Dipu

Dipu is the main town and the seat of Anji County, in northwest Zhejiang province, China. It covers an area of 392 km2 and has a population of 158,000. There are 48 villages and 12 communities within its area. Zhejiang Provincial Highway 4 runs through the town.

Dipu is 200 km from Shanghai and 65 km from Hangzhou, the provincial capital. It is within a 3-hour drive of many other cities in the Yangtze River Delta, including Ningbo, Suzhou and Nanjing. The name of the town origins from "Post" because the town was a mail post in ancient China. There is a Post Plaza on the bank of the town's main river.