Huajiachi Campus, Zhejiang University

Huajiachi Campus , is a major campus of Zhejiang University.

Introduction

The campus owns a famous lake named ''Huajiachi'', which is the second largest lake in Hangzhou after the West Lake. ''Hua '' is a common Chinese surname, and ''jia '' means ''family'' in ; so ''Huajia'' implies that this place probably belonged to the Hua Family in the ancient time. ''Chi '' stands for ''lake''. And the campus is just named after the lake.

Before 1998, it was the campus of the Zhejiang Agricultural University . In 1998, the university was merged into the Zhejiang University. In fact, before 1953, the ZAU was an agriculture Sschool of the Zhejiang University, so it was a kind of rejoining, the same as the previous Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Medical University. etc.

The campus owns a total surface of 1484 '''', with a constructional area of 0.3 million m². It owns a botanical garden, which is the first one in modern China's history.