Changzhou City is located in the southern part of Jiangsu Province, in the central area of the beautiful and fertile Yangtze River Delta. It adjoins the Yangtze River to the north and Taihu Lake to the south, facing cities such as Shanghai and Nanjing. Changzhou enjoys extremely superior geographical location and convenient land, water and air transportation. The Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, National Highway 312 and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal run through the city. Changzhou Port on the Yangtze River, as a national first-class open port, has an annual cargo throughput of over one million tons.