At present, Hangzhou stood out among numerous renowned gourmet cities and was crowned as China Leisure and Gourmet City for the first time. Xia Baolong, Vice Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, attended the award ceremony and delivered a speech.
Xia said the fast development of its catering industry helped Hangzhou gain the nationwide popularity as well as reputation and played a crucial role in building the City of Quality Life and International Tourist Leisure Center . It is hoped that Hangzhou municipal party committee, municipal government and the food industry will further tap the catering culture by taking this opportunity as a new starting point, concentrating on the diversification, branding and internalization of fine food and producing more outstanding food stores, cuisine masters and delicacies, and upgrade Hangzhou s leisure and food industry to a new level. This will contributes greatly to the high quality of life and the sound and fast development of modern service industry.