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Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ (listen) shih-KAH-goh, locally also /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/ shih-KAW-goh) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third-most populous in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles. With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census, it is also the most populous city in the Midwest. As the seat of Cook County (the second-most populous U.S. county), the city is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, one of the largest in the world.

On the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century; by 1860, Chicago was the youngest U.S. city to exceed a population of 100,000. The Great Chicago Fire in 1871 destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but Chicago's population continued to grow to 503,000 by 1880 and then doubled to more than a million within the decade. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (such as, Chicago School architecture, the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper).

Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is part of the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked among the world's top six busiest airports according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. The economy of Chicago is diverse, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. It is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Archer Daniels Midland, Conagra Brands, Exelon, JLL, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Motorola Solutions, Sears, and United Airlines Holdings.

Hangzhou, referred to as "Hangzhou" in ancient times, is the capital of Zhejiang Province, the vice-provincial city and the core city of Hangzhou metropolitan area. approved by the State Council, it is the provincial capital of Zhejiang Province, the economic, cultural, scientific and educational center of the province, and one of the central cities of the Yangtze River Delta. By 2018, the city had jurisdiction over 10 districts, 2 counties and 1 county-level city, with a total area of 16853.57 square kilometers, a built-up area of 559.2 square kilometers, a resident population of 9.806 million, and an urban population of 7.59 million, with a urbanization rate of 77.4%. Located in East China, the southeast coast, the north of Zhejiang Province, the lower reaches of the Qiantang River and the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Hangzhou is the core city of the Great Bay area around Hangzhou Bay, the central city of Shanghai-Jiahang G60 Science and Technology creation Corridor, and an important international e-commerce center. Hangzhou
Airport In Hangzhou City - Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport (Hangzhou International Airport, IATA: HGH, ICAO: ZSHC), located in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, 27 kilometers away from the city center, is a 4F civil transport airport and one of the twelve major trunk line airports in China , international scheduled flight airports, first-class air ports open to the outside world, and international flight alternate airports.    In October 2019, it became an air port implementing a 144-hour transit visa-free policy.     
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport was relocated from the civil aviation part of the original Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport to build a new one. In November 2007, the second phase of the project started construction and was completed and put into operation in December 2012.  
According to the information on the airport's official website in August 2017, the airport covers an area of ​​10 square kilometers and has four terminals, T1, T3 (domestic) terminal, T2 (international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) terminal and T4 terminal, T1, T2 and T3 have a total area of ​​370,000 square meters; there are two runways with lengths of 3,600 meters and 3,400 meters respectively, which can meet the standby landing requirements of A380 and below models; passenger plane apron is 1.1 million square meters, 49 boarding bridges, and cargo planes are parked With a ping of 52,000 square meters, it can meet the guarantee needs of an annual passenger throughput of 33 million person-times, cargo and mail throughput of 805,000 tons, and flight movements of 260,000. By the end of 2015, the airport had 127 seats and 235 routes, including 196 domestic routes.   
In 2017, the airport handled 35.57 million passengers, an increase of 12.6% year-on-year, 589,000 tons of cargo and mail, an increase of 20.8% year-on-year, and 271,000 flights, an increase of 8% year-on-year.   On November 29, 2019, the direct route from Hangzhou to Cairo, Egypt was officially launched.   At the end of December 2019, the annual passenger throughput of Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport exceeded 40 million.   Since 2019, the number of inbound passengers at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport has reached 5.45 million, a year-on-year increase of 5.5%.   . In 2019, the throughput ranked tenth in the country.  
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