Mengutip dari WSJ - China Realtime Report, Hangzhou adalah "Happiest City" berdasarkan survey terhadap 30 juta partisipan, yang dipublikasikan January 2010.
The city of Hangzhou again tops a list of the 10 “happiest cities” in China, published by Oriental Outlook magazine, which is affiliated with China’s state-run Xinhua news agency.
The magazine claims nearly 30 million people participated in the survey via questionnaires in newspapers or over the Internet or mobile phones. There was also an independent survey involving a total of 600,000 people from 100 Chinese cities. The evaluation looked at factors such as pace of life, “human touch,” opportunities to make money, convenience, natural environment, culture and entertainment options, safety as well as the gap between rich and poor.
