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The city plan, as is typical of many older Chinese cities, is of a central city with a roughly circular plan, crisscrossed with older canals, the main canal still seeing heavy barge traffic.
Wuxi itself is on an alluvial plain of deep sedimentary deposit s cut between limestone foothills, making it one of the sources for "scholar's rocks", the intricately weathered stones which were used as devices for contemplation.
Wuxi ranges from a very hot summer to a chilly winter, having an average annual temperature of 18 ° C, though it seldom sees snowColorado's, ( USA) high forests. Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes. Since it is composed of small rough particles it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unl. Because of its proximity to the East China SeaThe East China Sea (Chinese: Dong Hi , literal meaning: East Sea is a marginal sea and part of the Pacific Ocean, surrounded by Mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Its surface area is around 1,200,000 km². In South Korea, the sea is sometimes c, it is has a monsoonA monsoon is a periodic wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia. The word is also used to label the season in which this wind blows southwest in India and adjacent areas that is characterized by very heavy rainfall, and specifically the rai season and receives 100 cm of rainRain is a form of precipitation, as are snow, sleet, hail, and dew. Rain forms when separate drops of water fall to the Earth's surface from clouds. Not all rain reaches the surface, however; some evaporates while falling through dry air, a type of precip annually.
Currently Wuxi is designated an investmentInvestment is a term with several closely related meanings in finance and economics. It refers to the accumulation of some kind of asset in hopes of getting a future return from it. In theoretical economics, investment means the purchase (and thus the pro grade city, and has two large industrial parks devoted to new industry. While current manufacturingManufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale, or intermediate processes involving the production or finishing of semi-manufactures . It is a large branch of industry and of secondary production. Some industries, like s centers on textileThis article is about the type of fabric. Textile is also a jargon term used by naturists or nudists to describe a person who wears clothes, and also the property that nudity is not allowed, e. in "textile beach", "textile campsite", etc. A textile is anys, there is a project to move to electric motor manufacturing and MRP software development.
According to most recent figures ( 2002) from the local government, 24% of economic activity is textile trade, and another 25% is industrial based manufacturing, including motors, molds and casting, with another 8% being light industry.
The GDP per capita was ¥37959 (ca. US$4990) in 2003, ranked no. 11 among 659 Chinese cities.
Wuxi was originally a mining town, which, legend has it, exhausted its tin deposits, hence its name . It subsequently became an arts and cultural center, with several famous Chinese authors claiming Wuxi as their home town . Among them, most recently, Qian Zhongshu, author of Fortress Besieged a comedy of manners set in China in the 1930s.
Graphic artist Wassle Ting , who emigrated from China in 1952 was also born in Wuxi, he is best known for his erotic drawing s in a pop art style.Currently resident in Wuxi is puzzle artist Ruan Genquan .
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