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HFLS sits on a 50-acre campus in the Xiaoheshan Higher-education Zone in western Hangzhou. It includes dormitories, teaching buildings, laboratories and academic halls, a library, a gymnasium, a tennis court and a soccer field with running tracks. There are on-campus dining facilities with three student canteens and a separate faculty canteen, vending machines, a school store, shared showers, laundry service and drinking-water fountains. Dormitory buildings include an on-campus guesthouse. The campus is fully web-supported.
The gymnasium accommodates basketball, volleyball, badminton and table-tennis. There is a soccer field with running tracks. Outdoor basketball and tennis courts are available on campus.
The media center includes PC labs, reading rooms and a library with a collection of over 120,000 books. Teaching buildings have capacity for 3,000 pupils. Dormitories and an on-campus guesthouse support student life.
Student development programs include model United Nations, parliamentary debate, speech training, drama, a math talent training course and a readers' club. More than 30 student clubs exist on campus. Campus theme celebrations include the Foreign language festival, Culture Festival, Science Fair, Art Festival and Sports Meeting. Volunteering is valued, with groups of volunteers, students and teachers going to remote areas to teach in villages.
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School (HFLS) was founded in 1964 and is administered by the Zhejiang Education Department. The school is sited in the Xiaoheshan higher-education zone in west Hangzhou and operates an integrated middle- and high-school programme. The campus covers more than 150 mu (building area near 70,000 m²) and the website lists facilities including dormitories, laboratories, a library with over 120,000 volumes, a gymnasium, tennis courts and a soccer field with running tracks. HFLS emphasises foreign-language study: English is the main foreign language and the school also teaches French, German, Japanese and Spanish. The site records that HFLS introduced a UK A‑level pathway in 2008 and runs a Cambridge international high-school project; the school also has a formal recommendation quota for admission to top Chinese universities. Recent website notices show about 54 classes and more than 2,000 students on campus.
