Hangzhou Tech Tour: Alibaba, the Six Little Dragons and What You Can Actually Visit
A Hangzhou tech tour puts you inside the city that produced Alibaba, DeepSeek and Unitree. It is China’s most compact tech cluster: Alibaba’s campus, AI Town and the robotics companies of Binjiang are all within a 40-minute drive of each other, and Shanghai is about an hour away by high-speed rail. This guide lists the 20 tech companies headquartered in Hangzhou, explains which of the famous “Six Little Dragons” receive visitors (two do not), names the two public robot halls where you can see all of them, maps the districts and gives a sample 2-day route.
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A Hangzhou Tech Tour Guide for Executives and Investors
Until 2025 most foreign executives knew Hangzhou for West Lake and for Alibaba. Then DeepSeek released its R1 model, Unitree’s robots danced on China’s New Year television gala, and the city became the symbol of a new kind of Chinese tech company: small, research-heavy and headquartered far from Beijing and Shenzhen. Since then, as Reuters and Rest of World have reported, Hangzhou has become one of the main stops for the executives, investors and students travelling to China to see its technology first-hand.
This guide is written for leadership teams, investors and innovation groups planning a China tech tour that includes Hangzhou, whether as a destination in its own right or as the day trip from Shanghai. Every company location below was checked against the company’s own website or its stock-exchange filings, and every statement about visits comes from the company itself, from a government source or from our own expedition records.
Updated 27 October 2026. Company locations checked against company websites and stock-exchange filings; visitor access as publicly stated by each company or a government source.
Key takeaways
- Hangzhou is Alibaba’s home and the headquarters of the “Six Little Dragons”: DeepSeek, Unitree, Deep Robotics, BrainCo and Manycore (Game Science, the sixth, is actually headquartered in Shenzhen).
- 20 tech companies are headquartered in Hangzhou, clustered in four districts: Yuhang, Xihu, Binjiang and Gongshu. Factory tours are in a fifth, Qiantang.
- Alibaba’s Xixi campus has a visitor centre, but Alibaba publishes no booking page: visits run through the city tourism bureau, chambers of commerce or invitation. DeepSeek receives nobody; Unitree shows its showroom by invitation only and says it sells no visits.
- Two public robot venues exist: the Six Little Dragons hall in Xihu (reservation via WeChat, sells out weeks ahead) and the Binjiang embodied-intelligence centre (ticketed, 140+ robots).
- Two days cover the city: Yuhang (Alibaba and AI Town) on day one, Binjiang and Xihu (robotics, video tech, Alibaba Cloud) on day two. Non-stop trains from Shanghai take about 47 minutes; most take about an hour.
- InfluChina groups have visited Alibaba, Intelligence Indeed and INFIFORCE in Hangzhou; three of the expeditions described in section 8 had a Hangzhou leg.
1. Why Choose Hangzhou for a Tech Tour?
Three reasons make Hangzhou different from the other Chinese tech cities.
- It is Alibaba’s home. Alibaba Group’s Xixi campus, Alibaba Cloud’s headquarters, Ant Group’s Z Space campus, Cainiao’s logistics headquarters and the start-ups that grew up around them are all in the city. If your business depends on Tmall, Taobao, Alipay or the Qwen models, Hangzhou is where the decisions are made.
- It is the home of the “Six Little Dragons”. In early 2025 Chinese media gave that name to six Hangzhou start-ups: DeepSeek, Unitree, Deep Robotics, BrainCo, Manycore and Game Science (South China Morning Post). They are the reason so many groups now add Hangzhou to a China tech tour, even though two of them do not receive visitors at all.
- It is compact. Shanghai and Shenzhen each need three days to cover; Hangzhou’s companies sit in four districts that can be covered in two, and the city pairs naturally with Shanghai, about an hour away by high-speed rail.
The numbers behind the reputation, from the city’s 2025 statistical communiqué: GDP of 2,301.1 billion yuan, up 5.2% and the eighth largest among Chinese cities; digital-economy core industries worth 678 billion yuan, or 29.5% of GDP; and 460 billion yuan of revenue in the AI core industry, up 23.1% in a year. The Hurun Global Unicorn Index 2026 counts 25 unicorns in Hangzhou, fourth in China after Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, with DeepSeek as the year’s most valuable new entrant.
