Lying to the south of the Yangtze Delta and in the north of the centrally located Zhejiang Province,Shaoxing, like a pearl with simple but elegantLight, stands in the line between Hangzhou and county-level cities and a district compose the Ningbo. Covering an area of 8256 square kilometers (3187.7 square miles), Shaoxing has a population of 4,340,000. Two counties, three county-level cities and a district compose the whole of Shaoxing prefecture.