Wuxi Xiyan Lake Ecological Science and Technology City

Client: People’s Government of Luoshe Town, Huishan District, Wuxi City

Awards: First Place in International Competition

Scale: The strategic planning area is 38.1 square kilometers, and the urban design area of ​​the core area is 11.9 square kilometers.

Project function: water town wetlands, style villages, old streets and ancient towns, R&D offices, manufacturing parks, supporting facilities, urban services

Design content undertaken: strategic planning and urban design

Cooperation unit: China Urban Planning and Design Institute, Shanghai Fudan Planning and Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.

Project Completion: Completed in 2022

Xiyan Lake Ecological Science and Technology City is located in the north of Xiyi Expressway and west of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, in Huishan District, Wuxi. In recent years, the economic scale of each sector of Xiyan Lake Eco-Technology City has continued to grow; the high-tech industry has flourished; the industrial structure has been continuously optimized; and the regional innovation system has been continuously improved, gradually becoming an important force in Wuxi’s innovation-driven development and industrial transformation. Wuxi Xiyanhu Ecological Science and Technology City is planned to be based on Huishan High-tech Industrial Park, leveraging on the construction of Huishan hub with rail transit and expressway transit, to become a science and technology innovation city which integrates manufacturing, life and ecology together, and to become the Pearl of the Canal. The urban design and environmental quality construction of Xiyan Lake and its surrounding areas can not only form a centralized display window for high-quality construction in the high-tech zone, but also become a starting point for attracting enterprises to gather and a compound living room for entrepreneurial activities. It will play the leading role of planning and accelerate the improvement of urban quality.