1. Brief & Predominance
Situated at south middle Jiangsu Province, the economical developed Yangtze River delta, Wuxi is the East China three-dimensional transport key position, the main center of the long triangle international logistics, and an important producing and processing base of exporting textile and garment in China. Wuxi produces the fabric with good quality, high grade, essential works, and competitive price. Having the very high prestige during the foreign merchants, the fabric has been adopted by the global multitudinous well-known brand.

Air transportation: Wuxi is located near Shanghai Putong International Airport, Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, Nanjing Lukou International Airport and Wuxi Shuofang Airport.

Sea and freshwater transportation:
Sea transportation: The sea transportation around Wuxi is convenient. There are ten-thousand-ton berths and Jiangyin Port has set up the first international container transfer station in China as freshwater port.
Freshwater transportation: Wuxi has 7 main routes, Reaching Yangtze River, Beijing-Hangzhou Canel and Taihu.

Railway: Wuxi is connected into the national railway net with Shanghai-Ningbo line and the constructing Xinyi-Changxing line. The Beijing-Shanghai express railway under construction will make the transportation of Wuxi more convenient.

Express way: Wuxi connects express ways including Shanghai-Ningbo, Beijing-Shanghai and Ningbo-Hangzhou, etc.

Highway: Wuxi has become one of the 54 highway transportation centers.
Cities like Changzhou, Jiangyin, Zhangjiagang, Changshu, as well as Shengze, located in the peripheral areas of Wuxi, hold the extremely important status in producing and exporting textile in China.

2.The map of Wuxi City

3. Textile Cities in peripheral areas of Wuxi

Changzhou
The main products of Changzhou are corduroy, dyed-yarn fabric, knitted fabric, industrial use products and so on. The market of knitted products, woven products and cotton yarn is one of collection places of textile and fabric in the East China and even all over the nation. There are more than 1000 enterprises engage in spinning, weaving, dyeing and printing. Equipped with over 50,000 up-to-date textile machines, it reaches the annual output with 4,4000 tons of yarn, 530 million meters of fabric, 130 million meters of dyeing and printing fabric.

Jiangyin
Jiangyin has totally more than 2000 textile enterprises. The textile industry is composed of 9 sub-sector including chemical fiber, cotton textile, wool textile, after-finishing of dyeing and printing, garment and textile machinery. Among them the wool textile sub-sector takes up nearly 40% of the total textile industry in possession of 560 thousand woolen spindles including 300thousand worsted woolen spindles, which can produce 57 million meters of worsted piece goods each year. And the chemical fiber industry is provided with advanced equipment from USA and Germany.

Zhangjiagang
The textile structure of Zhangjiagang is composed of cotton spinning, wool spinning, knitting, garment, chemical fibers, dyeing and printing, etc. The output of chemical fibers in 2002 was 350 thousand tons, yarns 350 thousand tons, wool yarns 250 thousand tons, cord fabrics 40 thousand tons, wool fabrics 33 million meters, cloths 180 million meters and dyed and printed cloths 250 million meters.

Changshu
Changshu owns more than 2300 textile enterprises. The annual production of garment is over 50 million sets, including jacket, suit-trousers, overcoat, down garment and woolen sweater, etc. And the total sale is 1.47 billion RMB.

Shengze
Shengze, has the Chinese biggest silk specialized market-China Eastern Silk market. There is the whole silk pipeline from silk reeling, silk spinning-weaving-dyeing and printing-finishing-garment to accessories etc. And there are integrated production networks of researching, developing, producing, distributing, trading, information.