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As a capital of the Southern Song Dynasty about 800 years ago, Hangzhou had witnessed the splendid culture of the Song Dynasty. Today, Hangzhou proposes to build a world-class famous city with unique charm and particular features so as to highlight Song culture.

Hangzhou has successively given two series of high-level lectures, namely, “Amazing Song – Deshou Palace” and “Music Instruments, Vessels, Calligraphy and Paintings”, to explore the cultural relics of the Song Dynasty by focusing on objects. Still, this year’s “Amazing Song Culture” series lectures focused on “people”. Experts interpreted the historical figures of the Southern Song Dynasty from the perspective of the public.

By analyzing Hangzhou-related writers and relics of the Southern Song Dynasty, the lectures relived the elegant life of Song people, and made citizens get closer to and then spread the Amazing Song Culture. Besides, the window of “Amazing Song Culture” enables the world to take a glimpse of the infinite charm of Hangzhou as a famous historical and cultural city and is the most melodious echoing of the past and future of Hangzhou.

Hangzhou Urban Management Department has completed the renovation of 5,703 signs, including the installation of signs and the writing of contents, in the comprehensive improvement and correction of Chinese and English river signs throughout Hangzhou, as part of the city’s efforts in building an international metropolis.

Most Asian Games parks in Hangzhou have completed the placement of warning signs to ensure the safety along the river. Some venues for the Asian Games have uniformly updated the signs to convey the information clearly and accurately; the renovation of signs in the commercial areas has also referred to the experience for the basic construction of rivers to ensure that the signs are pleasing to the eye and appropriately positioned.