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The West Lake International Marathon, various water sports, fishing, Chinese traditional Medicine, acupuncture, shadowboxing, qigong, therapies and health-care with food cooked with medicinal herbs.
With beautiful scenery and pleasant surroundings,
Hangzhou is not only a scenic attraction, but also a good place for sports and health-care tourism. In every spring and autumn, a lot of sports activities will be held on the West Lake and the Qiantang River, including tournaments and training of sailboards, rowboats, leather canoes, motorboats, and swimming. There are also exciting contests of traditional dragon boats and self-propelling boats. The Round the West Lake Marathon is held when the sweet-scented osmanthus is in bloom and the Sightseeing by Bike Around the West Lake gives visitors a better morale and healthier body in the beautiful idyllic scenes.
Making full use of such an excellent surrounding, Hangzhou people would come to the lake and hills, and perform shadowboxing, sword practicing, and qigong. Just like the saying goes, "an excellent land produces excellent people", Hangzhou has highly developed Chinese traditional medicine. There are famous herbalist doctors and qigong masters in the city, and visitors from foreign countries are often attracted to Hangzhou by its reputation, and want to learn Chinese traditional health-care methods and participate in acupuncture, health-care with food cooked with medicinal herbs, qigong and other healthcare activities.
