My hometown Suzhou

Suzhou is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, bordering Shanghai in the east, Zhejiang in the south, Taihu Lake in the west and the Yangtze River in the north. The geographic coordinates of Suzhou downtown are 31 19' north latitude and 12 37' east longitude. The city covers an area of 8,488 square kilometers, of which the urban area is 1,65 square kilometers. At the end of 26, the city's total population was 6,16,814, including 2,31,497 in municipal districts. In 26, the city's birth population was 46,325, with a birth rate of 7.57%. The city's population naturally increased by 7,214, with a growth rate of 1.18 ‰. Suzhou has jurisdiction over Zhangjiagang City, Changshu City, Taicang City, Kunshan City, Wujiang City, Wuzhong District, Xiangcheng District, Pingjiang District, Canglang District and Jinchang District, as well as Suzhou Industrial Park and Suzhou High-tech Zone huqiu district. In 1993, Suzhou was approved as a "big city" by the State Council.

Suzhou is a national key tourist city. There are 538 cultural relics protection units at all levels in the city, including 34 national and 16 provincial. Successfully joined organization of world heritage cities. Suzhou ancient city is located in the water network, and the streets are built by the river, with land and water in parallel; The building is built near the water, with the front lane and the back river, forming a unique style of "small bridge, flowing water and people". Suzhou Garden, which integrates architecture, landscape, flowers and trees, sculpture, calligraphy and painting, is a wonderful work of human civilization. Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden are listed in the four famous gardens in China, and together with nine classical gardens such as Master Wang Garden, Huanxiu Mountain Villa and Canglang Pavilion, Lion Forest, Art Garden, Couple Garden and Retreat Garden, they were listed in the World Heritage List by UNESCO in December 1997 and November 2 respectively.

Suzhou is located in temperate zone, with a subtropical monsoon maritime climate, four distinct seasons, mild climate and abundant rainfall. The city is low and flat, with plains accounting for 55% of the total area, dense water networks, fertile land and rich products. Mainly planting rice, wheat, rape, producing cotton, sericulture, fruit, specialty products are Biluochun tea, Yangtze river swordfish, Taihu whitebait, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs and so on.

Suzhou, a well-known land of plenty and silk, is known as a paradise on earth.

Suzhou has been a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times, and has the reputation of "Land of Fish and Rice" and "House of Silk"!

The commercial streets in Suzhou are: Guanqian, Shilu, Nanhao Street, Shiquan Street, Fengqiao Street, Nanmen ...

Guanqian is located in the center of Suzhou ancient city, covering an area of .52 square kilometers, with prosperous business, numerous famous shops and historic sites, which plays an irreplaceable central role in Suzhou's modern urban construction pattern of "East Garden West Area, Ancient City Center and Two Wings".

Guanqian Street is named because it is located in front of the mysterious temple. Its name has a history of more than 15 years, and it has been famous all over the world for its century-old shops with many famous features such as Daoxiang Village, Gantaixiang and Huang Tianyuan. Located in Bifengfang-the food street made by eunuchs is famous for its Su Gang food. The mysterious temple, a national key cultural relic protection unit, attracts domestic and foreign tourists with its rich Taoist cultural connotation. After a hundred years of ups and downs, in 1999, the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government invested huge sums of money to comprehensively renovate and update the area before Guanqian. After the transformation, Guanqian area is becoming a commercial, cultural, religious and tourist center with complete transportation network, perfect infrastructure, beautiful humanistic environment, reasonable commercial layout and excellent investment environment. Visitors are bustling before Guanqian, and businesses are flourishing, with century-old shops and old shops everywhere. According to records, in the early 193s, Guanqian had an unprecedented prosperity. According to rough statistics, the financial institutions in front of Guanqian at that time included seven banks, including China, Communications, Wuxian Tianye, Shanghai, Guohua, China, and Xinfu, as well as four banks, namely Baoda, Yikang, Yida and Jiufeng. Department stores include Jingdezhen, Brother and Qian Hengsen, and there are also four companies: Huada, Lianhe, Yuchang and Taifeng. The silver houses are Hengfu, Cai Feng, Tianfeng and Tiancheng; There are Gantaixiang, Yihexiang, Tongren Hehe, Tianxiang, Ruihexiang, Ruitaifeng, Ruixintai and Jiuchang in the silk cloth villages. Bookstores include Xiaoshulin, Zhenxin, World, Commerce, Wen Yi, Transportation and Pingjiang; Pharmacies include Taihe, Zhongying, Huaying, Huamei, Chinese and Western, and Central. Local products stores include Caizhizhai, Daoxiang Village, Yeshouhe, Donglu, Luguojian, Ma Yongzhai, Wenkuizhai and Zhou Wanxing. The restaurants include Laodanfeng, Songhelou, Free Farm, Yihe Garden, Yuegong Hotel and Cooperative Farm. The noodle restaurant has a view of revitalization; Photo studios include Liu Cun, Songshixuan, Daguangming, Zhonghua and Kang Sheng. The theaters include the YMCA, the Central Committee and the East. Bathrooms include Huijin Spring, Xinhuijin, Pengying, Juxing Garden and Fuxing Garden. Teahouses include Yunlin Pavilion and Wuyuan; Hotels include mainland China, New Soviet Union and Anton. There are also Mao Hengfeng's Su Fan, the tobacco that flourished in the west, and the tooth carvings of Zhang Wanyuan and Tu Hongxing; Wait a minute. On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, Jincheng Bank, Hongsheng, Hongyuan, Zhensu and Qingtai Qianzhuang, as well as Wang Ruiyu Tea House, International Photo Studio, Wugong Hotel, Xinya Hotel and Xin 'an Tea Room were added before the exhibition. Eunuch Lane added Suzhou Laozhengxing, Shanghai Laozhengxing, Weiya, Sanwu and other restaurants.

