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The total area of Wujiang is 1176.68 square kilometers, with a population of 1.5 million. [1] Wujiang is currently one of the most economically successful cities in China. [citation needed] Songling (松陵), a town located at the centre of Wujiang, serves as the seat of the district government.
Suzhou Lakeside New City (Chinese: 苏州滨湖新城), also called Eastern Taihu Lakeside New City (Chinese: 东太湖滨湖新城, used in Wuzhong District [1]) or Wujiang Lakeside New City (Chinese: 吴江滨湖新城, used in Wujiang District [2]), is a new city located in the southern part of Suzhou, China.
Suzhou Industrial Park is to the east of the old town, and Suzhou High & New Technology Development Zone is to the west. In 2000, the original Wu County was divided into two districts, Xiangcheng and Wuzhong. They now form the northern and southern parts of the city of Suzhou. In 2012, the original Wujiang City became Wujiang District of Suzhou ...
8.6 Wujiang District. 8.7 Xiangcheng District. 8.8 Changshu. 8.9 Kunshan. 8.10 Taicang. ... Tianning Economic Development Zone (天宁经济开发区) Wujin District
The Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) charged high rents in its early days, in part to pay off the expensive new facilities it built for investors. [7] This created a contradiction, according to one writer of the now-defunct Far Eastern Economic Review, who suggested that "investors were looking to Suzhou for costs lower than Shanghai's, and the SIP was charging Shanghai-style prices".
Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, Jiangsu has been a national economic and commercial center, partly due to the construction of the Grand Canal. Cities such as Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, and Shanghai (separated from Jiangsu in 1927) are all major Chinese economic hubs. Since the initiation of economic reforms in 1990, Jiangsu has become ...
Zhangjiagang is a special industrial zone. The conceptualization of the port originated with urban city planner Wang Weifeng, PhD (王维锋], in 1986. [9] Till 1993, it was a small village with no more than fields, fish farms and a small fishing port. In 1993, the area was declared an experimental industrial zone and opened up to international ...
[citation needed] In the 1950s, the local economy developed rapidly, benefitting from the post-war recovery and further development of agriculture and industry in the region. [ citation needed ] However, Shuyang County was of decreasing economic importance within Jiangsu from the time of the Cultural Revolution onwards.