On Wuxi Modern Industrial Heritage

Since the 1960s started the Westernization Movement, China's national industry began on the stage of history, its historical process from scratch in the left around a lot more characteristics of the industrial sites, these sites remains a big and small China's main industrial heritage, a witness to a city and region and the country's economic development in the historical process, reflecting the industrialization of China's modern characteristics of the times.Wuxi is China's modern industrial nation one of the major birthplaces, known as "China's national capital and the cradle of commerce and industry," the history of modern industry in China has a decisive position. Since the early years of the Republic, at the time of the Grand Canal in Wuxi coast has formed a cotton textile, flour, reeling three major industrial industries. With the passage of time, they left the building, the factory floor, machinery, mills and related activities of important figures, etc., have become places of historical value with a specific industrial heritage. The development process in the past 100 years, from the rise of modern nationalism trade, reform and opening up to the vigorous development of township enterprises, Wuxi always walk in the historic transformation of the Chinese community in the forefront, as a modern industrial and commercial development near the cradle.It is precisely because modern times, the national industry left to the strong economic base in Wuxi, Wuxi made in the course of future development occupies the initiative. Therefore, the different stages of development, leaving the industrial heritage, is worthy of our memory and protected. With the development of Wuxi city, the legacy of the industrial heritage faced with very different fate, so clearly these industrial heritage of historical value, and further excavation and research contained in its history of the modern national industrial value, the promotion of the existing Wuxi city culture Construction, urban society to meet the needs of material and spiritual civilization, a great practical significance.