Wenzhou (温州) is a prefecture-level city (or provincial subregion) in southeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It has a population of 7,777,000 in 2006, with 1,336,000 residents in the 3 districts (区) of the city with the same name. It also contains 2 more cities and 6 counties. It borders Lishui to the west, Taizhou to the north, and looks out to the East China Sea to the east.

Wenzhou was a prosperous foreign treaty port, which remains well-preserved today. It is also known for its emigrants who leave their native land for Europe and the United States, with a reputation for being enterprising folk who start restaurants, retail and wholesale businesses in their adopted countries.

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That pagoda is real pretty. If you block out the nearby highway and some modern buildings around it, you can still get a sense of what Wenzhou looked like hundreds of years ago.

nice pics...i always thought wenzhou is a polluted industrial town, where 70% of the world's lighters and shoes come from, never knew it's so beautiful.

Thanks

Wenzhou pics (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=440334&page=2&highlight=wenzhou)

some wenzhou pics from beijingupdates.com

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from foglio
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Wenzhou is one of the worst cities in China I've ever been to. :(

^^Why? I've never been there, so I'd want to know.

Wenzhou and the surrounding area is known to have become quite wealthy in recent years. But most people I met there were quite arrogant and ignorant at the same time. All they have is money and not much else. The streets were dirty, the infrastructure is not well organised, the traffic was worse than any city of similar size and (wealth) development in China.

Well, I hope the next gneration will be different and not spoilt by their newly rich parents.

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I haven't visited Wenzhou, but I know many people from a Zhejiang Province. ( for westerns it is more to be pronounced like : Jy-Jyang )

I am from Belgrade, Serbia ( or Nan Slafu) and all of Chinese people who emigrated here comes from Zhejiang province. All of them.

They are now, mostly, in retail and restaurant business.

Cheers!

Yes, wenzhou persons are well known in china for their smart in business. they are every where in china and overseas.
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Wenzhou will start to have a skyline after the completion of 330m WTC.

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