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Kunshan city, the east gate of Jiangsu Province, has an area of 927.7 km 2 and a population of 1 million. It administers 10 towns and 2 national level development zones namely Kunshan Development zone and Export Processing Zone. Its big fresh water hairy crab produced in Yangchen Lake is famous at home and abroad. Kun stone, Joan Flower and Twin-flower Lotus are the three precious of Kunshan.
Kunshan enjoys a long history and well-developed culture, abundant in tourist resources. It has formed a favorable development strategy with the opening economy taking the dominance while the three industries and three civilizations are pushed forward in a harmonious and synchronous way. Such development strategy is called ˇ°Road of Kunshanˇ± Kunshan has been honored as National Hygienic City, National Model City for Environmental Protection, China Outstanding Tourist City, National Garden City, National Ecological Model Area etc. It ranks the third in the top 100 counties in China.
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n 2003, its GDP was 42 billion yuan,
the local budget revenue registered 2.42 billion yuan, import
and export volume 13.92 billion USD. 554 foreign invested
projects were newly approved with registered foreign capital
of 2.25 billion USD of which 1.2 billion USD were paid. Electronics & information, precision machinery and fine chemical are the mainstay industries, and it has become an important production base of China's IT Industry. |