If your priority is hardware and the supply chain, read our Shenzhen tech tour guide; for consumer platforms, chips and EVs, our Shanghai tech tour guide. Hangzhou is the city for digital commerce, AI and robotics.
2. Which Tech Companies Are Headquartered in Hangzhou? (20 Companies)
The table lists technology companies whose headquarters, or principal executive office, is in Hangzhou. Where a company’s listed entity or factory sits elsewhere, we say so.
| Company | District | What they do | Visits (as publicly stated) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Alibaba | Yuhang (Xixi campus, Future Sci-Tech City) | E-commerce, cloud and the Qwen AI models | Visitor centre and visit routes; booked through the city tourism bureau, chambers of commerce or invitation, not on Alibaba’s site; visited by InfluChina groups |
 Alibaba Cloud | Xihu (Zijingang Sci-Tech City) | Cloud and AI infrastructure; trains and serves the Qwen models | Hosts the Apsara Conference every September; no public visitor programme found |
 Ant Group | Xihu (Z Space campus) | Alipay, digital payments and wealth management | No public visitor programme found |
 Cainiao | Yuhang (Future Sci-Tech City) | Alibaba’s logistics arm: smart logistics network, Cainiao Stations and cross-border express; wholly owned by Alibaba since its Hong Kong IPO was withdrawn in 2024 | Foreign business delegations have toured its headquarters; no public booking channel |
| NetEase | Binjiang (main campus; executive office in Hong Kong) | Online games and internet services | Has hosted student groups; no public programme |
 Geely Holding Group | Binjiang | Car group behind Geely, Lynk & Co and Zeekr | Partner delegations tour the Zeekr factory in Ningbo; its Qiantang plant takes groups through the city’s industrial-tourism programme |
 Zeekr | Xiaoshan (executive offices); plant at Hangzhou Bay, Ningbo | Premium electric vehicles; part of Geely Auto since their December 2025 merger | Partner and media tours of the Ningbo plant; none found for the public |
 Leapmotor | Binjiang (headquarters); cars built in Jinhua, Zhejiang | Mass-market electric vehicles; Stellantis partner | Press delegations have toured the Jinhua plant; no public booking |
 Hikvision | Binjiang | AI video, machine vision and AIoT products | 1,200 m² showcase hall receives groups by arrangement; no public booking page |
 Dahua Technology | Binjiang | Video and security products | Groups visit its exhibition hall |
| Supcon | Binjiang | Industrial automation and industrial AI; China’s largest DCS maker, listed in Shanghai and Zurich | Online exhibition hall only; receives technical and investor groups by arrangement |
| Hikrobot | Binjiang (plant in Tonglu County) | Machine vision and mobile robots; a Hikvision subsidiary | None found; its robots are on show at the Binjiang embodied-intelligence centre |
 Unitree Robotics | Binjiang | Quadruped and humanoid robots | Showroom by invitation only; the company says it sells no visits |
 Deep Robotics | Xihu (Zijin Dream Square) | Quadruped and wheeled-legged robots for industry | No public visitor programme found |
 BrainCo | Yuhang (AI Town) | Brain-computer interfaces and bionic hands | Demonstration centre that receives delegations |
| Intelligence Indeed | Yuhang (AI Town) | Enterprise AI agents and automation | Visited by influchina groups |
 INFIFORCE | Yuhang (Alibaba Digital Ecosystem Innovation Park) | Embodied-AI robot brain and robots | Visited by influchina groups |
 Manycore Tech | Gongshu | 3D design software and spatial AI | No public visitor programme found |
| Rokid | Yuhang (Dream Town) | AI and AR smart glasses | Has hosted chamber of commerce visits |
 DeepSeek | Gongshu | Open-weight AI models | Does not receive visitors |
Source: company websites, annual reports and stock-exchange filings, checked 23–27 October 2026. Visitor information is as publicly stated by each company or by a government source; visits are arranged with each host and confirmed per programme.
Three notes on listings, because they are often reported wrongly: Supcon trades in Shanghai and, through depositary receipts, in Zurich, not in Hong Kong; Cainiao is not listed, having withdrawn its Hong Kong IPO in 2024; and Hikrobot’s IPO application has been suspended repeatedly, most recently in September 2026.
