The East Is Rising

Meet the 29 Chinese cities powering global growth.

BY ELIAS GROLL | SEPT/OCT 2012

Hangzhou: Hangzhou hosts the headquarters of Alibaba.com, China's largest online retailer and the company responsible for an estimated 60 percent of the packages sent within China. The Hangzhou-based e-commerce company operates Chinese-, English-, and Japanese-language websites for domestic and foreign trade.

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Elias Groll is an editorial assistant at Foreign Policy.