A panorama of Jiangyin?[Photo from wuxinews.com.cn]

A panorama of?Huaxi Village?[Photo from wuxinews.com.cn]

Jiangyin is a?major county-level city in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, with an area of 988 square kilometers and a population of 1.21 million.

It has won many awards including "National Hygiene City", "National Ecological City" and "National Model City for Science and Technology Progress".

Jiangyin is a historical and cultural city with a long human history of 7,000 years, a civilization history of 5,000 years, a fortification history of 3,800 years and a recorded history of 2,500 years. It is home to Wu Culture.

It is a prosperous city with a strong private economy and manufacturing industry, covering more than 40 listed companies. It was ranked first in the economic competitiveness of China's counties (or cities at county-level) many times and was honored as "the leading prosperous county-level city in China".

It is an ecological and livable city, with a construction area of 55 square kilometers in the main urban area, reaching about 66 percent in rural urbanization rate. The comprehensive forest coverage rate and urban green coverage rate stand at 22.5 and 44.9 percent, respectively.

Web: http://www.jiangyin.gov.cn/