Two names often placed in Hangzhou are not headquartered there. Game Science, the studio behind Black Myth: Wukong and the sixth “dragon”, is headquartered in Shenzhen; only its development studio is in Hangzhou. And Geely Auto, the Hong Kong-listed carmaker, has its head office in Hong Kong, although its parent group, Zhejiang Geely Holding, is in Binjiang.
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3. The Six Little Dragons: Which Ones Can You Visit?
The Six Little Dragons are the most requested names on any Hangzhou tech tour, so it is worth being precise about access.
| Company | What they do | District | Receives visitors? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek | Open-weight AI models (V and R series) | Gongshu | No. Security staff turn visitors away at the door |
| Unitree Robotics | Quadruped and humanoid robots | Binjiang | By invitation only; a lobby notice says it offers no paid visits |
| Deep Robotics | Quadruped robots for industry | Xihu | No public visitor programme found |
| BrainCo | Brain-computer interfaces | Yuhang (AI Town) | Yes. Demonstration centre for delegations |
| Manycore Tech | 3D design software and spatial AI | Gongshu | No public visitor programme found |
| Game Science | Games (Black Myth: Wukong) | Headquartered in Shenzhen; only its studio is in Hangzhou (Xihu) | No public visitor programme found |
Source: company websites, ITHome (February 2025), El País (March 2025) and The Paper (May 2026), checked 27 October 2026.
DeepSeek has no visitor programme and no public reception. When El País went to its Hangzhou building in March 2025, security staff said nobody was allowed in; ITHome reported the same a month earlier. Any organizer promising a “DeepSeek visit” is promising something the company has never offered.
Unitree shows its showroom by invitation, and a notice in its lobby, repeated on its contact page, says the company offers no paid visits. A group with a credible business reason can request a meeting; a tourist group cannot buy one.
BrainCo is the opposite case. Its brain-science demonstration centre in AI Town receives delegations, as The Paper reported in May 2026, and it was one of the hosts of the venture-capital expedition described in section 8. Deep Robotics and Manycore publish no visitor programme; meetings there are arranged case by case.
The place to see all six at once is the Wensan Future Tech Experience Center in Xihu district, opened in March 2025 as the “Meet the Six Little Dragons” hall (Hangzhou.com.cn): a terminal to chat with DeepSeek, Unitree humanoids that shake hands, Deep Robotics robot dogs, BrainCo’s brain-computer interface and bionic hand, Manycore’s cloud design software and a playable Black Myth: Wukong demo. Reservations go through the “文三GO” WeChat mini-program and sessions sell out weeks ahead; the city says overseas groups visit weekly. One more connection worth knowing: the founders of DeepSeek, Deep Robotics and Manycore all studied at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou Daily), which is why the university’s Zijingang campus in Xihu sits at the centre of the city’s start-up map.
4. Where Are Hangzhou’s Tech Districts?
Hangzhou’s tech companies cluster in four districts, factory tours in a fifth, and a good route follows them rather than jumping across the city.
- Yuhang, west of the city (Future Sci-Tech City): Alibaba’s Xixi campus, Cainiao’s headquarters, AI Town (BrainCo, Intelligence Indeed), Dream Town (Rokid) and Alibaba’s Digital Ecosystem Innovation Park (INFIFORCE). This is the densest cluster and the natural first day. Hangzhou West station, 78 minutes from Shanghai Hongqiao, serves it directly.
- Xihu, between Yuhang and the centre: three separate tech sites. Zijingang Sci-Tech City holds Alibaba Cloud’s global headquarters, Zhejiang University’s main campus and Westlake University; Yunqi Town in Zhuantang is the cloud-computing town Alibaba Cloud and the district built from 2013, with the traditional venue of the Apsara Conference; and Wensan Digital Life Street has the Six Little Dragons hall. Ant Group’s Z Space campus and Deep Robotics are also in Xihu.
- Binjiang, on the south bank of the Qiantang River: the national high-tech zone, home to NetEase, Zhejiang Geely Holding, Leapmotor, Hikvision, Hikrobot, Dahua, Supcon and Unitree, with 78 listed companies and the public embodied-intelligence centre. This is Hangzhou’s hardware, video-technology and robotics base.
- Gongshu, north of the centre: DeepSeek’s registered office and Manycore’s headquarters; the district is building what it calls China Computing Valley.
