Location, Transportation Network and Jurisdiction
Wuxi is located in the heart of the Yangtze River Delta,
the economic center of China, in the south of Jiangsu Province. Facing
the Yangtze River in the north and the Taihu Lake in the south, the city
is just about 183 kilometers away from Nanjing in the west and 128 kilometers
from Shanghai in the east.
With Beijing _____ Shanghai Railway running from
east to west and Beijing ? Hanzhou Grand Canal flowing from south to north,
the city has an extensive transportation network of expressways, like Shanghai
- Nanjing Expressway, and provincial trunk roads, leading to major metropolitan
cities, such as Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou and a number of parts inside
and outside the province. It is only 20 kilometers from the center of the
city to the airport, where flights are regularly available to such destinations
as Beijing, Fuzhou and Huiyang. The city is also very close to seaports
open to the world, such as Jiangyin Harbor, just 26 kilometers away, and
Zhangjiangang Harbor, 43 kilometers away, each from the center of the city.
Covering an total area of 4,650 square kilometers,
with the metropolitan area of 517.7 square kilometers, the city has under
its jurisdiction, Chongan, Nanchang, Beitang, Suburban, Mashan and New
Districts, in addition to its three county-level cities, Jiangyin, Yixing
and Xishan.
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