Located in southeastern Jiangsu, Changshu City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Suzhou. The city is in the Yangtze River Delta economically developed areas, the Yangtze River golden waterway throat, located in the east longitude 120 ° 33 ′ -121 ° 03 ′, latitude 31 ° 33 ′ -31 ° 50 ′ between the east adjacent to Taicang, 100 kilometers away from Shanghai, south of Kunshan, Suzhou, the west adjacent to Wuxi, Jiangyin, the north of the Yangtze River, and Nantong across the river, northwest of Zhangjiagang, bordering the Yangtze River. It is bordered by Zhangjiagang in the northwest, and has a unique location advantage. The terrain is gentle, the climate is mild, the wind and rainfall, because of the yearly harvest and the name "Changshu", known as "the hometown of fish and rice in Jiangnan" reputation. The longest distance between east and west is 49 kilometers, and the longest distance between north and south is 37 kilometers. The city has a total area of 1,266 square kilometers (including the Yangtze River), with a population of 1,036,000 people, and is governed by 13 towns and fields, 2 provincial-level economic development zones, and 1 investment city. Changshu is famous for its long human history, beautiful mountains and rivers, and rich material resources in the south of the Yangtze River, and was approved as "National Famous Historical and Cultural City" in 1986; in recent years, it has also been awarded the titles of "National Hygienic City", "Excellent Tourist City of China", "National Health City", "National Health Center of China", and "Excellent Tourist City of China". In recent years, it has been honored as "National Health City", "China's Excellent Tourist City", "National Garden City", "National Environmental Protection Model City", "National Advanced County and City in Comprehensive Management of Social Security", "National Smooth Project Model Management City", "International Garden City", becoming the first county-level city in China to receive this honor; and also won the first place in the "Heritage Management" competition, etc. In 2007, the city was awarded the first place in the "Heritage Management" competition. On December 5, 2007, Changshu City was awarded the title of 2007 National Advanced County in Cultural Relics Work by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
Changshu City is located in the center of the Shanghai Economic Circle, the most economically active region in China, relying on Shanghai in the east, Suzhou in the south, Wuxi in the west, and the Yangtze River in the north across the river from Nantong, which is a unique location advantage. In the past 20 years, the economic growth has been maintained at more than 15%, and the comprehensive strength has been significantly enhanced. Especially in recent years, the rapid development of export-oriented economy, investment environment continues to improve. As of October 2003, a total of 1,732 foreign-invested enterprises have been approved, with a total investment of 13.35 billion U.S. dollars and a registered foreign investment of 5.02 billion U.S. dollars.
I. Development zones have become a high concentration area for foreign investment. The city has two provincial-level development zones, Changshu Economic Development Zone and Changshu Southeast Economic Development Zone, and three municipal-level development zones. These development zones have complete infrastructural facilities, reasonable functional positioning and obvious regional characteristics. By October 2007, 332 foreign-invested enterprises had settled in the zones, with a registered foreign investment of 3.25 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 65% of the city's total.
Two, has formed a paper, energy, building materials, chemicals, automobile parts and components as the leading industrial group of Linjiang, attracted a number of famous international multinational companies to invest in the total investment of more than 6 billion U.S. dollars. Such as Finland UPM, Japan's Daikin, Sumitomo, Sharp, Taiwan Changchun Chemical, Canaan Dentsu, Hong Kong Lee & Man Paper, France Atofina. Of which 2.2 billion U.S. dollars of investment in the paper industry, accounting for 16.5% of the city's total investment, 1.23 billion U.S. dollars of energy investment, accounting for 9.2% of the city, 1.45 billion U.S. dollars of iron and steel investment, accounting for 10.9% of the city's investment in the chemical industry investment of 700 million U.S. dollars, accounting for 5.2%. In addition, industries led by electronic information, biomedicine, precision machinery, new materials, high-grade textiles and export-oriented agriculture are emerging.
Three, to often invest in Asia, Europe and the United States countries (regions) mainly. The number of investments from Taiwan ranked first, accounting for 32% of the city, Singapore ranked second, accounting for 17%, Hong Kong ranked third, accounting for 15%, Finland ranked fourth, accounting for 14%, Japan ranked fifth, accounting for 6%.
Four, with the completion and opening of Sujia-Hangzhou, Yanjiang Expressway, Changshu transportation location advantages are more apparent, power supply, water supply, gas supply, communications and other hardware facilities to reach a leading level in China, the cost of investment with the neighboring cities compared with a clear advantage. Human resources are abundant, the quality of labor force is high, and the social intermediary services such as bank credit, asset evaluation, foreign lawyers and investment consultation are relatively sound.
Natural Geography
Topography and Geomorphology
Changshu's terrain is low and flat, with an elevation of 3-7 meters above sea level. The main hills in the territory are Yushan, Gushan and Fushan. Among them, Mount Yushan is the most important, with an elevation of 261 meters and a length of 6,400 meters, the eastern end of which winds into the ancient city, which is known as "ten miles of green hills and half into the city".
Hydrology
The water network in the territory of the intertwined, the rivers and lakes are Taihu Lake system, the distribution of the city as the axis to the surrounding radiation, the southeast is denser, more sparse in the northwest, the river is smaller, the water flow is smooth. The main rivers are Wangyu River, Baihao Pond, Changhu River, Yuanhe Pond, Zhangjiagang, Yantie Pond, Gengjing Pond, etc., and the lakes are Kuncheng Lake and Shanghu Lake.
