Hubin Campus was a defunct urban campus

Campus

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 of the Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University

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Introduction

The campus was just aside the West Lake

West Lake

Xī Hú is a famous fresh water lake located in the historic center of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China. The lake is divided by the causeways of Sū Tí , Bái Tí , and Yánggōng Tí...

. Hu (湖) means lake

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in Chinese, and stands for the West Lake; bin (濱/滨) means bank or shore; so it's a lakeside campus. The campus was previous Zhejiang Medical University

Zhejiang Medical University

The Zhejiang Medical University , was a defunct university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China...

 before 1998. 1998, the Zhejiang Medical University was merged into the Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University , sometimes referred to as Zheda, is a national university in China. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of China's oldest institutions of higher education...

, and then became its medical school. Its main teaching building once was one of the tallest building in the Hangzhou City

Hangzhou

Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

, and was regarded as one of the landmark

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s around the West Lake. The campus was just in the central downtown

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 of Hangzhou, and was just along its most famous shopping street - the Yan'an Road (延安路).

The campus also owned clinic departments and a hospital of 2960 beds. It was one of the centers for the medical training and research in Zhejiang Province. It had one State Key Laboratory, directed directly by the Ministry of Health, PRC

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; one State Key Laboratory directed by the State Pharmaceutical Administration Bureau, PRC; and three Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratories. It had a library

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 of half million collection, specialized on medical and pharmaceutical sciences.

According to the Hangzhou civic plan, the campus was sold to the Hong Kong

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-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts

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 (Robert Kuok

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, 郭鶴年/郭鹤年) at a price of 2.46 billion Chinese Yuan

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. The teaching buildings were torn down by explosion

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s. The land of the campus was planned to build a luxurious hotel

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