Wuxi

Wuxi

Wuxi (Chinese: 无锡, WOO-shee) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 7,462,135 inhabitants. Wuxi is located in the south of Jiangsu Province, on the Yangtze River Delta in the south of the Yangtze River and on the shore of Taihu Lake. It has jurisdiction over five municipal districts: Liangxi, Binhu, Xinwu, Huishan, and Xishan, as well as two top 100 county-level cities, Jiangyin City and Yixing City. From a geographical point of view, Wuxi is located in the center of southern Jiangsu and the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area; it borders the Yangtze River to the north, Taihu Lake to the south, 128.2 kilometers from Shanghai to the east, and borders Zhejiang Province to the south. It has obvious transportation hub advantages and extremely high military strategic value. Wuxi is known as the "Pearl of Taihu Lake" and is a core city in the Yangtze River Delta and the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou Metropolitan Area. The municipal government is located at No. 1 Jingui Road, Taihu New Town.