The gross domestic product of Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province totaled 649.92 billion yuan ($100.31 billion) in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 13.7 percent, the local statistical bureau announced on July 20.
Agreements on a total of 60 projects, worth over 61.8 billion yuan ($9.53 billion), were signed at an investment-promotion summit of Wuxi's Huishan district on July 18.
The 2021 World Internet of Things Exposition, China's top IoT event, will be held in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province from Sept 3 to 6, organizers announced at a news conference on July 15.
Wuxi in East China's Jiangsu province has become one of China's top cities in terms of smart city development, according to a report released at the 2021 New-type Smart City Construction and Development Summit on July 15.
A total of seven Wuxi-based enterprises made the list of the top 500 listed companies in China by market value in the first half of 2021, according to a report from the 21st Century Business Herald.
More and more Wuxi enterprises with capital and technological advantages have been expanding their global footprint by building overseas production hubs, according to the local government.
Wuxi in East China's Jiangsu province established an industrial big data center recently, the first of its kind in a prefecture-level city across the country.
Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers opened a new branch in the Wuxi National Hi-tech District in East China's Jiangsu province on July 5.
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