Commercial press geography of China . Square Pagoda, Fukien Kienning (® If) and Yenping (|E ^p) are inland tea-producing districts. THE PROVINCE OP CHEKIANO 17 CHEKIANG i^tL^) Area 36,700 square miles CAPITAL, HANGCHOW {^ #1 M) Chekiang is a province of wooded hills and fertile west and south are mountainous and have not so manypeople as the richer districts east and north. The inland hills,the many rivers and the island groups on the coast makeOhekiang one of the most beautiful provinces. The Grand Canal passes through the fertile northern plainto Hangchow. Canals and rivers affor
Commercial press geography of China . Square Pagoda, Fukien Kienning (® If) and Yenping (|E ^p) are inland tea-producing districts. THE PROVINCE OP CHEKIANO 17 CHEKIANG i^tL^) Area 36,700 square miles CAPITAL, HANGCHOW {^ #1 M) Chekiang is a province of wooded hills and fertile west and south are mountainous and have not so manypeople as the richer districts east and north. The inland hills,the many rivers and the island groups on the coast makeOhekiang one of the most beautiful provinces. The Grand Canal passes through the fertile northern plainto Hangchow. Canals and rivers afford a good water-route toShanghai. The Tsien Tang River (^ |g f£) drains most ofthe interior. Chekiang people are very enterprising and in someways have set an excellent example to the people of ^ Ping Hu Chi0 YOeh, West Lake Though a small province, Chekiang is a great silk, tea and wine are Chekiang products. Cotton,bamboo, medicine, furniture, rice, fish and varnish are otherimportant articles produced in Chekiang. 18 GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA The northern part of the province is the more prosperous,because the fertile lands are crossed by canals and rivers, onwhich many steam launches carry Chekiang products to theirmarkets. The railway from Hangchow to Shanghai also aidsthe development of the North. Southern Chekiang is in greatneed of railways to bring inland products to the coast, andpromote industry and trade. The short and rapid rivers could furnish waterpower tomake Chekiang a great industrial province. Hangchow, capital and treaty port, is a great city betweenthe beautiful West Lake O ^) and the estuary of the TsienTang. Some of the finest scenery and most famous temples inthe Empire are near Hangchow. In the Yuan Dynasty, aWestern traveller, named Marc
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