Mudu Town, Wuzhong District, located in the west of Suzhou City, is an ancient town in Jiangnan that is "the same age" as Suzhou, with a history of more than 2,500 years. Today, Mudu Town has become an important town of industry, commerce and trade, cultural tourism, enjoying the reputation of "the first town in Wuzhong", achieving a regional GDP of 19.76 billion yuan and a general public budget revenue of 2.926 billion yuan in 2020. Mudu Town has won many honors such as China's famous historical and cultural town, national characteristic landscape tourism town, and national beautiful environment town.
In recent years, Suzhou Mudu Town has vigorously developed the three leading industries of intelligent manufacturing, trade circulation and ecological cultural tourism, and its economic development has steadily increased, and its popularity and influence have continued to enlarge, ranking 28th in the comprehensive competitiveness of China's top 100 townships.
Mudu has always been a strong industrial town in Suzhou, with a strong manufacturing foundation, and has now formed a high-end manufacturing industry based on precision machinery, electronic information, robots and auto parts. Relying on the provincial precision machinery industry agglomeration area and the Suzhou Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute and other platforms, the town has cultivated a number of local enterprises such as Green Harmonics, Xinzhi Electromechanical, and Jerris Automation. Green Harmonic Company currently has a market value of more than 10 billion yuan; Suzhou Jieruisi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. is a world-leading provider of overall solutions for intelligent equipment, covering consumer electronics, automotive, display screens, cameras, new energy batteries and other industries, and has become the world's top four electronics companies and their supply chain companies designated equipment suppliers; Suzhou Yongqinquan Intelligent Equipment Company, since its establishment in 2017, successfully developed light-curable bio-ink (GelMA), portable biological 3D printers, Biological 3D printing series products are exported to the United States, Europe and other countries in batches; since Suzhou Chunhuitang Pharmaceutical Company landed in Mudu, the company has entered the fast lane, and the business covers 85% of suzhou's market share and extends to surrounding cities.
Mudu Town has built a number of national science and technology incubators such as Wuzhong Science and Technology Innovation Park, Dongchuang Science and Technology Park, Boji Science and Technology Innovation Park, as well as a number of characteristic industrial parks such as Jinfeng E-commerce Demonstration Base and Jinfeng Advertising Industrial Park. In the process of innovation and development, a number of intelligent manufacturing entrepreneurship carriers such as Suzhou Chuangyu Intelligent Industrial Park with a total construction area of 35,000 square meters, 114,000 square meters of Liandong U Valley Mudu Precision Manufacturing Industrial Park, and 110,000 square meters of Haiende High-tech Industrial Park are planned and constructed; projects such as Suzhou Business Creative Center and Suzhou Hongguang Electronics Industrial Park will be delivered and used soon; Mudu Intelligent Industrial Park under planning and construction will develop intelligent manufacturing equipment and key components, and a new generation of information technology "1+2" leading industries. Introduce and land a number of top 100 enterprises at home and abroad and leading projects in subdivided industries.
Mudu Town is dominated by various professional markets and urban complexes, and has outstanding advantages in the service industry based on e-commerce, advertising media, and cultural creativity; it also has a number of Chinese time-honored enterprises such as Qianshengyuan and Shijia Hotel, and has successively introduced a number of star hotels such as Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, a number of homestays such as Royal Station and Shantang Xiaozhu, and a number of high-end commercial complexes such as Entertainment City and Hejing Youfang Shopping Plaza; the annual number of cars sold in Mudu Kaima Square, a state-level characteristic commercial block, accounts for one-third of Suzhou's urban area.
According to reports, Mudu Ancient Town, as a famous historical and cultural town in China and an ancient Chinese garden town, a large number of sages and heroes, such as Soldier Saint Sun Wu, Xiu Sheng Shen Shou, Fan Zhongyun, a famous politician of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Han Shizhong, a famous anti-Jin general, have all left footprints in Mudu. There are famous scenic spots such as Lingyan Mountain and Tianping Mountain around the ancient town, and the Qionglongshan Scenic Area under its jurisdiction is a national 5A-level scenic spot, and the Guzhen District is a national 4A-level scenic spot, and there are private gardens such as Yanjia Garden and Hongyin Mountain House. At present, Mudu Town is integrating beautiful villages, ruins of the ancient city of Wuguo, flowers and seedlings, etc., to meet the diversified needs of tourists and build a new pattern of global tourism.
Zhou Xuebin, secretary of the party committee of Mudu Town, said that Through the gathering of high-end elements, Mudu has worked specialization and special newness, focused on the construction of the business environment, strengthened the attraction of unicorn enterprises, formulated a timetable and road map for the landing of personalized projects, accelerated the clustering of emerging industries, and built a 1+2 industrial development system with precision processing as the axis, industrial core components and intelligent manufacturing equipment as the two wings, creating a new advantage in manufacturing competition. (Sun Baoping)
Source: International Business Daily