Climate Type
Changshu is located in the mid-latitude area and has a subtropical monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, mild climate and abundant rainfall. During the year, the northerly wind from the mainland prevails in winter, with cold and rainy weather; the southeasterly wind from the ocean prevails in summer, with hot and rainy weather; spring and fall are the alternating periods of the winter and summer monsoons, with frequent changes in cold and warm, dry and wet weather. The annual average total sunshine is 2,130.2 hours, accounting for 48% of the available hours of sunshine; the average annual temperature is 15.4°C; the average annual precipitation is 1,054 millimeters.
Natural Resources
1. Biological Resources
Changshu is very rich in aquatic resources, including _fish, anchovies, swordfish and sea white shrimp from the Yangtze River, and crucian carp, grass carp, silver carp, bream, blue shrimp and hairy crabs from Yangcheng Lake. Wild plant resources are trees, shrubs, medicinal herbs, grasses, mushrooms and other 5 categories of more than 200 kinds. Wild trees mainly include rosewood and cudgel; wild shrubs mainly include hawthorn and golden cherry; wild medicinal herbs include 765 species such as heshouwu and dandelion; grasses include more than 20 species such as reed and wild oat; and mushrooms include pine mushrooms. There are more than 300 kinds of trees cultivated in the territory. Among them, the timber forests are horsetail pine, black pine, acacia, metasequoia, etc., the bamboos are swallow bamboo, gabion bamboo, elephant bamboo, moso bamboo, etc., the fruit trees are ginkgo, chestnut, yangmei, etc., and the special economic forests are wolfberry willow, mulberry, tea, and ornamental flowers and trees. Wild animals mainly include mammals and birds of more than 800 species, and in recent years there are artificially bred Arctic foxes and minks.
2. Groundwater resources
The groundwater in the territory of the fourth system of pore water. Due to the moderate depth, stratigraphic stability, wide distribution, water abundance, water quality is superior, was widely used. In recent years, in order to prevent land subsidence, has been gradually backfilled out of use. Yushan, Fushan and other hill sections, groundwater is often exposed in the form of falling springs, the formation of intermittent streams and springs, such as Qinpo Jian, Taoyuan Jian, Jade Crab Spring, Jiaowei Spring, Shun over the spring, etc., the flow rate is less, but the water quality is excellent, the mineralization 0.05-0.07 kg / l, hardness is generally less than 50 mg / l, the very soft water.
3. Mineral resources: kaolin, yellow sand, coal, peat, quartz sand, natural gas, etc., but the reserves are very small.
In April 2021, Changshu City was ranked No. 2 in the 2021 National Cities Spreading Heat Ranking (County-level Cities).
In April 2021, Changshu City was ranked No. 53 in the 2021 Chinese Specialties Top 100 Counties and Cities List.
In March 2021, Changshu City ranked 40th on the 2021 China Top 100 Counties in Online Purchasing Power.
In January 2021, Changshu ranked 35th on the list of China's 100 Most Efficient Counties in 2020.
In January 2021, Changshu ranked 41st on the list of China's 100 Best Demonstration Counties and Municipalities in Doing Business in 2020.
In December 2020, Changshu was ranked 27th on the 2020 National Top 100 Counties and Cities with Investment Potential list.
In December 2020, Changshu was ranked 20th on the 2020 China's Top 100 Demonstration Counties and Cities with Urban Innovation list.
In December 2020, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation released the list of the second batch of rural logistics demonstration counties in Jiangsu Province, and Changshu City was selected.
November 2020, 2020 China's top 100 counties and cities in terms of comprehensive competitiveness of county tourism was announced, and Changshu City was on the list.
November 2020, the Central Civilization Office announced the list of national civilized cities that were confirmed to retain their honorary titles in the sixth review, and Changshu was selected.
On October 2020, Changshu was awarded the title of 2020 National Model City (County) of Double Embrace.
In September 2020, Ali Research Institute released "Top 100 Taobao Village Counties in 2020", Changshu City was on the list and ranked 15th.
In September 2020, 2020 China's Top 100 Counties and Cities for Comprehensive Quality of Life list was released, and Changshu City ranked 43rd.
August 2020, Changshu City was listed as the 2020 Rural Living Waste Classification and Resource Utilization Demonstration County.
In July 2020, the 2020 China Top 100 County Smart Cities list was released, and Changshu City ranked 32nd.
July 2020, 2019 National Top 100 County Economy List came out, and Changshu City ranked 4th.
In June 2020, Changshu City was included in the list of the second batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization area districts and counties (Central Jiangsu Area and Southern Jiangsu Area).
In 2020, Changshu was selected as one of the top 100 counties and cities in China's County Tourism Competitiveness in 2019, with Yushan and Shanghu as the representative attractions.
In December 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development recommended Changshu City as a typical county of national rural innovation and entrepreneurship.
On October 2019, Changshu was selected as one of the top 100 counties and cities in science and technology innovation in China in 2019, ranking 5th.
October 2019, Changshu City was selected as the 2019 National Top 100 Counties and Cities for Green Development, ranking 5th.
In March 2019, the Ministry of Water Resources announced the list of the first batch of counties (districts) that have reached the standard of water-saving society construction, and Changshu City was on the list.
In 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development promoted Changshu City as the second batch of typical counties for rural entrepreneurship and innovation.
In November 2018, the first batch of national innovative counties (cities) construction list was announced, and Changshu was shortlisted
In November 2017, Changshu was on the list of the Fifth National Civilized Cities and the list of the previous National Civilized Cities whose review confirmed that they continue to retain the honorary title.
In October 2017, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development named Changshu as the 2017 National Ecological Garden City.
In July 2016, Changshu City was awarded the title of 2016 National Model City (County) of Double Embrace.
In May 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture identified Changshu City as one of the first demonstration counties (cities and districts) in the country to basically realize the mechanization of the whole process of major crop production.