自然资源
湖州是浙江省和全国的粮食、蚕茧，淡水鱼、茶叶、毛竹等的主要产区和重要生产基地。河湖密布，水资源丰富，境内的水系与太湖，黄浦江水系相连。有煤、铁、石灰石等47种矿藏，石灰石储量20亿吨以上，水泥灰岩占全省40%，萤石探明储量占全省三分之一，占全国23％。硅灰矿是浙江省探明具有规模的唯一矿产地，与安徽省交界处的长广煤矿是省内最大的原煤基地。大理石、花岗岩储量也十分丰富。
Natural ResourcesHuzhou is a major producer of grains, silkworm cocoons, freshwater fishes, tea and bamboo in Zhejiang Province and even in China. The rivers and lakes gathering and abounding in water resources, Huzhou's water system is directly linked with Taihu Lake and Shanghai Huangpu water system. Huzhou has as many as 47 varieties of minerals including coals, irons, limestone etc., of which the limestone deposits are over 2 billion tons and cement limestone deposits 40% of the total in Zhejiang Province, the fluorite deposits that have been probed occupies one third of the total in the province and 23% of China. Huzhou is also the only mine of wollastonites that has been probed in Zhejiang Province. The Changguang coal mine bordering with Anhui Province is the largest run coals base in the province. Besides, the deposits of marbles and granites of Huzhou are very rich as well.
人文古迹
湖州有着悠久的历史和古老的文化，楚春申君黄歇筑下菰城至今已有近2300年历史，下菰城墙至今保存完好，为国内罕见的古城遗址。千金镇塔地遗址是一个良渚文化、马侨文化和马家浜文化。崧泽文化及更晚的周代印纹陶文化的文化堆积深厚的古代大型聚落遗址。湖州是世界丝绸文化发祥地之一，市郊钱山漾遗址出土的蚕丝织物有4700多年的历史，人杰地灵的湖州历代人才辈出，吴昌硕、俞平伯，孟郊、趟孟頫、陆羽等在中国乃至世界艺术史上留下了深远的影响。这些连同绸文化、笔文化、茶文化、饮食文化等共同构成了湖州独具魅力的人文资源。
Humane Historical Sites
Huzhou boasts a long historyand an old culture. It has been founded for more than 2,300 years of history since Huangxie, the Monarch Chunsheng of the Chu State in Chinese history, built the lower Gu City. Theancient walls of the lower GuCity is a rare ruin of ancient city in China and still remain intact surprisingly. The ruins of Qianjin Town Pagoda are a large-sized ancient tribes ruins with thedeep cultural deposits originated from Liangzhu culture, Maqiao culture and Majiabang culture, Songzhi culture and even later the printed pottery culture of Zhou Dynasty. Huzhou is one of the places where the world silk culture was born. The worm silk fabrics unearthed in Qianshan Lake that is located in the suburbs of Huzhou City has a history of over 4,700 years. In the Chinese history of literature and arts the fertile land of Huzhou fostered numerous eminent people !ike Wu Changshuo, Yu Pingbu, Merng Jiao, Zhao mengfu Lu Yu, who have profoundly influenced the Chinese anct even world history bf arts. These great people in the Chinese history and the silk culture, writing brush culture, tea culture and dietary culture have composed a unique, glamorous tourist resources of humanity and history.
旅游资源
湖州西倚天目山脉、北濒太湖，有丰富的旅游资源。除丰富的人文古迹，自然景观尤以“山水清远”著称，风光独特，景色秀美，山、水、湖、泉、洞五类俱全，既有典型的江南水乡，古镇，又有苍山、竹海和国家重点风景名胜；既有小桥流水的吴越风情，又有高山大川、森林竹诲和浩渺烟波的太湖风光，景色如画。
“太湖、名山、竹乡、古镇”是湖州四大具有鲜明地方特色的旅游品牌。
Tourist Attractions
On the west Huzhou leans against the Tianmu Mountains while on the north it faces the Taihu Lake. As a result Huzhou is endowed with abundant tourist resources. Besides the rich attractions of humanity and history, Huzhou is known for its beautiful natural landscapes.
The Taihu Lake, famed mountains, town bamboo and ancient town are Huzhouis four sound tourist brands with distinctive local features.
人力资源
2003年底全市拥有各级各类学校709所，专任教师21127人，在校学生45．78万人。2003年全市初中毕业升高中比率达85％。有各类专业技术人员88967人，占人口总数的3．4％。湖州师范学院等4所高等院校、25所中等职业学校及26所高级中学，每年能向社会输送本专科毕业生2037人，职高、中专和技校毕业生7329人，普通高中毕业生8028人。还有5所成人教育、培训学校对大批本地及外地来湖州人才和劳动力进行职业教育和技术培训。
Human Resources
The education undertaking in Huzhou has been highly developed. In 2003 there are 709 educational institutions of all kinds employing 21,127 instructors and enrolling 457,800 students. The admission rate for the junior high school students to continue their senior high school education was achieved 85% in 2003. The number of professionals and technical specialists who works in Huzhou is 88,967, holding 3.4% of total populations in the municipality. At present, there are 4 higher education institutes, including Huzhou Teachers' College, 25 vocational schools and 26 high schools in Huzhou, which can deliver 2,037 college graduates, 7,329 vocational school graduates and 8,028 senior high school graduates in every year. Other five adult training schools in Huzhou also conduct vocational education and technical training for the talents and labors who come from local and from other places.
市场资源
商贸业繁荣兴旺，市场发达，初步形成了消费晶市场、生产资料市场和生产要素市场相互配套的大流通格局。商品交易市场稳步发展，全市拥有商品交易市场191个，市场成交额403亿元，其中亿元以上水平交易市场31个。其中综合性特大型专业批发市场有全国最大的胶合板以及包括家具、五金，建陶、灯具和地板等所有装饰装潢材料的南浔建材市场和和全国最大的童装批发市场织裏童装市场。
Commercial Resources
The highly developed commerce and market are another resources of Huzhou, which have initially established its consumer commodity's market, production materials market and production factors market that are linked each other and forms a great circulation pattern for all goods. Nowadays there are 191 trading markets that have been established in Huzhou, whose annual turnovers have achieved RMB 40.3 billion, of which 31 markets their individual turnover exceeds RMB 100 million. The large-sized comprehensive specialized wholesales market-Nanxun Building Materials Market is a plywood market known as the biggest in China, whose traded items also include furniture, hardware, building pottery, lamps and lanterns, floors and other building decoration materials, and the Zhili Children's Clothes Market of the biggest in China, conducts the wholesales business as well. |
