Wenzhou is a city located in the southeastern corner of Zhejiang Province in China. It was a prosperous foreign treaty port, and remains well-preserved today. The people of Wenzhou are equipped with business sense and a commercial culture more dominant than anywhere else in China. Wenzhou has two economic characteristics: it was the first to launch a market economy, and it has the most active and developed private economy in China. In the process of developing its economy, its people have survived adversity, and the government played an important role. The GDP per capita was ¥28097 (ca. US$3390) in 2003, ranked no. 29 among 659 Chinese cities.
