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7 unusual facts about Wuxi


Bamboo stove

A monk named Xing Hai in the Ting Song temple on Mount Hui in Wuxi asked a travelling bamboo artisan to make him a stove on which he could boil water for tea.

In the Taiping rebellion of 1860 the temple was again destroyed and the rolls of poems which were found again in Shanghai given to the Mount Hui temple in Wuxi.

De Dietrich

The latest factories added to the Group are located in Hyderabad and Wuxi.

Li Rongrong

Since 1986, he had served as vice director of economics commission of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, director of light manufacturing bureau, director of planning commission of the city, and vice director of economics planning commission of Jiangsu.

Spalding Grammar School

Through the Language Status the school has partnered with a High School in Wuxi, China.

The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was

"Train to Freedom", from the same album, was completely reworked and lyrically rewritten (removing any connection with the musical) into "Train to Wuxi".

Zhang Enli

In 1989, he graduated from the Arts & Design Institute of Wuxi Technical University, China, and teaches at the Arts and Design Institute of Donghua University.


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Bamboo stove

The scroll was found again during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1662-1722) and a poet from Wuxi called Gu Zhenguan had two copies of the stove made.

Donglin

Donglin Academy, academy established in the Northern Song dynasty at present-day Wuxi in China

Donglin Academy

In 1604, during the Wanli era, Gu Xiancheng (顧憲成 Gù Xiànchéng, (1550–1612), a Ming Grand Secretary, along with Gao Panlong (高攀龍 Gāo Pānlóng, 1562–1626), a scholar, with fellow scholars Qian Yiben(钱一本) and Yu Kongjian(余孔兼) restored the Donglin Academy on the same site with the financial backing of local gentry and officials from Changzhou state governor Ouyang Dongfeng(欧阳东风) and Wuxi county governor Linzai(林宰).

Hang Lung Group

Seeing the success of the Shanghai projects, the Group continued to expand its business to others parts of the Mainland such as Shenyang, Jinan, Wuxi, Tianjin, Dalian, and Kunming.

Volvo Penta

The company has a number of manufacturing bases for diesel engines at Vara, Sweden, Wuxi, China; and Lexington, Tennessee, United States, for all gasoline engines and sterndrives.

Wuxi bus accident

The Wuxi police confirmed that the piece of iron which hit Wu was part of a brake pad of a red Dongfeng truck and announced that the event was an accident.

Wuxi County

Massive infrastructure programs started in 2008, like Wuxi-Yunyan highway, Wuxi-Fengjie highway and Wuxi-Zhenping highway with anticipation of completion in 2013 and that will be connected with other China National Highways


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