Hangzhou to display water charm in Expo

HANGZHOU, the capital city of Zhejiang Province, will showcase its water control practices and let visitors experience the charm of water at its exhibition in the 15-hectare Urban Best Practices Area of Shanghai World Expo.

The city signed a UBPA participation deal with organizers today. UBPA offers a stage for cities around the world to present their solutions to urban issues from various perspectives.

Hangzhou's proposal, one of the six projects from Chinese mainland cities selected in the UBPA list, involves the treatment of the city's well-known West Lake, the Qiantang River, canals, the Xixi Wetland as well as water channels since ancient times.

Hangzhou's innovative initiatives in its UBPA exhibition include building a pentagon-shaped pavilion with blue bricks that contain water collected in the city from its lakes and rivers. Visitors will be able to sense how water flows at the exhibition.

Crowned as "the paradise for tourism" and "the kingdom of fish and rice," Hangzhou has been stepping up measures to clean up its water channels such as building sewage treatment plants and relocating industrial firms with heavy pollutant discharge along the Qiantang River.

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