- Xiaoshan, south-east: Zeekr’s executive offices, the airport, the two big event venues (the Hangzhou International Expo Center, where the G20 met, and the newer Hangzhou Grand Convention and Exhibition Center), Xiaoshan Robot Town with its Robot Expo Center, and the Olympic business district where Leapmotor bought land for a new headquarters in May 2026.
- Qiantang, east along the river: the manufacturing district, with 22 industrial-tourism bases including GAC Motor, Geely, Gree, Changan Ford, Joyoung and Wahaha, plus the Xiasha university park. An AI itinerary and a manufacturing itinerary point to different parts of the city.
5. What Can You Actually See on a Hangzhou Tech Tour?
As everywhere in China, companies are not open campuses. Visits are arranged in advance through official channels or an introduction, and they take one of these formats:
- Alibaba’s Xixi campus: the campus has a visitor centre and visit routes opened in 2020, but Alibaba publishes no booking page. Visits have always run through Hangzhou’s tourism bureau programmes, chambers of commerce or an invitation; a 150-company foreign delegation toured the campus and Cainiao’s headquarters in April 2026. On our expeditions, hosts have included a project manager from the Qwen AI team and account managers from Tmall.
- Demonstration centres and showrooms: BrainCo’s brain-science centre in AI Town, Dahua’s exhibition hall in Binjiang and Hikvision’s 1,200 m² smart hall, which receives groups by arrangement.
- Start-up briefings: a presentation and questions with the founders or business-development team of companies such as Intelligence Indeed, INFIFORCE or Rokid.
- Public robot halls: the Six Little Dragons hall in Xihu and the embodied-intelligence centre in Binjiang, listed in the table below. They are the only places in the city where a group can see Unitree humanoids without an invitation from the company.
- Factory floors: Qiantang’s industrial-tourism bases (GAC Motor, Geely, Gree, Changan Ford, Joyoung) have official booking rules, most for groups only. Further out, the Zeekr plant at Hangzhou Bay in Ningbo takes partner delegations, and Leapmotor builds its cars in Jinhua.
- Ecosystem meetings: incubators in Dream Town and AI Town, local investors and the foreign founders who have set up in the city. Zhejiang University, where three of the Six Little Dragons’ founders studied, opens its campus to the public by WeChat booking but publishes no delegation programme.
| Venue | Where | What you see | Access (as published) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wensan Future Tech Experience Center (the “Meet the Six Little Dragons” hall) | Xihu, Wensan Digital Life Street | One hall with all six companies: a DeepSeek chat terminal, Unitree humanoids, Deep Robotics robot dogs, BrainCo’s bionic hand, Manycore’s design software and a Black Myth: Wukong demo | By reservation in the “文三GO” WeChat mini-program; slots sell out weeks ahead; price not published |
| AI Hangzhou City Living Room | Xihu, same street (opened July 2026) | 1,300 m² of smart-office, education, mobility and health exhibits, including Unitree | By reservation in the same mini-program |
| Hangzhou Embodied Intelligence Exhibition and Application Promotion Center | Binjiang, 422 Qingkuang Street (opened March 2026) | 140+ robots from 87 brands, a performance arena, a skills-training centre and a robot boxing ring; Unitree, Hikrobot, Dahua and Alibaba are partners | Ticketed, open to the public 9:00–17:50 via the “2030赛博未来” mini-program; groups of 15–40 book a day ahead; price not published |
| Xiaoshan Robot Expo Center | Xiaoshan, Robot Town | 6,000 m² of industrial and service robots, the first robot showcase in Zhejiang (2017) | Open weekdays and Saturdays; groups of 10–200 by phone |
| Qiantang factory tours | Qiantang (Xiasha and Jiangdong) | 22 industrial-tourism bases: GAC Motor’s Hangzhou car plant, Geely’s Qiantang plant, Gree, Changan Ford and Joyoung among them | Official booking rules per site; most are groups only (GAC Motor 20+, Tue–Thu; Gree 30–100); Joyoung also admits individuals |
Source: Hangzhou Culture, Broadcasting and Tourism Bureau guides of July 2025 and July 2026 (as published by Tide News and Hangzhou News) and the Binjiang district government, checked 27 October 2026. Hours and booking rules change; confirm before travelling.
