the surface of the cliffs flanking the path are stone bells and drums. Tourists can well i