About Wuxi

Wuxi, also named “Liangxi”, is a famous city with a long history in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Wuxi,a sparkling pearl of the Taihu Lake , is situated in the southern part of Jiangsu Province and in the middle of the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway. It is 128km away from Shanghai with Suzhou in between and 183km away from Nanjing with Changzhou in between. With the Taihu lake in the south and Yangtze River in the north, it borders Zhejiang Province and has bank of 35km along the Yangtze river.

Area: 4,788 km²

Population: 4.58million

Administrative Regions: Two county-level cities—Jiangyin and Yixing, plus seven districts—Xishan, Huishan, Binhu, New District, Chong’an, Nanchang and Beitang

Total GDP: USD 42.7 billion for the year 2006, 15.3% up over the previous year

Per-capita GDP: USD 7,475  for the year 2006, 13.8% up over the previous year

Average Land Elevation: 3.1m

Earth Bearing Strength: 18~23 tons/ m²

Highways: Beijing-Shanghai Freeway, Shanghai-Nanjing Freeway, Wuxi-Jiangyin Freeway, Wuxi-Yixing Freeway, Nanjing-Hangzhou Freeway, Along-the-Yangtze-River Freeway, National Highway No.312 and No.104 all run through the territory of Wuxi. Besides, three major freeways in China—Beijing-Shanghai Freeway, Tongjiang-Sanya Freeway and Shanghai-Chengdu Freeway intersect here in Wuxi.