Wuxi

Wuxi (; lit. "without tin") is an old industrial city in China's Jiangsu province, located along the edge of lake Taihu, 128km Northwest of Shanghai. Population (2000): 1 million, with over 4.3 million in its metropolitan area. Area: 517.7 square kilometres. Wuxi is currently twinned with Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.

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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.

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Wuxi itself is on an alluvial plain of deep sedimentary deposits 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.

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Taihu: Taihu (太湖; pinyin: t?i h? lit. means grand lake in Chinese) is a large lake in the Changjiang Delta plain. With an area of 2,250 km? and an average depth of 2 metres, it is the third largest freshwater lake in China, after the Poyang and Dongting Lakes....