Yixing

Yixing, Jiangsu Province, is a county-level city with a population of 1.1 million (2020). Yixing City is an international eco-tourism city in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, and a regional central city at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui.

Understand
Yixing City is at the southwest end of Jiangsu Province and the center of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Triangle. It is connected to the Taihu Lake in Suzhou to the east, Changxing County of Zhejiang Province to the southeast, and Anhui Province to the southwest. Guangde City borders Liyang City to the west, Jintan District of Changzhou to the northwest, and Wujin District of Changzhou to the north.

The terrain of Yixing City is high in the south and low in the north, with low mountains and hills in the southwest. The highest peak in the city is the top of the Yellow Tower, with an altitude of 611.5 meters. Yixing City has a subtropical monsoon climate, with high temperatures throughout the year, normal precipitation, and normal sunshine.

Yixing has a long history, with a history of more than 7,000 years of pottery making and more than 2,200 years of county founding. Our ancestors were hardworking and simple, leaving behind many cultural relics. The Xixi site in Xushe Town is a large-scale settlement during the Majiabang Culture period. It reflects the peaceful and natural life of our ancestors who worked at sunrise and rested at sunset six or seven thousand years ago. In 2002, it was listed as one of China's six major archaeological discoveries.

Get in
Yixing is on the west side of Lake Tai and is almost at the centre of the triangle consisting of Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou.

By plane
The distances between Yixing and international airports in this area are:

'''Shanghai ''' Hongqiao International Airport  190 km, 2-hour-drive;

Pudong International Airport,   242 km, 2.5-hour-drive;

'''Nanjing ''' Lukou International Airport  108 km, 1.5-hour-drive;

'''Hangzhou ''' Xiaoshan International Airport  180 km, 2-hour-drive;

'''Wuxi ''' Sunan Shuofang International Airport  95 km, 1-hour-drive.

Pudong is a major hub with international flights going all over the world. Nanjing and Hangzhou also have some long-range flights. Hongqiao and Wuxi serve mainly domestic flights plus a few to nearby Asian countries.

By train
The bullet trains on the Nanjing–Hangzhou Intercity Railway route now connect Yixing to those two cities.



By car
Expressways connect Yixing with all main cities in the Yangtze Delta. There are two main routes, the Nanjing-Shanghai Expressway and Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway.

By bus
There are buses to most major cities nearby -
 * Changzhou &yen;21
 * Wuxi &yen;25
 * Hangzhou &yen;58
 * Nanjing &yen;58
 * Suzhou &yen;69
 * Shanghai &yen;79
 * Hefei &yen;105

Do




Buy
Yixing is famous for stoneware, especially teapots, made from the local clay.

Sleep

 * Wuxi Yixing Hotel — Yixing Hotel is a three-star foreign tourist hotel. It has standard rooms, single rooms, standard suites and high-end luxury suites. The environment is quiet and spring-like all year round. The parking lot is wide and easy to enter and exit. It is an ideal place for leisure, business, tourism, conference and other guests.