Introduction to Heqiao

Heqiao Town, located on the shore of Taihu Lake, is one of the four major towns in Yixing City. It is a famous historical and cultural town in the south of the Yangtze River with a history of more than 1,500 years. With rich products and outstanding people, it enjoys the reputation of Little Wuxi. Heqiao is fully open to the outside world, and the investment environment is small but big. The industrial zone is lined with factories, making it a geomantic treasure favored by Chinese and foreign merchants. Heqiao has profound cultural heritage and rich cultural landscape, and is known as the "Hometown of Professors". It has nurtured a large number of outstanding talents for the country. It has more than 500 experts and professors with Heqiao membership and 9 academicians of the two academies. The Begonia Garden, famous for the Xifu Begonia planted by Su Dongpo, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, attracts many Chinese and foreign tourists.