Xixi Campus is a major campus

Campus

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 of 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...

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Introduction

It is the campus of previous Hangzhou University

Hangzhou University

Since 1998, Hangzhou University has been a part of Zhejiang University....

, which was merged into Zhejiang University in 1998. Because previous Hangzhou University mainly paid attention on sciences, humanities

Humanities

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 and teacher

Teacher

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 training, so the campus remains their corresponding rich facilities.

It located in the urban

Urban area

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 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...

, Zhejiang Province, and also in the newly founded Hangzhou Hi-tech Development Zone (杭州高新技術開發區 / 杭州高新技术开发区). It's close to the Xixi River (西溪), so named after it.

The campus has a total area of 684 mu, and a total building area of half million m². Its main library

Library

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 has a collection volume of about two million book

Book

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s and 12000 different kinds of journals

Academic journal

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/magazine

Magazine

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s . It holds the TOEFL

TOEFL

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 test site of Zhejiang Province in China

People's Republic of China

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