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Extract from the Hangzhou Travel Guides:
HANGZHOU
, capital of the province, southern terminus of the Grand Canal, and one of China's leading tourist attractions, lies in the north of Zhejiang at the head of Hangzhou Bay. The canal has been the instrument of the city's prosperity and fortunes, establishing it for more than a thousand years as a place of great wealth and culture. Apart from the fact that Yu the Great, tamer of floods, is said to have moored his boats here, however, Hangzhou has little in the way of a legendary past or ancient history for the simple reason that the present site, on the east shore of
Xi Hu
(West Lake), was originally under water. Xi H...
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