Silk City inherited the prosperity of sericulture in ancient Qiantang, where silk workshops have gathered since the Qing Dynasty. Today, due to the wealth of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it stands out and becomes the first of its kind in China. /kloc-In the past four years, with the theme of "promoting silk culture and shaping the image of paradise", Silk City has adhered to the purpose of "prospering the city by quality, promoting circulation and serving the masses", and has perfect management institutions and systems, focusing on the cultivation and management of fixed markets, the development and development of mobile markets, and the network expansion of information markets, which has made Silk City famous and won the favor of tourists and merchants at home and abroad.

The Silk City, known as the World Silk Garden, is not satisfied with the status quo. Pursuing new goals and creating new glories is the theme of the development of the Silk City. In 2000, according to the instructions of the central, provincial and municipal leaders on "building the Silk City into a professional street integrating sightseeing, tourism, shopping, leisure and entertainment, a' living' silk museum and eleven scenic spots in Hangzhou", after two months of transformation, a characteristic street of the Silk City with a brand-new look, rich national characteristics, reflecting the silk culture in the south of the Yangtze River and simple and elegant appearance appeared in people's field of vision. At the entrance of the characteristic street, there are two archways with bluestone veneers, blue-gray tiles, cornices and four dragons flying, as well as the mahogany plaque inscribed by calligrapher Liu Jiang, which looks simple and dignified; The arcade pattern of sloping roof, eaves gallery and colonnade paved with blue tiles, with ancient silk red lanterns and antique blue brick walls, shows the architectural style of traditional houses in the south of the Yangtze River. Yellow is the main blue square brick, and the pavement made of granite on both sides is particularly clear and lively; The plaque of the business owner's name with gold characters and copper metal edges on the black background adds quaint colors; Greening, sketches, garden lights and benches together constitute the rest space for shopping breaks; On the eaves of the characteristic street, there are paintings of scenic spots and historical sites of West Lake in Hangzhou on the west side, accompanied by poems corresponding to the scenery of West Lake in China in previous dynasties, and there are more than 200 ancient silk cultural paintings and Tang poems in China on the east side, all of which are full of poems and paintings, making the whole market rich in China cultural connotation. At the beginning of the new century, this Silk City began a new blueprint design. The leaders of the Management Committee carefully planned the second phase transformation of Xinhua Road Silk Street, which unified the overall effect of the Silk City, fully demonstrated the profound cultural connotation of silk, highlighted the cultural taste of the "Silk House", and combined the "elegant and noble" silk cultural characteristics with the "harmonious and exquisite" Hangzhou urban characteristics, further expanding and upgrading the scale and grade of the Silk Street.