Suzhou is a famous historical and cultural city, as well as a tourism city with beautiful scenery. With an area of 8,488 Square kilometers and the registered-household population of 6.3 million, Suzhou has well-known classic gardens, poetic water-towns and beautiful Taihu Lake scenery. In 2010, Suzhou’s domestic GDP ranked 5^th among China’s big and middle cities, domestic GDP per person, according to the registered-household population, reached ＄20,000. The comprehensive competitiveness of 5 county-leveled cities—Zhangjiangang, Changshu, Taicang, Kunshan and Wujiang were all took first positions of China’s top 100 county-leveled cities and towns.

Suzhou is a city of beautiful landscape. With the golden channel—the Yangtze River lying north and the third largest fresh lake----Taihu Lake west, Suzhou has more than 300 rivers and lakes, 20,000 of all kinds of water ways and the water area reaches 42.5%. Green mountains and clear waters have brought Suzhou beautiful natural scenery, cultivated Suzhou’s splendid ancient culture, made Suzhou “land of fish and rice”, “home of silk” and “country of culture” and crowned Suzhou “Up above there is heaven; down below there are Suzhou and Hangzhou”.

Suzhou is a city of long history and splendid culture. Since its establishment of BC 514 till now, Suzhou has witnessed 2500 years but still kept its unique feature of “small bridge and flowing water, white walls and dark grey roof tiles, historical sites and famous gardens”. Suzhou is one of the birthplaces of Wu Culture, culture and educations always take an important place and bring up a lot of talents. Ku Opera、Guqin arts、Chinese silk tapestry have been listed in “Masterpieces of Intangible Cultural Heritage of mankind” by UNESCO. On the other part, Suzhou gardens intensively show the charm and delicacy of Chinese traditional garden arts. Nine classic gardens, such as the Humble Administrator’s Garden、the Lingering Garden and the Garden of the Master of the Nets have been put into the list of World Culture Heritage. Thousand of years aged Water-towns, like Zhouzhuang and Tongli, full of Jiangnan customs are also noted. It can be said that Suzhou is aged while well-kept living history and culture museum.

Suhzou is a livable city with good ecological environment. Suzhou’s mountains and waters are beautiful and the four seasons are clear. The finished green coverage rate is 42.7% and the number of public green space per person reaches 14.9㎡. Five county-leveled cities, like Zhangjiagang have been named “national eco-city” or passed the examination. There are 53,000 and more foreigners living and working in Suzhou. Suzhou is a city of delicious food, snacks、sticky rice-made cakes、lake and sea food scattering every corner and lane. Suhzou is also a place for shopping and along with three traditional products, pearl、Suzhou-embroidery and silk, world-known modern products can also be found.

Suzhou is a prosperous city, full of energy. Suzhou lies in the Yangtze delta, 80 km away from the international city Shanghai. Highway、trail-way and waterway are all very convenient. As early as 2001, Suzhou was chosen in the “List of technopoles” by Newsweek, an American news weekly magazine. And later on, Suzhou continuously won the names of ‘China’s most dynamic economic city’, ‘the Chinese city of best attraction’, ‘gold medal city for investment in China’ and Suzhou is well regarded as an innovation hub, being ranked top 3 in “China's Most Innovative Cities" by Forbes. At present, there are 20,000 more foreign-invested enterprises in Suzhou and the foreign direct investment is nearly ＄68.6 billion. 138 enterprises are world Top 500.

As a city taking tourism industry as the pillar industry, Suzhou has created several delicate tourism products, such as deep cultural tour of ancient city, modern and fashion tour of new city and Taihu Lake leisure tour, etc, according to the theory “the whole city is for tour”. There are 165 high-leveled hotels, 134 places of interests. In 2010, Suzhou received 2.65 million foreign tourists and 70.04 million domestic tourists, ranking top places of all Chinese tourism cities. Global netizens chose Suzhou as one of “the most representative tourism city of China” and Suzhou also won the name of 2010 China Leisure city.