Natural Resources

Hangzhou has long been reputed as the Land of Fish and Rice, the Land of Silk and Paradise on the Earth with lengthwiseand sidewise rivers and densely scattered lakes. Benefiting from the geographic features, Hang zhou is blessed for it s agricultural production with rich myriad plants, forests, animals and birds. Man-cultivated plants for food and oil were grown around the city. In addition, there are over 260 breeds of economic plants such as fruit, tea, mulberry trees and fl owers. Hangzhou is renowned for raising mulberry and silkworm. Also noteworthy is the national famous tea known as the dragon well tea, which is originated here. A great variety of species grow in Hangzhou, including 10 national fi rst-level protected animals, 64 second-level protected animals;3 first-level protected and 18 secondlevel protected plants. Hangzhou has an agrarian area of
2.731 million Chinese acres, and 0.41 Chinese acre per capital. The forest covers an area of 1.08 million hectare, with a coverage rate 64.3 percent and the mineral resources include large- and middle-scale metal and nonmetal deposits. A kind of rare bloodstones in the world are producted in Changhua of Lin’an city, which are the art treasure in the collectstones and sealstones.