No organizer can promise a specific company in advance; each host confirms case by case. Our guide to company visits in China explains how requests are made and what to expect.
6. A Sample 2-Day Hangzhou Tech Tour Itinerary
An example route. The companies on any real programme depend on your sector and on each host’s availability.
- Day 1, Yuhang: Alibaba’s Xixi campus in the morning, with a briefing from a business unit relevant to your group (cloud and AI, or Tmall and international trade). AI Town in the afternoon: BrainCo’s demonstration centre and a briefing at an AI-agent or embodied-AI start-up. Dinner with local founders.
- Day 2, Binjiang and Xihu: the embodied-intelligence centre or Dahua’s and Hikvision’s halls in the morning (Unitree only if the company has agreed to receive the group), then the Six Little Dragons hall or Alibaba Cloud’s area in Xihu and a session on how Chinese AI companies are regulated and financed. Evening train to Shanghai, or a last night by West Lake.
- Optional Day 3: a Qiantang factory tour (GAC Motor or Geely) for manufacturing groups; Shanghai, about an hour away (see our Shanghai tech tour guide); or the Zeekr plant in Ningbo for groups focused on electric vehicles.
7. Hangzhou, Shanghai or Shenzhen: Which Is Better for a Tech Tour?
Most groups combine Hangzhou with one of the two larger cities. The table shows what each one is best for.
| Hangzhou | Shanghai | Shenzhen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongest sectors | E-commerce and cloud (Alibaba), AI models, robotics, brain-computer interfaces, video and machine vision | AI models, semiconductors, EVs, civil aviation, consumer platforms, gaming | Hardware and electronics, drones, telecom, EVs and batteries, robotics, genomics |
| What a visit feels like | Campuses and start-up parks; demonstration centres and public robot halls; founders within a short drive of each other | Corporate headquarters, R&D campuses and brand spaces | Exhibition halls, labs, factory floors and the electronics supply chain |
| Best for | Digital commerce, AI and robotics, the start-up ecosystem | Market entry, consumer and platform strategy, AI | Product, hardware, supply chain and manufacturing |
| Days needed | 2 | 3 | 2 to 3 |
| Pairs well with | Shanghai (about an hour by high-speed rail) | Hangzhou | Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Dongguan |
Source: InfluChina expedition experience and the company information above.
8. Expeditions We Have Run in Hangzhou
These are expeditions InfluChina has delivered, with client names withheld. The figures are as delivered on each programme; only the Hangzhou part of each route is described here.
A Silicon Valley venture capital firm, deep-tech and hardware (Shenzhen → Hangzhou → Shanghai): 8 founder and start-up sessions, 5 company and ecosystem visits, 3 start-up incubators, 2 factory-floor workshops, 1 government meeting. Hangzhou: BrainCo, Alibaba and a robot experience centre.
A group of international consumer-brand exporters, digital commerce (Beijing → Hangzhou → Shanghai): 7 platform decision-makers, 5 platform ecosystems, 3 market-entry service providers, 1 FMCG incubator, 1 institutional partner. Hangzhou: Tmall (a domestic account manager).
An Australian and New Zealand family office, market entry: a premium baby-food business built from zero (Shanghai → Hangzhou → Nanjing): 4 major retail channels, 2 maternity retail chains, 2 e-commerce platforms, 2 state-owned enterprises, 1 trade fair. Hangzhou: Alibaba.
Source: InfluChina expedition records (brochure, October 2026). Client names are withheld; figures are as delivered on each programme.
On our October 2026 tech and AI expedition, the Hangzhou day combined Alibaba’s campus, Intelligence Indeed in AI Town and INFIFORCE, where the group watched a robot-arm teleoperation demo and was briefed by the founding team.
