Investment in Urban Construction
The modernization construction of urban infrastructure was fastened. The pivotal, functional and network construction of key infrastructure achieved breakthrough. In 2006, the investment in construction of urban infrastructure reached 38.631 billion yuan, accounting for 28.1 percent of the total investment in the fixed assets in the same period. The comprehensive rearranging and controlling project of “5 Vertical Roads and 6 Roads” was executed and completed. DeSheng Express Road was constructed. The important transportation construction was impelled smoothly, of JiangDong Bridge, QingChun Cross-River Tunnel and Hangzhou Sector of HangPu Expressway. Hangzhou’s endeavor in upgrading infrastructure facilities has not only markedly improved its investment environment, but also furthered its opening to the outside world and advanced its urban comprehensive function.

Qiangjiang New City Construction
Encircling 3 purposes of “Hangzhou’s CBD, Paradise’s Landmark and Service’s Platform” and insisting on the policy of “High-Start-Point Plan, High-Density Throwing, High-Standard Construction and High-Efficiency Management”, the construction of Qiangjiang New City obtained excellent achievement. The controlling detailed plan was completed of Qiangjiang New City’s 15.8 square kilometers and the 2nd-phase’s 2.86 square kilometers. The 4.02 square kilometers city design of core field was edited, adjusted and perfected. The main road skeleton of Two Horizontal and Nine vertical Roads and the construction of infrastructure were finished, basically forming impeded transportation network. Over 30 internal and external enterprises were introduced. The projects were completed in succession, such as Hangzhou Grand Theatre, Municipal Middle Court, Municipal Fire Control Center, New Hangzhou Chess Institution, Jianggan Culture and Sport Center etc. The progress of key projects was advanced successfully, such as Citizen Center, International Conference Center, Polang Culture City, City Balcony, Municipal Broadcasting and TV Center and so on. A total of 26 business mansions or hotels at star- level invested by society began to construct, of Hangzhou Wanxiang City, Zhejiang Fortune & Finance Center. The advance dwelling houses, Golden Coast and Grand Qiantang etc., started to sale. More than 1 million square meters landscape greenbelt,  forest park and century garden had opened to citizens. The embryo of CBD had been observed.

Digital City Management
Commended as “Hangzhou Type” by experts of National Construction Ministry, the first-phase project of digital city management was completed successfully and first passed the acceptance of National Construction Ministry. The first-phase city management covered 192 square kilometers, with 2.02 million city parts in its digital database. So far in the urban area, there were 172 network units of city management interconnected with 362 communities with 883 network terminals. The permission of city management and the administrative justice of city management could share information. The systems were interconnected, such as the video monitoring between digital city management and public security, the online supervision of municipal bridges, the resource inspection of urban underground water and the decision system of urban flood control. ete Meantime, the supervision to sanitation vehicles in real time was carried out. The mode of unified accepting problems, multi-layers coordinating problem and work in coordination with municipality, districts, neighborhoods and communities, which forming sturdy base for finding problems, handling problems and solving problems in first time.

Alley Improvement Project
In 2006, the alley improvement project in urban area continued to be executed. There were 1,053 streets and lanes remolded and the number of those accumulatd to 1,511 for 3 years with the total length of 460 kilometers, which included 10,408 increased parking places, 76 temporary parking lots. Meanwhile, the number of the benefited units and residents reached 13,600 and 1.53 million respectively, which became one of practical projects praised by citizens. The project not only perfected the living environment and promoted the society  harmony, but also inherited history and culture, found the history of old streets and lanes as well as developed the city culture. A batch of old streets and lanes with rich local feature and abundant culture atmosphere had new lives, such as Jesus Lane introducing the life of John Leighton Stuart, Jinhua Road reflecting the history of Zhejiang  Flax Textile Factory and Citang Lane locating with Yuqian Temple.

Public Utilities
The comprehensive service level of public utilities was improved continuously. In 2006, a total of  3.023 million KAV of power transformer equipment with a capacity of over 110 kilocvolts were put into use and it’s line distance reached 495 kilometers. The power consumption in the city reached 36.592 billion KWH, up by 14.1 percent over the previous year. Of the total, the power consumption of urban and rural residents was 4.073 billion KWH, up by 16.1 percent. The number of the restricted power lines in Hangzhou’s power network dropped from 17,100 of the previous years to 80. A total of 0.749 billion tons of tap water was supplied in the city, up by 2.2 percent. By the end of the year, the number of households used pipeline coal-gas reached 295,000, increased 41,400 households compared with the end of the year. The first express bus-route was open to traffic. A total of 4,883 public transit vehicles (including middle bus) were in operation in Hangzhou, up by 8.0 percent and there were 427 bus routes, increased 16 lines compared with as the previous year.