3 manufacturing clusters in Wuxi receive national recognition

Three advanced manufacturing clusters in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, recently made a national list of advanced manufacturing clusters, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The city's IoT industrial cluster was listed on the first list in 2021. Last year, the operating revenue of the industry in the city totaled 356.3 billion yuan ($51.19 billion), up 26 percent year-on-year.

Wuxi is currently home to more than 3,000 IoT-related enterprises, which have undertaken IoT projects in over 830 cities from 78 countries.

The city has also hosted the annual World Internet of Things Exposition for seven years, making it one of the most renowned and influential IoT events in the world.

Another listed manufacturing cluster is the Taizhou-Lianyungang-Wuxi biomedical industrial cluster. In 2021, the cluster generated 304 billion yuan in output value, accounting for 9 percent of the national total, and invested 31 billion yuan in research and development, accounting for 10 percent of annual sales revenue.

In addition, four enterprises from the biomedical industrial cluster were among the national top 10 in biomedical innovation last year.

The Suzhou-Wuxi-Nantong high-end textile industrial cluster leads the country in gross scale and number of leading enterprises.

The industrial cluster houses over 8,500 textile enterprises, including 4,184 enterprises above designated size, which generated 652.1 billion yuan in operating revenue in 2021.

Wuxi boasts a strong manufacturing industry, which contributed over half of the city's 1.4-trillion-yuan GDP in 2021.

The city is ranked first in Jiangsu in the number of top 500 Chinese enterprises and top 500 Chinese manufacturing enterprises in the same year.

Ten industrial clusters with annual operating revenues exceeding 100 billion yuan each have taken shape in Wuxi.