9. Tech Events in Hangzhou Worth Planning Around
September is Hangzhou’s tech week. In 2026 the Apsara Conference (22–24 September), the Global Digital Trade Expo (23–27 September) and the Xihu Lunjian security conference (23 September) overlapped, and the city now runs them as one linked week. A tour timed around it gives access to product launches and to the Alibaba ecosystem in one place, at the cost of scarce hotel rooms.
| Event | Venue | 2026 dates | Usual month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apsara Conference (Alibaba Cloud) | Hangzhou International Expo Center | 22–24 September 2026 | September |
| Global Digital Trade Expo | Hangzhou Grand Convention and Exhibition Center | 23–27 September 2026 | Late September |
| Xihu Lunjian (digital security) | Hangzhou Grand Convention and Exhibition Center | 23 September 2026 | May in 2024 and 2025, September in 2026 |
| Hangzhou International Humanoid Robot and Robotics Technology Exhibition | Hangzhou Grand Convention and Exhibition Center | 14–16 May 2026 | May |
| China Embodied Intelligence Robot Industry Conference and Exhibition | Hangzhou International Expo Center | 11–13 March 2026 | March |
| World Internet Conference, Wuzhen Summit | Wuzhen, Tongxiang (near Hangzhou) | 2–5 November 2026 | November |
Source: Xinhua, the Hangzhou city government, the Cyberspace Administration of China, Tide News and Hangzhou News, checked 27 October 2026. 2027 dates had not been announced at the time of writing.
Two venues with similar English names sit a few kilometres apart in Xiaoshan: the Hangzhou International Expo Center, the G20 venue, and the newer Hangzhou Grand Convention and Exhibition Center. Check which one your event uses.
10. How to Get to Hangzhou and Plan the Trip
- From Shanghai: the fastest non-stop trains from Shanghai Hongqiao reach Hangzhou East in about 47 minutes; most trains take about an hour, with a published second-class fare of 87 yuan. For Yuhang, trains to Hangzhou West take 78 minutes. From Hangzhou East, Metro Line 19 reaches Future Sci-Tech City in about 22 minutes.
- To the other tech cities: about 4.5 hours to Beijing by high-speed rail, about 6 hours to Shenzhen by rail or 2 h 15 min by air.
- By air: Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, 27 km east of the centre, passed 50 million passengers in 2025 and served 31 international destinations in 2026. Non-stop flights from Europe are scarce (Madrid, three times a week); Emirates flies daily from Dubai. For most European and American groups, flying into Shanghai and taking the train is simpler.
- Visas: ordinary-passport holders from 50 countries can currently enter China visa-free for up to 30 days for business, under a policy valid until 31 December 2026; others, including US citizens, may qualify for 240-hour visa-free transit, and Hangzhou’s airport is a designated port for it. Our China business trip guide covers visas, payments and apps.
- Lead time: allow several weeks to request company visits, more for large groups or for Alibaba; the Six Little Dragons hall sells out weeks ahead.
- Interpreters: briefings at start-ups are usually in Chinese; plan professional interpretation for every meeting.
- Group size: smaller groups get founder time; larger groups are limited to demonstration centres, public halls and campus tours. Several venues cap groups (the Binjiang centre at 40, GAC Motor at a minimum of 20).
11. Organizing a Hangzhou Tech Tour With InfluChina
InfluChina organizes bespoke China business tours for leadership teams, investors and business schools, and Hangzhou is on most of them. We build the route around your objective, request the company visits, reserve the public halls, brief each host, provide interpreters and handle hotels and transfers between Shanghai and Hangzhou. Because we are also a China marketing agency that works with Tmall, Rednote and Douyin every day, we can add sessions on how Chinese consumers actually use the platforms you will visit.
Investors can start with our China investor tours for VCs; corporate teams with our corporate delegations. For the wider picture, read our China tech tour guide and our China AI tour guide.
Sources and Methodology
How this guide was checked: every headquarters location comes from the company’s own website or its most recent stock-exchange filing (SEC, HKEX, SSE or SZSE), checked between 23 and 27 October 2026. Visitor information is as publicly stated by each company or by a government source. Where we say a company was visited by InfluChina groups, the statement comes from our own expedition records.
