# HZICC: The 2025 Hangzhou Highlights Awards Celebrating Visionaries Elevating the City's Global Profile

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- Published: 2026-04-27T10:37:00+07:00
- Author: PR Newswire

HANGZHOU, China, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — What does the world see when it looks
at Hangzhou? The Hangzhou & Friends: 2025 Hangzhou Highlights Awards, unveiled on
February 4, offered an answer—not through statistics alone, but through the stories
of connection that unfolded across the year.

The awards were born from a simple recognition: that a city’s global presence is
built not only on grand events, but on the countless moments when people reach across
borders. To honor this, the organizers structured the awards into four chapters:**
Dialogue of Civilizations**, **Industrial Narratives**, **Social Innovation**, and**
Moments of the Year**, each capturing a different way that Hangzhou touched the 
world.

Across these categories, moments of quiet resonance stood out. In the realm of cultural
dialogue, ten friends from ten nations explored Hangzhou for the first time, their
journeys later echoed by the city’s own return visits to Istanbul and Cairo. After
the visits, a German photographer’s image of Qiandao Lake’s giant net fishing found
its way to the pages of _The Times_, Hangzhou’s bond with Verona deepened into a
year-long romance of music, art, and shared celebration, proving that sister-city
ties can bloom into something far richer than ceremony.

On the Liangzhu Day of 2025, the "Liangzhu and the World: Dialogue between Liangzhu
Ancient City and Rome Ancient City" was held—one of several moments when the region’s
archaeological treasures found new resonance on the global stage. Beyond culture,
the awards recognized how Hangzhou’s industries are telling Chinese stories overseas,
from Geely’s global development to the rise of cross-border e-commerce that brings
Hangzhou products，and the culture behind them directly to international consumers.

Yet there were also countless other people and moments that helped the world know
Hangzhou. An international student from Pakistan filmed the city he had come to 
call home, capturing not just its landmarks but the feeling of belonging. A volunteer
from Zimbabwe found himself holding hands with local police and strangers in a human
chain at West Lake to maintain traffic order, discovering that being welcomed means
being trusted to help. The Hangzhou International Conference Center became a stage
for cross-cultural encounter, while Hangzhou’s tech-themed travel routes offered
visitors a chance to explore the city’s cutting-edge innovations.

Together, these moments traced a portrait of Hangzhou not as a place that simply
welcomes visitors, but as one that listens, shares, and grows, through the people
who carry its stories onward.

 

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