Nanhao Street in Suzhou is located along the Grand Canal in the east, Jinmen Road in the south, Laochangmen in the north, and Asia Plaza, the business center of Xilianshi Road, with a unique geographical location. The planned 6,-square-meter-long commercial street is in the Ming and Qing dynasties style, with 1,2 storefronts in two or three floors. uneven level is antique and the "Shenxian Temple" with a thousand-year history is rebuilt at the original site. The annual "rolling immortals" is held in Nanhao Street, pushing Nanhao Street to the peak of prosperity.

There are many high-rise buildings in Shilu Business District. There are more than ten large and medium-sized comprehensive and professional shopping malls, including Bafangfeng, Asia, Venice, Pacific Ocean, HSBC, boutique, stationery and air-conditioning city, and hundreds of banks, post offices, hotels, restaurants, bathrooms, dance halls and so on. A few hundred meters to the north of Stone Road are Suzhou Railway Station and Bus Station. There are many interchange lines in the area as the origin, destination and interchange station. There are also stops on Stone Road for rural buses and CMB buses heading for scenic spots such as Huqiu, Liuyuan, Xiyuan, Hanshan Temple, Tianping Mountain, Lingyan Mountain and suburbs. Therefore, the traffic in Shilu area is convenient, and it is very convenient to go in and out, stay and travel, and it is also a place where foreign tourists are concentrated.

Nanmen Business District is located in the northern part of Ren Minqiao, the southern tip of Suzhou Ancient City. The famous "Paradise Waterway" Suzhou-Hangzhou Ferry Terminal is located here; The long-distance bus south station here sends nearly 2 trains every day. There are nearly 15, people coming in and out of Suzhou from here every day, and the Nanmen area has become the south gate of Suzhou. The business in Nanmen area is very prosperous, with nearly 1 large-scale comprehensive shopping malls, such as Taihua Mall and supermarkets. There are hundreds of professional shopping malls and shops; There is also a large aquatic product market, vegetable and fruit wholesale market, tea market and electronic market in Suzhou. At the same time, there are nearly 2 cultural and entertainment venues and various flavor restaurants. With convenient transportation, numerous shopping malls and prosperous popularity, it is the most prosperous downtown area in the south of Suzhou City.

shiquan street is located in the hotel area in the ancient city of Suzhou. The famous Nanlin Hotel, Suzhou Hotel, Nanyuan Hotel and Master Garden of Classical Gardens are located on this street. With the prosperity of tourism and the transformation of the old neighborhood in Suzhou, shiquan street has changed its old look, and various catering and craft shops have emerged, and business is very prosperous. Walking all over the street, at first glance, it is strewn at random, with white walls and tiles, and restaurants and craft shops behind the new buildings with Ming and Qing styles have opened one after another with their own characteristics; "Tangtou Restaurant" with special fish head stewing soup, "Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant" integrating Wu culture and catering, "Yanzhi Shalong" meeting the east, west, north and south flavors of mountain city hot pot, Japanese cuisine, Korean cuisine, barbecue, Guangbang cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, etc., with a complete range of cuisines, attracting domestic and foreign tourists; The craft shops in Shiquan Street have their own strengths, including Su Xiutang, Jinsha Pavilion and Bo Gu Hall, which specialize in ceramic antiques, and Ruiguangzhai, which specializes in calligraphy and painting. Purple sand, pottery, silk, calligraphy and painting, epigraphy, jasper and mahogany are all available here. Suzhou shiquan street has become a world-renowned food and beverage craft street.

Fengqiao Street and Hanshan Temple are cultural and tourist commercial streets with strong local characteristics in Fengqiao Scenic Area, with buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties and simple style. There are many shops, which bring together almost all the craft goods in the south of the Yangtze River, including silk, Suzhou embroidery, calligraphy and painting, Four Treasures of the Study, mahogany carving and sandalwood fans, as well as various antique shops, pearl shops, teapot shops and galleries produced and sold by painters and painters. You can also see the performance of "Long Pen Calligraphy" listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in Shanghai, which is really dazzling and beautiful. The history of Fengqiao Street is as long as Hanshan Temple and Fengqiao. A night-mooring near maple bridge, a Tang poem, has been passed down from ancient times to modern times. Scholars of all previous dynasties came to visit the ancient secluded places in an endless stream, stopping to stay, and fengqiao ancient town gradually prospered. Nowadays, with the development of tourism, the buildings with white walls and tiles, antique signboards and craft goods with the characteristics of Wu culture in Guzhen Commercial Street together constitute a rich cultural landscape, which is worth wandering around and savoring slowly.