Sources, accessed 27 October 2026:
- Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics, 2025 statistical communiqué (GDP, digital economy, AI revenue, population; April 2026)
- Hangzhou.com.cn, the “Meet the Six Little Dragons” hall and its booking rush (July 2025)
- Hangzhou News, booking the Wensan halls through the 文三GO mini-program (October 2026)
- Hangzhou city government, overseas groups at the Six Little Dragons hall (February 2026)
- Binjiang district government, the Hangzhou Embodied Intelligence Exhibition and Application Promotion Center (July 2026)
- Hangzhou News, opening of the embodied-intelligence centre (March 2026)
- Tide News, Hangzhou’s 20 sci-tech tourism sights with visiting rules (July 2026)
- Tide News, Hangzhou’s ten sci-tech tourism sights (July 2025)
- Hangzhou News, Qiantang’s 22 industrial-tourism bases (May 2026)
- Hangzhou News, Alibaba opens visit routes at the Xixi campus (October 2020)
- Hangzhou city government, a 150-company foreign delegation at Alibaba and Cainiao (April 2026)
- Hangzhou city government, Cainiao’s headquarters in Future Sci-Tech City (April 2023)
- Wikipedia, Cainiao (IPO withdrawn in 2024)
- MarkLines, Leapmotor’s Jinhua plant
- Automotive World, Stellantis press delegation at the Leapmotor plant (May 2025)
- Citi, depositary bank for Supcon’s GDR programme on the SIX Swiss Exchange (April 2023)
- Supcon, company site
- Hikrobot, about page
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- Hangzhou city government, Hikvision’s smart hall (2018)
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- Xinhua, Shanghai Hongqiao to Hangzhou West in 78 minutes (December 2024)
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- Hangzhou city government, international traffic at Xiaoshan airport in 2025 (January 2026)
- Hangzhou News, the Hangzhou–Madrid route (June 2026)
- Emirates, daily Dubai–Hangzhou service (July 2025)
- National Immigration Administration of China, 240-hour visa-free transit (December 2024)
- National Immigration Administration of China, unilateral visa-free policy (50 countries, to 31 December 2026)
- Beijing Daily, Hurun Global Unicorn Index 2026 (Hangzhou 25 unicorns)
- Hangzhou News, Binjiang high-tech zone 2025 figures (August 2026)
- Wikipedia (Chinese), Yunqi Town
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- Xinhua, Global Digital Trade Expo 2026
- Tide News, Xihu Lunjian 2026
- Hangzhou News, Hangzhou International Humanoid Robot and Robotics Technology Exhibition 2026
- PEdaily, China Embodied Intelligence Robot Industry Conference 2026
- Hangzhou News, Xiaoshan Robot Expo Center (September 2025)
- Cyberspace Administration of China, World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit 2026
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- El País, A trip to Hangzhou, the birthplace of DeepSeek (March 2025)
- ITHome, DeepSeek declines visitors at its Hangzhou office (February 2025)
- Unitree Robotics, contact page (no paid visits)
- The Paper, BrainCo brain-science demonstration centre (May 2026)
- Reuters, Tech pilgrims flock to China as global innovation race heats up (September 2026)
- Rest of World, China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism (May 2026)
- Alibaba: SEC filing
- Alibaba: company or press page (hznews.hangzhou.com.cn)
- Alibaba Cloud: company or press page (hznews.hangzhou.com.cn)
- Alibaba Cloud: company or press page (ehangzhou.gov.cn)
- DeepSeek: Wikipedia
- Unitree Robotics: company or press page (ctdsb.net)
- Deep Robotics: company or press page (deeprobotics.cn)
- Deep Robotics: company or press page (thepaper.cn)
- BrainCo: Wikipedia
- Manycore Tech: SEC filing
- Manycore Tech: Wikipedia
- Rokid: company or press page (pitchhub.36kr.com)
- Rokid: company or press page (amcham-shanghai.glueup.cn)
- Intelligence Indeed: company or press page (en.ai-indeed.com)
- Hikvision: company or press page (hikvision.com)
- Hikvision: company or press page (ctee.com.tw)
- INFIFORCE: company or press page (infiforce.cn)
- INFIFORCE: company or press page (news.pedaily.cn)
- Game Science: Wikipedia
- Game Science: Wikipedia
- World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit: company or press page (cn.chinadaily.com.cn)
- Alibaba Cloud: company or press page (hznews.hangzhou.com.cn)
- Ant Group: company or press page (lei.bloomberg.com)
- Ant Group: Wikipedia
- NetEase: SEC filing
- NetEase: HKEX filing
- Geely Holding Group: company or press page (zgh.com)
- Zeekr: SEC filing
- Zeekr: company or press page (cnevpost.com)
- Dahua Technology: company or press page (dahuatech.com)
- Dahua Technology: company or press page (iczu.zju.edu.cn)
- Zeekr: company or press page (wheels.ph)
Start Planning Your Hangzhou Tech Tour
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