Wuxi  a shining peal of Taihu Lake  is located at the south of Jiangsu Province  linking with the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south Moreover  it is approximately half way between the cities of Shanghai (metropolis with west-meets-east sites) and Nanjing (capital of Jiangsu Province)  the former is about 145 kilometers to the southeast and the latter is about 180 kilometers to the northwest