Since ancient times, gifts and souvenirs is the symbol of friendship between states and people. Till now, China has entered into friendly relationship with many countries and areas of Five Continents of the world. In order to express sincere willingness of respect, trust and cooperation, people present each other with most characteristic artworks of his country. And this International Gift Hall displays peerless elaborate artworks presented to Zhejiang Government and related departments by leaders world wide. Here one can not only appreciate thickly characterized artworks, but also feel and experience cultural and artistic blending developed in course of long sourced friendly exchange of all countries.
　　Many items of display come from our neighborhood countries——Japan, North Korea, India and South Korea etc, because all belong to Asia. And also for the reason that ancient China has been a most prosperous and developed superpower in the world, many cultural arts and technologies spread to foreign countries at that time, these countries were greatly influenced by China, showing similarity on artistic style and expression.
　　While artworks of different countries and areas also keep and show strong native color of their own. Just like many small windows, through which special custom of those areas are displayed. A small boat, present by Micronesian mayor, has primitive and exquisite design. Because Micronesia consists of Mashaoer Isles, Jialuolin Isles and Maliyana Isles. Special geographical condition make Micronesian citizens of the sea. Boats play a very important role in their life. This boat has graceful design, exquisite workmanship and smooth layout. It's just a mirror of Micronesian life. And a “Wooden Toner”from Fiji is all made of wood, bearing the flavor of nature and primity. Uniquely designed, its taper basin body and fat pole feet show elegance in terseness. It's said that it's a vessel used to hold “Kawa Wine”, and also called “Tanao”. On the occasion of treating honorable guests, warm hearted and hospitable Fiji people usually use it to hold Kawa wine on the welcome ceremony.
　　In addition, many countries are fond of artworks which are made after a thing their nations cherish most or most characteristic as a sign of their own. For example, Germany present Beer Cup frequently as everyone know that drinking beer is traditional hobby of German. And another example, in gift from Singapore, which is titled as “Lion City”, people can see clearly there is the design of the famous “Lion head on fish body”; as well as striking Double-eagle sign on the gold candle presented by Germany. And another characteristic gift on show is a “Key to City”from Uruguay. This is not merely an artwork, it mirrors special custom of a certain country or nation. Because in Europe, there a great number of castles, which demands keys to open the city gate. When a top official present the key to foreign guests, it shows that these two countries will respect, trust and love each other in every generation.
　　In a word, every artwork is giving out unique and attractive charm of its nation, and display harmony and consistence resulted from cultural exchanges of all areas of different countries at the same time. Right here, you can feel drops of brilliant cultural history of mankind fully, and find deep foot prints of frienship between different nationalities.