27 Facts About Wenzhou

Wenzhou, historically known as Wenchow is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China.

Wenzhou is located at the extreme south east of Zhejiang Province with its borders connecting to Lishui on the west, Taizhou on the north, and Fujian to the south.

Wenzhou was the capital of the ancient Dong'ou Kingdom which existed from 191 BC until it was conquered by Minyue Kingdom in 138 BC.

In 1876, Wenzhou was opened for tea exports, but no foreign settlement was ever established there.

Wenzhou is the only city in China designed by Guo Pu, the father of the Fengshui philosophical system.

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Wenzhou is still considered to possess the best Feng Shui conditions and nature of all the Chinese cities.

When Guo Pu climbed to the top of West Guo Mountain in Wenzhou, he saw the range of mountains of Wenzhou shaped as a dipper and the city itself shaped as a key.

Wenzhou is still nicknamed the "Dipper city" based on the popular geographical saying "mountains as dipper, city as key" .

Legend has it that during the time when Wenzhou was being established and developed, a white deer was seen in the city with a flower in its mouth, therefore Wenzhou is known as "Deer City" .

Wenzhou derives its present name from its climate, and has a humid subtropical climate with short winters and long, hot, humid summers.

When China began economic reforms in 1978, Wenzhou was the first city in China to set up individual and private enterprises as well as shareholder cooperatives.

In late March 2012, China's State Council announced that Wenzhou would be the site of a pilot project for the reform of private investment rules.

The development of private economy in Wenzhou has created the "Wenzhou Economic Model", which inspires the modernization drive in China.

City of Wenzhou is a world leader in lighter manufacturing with over 500 such companies in the city.

Lucheng District in Wenzhou was the site of China's only major high-speed rail accident to date.

For centuries, it has been the cultural gene of native people in Wenzhou and has exerted influence on China for centuries since its origin in the Song Dynasty.

In 1899, a mathematical association was established in Wenzhou, named "Ruian Heaven Calculation Association", making the history of being the very first regional mathematical association in the history of China.

Wenzhou is renowned as the cradle of mathematicians in the Greater China Region; it has given births to over 200 mathematicians known both internationally and domestically in the past 100 years.

Such a rare phenomenon has never existed in the history of the world as throughout the history of the city, Wenzhou has given births to more mathematicians more than any other city in the world.

Wenzhou was the only professor and teacher in the department for the first four years and was very strict with his teaching and students.

Wenzhou appointed his student, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, Shiing-Shen Chern to become the institute's acting director in Shanghai.

In 1995, Wenzhou was given the title of "City of Chess" by China Qiyuan, the official agency responsible for all board games and card games in mainland China.

In 2020, Wenzhou celebrated its 25th anniversary of being the "City of Chess" in China.

Wenzhou is 1682 years old with a profound and brilliant cultural background.

Wenzhou is the origin of China's landscape poetry, the founder of which, Xie Lingyun, was the chief of Wenzhou's Yongjia Prefecture in the Nan Dynasty.

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People of Wenzhou are thought to be equipped with business sense and a commercial culture more dominant than anywhere else in China.

Wenzhou has two economic characteristics: it was the first to launch a market economy, and it continues to have an active and developed private economy.