Wenzhou: the cradle of Chinese entrepreneurs

Mount Yandang, just outside the city, offers spectacular granite formations and waterfalls among the most famous in eastern China.

A few steps away, Jiangxin Islet, a river island with two ancient twin pagodas, remains a historic symbol of the city in the middle of the Ou river.

Continuing inland, you visit traditional villages of the region, where today the Wenzhounese dialect is still maintained alive, incomprehensible to the rest of China.

Toward evening, the city center animates restaurants of local cuisine based on seafood, a specialty of the southern Zhejiang coast.

The Wenzhou dialect is so different from standard Mandarin that it has been historically used by the Chinese military as a difficult-to-decipher code for classified communications.

Wenzhou is considered the cradle of modern Chinese private enterprise, with millions of Wenzhou emigrants having established commercial ventures worldwide, from Europe to South America, creating lasting family-based commercial networks across generations.