Jiaxing has abundant culture relics and tourism interests.There are beautiful tide,lakes and rivers.To the south of city,there are the revolutionary saint place of South Lake and other places like Xitang-living ancient town of thousands of years; 9 dragon sea shore of the south east coast of Pinghu,which is called the .Oriental Hawaii; south and north lake of Haiyan,which is famous for a truly water and mountain; Qiantang river tide,a wonder of Haining; Wu Zhen,the birth place of Maodun in Tongxiang.In addition,there are more than 130 county level culture relics protection places.
In 2002,the tourism industry of the city saw a sustained increase by receiving overseas guests of 224,300,which is 133.3% higher than that of last year; receiving domestic guest of 8.59 million,which is 21.5% higher than that of last year.
Jiaxing has passed the evaluation of the state tourism bureau and becomes an excellent tourist city in China
