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.
和合小镇
建设特色小镇，是浙江省面向未来发展的一项全新探索与实践。浙江省特色小镇不是行政区划单元上的一个镇，也不是产业园区的一个区，而是按照创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享的新发展理念，聚焦浙江信息经济、环保、健康、旅游、时尚、金融、高端装备等七大新兴产业，融合产业、文化、旅游、社区功能的创新创业发展平台。浙江省特色小镇建设始于2015年。2016年，浙江省将以天台山和合文化旅游为主导的和合小镇，列入第二批42个省级特色小镇创建名单。
和合小镇位于天台县国清寺门的南部入口区，处于天台城区和天台山风景名胜区（北片）的过渡地带，距离县城中心1.5千米左右，总面积约3.02平方千米。天台山历史文化源远流长，其中最为重要和具有影响力的，就是始于两汉、魏晋至隋唐，盛于两宋之后，逐步形成的“儒释道”三教充分“和合、兼容、并蓄”的独特地域文化——“和合文化”。天台县以此为基础，以浙江省特色小镇创建为发展契机，打造了融“文化地标、旅游门户、非遗基地、养生基地、创新社区”于一体的“天台山和合小镇”。
和合小镇是“和合文化”交流、展示、传播中心，是浙江省域重要的文化地标，通过发展休闲文化旅游、健康服务产业和文化创意产业，建设以“和合文化”为核心，以人文体验与自然风景旅游为主体，以非物质文化遗产和养生文化传统为特色的特色小镇。
