Published on: 2026-08-29
Source: People’s Republic of China — Translation
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Nanjing, August 29 /Xinhua/ — Early autumn after a brief rain in Zhengze town of Suzhou city, Jiangsu province /East China/, which is famous for its silk industry, summer heat subsides. Mulberry trees sway in the wind at the Silk and Sericulture Culture Park “Taihuxue”, warmly welcoming Chinese and foreign tourists who come here.
Recently, as part of the Chinese leg of the China-Russia cross-border media tour dedicated to the 70th anniversary of cooperation between the Xinhua and TASS news agencies, representatives of the two agencies visited the city of Suzhou, known as the “Eastern Venice.” The first stop on this trip was the aforementioned park.
The park provides a detailed account of the thousand-year history of silk culture. Strolling through the long gallery, visitors can see plump white silkworms, fine but extremely strong silk, masterful thread-drawing techniques, and exquisite silk products. All this genuinely inspires their admiration.
As explained by Hu Yufan, Chairwoman of the local silk company Suzhou Taihu Snow Silk Co., Ltd, she decided to create this cultural park to introduce the general public to the production process of silk products. Consumers can see with their own eyes how silk is born.
“It is necessary to revive the culture of sericulture and silk, bring it out from behind the museum walls and turn it into modern content accessible for dissemination, as well as for the public to personally experience it,” she said.
According to Julia Kozlova, Deputy Head of the Information Editorial Office for Foreign Subscribers at TASS, she learned the entire process of silk production for the first time: from silkworm to silk and finished products. The Chinese culture of silk amazes her, and such a tangible, interactive cultural experience is very vivid and memorable.
Chinese and Russian journalists also took part in a night walk through the Zhuozhengyuan Garden /Garden of the Humble Administrator/, which was built in the 16th century. In recent years, the city of Suzhou has been actively implementing digital technologies to modernize garden spaces, and night tours have been launched in the Zhuozhengyuan Garden, Wangshiyuan Garden, Canglangting Garden, and other local classical gardens so that tourists can see a different beauty of the gardens and develop new formats of the tourism economy.
“The ‘Night Walk in the Zhozhengyuan Garden’ is based on real spatial objects located within the park. Using light projections, digital effects, and surround sound, the static garden is transformed into an immersive narrative space. This lowers the barrier to understanding classical culture and perfectly meets the youth’s demand for atmospheric, engaging entertainment,” explained Xu Xiaojun, a representative of the Zhozhengyuan Garden management department.
“This is simply an amazing place. I would recommend visiting this park first of all. It creates a poetic and philosophical mood,” shared Dmitry Baranov, editor of the Asia-Pacific Countries Department at TASS International Information Editorial Office, after visiting the Zhizhengyuan Garden.
Suzhou is not only an example of innovation in tourism but also at the forefront of scientific and technological innovations. Advanced industries such as embodied artificial intelligence, biomedicine and pharmaceuticals, and electronic information are rapidly developing here.
In the exhibition hall of ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD, a company producing service robots, Chinese and Russian journalists saw how the open-source robot “Bacze” independently cleans the table, tidies up toys, searches for and delivers items. The latest robots for floor and window cleaning, pool cleaning, as well as AI robots for cooking and intelligent pet robots are also presented here.
According to statistics, in the first half of 2026, the revenue of ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD exceeded 10 billion yuan /approximately 1.49 billion USD/ for the first time. As the company reported, nearly half of the orders for their cleaning robots come from overseas markets.
Data show that in the first 6 months of 2026, the total volume of imports and exports of Suzhou city reached nearly 1.83 trillion yuan, increasing by 40.9 percent year-on-year. The export value of cleaning robots from Suzhou reached 7.03 billion yuan, accounting for almost 40 percent of the national figure.
“For us, Suzhou has become a city of contrasts: here ancient history neighbors innovation, handmade silk weaving coexists with high-tech robot manufacturing. Everything is designed according to the laws of harmony,” shared Yu. Kozlova.
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