Since the 10th century, Suzhou Jiangsu has been an important center of China's industry and foreign trade.
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18 Facts About Suzhou Jiangsu
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Suzhou Jiangsu is famous for its classical gardens, date back to the 6th century BC, when the city was founded as the capital of the state of Wu.
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Suzhou Jiangsu is one of the top 50 major cities in the world by scientific research outputs as tracked by the Nature Index, and home to multiple major universities in China, including Soochow University, Suzhou Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Changshu Institute of Technology.
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The Classical Gardens of Suzhou Jiangsu were added to the list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1997 and 2000.
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Suzhou Jiangsu is often dubbed the "Venice of the East" or "Venice of China".
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Name "Suzhou Jiangsu" was first officially used for the city in AD 589 during the Sui dynasty.
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Suzhou Jiangsu is the Hanyu Pinyin spelling of the Putonghua pronunciation of the name.
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Suzhou Jiangsu served as the regional metropolis of industry and foreign commerce on the southeastern coast of China.
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Zhu – who was to proclaim himself the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty – demolished the old city walls at the center of Suzhou Jiangsu's walled city and imposed crushing taxes on the city and prefecture's powerful families.
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Suzhou Jiangsu has a four-season humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers and cool, cloudy, damp winters with occasional snowfall .
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Suzhou Jiangsu is famous for its over 60 Classical Gardens, collectively a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Suzhou Jiangsu's economy is based primarily on its large manufacturing sector—China's first largest—including iron and steel, IT and electronic equipment, and textile products.
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Suzhou Jiangsu has a long history of reeling silkworms and has always been an important base for silk production in China.
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Since the Song and Yuan dynasties, Suzhou Jiangsu has been one of the centres of silk weaving and dyeing in the country, and in the Ming dynasty, the area around Suzhou Jiangsu, Song was the scene of the "clothing of the world".
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Suzhou Jiangsu is on the Shanghai-Nanjing corridor which carries three parallel railways.
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In between Suzhou Jiangsu and Kunshan South railway station, Suzhou Jiangsu Industrial Park railway station is an important station for people visiting and living in the areas.
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Suzhou Jiangsu has public bus routes that run into all parts of the city.
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