Hehe Town

The building of towns with unique features in Zhejiang Province is a brand-new exploration for its future development. Such towns are neither administratively defined towns nor industrial zones. They are in fact business startups and innovation platforms established in line with the new concept of innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development, and combining industrial, cultural, tourist and community functions. The design of such towns centers on the seven emerging industries of the province: IT economy, environmental protection, health, tourism, fashion, finance and high-end equipment. The building of such towns started from 2015. 

In 2016, the Project of Hehe Town, featuring Hehe cultural tourism in the Tiantai Mountains, was put into the second construction list together with other 41 towns with unique features in Zhejiang. Located near the south entrance to the Guoqing Temple, Hehe Town has been built in the transition zone between Tiantai downtown and the Tiantai Mountains Scenic Spot. It is around 1.5 kilometers away from the downtown, covering an area of 3.02 square kilometers. 

The most important and influential feature of the Tiantai Mountains is Hehe Culture, which developed during the period from the Western and Eastern Han, Wei and Jin dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, and flourished after the Northern and Southern Song dynasties. It gradually developed into a unique regional culture characterized by the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. 

Taking the drive to build towns with unique features in Zhejiang as an opportunity, the government of Tiantai County took the initiative to build the Tiantai Mountains Hehe Town as a cultural landmark, popular tourist destination, intangible cultural heritage site, health preservation base and innovative community in the province. 

A center for the exchanges, display and communication of Hehe Culture, Hehe Town is also an important cultural landmark of Zhejiang Province. It will vigorously develop leisure and cultural tourism, health service industry, and cultural and creative industry, so as to build itself into a town with Hehe Culture as the core, cultural experience and natural scenery tourism as the main focus, and intangible cultural heritage and health preservation traditions as the distinctive traits.

和合小鎮

建設特色小鎮，是浙江省面向未來發展的一項全新探索與實踐。浙江省特色小鎮不是行政區劃單元上的一個鎮，也不是產業園區的一個區，而是按照創新、協調、綠色、開放、共享的新發展理念，聚焦浙江信息經濟、環保、健康、旅游、時尚、金融、高端裝備等七大新興產業，融合產業、文化、旅游、社區功能的創新創業發展平臺。浙江省特色小鎮建設始于2015年。2016年，浙江省將以天臺山和合文化旅游為主導的和合小鎮，列入第二批42個省級特色小鎮創建名單。

和合小鎮位于天臺縣國清寺門的南部入口區，處于天臺城區和天臺山風景名勝區（北片）的過渡地帶，距離縣城中心1.5千米左右，總面積約3.02平方千米。天臺山歷史文化源遠流長，其中最為重要和具有影響力的，就是始于兩漢、魏晉至隋唐，盛于兩宋之后，逐步形成的“儒釋道”三教充分“和合、兼容、并蓄”的獨特地域文化——“和合文化”。天臺縣以此為基礎，以浙江省特色小鎮創建為發展契機，打造了融“文化地標、旅游門戶、非遺基地、養生基地、創新社區”于一體的“天臺山和合小鎮”。

和合小鎮是“和合文化”交流、展示、傳播中心，是浙江省域重要的文化地標，通過發展休閑文化旅游、健康服務產業和文化創意產業，建設以“和合文化”為核心，以人文體驗與自然風景旅游為主體，以非物質文化遺產和養生文化傳統為特色的特色小鎮。