ABSTRACT
With the rapid development of social economy, improving the urban image plays an important role in promoting local economy. We can reach the goal of promoting the image by certain marketing channels. So the study of urban image is of vital importance, and we should make marketing strategy a top priority .
Take the contemporary development of urban image as the breakthrough point, the paper briefly analyzes the problem of urban marketing in China by discussing the definition and the function of urban image and marketing. Then, it compares the marketing strategy of Hangzhou with that of Shaoxing, Dali and Berlin. Thereby,it sums up the advantages and disadvantages of hangzhou’s marketing strategy. Finally, an improving proposal for the hangzhou's marketing strategy is put forward, which includes four aspects, namely product, price, place, and
promotion .
KEYWORDS：Image of the city 、marketing 、question、solution
